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jesus Greg…
I thought I took away the ten character limit…
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I think what you and others are doing is great! The drac, High Speed and taxi tournament roms are perfect for competition now.
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Thanks. Appreciated.
I’m mostly interested in HOW this is accomplished. I’ve always wanted to dabble with this. Whether I’d be able to produce anything useful or set fire to my machine is another topic. 
Kevin
POSTS CAN’T BE IN ALL CAPS
They can now
The Earthshaker ROM mod has been back on the workbench.
See top post, please.
Hey there, I just picked up an Earthshaker but I don’t have any of the tools to burn my own ROMs. Is anyone able to burn this new tourney software onto a rom and ship? I’d gladly pay for shipping, chip cost, etc etc. Thank you!
let me check if I have 2 spare 32Kb roms for it…
i had some, patched the ROM and burnt them, PM me for your details and I ll send them out
I have a question about obtaining the new competition ROM. I downloaded the patch for U26 and U27, but I’m not sure which ROM from IPDB that I’m supposed to apply these to. I don’t have the pin yet, as I will be picking it up next week. Wanted to get a head start on ordering new roms (from hobbyroms.com or elsewhere), but I’m assuming I need to send them the rom files that are already patched, right? Any help is greatly appreciated… and donations will be made appropriately as needed.
The rule is, that ROM mods are based on the lastest official US domestic released ROM. However, there are exceptions. For TOM latest released require a new security chip, for some odd reason, so that one is out. Unless that gets hacked too. For Taxi, the second to latest, the Marilyn one, needs to be done as well. For TAF, the one with the highest rev number is an internal prototype.
All files for the patching process are documented by SHA-1 checksums. SHA-1 is an established standard. I recommend the free tool HxD for calculating this and monitoring that files are ok.
The binaries for the X-delta 3 patching tool is unfortunetly a little hard to find on their website. But here they are…
Suggestions for an alternative are welcome.
This Earthshaker custom ROM worked very well at this past weekend’s Space City Open. Thank you, @soren for creating it! On this physical copy, there was also a flipper hop on the L flipper, a tight tilt, and rubber removed from center post.
Yes, the Zone 5 to Side Ramp strategy was most certainly in play – as it usually is – and I used it to great effect. But it requires you to hit your shots, and with strong lower flippers and tight tilt, when you missed, you were in trouble.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/509348076?t=1h7m41s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/509461877?t=0h15m37s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/508703050?t=1h23m25s
After seeing some of the prior tilts, I couldn’t believe that you got away with this one. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/509461877?t=00h33m06s
Huge moment too. If that tilts, you can’t win the tournament. I know you know that, just giving context for others.
Other tilts for reference:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/509461877?t=00h19m39s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/509461877?t=00h20m18s
Just curious, was there an earplug mod in this game? Seems like it was a long swinger.
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Yes, there were earplug mods on all the games but stargate.
I think the tilt bob may have been off center just a little bit as left to right seem much more friendly than upward nudges. The TD mentioned he tried centering it though so it could have been rust on the bar or just the way it was hanging. Once you knew, you knew but that first one caught me off gaurd a bit 
Yup, I used every mm of gap between the bob and ring on that one. had nothing to lose with tilting there (outside of catching first). But even if I had tilted, I still had an “out” to tie for 1st in the tourney if I won game three and Preston took last.
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Cheers MacAlpine. One of the first ones. Might get revisited someday.
Happy you found use for it.