Here's something interesting about Baywatch scoring that I don't believe is well known.

If you make it to Earthquake... the jackpot bonus amount for shooting the Left Ramp depends on how many of the following modes you successfully COMPLETED:

CPR
Chopper Rescue
Driver Trapped
Shark Cove
Tidal Wave

Each time you complete one of the above modes, the jackpot value for Earthquake increases by 20 Million.

Jackpot = 50M + (20M x Modes Completed)

It looks like your bonus can be as low as 50M per jackpot... but as high as 150M per jackpot!

So, not only do you get a completion bonus of 50M each time you complete a mode, but it will also increase the Earthquake Jackpot by 20M. A little extra incentive to complete those modes, huh?

By the way, I watched the PAPA tutorial video and it appears that they physically disabled the Left Ramp lock. By doing this, they completely cheated themselves out of potentially huge Earthquake jackpot values!

That is super interesting. Although I can sometimes beat a couple of modes, I'm having a tough time getting to earthquake mode on standard settings. Although I would prob have a hard time reaching earthquake on easy settings as well.

Awesome chadh. What does this code physically look like aw you shift and navigate your way through it?!

Over 20,000 lines of raw uncommented assembly language like this:

8C65: CE 8C B6 ldx #$8CB6
8C68: 8D 45 bsr $8CAF
8C6A: E6 00 ldb (x+$00)
8C6C: A6 01 lda (x+$01)
8C6E: 84 0F anda #$0F
8C70: 8B 03 adda #$03
8C72: BD 43 8C jsr $438C
8C75: 20 A8 bra $8C1F
8C77: 8D 2E bsr $8CA7
8C79: CE 8C DA ldx #$8CDA
8C7C: 8D 31 bsr $8CAF

Fun!

And how do you interpret/ understand it? Pure curiosity standpoint.

Had to make a new linkage to the lower right ball gate. I don't even know when the original broke. I usually do shark hole skill shot up to tower to complete cpr first but today decided to try upper ramp and realized the gate was not functioning. I thought it was weird that I remember balls being able to be trapped in there during multiball and why I couldn't get it to work recently. Problem solved!

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Initial test...

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Any one have the latest code they could email me ? Or where I can get it .

Is there a setting in the game software to open the top gate for the skillshot faster?
When I launch the ball, it gets to the gate before the gate opens everytime making it impossible
to get the skillshots that go past the controlled gate at the top right of the playfield.

Thanks
John

There is s setting. It I believe when turned to its highest (fastest) setting a issue in the code makes to actually go slower. Maybe try seeing if the solenoid is binding or something is not allowing good movement.

Does programming it count?

Most likely nothing mechanically wrong with it. Wait until Chad releases the code fix.

First, make sure you game is NOT set with Adjustment 32: Coil Power = High. There is a known bug with the current code that will makes that upper gate unusable with this setting. Make sure it is set to Normal.

Second, make sure your upper gate is mechanically working correctly. Go into coil test mode and test that upper gate. The gate should IMMEDIATELY open when tested. There should be no delay. I've seen it where you press the test button and the gate hesitates to open. If this happens, examine the gate and make sure the arm that pulls the gate open has as much leverage as possible.

how are things coming? My game working well for you? Are you enjoying it?

Can you change default initials to LIONMAN for HSTD default?

It's best to change as little as possible, only those things that need changing.

still far from public release... but i couldn't wait any longer!

pictures speak more then a thousand words and we all should be very grateful to some people actively developing and contributing to pin2dmd project.

now it's time to get the latest batch out of the shop

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send me a mail to [email protected] containing your address and i will send you a quote.
It should be arround 409 EUR shipped to continental U.S.

Added over 7 years ago: Maybe

Wow... my DMD is still fresh and bright, but may have to move into a back-up role.

When you color these frames, can you please confirm squid girl? Still don't know if my arms being pulled on here if that's real. Have not seen it yet.

It only says "Well Done" if you abort the End Of Ball Bonus screens. It doesn't matter what your score is or how well your ball was played.

Squid girl is a spinner bonus. When you hear "Shoot the spinner" do it, you'll sometimes get Squid Girl who will appear at the end of the match sequence. It doesn't seem extremely rare, I've seen it many times. Pretty freaky looking..

Hey ChadH can you look at the scoring for the video mode? It's never seemed right, I think the max score is 134M but each of the ramps is 10M and if I miss one it's only a few Million different from the max score..

Here you go...

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Oh man she looks scarier in colour!!!

That's the stuff of nightmares man....

I wonder if she should be blue/green color as well? Though, I do think its pretty scary looking with a squid for hair.

I did a quick photoshop... but nah, the squid "hair" looks much more nightmarish.

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Looks phenomenal! Will be ordering as soon as it's released!

I'll be ordering too. When does it release?

Right before Christmas is a realistic time frame.

Even if the coloring isn't done yet, you can still put it in your Pinball and use it as a single color DMD.
Or create a 4-color palette with a very few clicks like I did for the samples below in just a few seconds.

Take out the provided SD-Card off your PIN2DMD-XL, copy the generated file to that card, put it back in and restart your Display, done!

Same for the full colorization:
Copy the provided files to the SD, done!*

*It may be nessecary to do a firmware update, but thats also done with a small programm and a USB cable, files and instructions will be provided.

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Will this also work with the first generation of PIN2DMD-XL's? You did a hardware change a few months ago, correct?

Thanks for clarification,
Cheers

Should work!
If not, these customers will get a special offer

awesome, looking forward!

I got to Earthquake the other day, at 150 mill a pop to the ramp, was pretty cool.
As far as the rules go, everything seems pretty decent except for the shark flip. There really isnt a whole lot of incentive to shoot for it. Shark flip for ten million, and it doesnt advance your shark awards.

I wish the spinner could be shot more without diverting it constantly, but I think there should be some tweak in that area.
At least give me more than 10 million auto shark flip, make it increase. In approximately 50 or so games, I've only gotten extra ball lit once shark award, its manually pretty tricky, at least on my game.

Here's a video of a guy completing it. Looks like there are 11 ramps. He gets a total of 135M.

From what I can tell, the bonus for this mode starts at 10M and then is increased by 10M for each successful ramp and increases by 1M for the instances you stay alive while avoiding obstacles.

This would mean that max is:
10M starting bonus + (11 ramps * 10M) + (15 instances of time passed avoiding obstacles * 1M) = 135M

What are you experiencing?

That guy is awesome! (Spoiler alert: that guy is me )

Regarding the scoring, if you hit every ramp, it gives you 144M points. The reason I got 135M is because I missed a ramp near the end (middle ramp, 3rd from last). It showed that I hit it on the video, but if you listen, it doesn't give the "alright" or flash so I wasn't awarded the points. There is a slight delay on my machine between the actual hitting of the ramp, and the video. Not sure if this is common on all machines.

Ah... I see... my logic for scoring is correct up until near the very end of the whole sequence where 1M is added to the bonus with each frame for the last second or two.

I believe finishing the sequence including the finishing line/gate is 144. 135 is max if you miss the final middle gate.

You can add an extra million or two by dragging the last frames?

Playing with the Jet Ski video mode, I think I can slow it down and/or speed it up.

What if.... the mode started out slower for the first few ramps, then sped up to normal speed you are used to, and then sped up again near the end with the last few ramps? But then if you make it to the very end you get an extra bonus because it was extra fast/hard for that last part?

Just tossing this idea out there for feedback/suggestions.

I feel like speed will not make it better if it's the same ramp locations every time. Need something to change it up

Will there be any conflict with the upcoming ColorDMD and new code? I'd like to use both simultantelosuly.

Overall it will still work but maybe needs some minor adjustments.
As long as image data is not changed it will display the matching scenes correctly.

If speed is changed, we need to adjust that too,
If image data is changed in a particular scene all others will still work.
For that particular scene it needs to be fixed then.

This is not a ColorDMD project.

Pin2DMD (which Rappelbox sells) willlfully copied the methods disclosed in ColorDMD's patents without permission, and included them as part of the Pin2DMD editor and hardware. We have requested that they remove these features from Pin2DMD and revert back to the SmartDMD and grayscale-to-color mapping they had in earlier versions.

So far they have refused, stating that since they live in Germany they are justified to copy and use whatever they want, without regard for US patent protection.

The same group has directly copied code from the PinDMD virtual pinball project, and has worked to create knock-offs of the Run-DMD clock, and Pinsound... which they sell/distribute under the names Go-DMD clock, and Rasberry Pinsound.

The rampant copying is a problem for continued innovation in the hobby. If you're a fan of ColorDMD, or the innovations contributed by these other projects, we request that you think twice before supporting this behavior.

Will colordmd be supporting Sega games in the future and more specifically in the near future?

We support 128x32 Sega games today and intend to support 192x64 games in the future.

I guess i should be more clear, lol.

Will colordmd be colorizing Baywatch in the near future or ever?

I honestly don't care about these ColorWars going on lately in some threads. I'm buying from whomever can color any of my games, so someone step it up and get Baywatch done!

Thanks, I will take a look at this!
John

Kindof shortsighted imo. If colorDMD thought that their proprietary methods were going to be opened to any competition then they may not have started the process to begin with and all DMD's would be monochrome or that goofy euro 4 color stuff. Maybe there is a programmer looking at another mind blowing feature right now but decided it's just not worth it if foreign companies are just going to steal their ideas and undercut their prices.