Time to start mucking about with pinball machine rules, so anyone got a P-ROC board for sale before I source one from the US?
I figure the Mission Pinball Framework (MPC) might be worth exploring, but anyone with any experience got any alternative recommendations?
Thanks!
Ok, i have a few p-roc boards spare that i can sell 1 to you if you like. I'll send you a pm. If you are serious about rewriting a game such as a wpc title like whitewater then clear your calendar for the next 5 years at least!! That's speaking from experience rewriting games since 2011 and all the shows i've done showing custom rewrite games. It really is a labour of love..
So rewriting games, you have a few choices and it all depends on how much actual python you want to write. I use pyprocgame which is the pre-runner to skeleton game. Both of these allow you to write whatever you like, but if you are not careful you'll run off into the weeds fairly quickly. Skeleton Game is what scott used for TNA and other stuff. MPF is better for starting out but you are more limited and its more geared to using their own prebuilt controls and methods. Great for the most, but when theirs a problem with something, you have to write from scratch anyway, so the other 2 may have been better all along if you get my drift.
On the subject of running original code on rewrite games, yes you can do it with proc and the answer here is pinmame, Basically if runs pinmame emulation when you select the 'original' option. This is what we all did back in the early days. As your rewrite gets better, original games become less important /wanted though.
If you want a help getting started i have most of my code for my rewrites (indiana jones (wms and stern), whirlwind and twister) available on my GitHub area
GitHub.com/mypinballs Everything is published under the GLP v2 licence so you MUST publish your code if you use or reference anything i've created, so its still available.
