JM Bonus Collect/Hold Weirdness

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Sorry to bump an old post!

I futzed around with this in PinMAME, and the grid randomization indeed seems to depend on the ROM version, as @dbs hints in the rgp thread. The v0.5 ROM acts as described above with a single pattern, with the starting position shifted by some random amount. The 1.2R ROM seems to choose from three possible patterns, shifted by a random amount. The possible patterns I saw are:

  1. HoldBonus, EB, BonusX, CrazyBob, Mystery, SuperLoops, VideoMode, AwardBonus, 50GB
  2. HoldBonus, CrazyBob, SuperLoops, 50GB, BonusX, AwardBonus, EB, VideoMode, Mystery
  3. HoldBonus, VideoMode, SuperLoops, BonusX, 50GB, Mystery, AwardBonus, EB, CrazyBob

So you can deduce the entire pattern by knowing two or three of the awards. Pattern 1 is the same pattern as v0.5 ROM. Not sure if other ROMs are floating around. I ran out of patience to look at this more, so take with a grain of salt :slight_smile:

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