Hello David and thank you for your interest! The game is nearly complete and will be entering a private beta after the Expo show in October, where I'll stress-test the game in a few local arcades before opening it up for early adopters to buy a beta kit early next year. When the kinks are worked out and everybody is happy with it, then I'll put them up for general sale. Stay tuned to this channel for more updates!

All good questions! I've spoken with the hardware engineers at FAST Pinball about modifying the ROM behavior of the original to allow scores over 9M, but we're not certain it's possible with how the game manages memory. But the LCD screen features a simulated version of the original segment displays that exactly replicate the text and scoring, plus lists the current jackpot (which is not part of the new backbox translite). Playing the original game with new animations would require either (1) programming the rules of the original game from scratch and adding display content, or (2) adding sniffer logic to the emulation to detect all gameplay events and driving new screens based on them. The second option would be much easier on a DMD game because more information is communicated via the display (easier to sniff), while an older game like SoF doesn't show much on the display so you'd have to sniff the memory buffer. It'd probably be easier to just do it entirely from scratch, but that runs the risk of mis-transcoding some rules or nuances of the original. The current status is that SoV is approaching it's first Beta and will be available to play at Expo in October and a few local arcades after that. Planned release of an open Beta (early access kits available for sale) is expected early 2024. Thanks for the interest and stay tuned for more updates!

@@paradigm-tilt thanks for such a detailed reply. I which we could get a DMD red dot screen for this bad boy. It screams 80’s and I could see a cool old school animation of the magic playfield having the knight shoot magic from his sword - as he hits the enemies they turn into dust piles. The lion man head roaring on the screen and if you hit the jackpot it’s mouth opens super large like it’s consuming itself as it disappears. The tunnel entrance shooting out beams of light, hitting it triggers a scene where the knight runs through it, obviously leading to the magic scene. “Found power one” ect could be a scene where he’s opening a chest and acquiring a glowing orb (pinball) I would LOVE to write it all through a story board but would have ZERO ways to program ect. Something I’d be super interested in funding depending on details.

Currently the SoF emulation is running on pure ROM code, without patches, but there are some opportunities to read into the machine data and tease out additional info (for enhanced shows, visuals, etc). Assuming the data is stored as a 32-bit integer, that allows the machine to track scores in excess of 2bn (signed) or 4bn (unsigned) so it may be purely a limitation of the display. I'll investigate!

No, doesn’t look like it in any way

It's built from scratch, but the playfield layout is based on Game of Thrones (Pro) with some modifications like shorter left lane barrier and a loop under the center ramp instead of kickback and battering ram.

@@paradigm-tilt thanks for the info! I saw the upper right area as the "plinko" plastic playfield on on PB and BOP. But a GOT Pro is much more obvious now re-examining. Appreciate the response!

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