Sega bought out Data East and yes all parts were used up. My MSFrankenstein has a Data East backbox.

Orin

There are no surviving roms for the Maverick widebody, which was put on test at Dennis Place the week before AMOA. It had the standard size DMD along with the widebody playfield, which was the opposite of the narrow body large DMD pre-production games that went to Dallas for it. The software was awful - no modes no features and it said “multiball ready” every time you hit a target. It was a just misdirection to the competition before the trade show, nothing more, as for cost and sales reasons we had dumped the wide body trend of WWF and GnR.

The widebody playfield from that very test game was stripped and sat in my office for years. A friend got it from me in 2002(?) along with the wider paddle wheel assembly. There are no production plastic ramps for the widebody, the ones on the prototype were made from wood forms which no longer exist, and the wireforms were very much hacked up.

Modern software would not support the widebody playfield unless the Ace in the Hole was plugged and replaced with a captive ball or targeted shot.

Orin

You can add a shaker to Tommy - the code is there for Japanese games which shipped with them - there was an arcane importing law that required us to have a certain number of motors in all games for a model year.

However 1.02 is a production rom which will not work with the six pop bumper prototypes at all.

The prototype code is different, can be found on the net, and should never be used in a production game under any circumstances! That’s because the coil mappings changed, you’d burn things up. Vice versa is also true.

Orin