Psycho Pinball: Wild West

Psycho Pinball: Wild West



Version: 1.00
Category: Future Pinball

Author(s): Slash2084, Jerry Winter, Sebek74

Description:
Join american wild west story during gold rush period.
Join american wild west story during gold rush period.
Remake of classic table from Psycho Pinball game by Codemasters released on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994 and PC in 1995.

Features:

• Based on original rules, extracted music, sounds, DMD animations
• Multiple game modes including Goldrush, Reward, 3-ball Multiball
• Three subgames including Black Jack, Big Deal and Dodge The Express
• Extra Night Duel dual ball bonus mode with alternating night and day graphics and associated lights matrix
• Addititional features added to the original version include bonus held, score & double bonus
• Fully animated HUD DMD display
• 3D building models, placard info system, several overlays including a moving train
• Translite optimized for cabinet user
• Stereo enhanced sounds & music
• Light show effects for various gameplay achievements
• Attract mode with all game rules description & credits (watch till the end!)
• Service mode with selection of:
  
  • difficulty level: easy, medium, hard (difficulty level will affect all award timers, initial player achievements and difficulty of "Dodge The Express")
  • 3/5 balls gameplay
  • continuous play mode (during continuous play mode the ball will not drain)
  • HUD display switch (turn off HUD DMD if you want to use a secondary monitor for a backlight)
  • number of flipper buttons (choose whether to use one flipper button or 3 buttons to control all the flippers separately)
  • game pricing (freeplay or 1/2 coins per game)
  • game statistics (number of gameplays & reset all high score tables)
  • music test (test all 35 music tracks)
  • light test (test all 30 light effects)
  • placard test (test all 67 placard images)
  • extras test including night mode & both card subgames, Dodge The Express (practice game rules & your skills)
• Custom high scores system with six independent high score tables for all difficulty/balls gameplay combinations
• One year of common work; tons of gfx & 11.500+ lines of script code, 800 objects (sorry, we couldn't fit any more in)

Rules:

• CARDS: Clear all cards to open casino.
• CASINO: Play black jack or big deal game for extra ball or playfield multiplier activation.
• PLAYFIELD MULTIPLIER: Multiplies all scores by 2, 3 or 5 for tens seconds.
• BUMPERS: Raise current hold up value.
• GUN: Clear gun triggers to open bank for hold up value collection.
• REWARD: Go to ramps and clear trigger banks to raise reward value. Go to horseshoe ramp to spell next reward letter. Collect all letters to activate reward.
• BANK: Collects hold up value or jackpot reward.
• WATER RAMP: Activates engine spelling. Enables bonus held, score bonus and double bonus.
• RODEO: Scores rodeo value and lights the letters of the word engine. Opens tunnel for Dodge The Express when the word engine is lit.
• TUNNEL: Awards bonus held and bonus multiplier or lights extra ball when entered. Play Dodge The Express game when the word engine is lit.
• BULLET: Collects score bonus, double bonus when enabled. Activates bonus multiplier for a few seconds.
• GOLDRUSH: Light all gold letters to enable goldrush mode. Letters are collected at water ramp, rodeo, bank and cards. Score goldrush value at all ramps and trigger banks.
• HORSESHOE: Spells next reward letter, activates goldrush and gives multiball value.
• OUTLAW: Opens mine to collect TNT letters.
• MINE and JAIL: Spell next TNT letter. Light all letters to start multiball mode.
• SIDELANES: Award extra ball when lit.
• NIGHT DUEL AWARD: Award established amount of score to enable extra mode when game completed.

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Submitted by Sebek74, on Oct 14 2010, 03:10 PM

Edited by Sebek74, 15 October 2010 - 06:30 AM.

thanks dude, even though I don't really play FP i'll give this table a go since I own the real psycho pinball on pc

Have fun. I hope this table is another opportunity for VP fans to try FP.

Thanks for the release, will try it soon
OT, I repacked the zip-file, with 7-zip and ended up with a 53 MB file, instead of a 70 MB file

Wow.. I use RAR and it's 56MB (solid, best method), so 7-zip becomes better now? Unfortunatelly half of people don't know what 7-zip is, and I know persons that don't know what to do with RAR, so I stay with standard for official uploads.

I was just pointing it out

I understand the use of zip, since "everyone" can unpack a zip
I used 7-zip with ultra / LZMA2 compression, and in most cases, 7-zip will compress better than winrar.

I never played Psycho Pinball on the PC so I can't make any comparisons.

But I played a few games on this table and it's obvious to me how much work and dedication went into this thing. Nicely done! I really hope you guys plan on releasing more like this. Impressive!

Thanks everyone!

Wow, I love it. The night dual mode is amazing. The table actually goes from day to night. It's so cool looking.
The sound design is top notch. The dmd is also really, really cool. This table totaly blew my mind. I would definitely
recommend giving it a try.

If you don't care for FP, you still should seriously give this table a try. I've been play-testing it for awhile and it is amazing. I don't see how they made all of those features and rules listed above work in this table, but they did and it's a thing of beauty.

Will check this out at soon as i get home!

Looking amazing, thanks a lot!

To everyone who wants to compare original version or just give a try, please contact me, I can upload DOSBox integrated PC version, or Sega (with emulator) version as well.



That means that you didn't read all attract mode credits

Thank you very much for this great table release.

Thanks for this table , this is a Masterpiece...

yes,...Thank you very much...

Very nice release, people need to try this table as IMHO it's as good as anything I've seen in a virtual pinball table. Some comments:

Psycho Pinball: Wild West, as pretty much anyone reading this thread is probably aware, is based on an older video pinball game that appeared many years ago on the Sega Genesis and the PC. The original I thought, was not the best representation of computer/console pinball; my preference leaned more towards the Digital Illusions series of pinball games on the Amiga computer; but still it was a fun game and on that basis, led me to have some pretty high expectations; especially coming from the team that made the Billion Dollar Gameshow; a fine addition to any Future Pinball library. This release continues a trend I've seen of late, where one is inspired by an original work, but is not bound by it. This allows near "original" thinking in some of the design decisions that IMHO ends up making the experience fresh. Don't get me wrong, the historical buff in me loves the straight port; but then with this table, I always have an emulator that can help fill that void.

To kick off my review, I need to start a while back; when I was asked to test and provide some ideas on this upcoming release. As I did so, I was able glimpses in the final months of this production a pinball game taking shape and grow leaps and bounds into something that just blew away my expectations, so let's have a closer look into why I feel this is one of the top releases for Future Pinball; nay ANY pinball series of late.

So where do we start? How about the single best attract mode I can recall seeing in a long, long time? Let it go through its conclusion and questions you may have had on any particular rule set will be answered via the great link between the DMD text and the playfield lights that show you exactly how to activate the various modes. Attract modes aren't something that is looked at often; but I tell you, if any guest come over and want to play a pinball table; it allows one to take the guessing out of the equation (and looks cool to boot!). Secondly, it shows just how much spit shine polish this release was given. I'll be trying hard not to overuse the word "polish" in my commentary, but it's going to be hard!

Playfield graphics: Very well done, a great respect was given to the old graphics with a nice HD facelift; but also some nice FP toys put in there to give you that great Future Pinball look. Well done and a nice touch to put in a bit of a video mode on the playfield itself. Certainly adds to the overall experience.

DMD: Well done; used to a nice effect for the service menu; as well as for the playfield/videos mode and just everything else. I can't really recall what the Genesis/MegaDrive version had (the version I played the most) but I don't think I recall this level of variety but I could be wrong. Anyway, if I'm correct, there's a lot of original work that's been put into this. Kudos for including one off the backglass for us poor schmucks who don't have a pincab/second monitor; and nice for these artists to putting it on the backglass for those (hopefully me soon) who do have a pincab.

Backglass: Again, nice graphics, nice implementation of the DMD and provides some good personality to boot. Even a small touch such as the little electrical charges from the bullet holes just makes it more "alive" compared to most light based active translites (nothing wrong with those of course, just nice to see something a little different). Also bonus on providing a DMD style scoring display for each of the players. A great "clean" look to everything.

Playability: All the shots are makeable; the bazillion different modes (something not seen too often in FP tables) really gives this release quite a level of variety that is IMHO really only matched when playing tables such as Bally's Twilight Zone or Stern's Simpson's Pinball Party or others of their ilk. Having this many modes is not for everyone but it certainly is for this guy; as I'll be going back for more on a regular basis. Anyway, great balance in putting in video modes; video intros to playfield modes, etc.

Sound/music: Over 30 music samples; including one awesome tune for the "dual" bonus at the end; none of them gets on my nerves and the variety/quality really adds to the overall excellence of this table. Some good overall sound effects and nice sound queue's for the various modes (such as blackjack, train sounds; the talking portions of the game, etc) finish off a favourable view of this category.

Extras:
High score table: I just wanted to add an extra thanks to the team for making use of the DMD for this feature and for remembering my initials so I don't have to keep entering them. I've no idea if other programmers use this in their tables, I haven't tried every table after all but kudos for them to adding this feature; it just adds yet another level of ... you know .
Multi-ball "introduction": yeah, this is the way to let people know you've reached a multi-ball mode. Rock N Roll; lit the fuse and let's go!
Script: Over 11 THOUSAND lines of code. No, that's not indicative of quality, but it does reflect on the amount of work put into this table and into providing a service mode that works as this does. Can this table be buffeted even more? (ouch!...)

Final comments:
This is the point where, having been playing this for a while and becoming emotionally invested in their process, I have to consider that maybe I've subconsciously added some pink tints to my glasses. I don't know, all I can say is, give this a try and come back to this thread and let the authors know what you think. If I'm not off, join me in thanking the team on such a fine release. I'll end this section with me pondering: "can we tell they've been working on this for a year???". My answer: "yep"

Thanks Seb/Jerry/Slash; what a release; it's so... polished (sorry about that )

Rob

Great review, Rob!

I totally agree, this has to be one of the best pinball releases in a long time.

Thanks again guys!

All I can say is THANKS THANKS and THANKS again.
Thanks to "the Loafer" for his "polished" report
... and thanks alot to the rest of the community for the nice comments

To show you my graditude here is a little "Hint" for better achieving "Dodge the Express" and "BonusX" at the Tunnel Kicker:

If the ball comes down too fast from top of the Horseshoe Ramp then do...nothing because it's almost impossible to hit the Tunnel.
If the speed is low or middle then catch the ball with the right flipper and wait until he stands nearly still.
Then shot the ball as late as possible with the peak of the flipper into the Tunnel...it works 99% to me.
The same trick goes also for the left flipper to hit the "GUN" targets.


Jerry

Jerry, it's very easy to come up with such a review when the game is of this quality. It's the type of effort where IMHO one could say "yeah, I'd have put a few bucks towards buying this" due to the level of... you know. It's yet another motivator to get off my butt and get my pincab going.

Rob
Thanks for that extensive recommendation. Indeed we are proud of our new release. It was another year of our common work (look it's exactly one year without one day since the BDG was released). I wanted to release that table earlier, but Jerry wanted that table to be polished as much as possible to avoid next fixed version. Meantime new ideas appeared so it extended the time again and again. Finally it was mainly delayed by me, because I became slave of quality of that table.
Thank you Rob for some really important suggestions like backglass shape, horseshoe kicker responsivity or sound details. Your opinion was important to ensure us, we are on correct way.
Thanks for that opinion once more because I believe this words will attract more people, also hard fans of VP only.
We believe that table and other good tables will keep Future Pinball alive and will shut up some mouths saying that Future Pinball is dying. I'm sure not - because we will return with another table (can be even better?).

Jerry
I'm very gratefull for your patience when I wanted to change & improve some things again and again. I hope you can sleep more now because hangman is now completed There will be no another update & request tomorrow, I promise

Everyone
Please, I don't want to force anyone. But if you like this table, and you wish to show gratitude for this release - give some stars at FPR. We want to beat record of ratings there.
I also wish to ask for your high scores achievements. There are 6 categories, I hope you can play great amounts!

Edited by Sebek74, 17 October 2010 - 10:37 PM.

@Rob
Thanks again...and let's talk about some bucks again

@Sebek
A big "thanks" also to you because it's nearly impossible to realize all my thoughts and ideas without a cooperator and friend like you.
No update to WW anymore? Omg it sounds like a wonder to me.

Last but not least I have to pay tribute to the man in the background who made an excelent "Basic Layout":
Thanks alot Slash2084!

Jerry