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Warbler33
- Version: 1.3
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- Updated: October 14, 2020
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Here's my attempt at a recreation of Ballyhoo from 1932. It's probably not a 'perfect' recreation, but I'm happy with how it turned out - especially considering it's my first recreation - so I'd like to share it with you all.
Huge thanks to mfuegemann for creating the "Cavalcade" table I tore apart and put back together as this table. Thanks also to randr for recreating the "Worlds Fair Jigsaw" flipperless table, which inspired me to try recreating another table from the early days of pinball. I'm more of a Gottlieb fan, but the primitives needed for "Baffle Ball" seemed to difficult for me to tackle. So I decided to instead recreate "Ballyhoo" which was inspired by Gottlieb's "Baffle Ball." Ballyhoo is another pinball pioneer and the namesake of the Bally Manufacturing Company, which went on to create lots of other pinball classics, so it felt like a good one to attempt. Hopefully my recreation also inspires someone to go off and remake another early table for people to enjoy.
***Additional Thank You's*** - Thanks to The Internet Pinball Database community for posting images of this table to refer to. I was able to recreate the instruction cards and "BALLYHOO" text at the top using some nice close-ups from the site. - Thank you to people like ninuzzu, JP, and all the other people's code that finds its way into almost everyone's tables to make them work. - Thanks to Jopp for giving me good instructions on how to add sounds for when the ball collides with the pins in my version 1.2 update - Thanks to the vpinball community for welcoming my first table recreation with enthusiasm and nice comments.
***Notes*** - This table comes in a 10 ball and 7 ball version (as did the original Ballyhoo tables). One can be fairly easily converted from one version into the other. But for version 1.3, I've opted to release both version in ready-to-go forms at once for convenience and in case people want to easily switch back and forth between two tables. - The score reels/ball counter/highscore tape should be able to be turned off in the script. - I've never played a real Ballyhoo table before. I did my best to make my recreation at least 'look' as close to the real thing as I can manage. Perfect recreation or not, I hope it's fun to play and gives people an idea what bagatelle games were like.
Anyway, I hope you like it!
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Version 1.3 update - Thank you to everyone for downloading the previous versions of this table! I'm very happy to see people enjoying it. I plan for this to be the final version of my Ballyhoo recreation (assuming people don't find any bugs that need patched). Once again, thanks to everyone for making my first table recreation feel like such a success!
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Table created for personal use & is not for resale
Permission to mod - Yes, with approval
No rom required to run - should just load and play.
Be sure to rename the backglass to exactly match the version(s) of the table you want to use it with. I just made the one backglass design that works with both tables.
Wheel image also included.
1.3 - The big update - don't plan to do any more changes to this unless someone finds a bug. Improvements include:
- Overhauled the appearance of the plunger to better match images of the real table.
- Changed the font used on the playfield to be closer to the original tables. Also tweaked the color of the wood and added a couple small shadows.
- Swapped out the pin-hit sounds,
- Added a frame (using walls) around the table to closer mimic the setup of the real table.
- Fixed a bug that had the Bally Hole double scoring carry over across games played back-to-back. The score reel should also reset at the beginning of a new game rather than when you score points for the first time.
- Both versions (7 and 10 ball) now in the download zip folder. It should still be possible to convert one of the tables into the other version by tweaking the code and changing the "Apron" image. But after I made the above edits, I think it might have changed the line numbers that need switched. So instead of having updated instructions, I thought it would be easier to just release both. Some people may also want to easily switch between the tables and this makes it easier.
1.2 - Added pin collision sounds and swapped some other sounds out. Now defaults to a 7 ball game just for fun, but can easily be swapped by changing two lines of code and updating the "Apron" image to match. (See "Installation" for instructions). Download still includes B/G and wheel to make it easier for people downloading this table for the first time.
1.1 ("Ballyhoo Download") - First Release. Defaults to a 10 ball game, but can change to a 7 ball game. Download includes a static backglass and a wheel image I created.
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Here's my attempt at a recreation of Ballyhoo from 1932. It's probably not a 'perfect' recreation, but I'm happy with how it turned out - especially considering it's my first recreation - so I'd like to share it with you all.
Huge thanks to mfuegemann for creating the "Cavalcade" table I tore apart and put back together as this table. Thanks also to randr for recreating the "Worlds Fair Jigsaw" flipperless table, which inspired me to try recreating another table from the early days of pinball. I'm more of a Gottlieb fan, but the primitives needed for "Baffle Ball" seemed to difficult for me to tackle. So I decided to instead recreate "Ballyhoo" which was inspired by Gottlieb's "Baffle Ball." Ballyhoo is another pinball pioneer and the namesake of the Bally Manufacturing Company, which went on to create lots of other pinball classics, so it felt like a good one to attempt. Hopefully my recreation also inspires someone to go off and remake another early table for people to enjoy.
***Additional Thank You's*** - Thanks to The Internet Pinball Database community for posting images of this table to refer to. I was able to recreate the instruction cards and "BALLYHOO" text at the top using some nice close-ups from the site. - Thank you to people like ninuzzu, JP, and all the other people's code that finds its way into almost everyone's tables to make them work. - Thanks to Jopp for giving me good instructions on how to add sounds for when the ball collides with the pins in my version 1.2 update - Thanks to the vpinball community for welcoming my first table recreation with enthusiasm and nice comments.
***Notes*** - This table comes in a 10 ball and 7 ball version (as did the original Ballyhoo tables). One can be fairly easily converted from one version into the other. But for version 1.3, I've opted to release both version in ready-to-go forms at once for convenience and in case people want to easily switch back and forth between two tables. - The score reels/ball counter/highscore tape should be able to be turned off in the script. - I've never played a real Ballyhoo table before. I did my best to make my recreation at least 'look' as close to the real thing as I can manage. Perfect recreation or not, I hope it's fun to play and gives people an idea what bagatelle games were like.
Anyway, I hope you like it!
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Version 1.3 update - Thank you to everyone for downloading the previous versions of this table! I'm very happy to see people enjoying it. I plan for this to be the final version of my Ballyhoo recreation (assuming people don't find any bugs that need patched). Once again, thanks to everyone for making my first table recreation feel like such a success!
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All logos, copyrights, & trademarks that happen to appear in this game are the property of their respective owners.
Table created for personal use & is not for resale
Permission to mod - Yes, with approval
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robobet So awesome to see this. Thanks for sharing and congrats on the first project!
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To remind us what ‘pin-ball’ really means
Thanks!
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Great job! It reminds me a pinballs I used to do when I was 7 years old. A piece of wood, nails, rubber bands, a hammer and some damaged fingers. As pop bumpers I used the beer bottle caps. I really love it!
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Can’t wait to try this one out. I love these old tables! Thank you!
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This is too cool. Thanks @warbler33 !! Perfect companion table to both Star-Light and World’s Fair. I really appreciate it when someone takes the time to bring these relics to life. I’ve been eyeing a 1933 Merry Go Round on c-list. Early ‘pin’ like this – but circular!
Thanks again!
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very cool, thanks for sharing this and for your work
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Very nice. I gave the primitive pins a hit event to get the sound.
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Thanks for mentioning Star-Light, @jfr1 ! I had not seen that one before, but now I have it downloaded to play later.
And let me just take this opportunity to thank everyone for their nice comments and their interest in the table. It’s been roughly 24 hours and I already have 150 downloads!! I’m happy to see so many people find these older tables as interesting as I do. Hopefully mine inspires someone to go off and make another
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As HSM says: it’s very much more fun to have a sound when the ball hits the pins and the good news is:
it’s very simple to do, all script and sound is already there!Here’s a little how_to:
1) Make sure you have Options “on” (orange line) and press Select (green line)
2) From that list choose Pins (COL).
Now…it might look that VPX has ‘frozen’ but as there are a lot of pins this takes a few seconds…just be patient (talking to myself…..
)3) As you turned the Options on you;ll see this menu on the right:
select Physics and enable ‘has hit event’ and put the value 1 as threshold_value
Actually….that’s all! (as said: script is ready, sounds are already there)
But….in my case I couldn’t hear the colliding ball->pin well enough so I raised the volume:
3) open sound manager (F2) and select pinhit_low and press ‘Position’
4) set volume (right slider) all to max (=down)
Press OK, save table and enjoy.
When you have full SSF you can hear the ball hit the pins on the left or right where ever the ball is at that moment very well….
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Thank you for such clear and well laid out instructions, @joppnl !! You inspired me to go back and tweak some other sounds effects as well. I’ll try to get an update added shortly for anyone interested in having a few more/new sound effects. But thanks again to Jopp – it was very nice of you to take time and explain how to do that
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Wow @joppnl … ditto what warbler wrote. How the heck did you know this stuff? Now I’m going to be up all night trying to import the more metallic sound from randr’s WF. I grew up with a table top Gold Star ‘pin’ game from Lindstrom, and even with marbles, it has a very metallic ‘ting’. I am having a BLAST playing this. The score counter, sticky note and light bulb/ball count – love these. Hope you stay with this table @warbler33 …shadows?
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Thank you for this. Love that you took the time to bring an original back to life. Saw some old ones on VP8, but this raises the bar immeasurably. There’s definitely something to be said about the old simple games. Everyone likes to talk about the Addams Family being the biggest selling pinball of all time, but it wasn’t. Not even close. (Rockola’s World Series in 1934 was). These old games were magic then, and still are now. Bally Hoo started it all 2 years earlier.
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Thank you….i love old simple tables. Takes me back to better times.
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Thanks for the picture, @jfr1 ! It’s fun to see my table on someone else’s setup and that Gold Star sure looks cool! As for your praise of the counter/highscore pieces – I wish I could take credit. Those were parts of the “Cavalcade” visual table I gutted to make Ballyhoo. (I definitely recommend that table to everyone who’s enjoying mine! I think it’s over at vpforums). And shadows, you say? I’d be happy to look into it! No promises how long it’ll take to get an updated file posted, though. I got version 1.2 out quickly because the pin sounds seemed like a popular request and Jopp laid out the instructions so clearly that it was a snap to add. Also, if I make a change as significant as shadows, I might want to revisit a few other things on the table.
And once again, let me just say thank you to everyone downloading the table and telling me how much you’re enjoying it. As joeplainfield mentioned, there was an older version of this table online, but I didn’t think it was really cutting it anymore. (Understandably! Visual Pinball seems to have advanced quite a bit between then and now). I’m glad to know people are enjoying my updated version. That was really the goal all along.
Hopefully I’ll be able to share an even better updated version one of these days. But, until then, thanks again for all of your support on my first release! It means a lot.
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Thank you Warbler33! This table looks great, my toddler is gonna have a blast, he really just loves doing the plunger, so this will be perfect for him.
Quick question, when i try to play, is there a specific button i need to be pressing to setup the ball? I toss in coins, but the game doesnt ever eject a ball. Not sure what im missing here? Thanks!
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Right flipper button loads ball on my setup.
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Well, I feel like a dolt lol. Tried everything except the flippers haha. *facepalm*
Works, thanks!
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Great – i think i have seen one real Table at Terra Technica Museum …
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I just uploaded version 1.3. I plan for this to be my last update to the table (assuming nobody finds any glitches I need to address). I had zero expectations for how my first table recreation was going to go, so I’m very happy to say that it feels like a complete success! So thanks once again to everyone for your downloads and nice comments. I’m not sure if/when I’ll have another project to share, but I hope you continue to enjoy Ballyhoo!
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