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++ Vault Edition ++ Lets tell Stern what we want next !!

By Beez

9 years ago

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24 Stern, 2009
Batman (The Dark Knight) Stern, 2008
Family Guy Stern, 2007
Lord of the Rings Stern, 2003
Lord of the Rings Limited Edition Stern, 2009
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Stern, 2004
Spider-Man Stern, 2007
The Simpsons Pinball Party Stern, 2003

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Lord of the Rings 211 votes

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I'm not exactly sure what is so expensive on LOTR that would make it's BOM that much higher than IM. Both have 2 ramps, two flippers, magnets, plastic set, spinners, molded figures, motor, etc. What is the high cost item on LOTR that would make it so much higher? I don't see it.

Now the Whitestar thing might be a bigger obstacle...it would take somebody probably months to get that code working right on the SAM system. They'd probably just reengineer the whitestar board for any parts no longer available, would be the easier path. And for those that say "that's impossible, they're done with that" well that's just crap, they've done it a bunch of times before. Whitestar was out of production for 3 years before they did LOTR LE.

Quoted from chadderack:
Speaking as a software developer, if the Whitestar source code is available... then it wouldn't be so difficult to simply port the code. Now there would be inconsistencies of course. Code referencing specific pieces of hardware, hardware addresses, etc. might not be on a 1-to-1 between each system.
However I don't believe that such an operation would take "months"; the game logic is good and done, and that's the hardest part to get right. Essentially what you have is a software 'rewiring' where calls made in the code need to be re-routed in a sense to the new hardware. The 'processing' (or 'game part') could essentially be left alone.
As far as hardware goes... the POTD and the Eye of Sauron might be expensive parts. The rest of the stuff should be easy and relatively cheap to build.

The software porting would take months in my opinion because the whitestar is in assembly and the SAM system is in C...if they were both in C I would agree that it wouldn't be that bad, but as it is I don't think that the systems are very similar according to the interviews I've heard. It also depends on who's doing it, probably take a new guy 5 times longer than someone already experienced in the whitestar system.

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