Road Show rev. L-6 patch ccd1


This is a software patch for the game software of the Road Show pinball machine.



Disclaimer

The purpose is subtle changes to correct bugs and make the game better suitable for competition usage. Through balancing random elements, scoring and the relative reward for game objectives.

It is made as a fan based project and shared free of charge.

The patch is supplied as-is without any warranties and support. Use at your own risk.

Please take care when patching the software, creating a physical ROM and installing the ROM in your game. Make sure you do every step of the process correctly.

Mirror fill the physical ROM chip, if the one used is of higher capasity than the ROM image file.

With new software installed, the game may restore factory default settings. Clearing all adjustments, statistics and high scores.



Release note

Changes

New feature adjustment A.2 27 "Route of cities".
"East west": Same as rev. L-6. City modes are progressing from east to west.
"Any route": City modes are playable in a semi-random route. Criss-crossing the map.

Default: "East west".


New feature adjustment A.2 28 "West coast city at".
Options "10" - "16": The city modes progression, at which, the west coast final modes become available. Applicable to the Any route mode only.

Default: "10".


Any route configuraition detailed description.

The route:
W	New York
O	Miami
Y	Atlanta

W	Ohio
O	New Orleans
Y	Nashville

W	Chicago
O	Dallas
Y	Kansas City

W	Minnesota
Y	Denver

W	Butte
Y	Salt Lake City
O	Las Vegas

The trading post:
O	Albuquerque

The west coast:
W	Seattle
Y	San Francisco
O	Los Angeles 

The route:
Game starts with New York lit.
On a mode finish, the next unplayed city on The route is lit.
A pop bumper hit will move a lit city to the next unplayed one on The route.
A stand-up target hit will move a lit city to the next unplayed one in its colour, if any, on The route.
The "next unplayed" is cycling back to the top.

The trading post:
Albuquerque is always city no. 8.
After Albuquerque, The route is re-entered at Denver.
If Denver is already played, lit city moves on to the next unplayed one.

The west coast:
At the adj. A.2 28 selected city number (10-16, default at 10) The west coast begins.
The city of The west coast, which is of same colour of the one just completed, is lit.

When adj. A.2 28 is set to a value between "10" and "15":
The west coast stage is running as in rev. L-6.
A pop bumper hit will move a lit city to the next one on The west coast.
A stand-up target hit will move a lit city to the one of its colour on The west coast.
One west coast city may be played (with option to start the Super payday wizard mode).
After this, the map resets and New York is the city lit.

When adj. A.2 28 is set to "16":
Special marathon option, where all three west coast cities may be played in succession.
A pop bumper hit will move a lit city to the next unplayed one on The west coast.
A stand-up target hit will move a lit city to the one of its colour on The west coast, if unplayed.
This stage is active until a) all west coast cities are played or b) Super payday is played.
After this, the map resets and New York is the city lit.

The map runs a new light show celebration, when 17 cities are completed.
With the 18th and final city pending play for a completion of the entire map.

The stand-up targets refered to are the orange, yellow and white ones only.

A bug where the Payday bonus could be given for an unplayed city (with 0 points), fixed.

The city of Houlton may still peek up somewhere. No effect on features or points awarded.

A bug where the Los Angeles mode could fail to end on time expiration, fixed.

Adjustment A.1 21 "Language" is limited to "English".

Adjustment A.1 28 "Min. vol override" defaults to “Yes”.


Why it rocks

More diversity from game to game. More replay value. More fun.

Or, high skill level play rewarded by prefered modes. 

A bit more strategy to the souvenirs buying and selling.


Note

When adj. A.2 27 "Route of cities" is set to "East west", the adj. A.2 28 "West coast city at" is irrelevant.

When adj. A.2 27 "Route of cities" is set to "Any route", the adj. A.2 16 "Longer path" is irrelevant.



Patch guide

The patch is distributed in the two patch formats Xdelta3 and Lunar IPS. Use either one. Just one of them, which ever suites you best.

The patch files only contain the new code. To obtain the patched software for the game, specific original ROM files will have to be the basis for this. Please refer to Xdelta.org and Fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lips for tools and information.

You may verify that the files are correct through these SHA1 finger prints.


Source file:

Road Show U6 game ROM rev. L-6
Distributed filename: rshw_l6.rom
SHA1: 1A67E5BAFB7A6AA1D42B2E631E2294A3C1403038


Xdelta3 patch file:

Road Show U6 game ROM rev L-6 patch ccd1.xd3
SHA1: 7E1C53BEC11859D466A528C3C98266CFBD076E75


Lunar IPS patch file:

Road Show U6 game ROM rev L-6 patch ccd1.ips
SHA1: 3C95CECBFC39B1C415854A44159F0E12E129E250


Patched ROM file:

Road Show U6 game ROM rev L-6 patch ccd1.rom
SHA1: 1B413100005EFD63CB0344FF921E5D544ABED6E4



Thanks and respect - The pinball designers, the PinMAME dev team and the pinball mod community.

Enjoy.