[New VP10 Alert] Bad Cats (Williams 1989) VPW Mod

[xoller]

On 12/15/2023 at 1:02 PM, dacstyle said:

I have a problem that happens randomly on this table, and it's that when shooting to the central ramp, the ball goes through the bottom and falls on the right side, as if I had shot to the left ramp (tiger ramp).

It seems that there is a missing transparent wall that should block this behavior on the central ramp.
Some friends told me they experienced the same issue.

 

I experienced that recently too.

[zephmann]

On 12/13/2023 at 8:30 AM, phillipmasur said:

Missing Pinballs for some reason. Any advise?

I'm having a similar issue. I tried upgrading to the latest version of VPX and still no pinball. Game starts, flippers work, I can tilt out, but no ball ever appears in the shooter lane.

 

I'm not sure if this could be related, but I had a different version of Bad Cats which uses the same rom. It seems to work fine. I'm still new to VPX / VPinMame so I'm not sure if it's caching rom data somewhere, but I also noticed when I started up the VPW version that it remembered the number of credits?

 

Edit: I'd upgraded VPX but not VPinMame, I'll try that now.

Edit 2: still no luck with VPinMame 3.5

Edited December 19, 2023 by zephmann

[Wylte]

3 hours ago, zephmann said:

Edit 2: still no luck with VPinMame 3.5

You need 3.6

https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/releases

(and the most recent build if you want to play The Cat's Meow home ROM)

https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/actions/runs/7178298352

Edited December 19, 2023 by Wylte

[zephmann]

12 hours ago, Wylte said:

You need 3.6

Worked like a charm, thank you so much!

[Wylte]

@Rabmos thank you for the clear (if tiny) bug reports!  The ramp gate is already fixed and ready for the next patch and the F12 VR behavior has an open issue on the VPX GitHub.

For the tiger ramp - the decal is below the plastic, so could it be the refraction that you're seeing?  To test you could delete the render probes in the editor.

Edited December 21, 2023 by Wylte

[Rabmos]

19 hours ago, Wylte said:

@Rabmos thank you for the clear (if tiny) bug reports!  The ramp gate is already fixed and ready for the next patch and the F12 VR behavior has an open issue on the VPX GitHub.

For the tiger ramp - the decal is below the plastic, so could it be the refraction that you're seeing?  To test you could delete the render probes in the editor.

Thanks for the great feedback! Nice that the ramp gate is fixed. Yes, the tiger image of the tiger ramp is fixed by I deleting the render probe, it's crystal clear now and not "changing" anymore.

[Rabmos]

On 12/21/2023 at 8:50 AM, Wylte said:

@Rabmos thank you for the clear (if tiny) bug reports!  The ramp gate is already fixed and ready for the next patch and the F12 VR behavior has an open issue on the VPX GitHub.

For the tiger ramp - the decal is below the plastic, so could it be the refraction that you're seeing?  To test you could delete the render probes in the editor.

There is one more "bug" / possible improvement: now I'm REALLY nitpicking I must say but I still see it everytime that I use the plunger: I have a pinscape plunger, the outside part of the plunger in VR goes quick/as in reality. But the white part (inside of the table) goes simply to slow, way slower then in real life, the spring of the plunger. So I think that it would be nice to tweak this a bit for the next release to make it faster. Not mandatory but it would be a nice little improvement imo. Thanks for the amazing work again!

[Numiah]

For he who's interested.
There is a homebrew ROM available with several bugfixes and complete new ruleset.

You can find it over at pinside.

[CarnyPriest]

2 hours ago, Numiah said:

For he who's interested.
There is a homebrew ROM available with several bugfixes and complete new ruleset.

You can find it over at pinside.

Or you can get it already patched right here at VPUniverse:

 

 

[Numiah]

On 12/27/2023 at 6:27 PM, CarnyPriest said:

Or you can get it already patched right here at VPUniverse:

 

 

lol, I missed that one

[rockyb]

I am having a problem were the dof effects that normaly trigger for a second or two when the table first loads stay on. I have had this same problem on a few VPinWorkshop tables. Whats weird is if I change to a different version of the table the dof works correctly. It is always the same dof effects that mess up. The mx led effect in the picture and usaully combined with the beacon going off. This is on multiple VPW tables that all have the same dof effect that triggers at the start of table loading. I am pretty sure the tables that I have this issue with all were "locked" in the vpx settings. I don't know if it's coincidental but it seems to happen when I try to adjust pov/lighting settings in the live table editor. Even if I re-download the table and delete previous settings it doesn't fix it.

[ciaomao]

I noticed for the first time today that the ball rolls under the round lights, e.g. by the eyes of the three cats on the bottom.

The lamps cover the ball for this moment. Does anyone know the problem?

Edited October 12, 2024 by ciaomao

[Hypnotoad]

I missing ball problems with Bad Cats and a few others from VPW (Big Bang Bar, Earthshaker, Last Action Hero, LOTR, Ripleys and RollerCoaster Tycoon)missing ball. I've got about 100 other tables running just fine include some VPW ones.

 

Resetting and restarting doesn't do any good. My components are up to date with specs. I'm testing with the 64-bit version:

 

Visual Pinball : 10.8.0.1975

VPinMAME : 3.6.0.998

B2S Server : 2.1.2

 

Any ideas what to try to fix this issue?

[jansley]

why cant i get smooth frame rates on this table????   i have an rtx nvidia 4070   plenty of cpu power    

its driving me nuts

is there something going on w this table in the script because 2.0 runs smoothly    makes zero sense

 

if anyone can solve this mystery I would appreciate any input

thank you in advance

[robertms]

10 hours ago, jansley said:

why cant i get smooth frame rates on this table????   i have an rtx nvidia 4070   plenty of cpu power    

its driving me nuts

is there something going on w this table in the script because 2.0 runs smoothly    makes zero sense

 

if anyone can solve this mystery I would appreciate any input

thank you in advance

 

Hmm, I also have a 4070 and similar problems with this table. By chance are you running the Serum colorized DMD with this? If so, try disabling the ext DMD and use just the regular scoring on the backglass. Curious if this helps you.

[jansley]

ill give it a try     thank you for your response

[deadmanworking]

@jansley are you on the latest VPX and VPinMAME released this week? Upgrading to the latest VPinMAME yesterday fixed all my stutter problems on two other tables I've been having issues with for a while (BOP and Surf'n Safari). 

[RP1121]

The table runs smoothly for me but I am getting no display in the alpha numeric box.  The box is there, can be dragged, resized, etc but does not display anything.  It is not totally black, it looks like an alpha numeric display when showing nothing, where you can see the faint orange that forms the numbers and letters when working properly.