Updated Earthshaker custom competition ROM

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Haha, well I am always bored waiting for my turn even if something interesting is going on :wink:

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The viewers arenā€™t the ones competing for $$$

No, but the viewers are the ones that could bring the kind of ad revenue that could mean competing for 7 figures instead of 4-5 down the road.

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If I may - I did not bring forward the ā€œboring to watchā€ point or comment. It is adjustments for balancing game scores that intrigues me. As well as bug fixes, inter-player / inter-games shared progress and random stuff. Unfortunet issues for competition play.

I agree to that being able to repeat shots is skillful play.

Also, I am not saying that games absolutely cannot have random elements or ā€œdonā€™t botherā€ parts of the playfield or ā€œeasyā€ shots that return to the same flipper or shared ball locks (like Taxi). It is all about the balance.

Mark Steinman has previously posted the comment regarding the concern for game times. More than the relative value of ā€œsafe shotsā€.

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LOL!

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jesus Gregā€¦

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I thought I took away the ten character limitā€¦

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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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Test

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Thanks. Appreciated.

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Iā€™m mostly interested in HOW this is accomplished. Iā€™ve always wanted to dabble with this. Whether Iā€™d be able to produce anything useful or set fire to my machine is another topic. :slightly_smiling:

Kevin

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POSTS CANā€™T BE IN ALL CAPS

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They can now

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The Earthshaker ROM mod has been back on the workbench.

See top post, please.

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Hey there, I just picked up an Earthshaker but I donā€™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? Iā€™d gladly pay for shipping, chip cost, etc etc. Thank you!

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Hobbyroms.com will do it.

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let me check if I have 2 spare 32Kb roms for itā€¦

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i had some, patched the ROM and burnt them, PM me for your details and I ll send them out

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I have a question about obtaining the new competition ROM. I downloaded the patch for U26 and U27, but Iā€™m not sure which ROM from IPDB that Iā€™m supposed to apply these to. I donā€™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 Iā€™m assuming I need to send them the rom files that are already patched, right? Any help is greatly appreciatedā€¦ and donations will be made appropriately as needed.

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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 areā€¦

Suggestions for an alternative are welcome.

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This Earthshaker custom ROM worked very well at this past weekendā€™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 ā€“ as it usually is ā€“ 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

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After seeing some of the prior tilts, I couldnā€™t believe that you got away with this one. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/509461877?t=00h33m06s

Huge moment too. If that tilts, you canā€™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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