I have a TAF machine. When I'm doing a home tournament I put in a regular TAF ROM to avoid the random and often unfair high awards that Cousin Itt will dole out, but otherwise I like to have the TAFG ROM in there for the extra crispy features.
I'm not a virtual pin-baller, but I have toyed with Visual Pinball and I very recently ran into PinMAME, I discovered it was installed as part of Visual Pinball.
I read that PinMAME has a debugger, and I got to thinking...
I have quite a bit of programming experience, and thought if I could run the ROM code through the emulator and debugger, I may be able to find the memory address of the lower limit of option "A.2 32 Items in Mansion" and change the settable range to 0 - 4 instead of 1 - 4. And if that worked, setting it to 0 may eliminate the Cousin Itt's Hideout feature.
But I have some questions:
Has anyone considered or tried this before? Did it work? Or did the game bug out?
Where can I find documentation on PinMAME especially the debugger?...I've only been able to find really old documentation and it doesn't seem applicable anymore.
Is this kosher? Can I make this kind of modification to my own ROM?
Thanks!