Hello . Does anyone have the torpedo alley latest software that is not german? Sterns site and ipdb are all german! Most recent one found is english 1.6.
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Have you tried the German 2.1 ROM for comparison? I wonder if they used different numbers in different regions... Hell, maybe they never put out a later English ROM; I've heard speculation that of the 1000 made, approximately 200 were domestic games.
Piershil
Can I use the pin mame version? I burned the 2.1 set available from stern and ipdb and they both come up german right away. no jumper or anything. Install 1.6 and bam english right away.
There are jumpers but different years require different things...ie some need roms burned and some a simple jumper change with a hard reset is all you need.
Hey thanks John!
Do you have an image of english 2.1 rom for TA? Or do you know for sure if the pinmame version is english?
Already erased and burned these extra chips 3 times trying to find english 2.1 [I always keep the originals too just in case] and not sure how many more times these will like to be changed.
Thanks again
You do not need pin mame. Just download the pinmame rom set and burn to chips and install..thats it. 
Its the same image. If it does not work for you let me know.
SOOO an update....There is no english 2.1 The 2.1 from pinmame has german script and english script. the regular 2.1 software is all german script and 1.6 is all english.
There is apparently no 2.1 'all english' version.
I tried and burned them all no no avail...1.6 it is.
Quoted from cfh:I put in 2.1 and yes it boots in german as the default. but you can just change the language option to english and it works fine.
How do you do this? I can't decipher enough German to find that in the menu.
*EDIT* Never mind; I found in the manual that you have to go to adjustment 19 and set it to "on" to open up extra adjustments, then adjustment 44 is language.
Not sure about revision history. Suppose I could put the pin mame in and try it out and see if I notice anything. Right now I have 1.6 in .
All of it? When I did pinmame version 2.1 it said torpedo alley in English and game play was English but the tests were in german. IE bad coil none and bad switch none was in german and the test/audit adjust menus were in german.
I am sure you can change the language in the adjustment menu as per CFH above [thanks man].......but I am not sure there is any difference between the revisions other than language at this point so I still have 1.6 in and will swap to 2.1 later and see what differences I notice if any.
Quoted from Hawk007:All of it? When I did pinmame version 2.1 it said Torpedo Alley in English and game play was English but the tests were in german. IE bad coil none and bad switch none was in german and the test/audit adjust menus were in german.
I am sure you can change the language in the adjustment menu as per CFH above [thanks man].......but I am not sure there is any difference between the revisions other than language at this point so I still have 1.6 in and will swap to 2.1 later and see what differences I notice if any.
See my previous post: I found in the manual that you have to go to adjustment 19 and set it to "on" to open up extra adjustments, then adjustment 44 is language.
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