Cool. After my productivity speedbump of last night, my Time Machine #pinball #disassembly project has moved forward. I now have a python script which exports the #ghidra program into an info file which a real 6800 disassembler reads to produce assembly which should actually be able to be reassembled into a final binary.
I'll use ghidra to continue analyzing the code, and when I'm ready to actually start writing my own patches, I'll do that outside of ghidra as though it were a source file.
If you really must know, I'm like the Rick Allen of getting the pinball stuck where it was never meant to go...
If you really must know, I'm like the Kerry King of getting the #pinball stuck where it was never meant to go...
Found this fun project:
A user called 𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐩𝟏 has detailed their project - a #3DPrinting virtual #pinball machine all powered by their #SteamDeck
Some details:
Uses a 16" uperfect portable monitor All connected to a cheap arcade USB encoder from AliExpress. Everything connected to jsaux dock. 1 USB is arcade buttons, 1 is haute board and 1 is monitor for power
makerworld page detailing the project here:
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1333715-virtual-pinball-steam-deck#profileId-1372591
Video of my progress to make a clock out of a pinball score reel.
This is an Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 running uLisp code to cycle four relays driving 24v to the reel solenoids.
The whole thing is wonderfully clacky and mechanical.
Next to do is wiring the zero switches on the reels back to the ESP32 so I know what number the reels are at.
HUGE RELEASE: the 81遊戯機械総合年鑑 (1981 Amusement Machine Yearbook) has been scanned!
This is an extremely rare catalogue covering the arcade and amusement machine industry in Japan in 1981
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/04/scan-81-1981-amusement-machine-yearbook.html
please enjoy
#retroarcade #japan #eremeka #videogame #pinball
I've been working on another clone (as is oft my wont) the past couple weeks to maybe build upon, this one for Nintendo's Pinball for NES. Not going too badly so far. Physics is fun to play with after working on a Shadowgate clone (very much non-physics).
This is it.
One year and 7 months later Road Show is once again in one piece and playable. The first test games did not reveal major issues, start mode scoop switch is flaky and the left plunger lane wasn't perfectly aligned. Other than that we played several fun test rounds with it!
I had missed this game so much!
Haven't worked on my #Pinball code #disassembly much directly, but I have been working to get all the tools I need collected. It seems like once I've used #Ghidra to annotate and explore the code I'll want to bring the disassembled "source" into a real editor to actually make my changes.
To ensure the actual disassembly is compatible with assembling back to EPROM images, I plan to write a script to convert ghidra's code representation into a file that will drive a dedicated 68xx disassembler
If you really must know, I'm like the Jim Abbott of getting the #pinball stuck where it was never meant to go...
@SecretAntelope Actually now that I got thinking about it, we have a board game about pinball, a pinball machine about a board game but have you ever seen a pinball machine about pinball?
It's called Pinball and it was made by Stern in '77.
https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1792
The honorable mention goes to Bally's Silverball mania, which in addition to also being about pinball, features family-friendly themes such as having sex with a pinball machine, right in the backglass.
scans: all of Coin Machine Review from 1942
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/04/scans-all-of-coin-machine-review-from_13.html
#retroarcade #scans #ww2 #pinball
If you really must know, I'm like the Rory McIlroy of getting the pinball stuck where it was never meant to go...
For all the BatFans still paying attention to this tag, this is like my third time of getting the ball stuck exactly in this spot...
Of course you can play #pinball without a machine!
Advertisement for Dragon's Fury on Mega Drive.
Taken from Sega Power 36 - November 1992 (UK)
This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/SegaPower.html
That was _so much_ time hanging out playing #pinball while my wife ran a women's pinball tournament that I think I'm actually tired out and also my thumb hurts.
Also me: Maybe I'll play a little digital pinball on the iPad. ... Wait.
ICYMI: Stern Pinball teases next machine #games #pinball https://www.gamerstemple.com/news/35531/stern-pinball-teases-next-machine?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
