[New VP10 Alert] Twilight Zone (Bally 1993) VPW Edition

[VPinWorkshop]

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Twilight Zone (Bally 1993) VPW Edition

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"You have just crossed over... into the Twilight Zone"

 

Finally. Been a while coming hasn't it?

 

VPW are very proud to present Twilight Zone by Bally/Midway, arguably one of the best pinball machines ever made!

 

Niwak wanted to test the idea of making his "VPX Blender Toolkit" back in 2022, and decided to use Twilight Zone as his first experiment in importing and converting a VPX table, a screenshot was posted of the test render and everyone was, like, "ooooo".

 

However... The tools were in their infancy and Niwak wasn't happy with how the table looked in motion compared to real life, so decided to go and rewrite both pinmame and vpx so that it could do real fading PWM lighting and numerous other things.
While this was going on rothbauer and nfozzy looked at the physics and then Sixtoe rebuilt and simplified the table in VPX after we found the dimensions of the original table were incorrect.

The project then went on hold as we wanted 10.8.0 to stabilise as this table needed the new features to work properly, and we're happy enough with where VPX 10.8.0 RC4 is that we've now punted this out the door into your caring arms.

 

This table has gone through some of the best hands in the VPX community at one point or another in its history;

 

VPW Anomalies
Project Leads - Niwak & Sixtoe
Niwak - Blender Toolkit, Scripting, Inventing.
Sixtoe - VPX Rebuild, Script Stuff, VR Stuff, General Dogsbody.
rothbauer - Physics and Guidance.
apophis - Script Updates & Various Tweaks.
leojreimrc - FSS Backglass.
Darth Vito - 360 room.
mcarter78 - 360 room 3D text, script tweaks.
Flupper & Tomate - Graphics Advice.
nfozzy - physics advice and scripting.
Testing - AstroNasty, DGrimmReaper, Cliffy, Primtime5k, Studlygoorite, Lumi, somatik, BountyBob, RetroRitchie, DarthVito, Dr.Nobody, Rigo, Pinballfan2018, DaRdog, Manu, Flux, geradg

 

VPW Edition Based on;
Remaster by Skitso, rothbauerw and Bord
Which was based on;
VPX recreation by Ninuzzu & Tom Tower
Which was based on;
FP conversion by Coindropper

 

Previous Mods Credits/Thanks
Tom Tower for the mini clock, pyramid, piano, camera, gumball machine models.
nFozzy for scripting complicated things.
Fleep for Audio system.
Hauntfreaks for the Mystic Seer Toy.
rom for "Robbie the Robot" model.
Flupper for retexturing and remeshing the plastic ramp.
JPSalas for the help with the inserts and the script.
Clark Kent for early graphics and physics work.

 

Required Software (64-bit versions)
VPX 10.8.0 RC4 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/releases/tag/v10.8.0-1975-051104c
VPinMame 3.6.0-998 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/releases/tag/v3.6.0-998-a77c2d2
B2S Server 2.1.1 or later (if B2S used): https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass/releases/tag/v2.1.1

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• Submitter
  VPinWorkshop
• Submitted
  07/17/24
• Category
  VPX - Pinball Tables

 

[bojacked]

the table didn't run here. it shows it not in cabinet mode and the rom doesn't work. Anything I can do?

[VPinWorkshop]

Make sure you have both tz_92 and tz_94h or tz_94ch in your roms dir.

[PsychoKiller]

Amazing table, thank you. I am having a problem with this table only that it isn't running in cabinet mode so on my cabinet the playfield is sideways. Ive been out of the game for a while and don't know how I would rotate this table to display correctly on my cabinet? Im using 10.8.0 RC4 and my other tables run fine, only this table is giving me problem. Can you please let me know what im missing or how to rotate table? Thank you. 

[mikeairmax23]

Hi all, Hi all. Anyone with a bit of pc knowledge able to help me? Getting this error message on spiderman and now the new twilight zone table. I have followed a few guides online I found to fix but nothing seems to work. When I quit the application it closes the b2s software so could it be an issue with that? Any help greatly appreciated.

[VPinWorkshop]

1 hour ago, mikeairmax23 said:

Hi all, Hi all. Anyone with a bit of pc knowledge able to help me? Getting this error message on spiderman and now the new twilight zone table. I have followed a few guides online I found to fix but nothing seems to work. When I quit the application it closes the b2s software so could it be an issue with that? Any help greatly appreciated

Did you update your b2s server? Follow the links in the description

[SparklePig78]

Table looks amazing.  My problem is the flippers are showing in the up and down position.  They work fine, but its distracting.  Tried updating and have all three roms.  Thanks in advance.

 

[minimvp61]

On 7/17/2024 at 11:33 AM, PsychoKiller said:

Amazing table, thank you. I am having a problem with this table only that it isn't running in cabinet mode so on my cabinet the playfield is sideways. Ive been out of the game for a while and don't know how I would rotate this table to display correctly on my cabinet? Im using 10.8.0 RC4 and my other tables run fine, only this table is giving me problem. Can you please let me know what im missing or how to rotate table? Thank you. 

I am having the same problem.  options to see the script or change the orientation are grayed out.  

Edited July 19, 2024 by minimvp61

[digitalarts]

Omg

F12 - window mode - 2x enter to rotate/scale - adjust all values If needed - 1x start to save ini

[Tikimaster]

8 hours ago, minimvp61 said:

I am having the same problem.  options to see the script or change the orientation are grayed out.  

Open Table in Editor, unlock the table. Table/Lock-unlock

[markoshugo]

On 7/17/2024 at 4:09 PM, mikeairmax23 said:

Hi all, Hi all. Anyone with a bit of pc knowledge able to help me? Getting this error message on spiderman and now the new twilight zone table. I have followed a few guides online I found to fix but nothing seems to work. When I quit the application it closes the b2s software so could it be an issue with that? Any help greatly appreciated.

hello there. same error here. did you find any solution to this?

[Pinball_Lizard]

I have three roms for this table but I can't get it to run. Updated to RC4. The rom won't even respond unless I hit key 7, then flippers work and it makes sounds as if it's starting up, but no ball. I'm using the free play rom/option so I can use the other rom for a black and white mod version I'm keeping. Anyone else having this issue? 

[acovukic]

On 7/17/2024 at 9:09 PM, mikeairmax23 said:

Hi all, Hi all. Anyone with a bit of pc knowledge able to help me? Getting this error message on spiderman and now the new twilight zone table. I have followed a few guides online I found to fix but nothing seems to work. When I quit the application it closes the b2s software so could it be an issue with that? Any help greatly appreciated.

After updating B2s server files, problem is gone.

[PsychoKiller]

8 hours ago, digitalarts said:

Omg

F12 - window mode - 2x enter to rotate/scale - adjust all values If needed - 1x start to save ini

when I go into that it says I must set up screen size before being able to access that menu. I hit F12, which brings up the table rules, then hit flipper (R Shift) for next menu, then hit enter and I get that popup saying about screen size. 

 

[Wylte]

2 hours ago, PsychoKiller said:

when I go into that it says I must set up screen size before being able to access that menu. I hit F12, which brings up the table rules, then hit flipper (R Shift) for next menu, then hit enter and I get that popup saying about screen size. 

 

Set up your screen/player position in VPX video settings

[minimvp61]

15 hours ago, Tikimaster said:

Open Table in Editor, unlock the table. Table/Lock-unlock

thank you.   I did not know there was a table lock.  

[PsychoKiller]

5 hours ago, Wylte said:

Set up your screen/player position in VPX video settings

I finally got it to work, but now I am having a new problem. All of a sudden, my fulldmd doesn't display anything. No videos, etc. Tried registering flex and ultra dmd using FlexDMDUI, went into popper screen config and all is good with everything, just now zero tables display on fulldmd. Any ideas?

[Hawkwind69]

Hi Installed the table, all ROMs in, all good backglass running, table running but turned 90 degrees.

 

I looked through the above messages and see there is something about F12 but that is not working for me.

 

Any idea how I can get the table turned the correct direction?

 

Many thanks in advance Alan

[digitalarts]

F12 settings are only in vpx.8 ! Try to use one of the newer Versions, Like 10.8.1954

Not in vpx.7

[Hawkwind69]

OK I got the F12 menu up and I can scroll through the 4 screens, it's states

 

ViewCab mode = 0

ViewCabRotation =0.000000

 

How can I change the rotation, I exported the file as a .ini but I obviously can't import it after I change the settings, any help greatly appreciated. 

 

Cheers Alan

[digitalarts]

F12 - window mode - 2x enter to rotate/scale - adjust all other values If needed - 1x start to save ini

[SparklePig78]

Any idea what’s causing this?  Thank you in advance. 

[robertms]

6 hours ago, SparklePig78 said:

Any idea what’s causing this?  Thank you in advance. 

 

Make sure you're running all the required software for this table:

 

Required Software (64-bit versions)
VPX 10.8.0 RC4 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/releases/tag/v10.8.0-1975-051104c
VPinMame 3.6.0-998 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/releases/tag/v3.6.0-998-a77c2d2
B2S Server 2.1.1 or later (if B2S used): https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass/releases/tag/v2.1.1

[adreyer1974]

Hi there !

After Updating everything to the required versions the Table starts finde, but Flipper keys are´nt working. Everything else ist fine, fireing the ball with the Plungen, nudging - no Problems. But no Flipper movement at all.  With the 10.7 Version I got the flipper graphics-issue mentioned above, but the flippers are working fine. Alle other Tables have also no problem with flipper keys with 10.8 RC4 . Any Ideas about this ??

 

Thanks, Alex...

[adreyer1974]

30 minutes ago, adreyer1974 said:

Hi there !

After Updating everything to the required versions the Table starts finde, but Flipper keys are´nt working. Everything else ist fine, fireing the ball with the Plungen, nudging - no Problems. But no Flipper movement at all.  With the 10.7 Version I got the flipper graphics-issue mentioned above, but the flippers are working fine. Alle other Tables have also no problem with flipper keys with 10.8 RC4 . Any Ideas about this ??

 

Thanks, Alex...

I finaly got it running !  It was a mixture of an not correctly registerd vpinmame64.dll and running the  VpinballX32 Version... (which runs much smoother on my table 😞 ) ...

 

Bye, Alex...