[New VPX Alert]Buck Rogers (Gottlieb 1980)

[BorgDog]

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Buck Rogers (Gottlieb 1980)

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re-upload of old vpinball table.  hope to update someday now that I own a real one.

 

This started out as an upgrade to Sindbad's vp9 table found over on VPF.  Hauntfreaks did the inital layout and lighting etc in VPX last summer from a beta sindbad had put out during the vp10 beta phase and it's been mostly hanging out since then. I rebuilt all the code, keeping mainly the vari-target scripting form Sindbad's table, found some nicer plastic images courtesy of the interwebs and went to town this week.

New the top of the script is a line that currently reads "Const VT_Delay_Factor = .88".  What this line does is controls how fast the vari-target slows down the captive ball that hit's it.  The smaller the number the more it slows it down.  I'm not sure exactly where this number should be, but I do know a couple things: 1. it is possible to set the vari-target to the very back in one shot, I've seen it done in videos, 2. .8 I think makes it too hard to every achieve the 1 shot reset of the vari-target, 3. .95 makes it too easy to make that shot.  So somewhere in the middle is where we sit.  I have not yet made it in one hit with the current settings, but I have come close, it takes a timing shot with momentum on the ball to make it happen.  Feel free to play with this variable and report back what happens.

 

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• Submitter
  BorgDog
• Submitted
  04/30/2021
• Category
  Solid State (SS) Recreations
• ROM Name
  buckrgrs
• Link to B2S
  http://vpuniverse.com/forums/files/file/2342-buck-rogersgottlieb-1980/
• Permission to Mod
  Yes
• VP Version
  v10

 

[kellyf]

I really hope you do an update to this table.  Nice that you own the real thing.   Is there some reason that it doesn't have the awesome solid state sounds?  I know the first sound board only did the beep and boops sounds but the second board released for this game had the really cool space sounds and it really adds to the fun of the table.  I don't know if the second sound board is not emulated or if there is a switch that isn't enabled for the cool sounds.  Todd from TNT Amusements has a video on Youtube  and he could switch it between the basic sounds and the updated cooler sounding soundboard.  I think it was just dip switches he adjusted.  I don't see any dip switch adjustment for the sound boards.  I really love this table and the artwork, but I just can't play it with the beeps and boops sound. Here's hoping you can surprise everyone with an updated table with new physics and sound