Quoted from fastpinball:

Running original and running new are certainly easier. What we are working on is a streamlined way to capture the event triggers and do new things with them. For example, capturing a request to play a sound and play an alternate sound or capturing a lamp light and do something else are simpler examples of what can be done. We want to really dial this stuff in so that the user can take advantage of the events and not struggle with figuring out how to capture them.
Aaron

Quoted from Aurich:

Pinball Game Genie.

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Quoted from pzy:

That falls under my "lack of common sense" statement. The code is 20 years old, and the company that wrote it hasn't built a pinball machine for 15 years. It should be free.

Quoted from metallik:

It's interesting that hacks and upgrades of console games have been going on for many years, and are freely available on the web. Nintendo and others don't seem too concerned, and they even sell many of these games in their virtual arcade. Example:
http://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&game=729
These are more egregious than FreeWPC using existing sound assets on the board, as the hacks themselves often redistrubute bits of original game.

Quoted from Purpledrilmonkey:

It's illegal to distribute roms. Hacks alone aren't the issue as its no different than a overkill game genie.
As far as rom distribution goes, just because Nintendo doesn't sue every human being under the sun doesnt make it ok. In fact, Nintendo is one of the boldest on copyright infringement and have a history of filing suit against hacking and piracy groups. The problem in this modern age of the internet is the criminal is becoming more faceless every day. If I steal a candy bar from a store and don't get arrested, it's ok for everyone to do it? Two wrongs don't make a right.

Quoted from ecurtz:

Newark claims to have 100 Beaglebone Blacks in stock (manufactured by them, but identical.) Other places have a handful in stock, but for bulk buys there are still 3500 backorders at Mouser and 0 stock plus unknown backorders at Digi-Key. Maybe since PPS is ordering 1000+ they can just have them built, or maybe they planned well ahead and stockpiled them.