Oh man this is going to be FREAKING AMAZING if you can pull off this level of quality from the original sound masters...

http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/games/medieval/mm_sounds.html

I wish there was more solid info on if the original recordings (analog or digital) are still entirely available and if so, what media they are stored on. To me this is a cool opportunity to look "on the other side" and have a reason to discover what was once lost.

Any new developments on the sound?

Is Q4 2014 the projected date for the LEs or the standards? I believe the LEs will ship in mid-2014 correct?

Then get out of the hobby.

Medieval Madness is far from the most popular. It only sold ~6,000 units while Addams Family sold over 20,000 not mentioning the gold edition.

Then they don't need to call it hardware emulation. They're just scripting the rules like Pinball Arcade (who also claims they are doing hardware emulation), which is fine as long as it plays 100% like the original game. Emulation means you are running a virtual WPC-95 machine running the original binary WPC-95 code. If this were the case there would be no "tweaks" to make. It would just work.

Well it's all a bit ambiguous. An emulator, with some hacks, can interface to any physical external devices and trick the virtual WPC-95 machine into thinking it's connected to a real switch matrix, A/V board, driver board, etc. A good example are game console emulators. Typically you can run these using software emulation of the original components or though a hack that utilizes the host machine's hardware in some way. If this is really emulation, I seriously doubt everything is done using LLE (low level emulation) through software on the CPU. Another example is the discussion of implementing high quality music and sound. That would exceed the capabilities of the original DCS DSP, meaning an HLE (high level emulation) hack would need to be implemented to support such a change.

Things like the above, the color LCD, absence of a switch and lamp matrix, and other enhancements would make hardware emulation unfeasible. It would be running so many hacks that you might as well just re-write the entire system in a modern language and compile a new environment for the physical board it's running on. That's why I'm a bit skeptical.

LEGAL details, oh. Yes, who knows...

Post 1964. Man this thing is coming together great!

Since they're using an emulator they'll have to adapt the emulator to use whatever new sound system will be in place.

Excellent news!!

Very unlike Williams to be so cooperative in furthering the future of pinball. Perhaps they are recognizing the comeback?

Wow, just $55 for the CPU board?? I know beagleboard.org has markups but THAT is a deal!

http://beagleboard.org/products/beaglebone

Lol at the $89 price tag then.

Anyone who stands up for what is right and what they deserve is always a winner Mike. Now, thumbs me down.

Ok, so you will be selling coin mechs then. But still, you're charging your customers an additional amount that was not outlined in the beginning. It's the principle Rick. You pulled the rug out from underneath these owners and I think it should be made right. Just throw them in for free and call it a complete, fully functional commercial quality pin as advertised.

I absolutely love how the apparent stance on coin mechs changed in a mere matter of pages.

"Honey, looks like that crazy neighbor is firing his BB gun again!"

Mike you still in on MMR?

Well you can always pretend I suppose. Plunk down two quarters and whoosh your hand inside to press the credit button before anyone else notices!

Should have 100 machines out the door by Sunday. Gonna be an interesting week!

It sure would blow the living crap out of JJP's endless pictures of 3 games and 2 workers in any given shot. I'd love to see the Stern line now that we're producing quality titles.

3rd, 4th quarter really? Man where do you guys get this stuff?

LOL. What an incredibly selfish post.

Not even that much really.

Lol, the priniciple of selling both versions at LE prices and not including coin mechs (Stern is a maker of real arcade quality machines correct?) will cost them more business than anything else. Losing $12 vs $8,000+. Hmm.

That's not the point, it's the business principle. Take preordering for example. Are a vast majority of owners happy with the preorder model? Heck no, yet people keep shooting hundies at these NIB games. I too am surprised Lloyd is defending this seemlingly cheap stance of PPS on the mechs. For the price of a new car, for crap's sake just ship the $10 coin mechs.

Thanks for leaving. Back to civil discussion.

Then don't open this thread? Because discussion will continue until it is resolved.

I know someone who is in so basically yeah.

With them asking the same price for a standard and an LE, kind of makes it hard to justify cutting the mechs if you ask me.