So, bought one of these: http://www.microcenter.com/product/486598/Speaker_pHAT
Installation went very well. I even crimped on connectors so reversing the change to the machine is easy as unplugging and replugging the speaker connector.
Note: The system will welcome you to LISY1 and announce the version using voice synthesis when you start it up using a sound pHAT. It will also announce when you enter LISYControl.
PinMAME sound was even worse than through the tone board. Basically static.
Running sound files works a bit better. I’ve found that they need to be sampled as low as can be. Sounds kinda get piled up when you hit a lot of things with the ball very quickly. There is some clipping static that occurs as well. To be fair, I’ve found the PC can exhibit the same sorts of clipping if I repeatedly and rapidly replay one of the sounds. When we do MPF, I’ll probably build “event tone sequence” sounds, like the triple 1000 for things like the bonus stars and the six tone sequence for Start Game. The only other option we might have is to replace the speaker; I don’t remember what the impedence of the cabinet speaker is, but the pHAT wants 4 or 8 ohm impedence.
BorgDog, I’d be really curious as to your results with the chime boards in Sinbad or Cleopatra using PinMAME. We’re talking about MPF here, and what we can do; Solar Ride has a pretty simplistic playfield and ruleset, so I’m not sure how much we can really squeeze out of it.
BTW, interesting quirk to the playfield: The two “reset drop target” lights on the kickouts are individually addressable in the software, I hadn’t actually realized that until I could directly operate the light matrix in LISYControl. From the standpoint of the original rules, they don’t really need to be, although it might be a “just in case the light driver fails on one” engineering choice; it’s not like there aren’t spots in the light matrix left.
Creator of the first PinupPlayer PostDMD mods for VPX - PostDMD for Masters of the Universe VPX and Jaws VPX.
Head Proprietor of Pisces Pinball, a VPX table developer.
Lead Technician of MC Chase Amusements, a private arcade in our home basement.
Creator of the first PinupPlayer PostDMD mods for VPX - PostDMD for Masters of the Universe VPX and Jaws VPX.
Head Proprietor of Pisces Pinball, a VPX table developer.
Lead Technician of MC Chase Amusements, a private arcade in our home basement.
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