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#NUCORE PINBOX REVENGE FROM MARS VP INSTALL#
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(WMS, 1985-2000) during the time period Revenge From Mars was produced include Wizard Blocks, Playboy, Star Wars, Episode I, Grosse Pointe, Monster Bash, Medieval Madness, No Good Gofers, Ticket Tac Toe, and Junk Yard.Ī pinball and video game hybrid where you defend Earth from invading Martians. Other machines made by Williams Electronic Games, Inc. (WMS, 1985-2000) released 85 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985. Revenge From Mars was produced by Williams Electronic Games, Inc.

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#NUCORE PINBOX REVENGE FROM MARS VP SOFTWARE#

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#NUCORE PINBOX REVENGE FROM MARS VP UPDATE#

That’s it! Once the update completes (about 15-20 minutes in my setup), the newly flashed software will be verified, and the pinball is ready to be played! Brian Peek Update complete - total blocks 9728 (4980724 bytes) Im_flsh0.rom: 64 blocks of 1201 ( 128) sent, total bytes remaining 4915188 Im_flsh0.rom: 0 blocks of 1201 ( 64) sent, total bytes remaining 4947956 When you run the above fupdate.exe program, the update process runs, and you should see output in the console window as shown, along with a progress bar on the pinball’s monitor: bootdata.rom: 0 blocks of 64 ( 0) sent, total bytes remaining 4980724 In the dialog that pops up, hit the Advanced button on the Port Settings tab, then select a new COM port from the drop-down as shown: You can do this by going into Device Manager, right-clicking on the port you’re using and selecting Properties. I was able to go into the properties of the COM adapter and force it on to COM1 which worked just fine. Trying to run the above command with the COM17 switch failed.

#NUCORE PINBOX REVENGE FROM MARS VP SERIAL#

The USB to serial adapter I used on my laptop installed itself as COM17.

The command’s final switch is the COM port to use for the update.

For Revenge from Mars, every ROM image is prefaced with the above string.

The –f switch specifies a file prefix for each file in the update.

The –p switch denotes where the software update files are.

Running this command line tool on the Windows 7 圆4 laptop worked just fine. If you’re just interested in updating a Pinball 2000 machine from a modern computer and OS, you can download fupdate here. I have ripped out the important files into a separate archive. It’s a win32 command line app compiled against a very old version of Cygwin.

#NUCORE PINBOX REVENGE FROM MARS VP CODE#

Even more interesting, the source code for the fupdate.exe is included in the package. The Pinball 2000 Update Manager is just a pretty GUI wrapper. Exploring a bit further, I found the fupdate.exe command line application that actually does the flashing. Unfortunately, this didn’t immediately get me much further since the GUI updater requires some OCX files to be registered, and that’s a circle of hell I didn’t want to enter.

#NUCORE PINBOX REVENGE FROM MARS VP INSTALL#

Luckily, I was able to install the app in a Windows XP x86 virtual machine and copy the installed files over to my laptop. Not surprising since this application and installer was written 13 years ago. The installer choked when running on my Windows 7 圆4 machine. However, trying to install and run the Pinball 2000 Update Manager was a different story. Anyone can just grab the Pinball 2000 Update Manager and the appropriate software update for the machine to be updated. After lots of other work on the machine, it was time to update the firmware again to version 1.5.įinding the software and ROM images was easy. The game was running fine, but obviously something was wrong. When my dad passed away in 2008, I decided to keep my favorite pins from the route: Funhouse, Addams Family, Theatre of Magic, Tales of the Arabian Nights, and Revenge from Mars.Īfter sitting in storage for a couple of years, the software update sitting on Revenge from Mars would no longer checksum properly. As you might imagine, I have a just a tiny bit of love for video games and pinballs. Warning: This is a pretty off-topic post about pinball, but maybe it’ll help someone searching for the information.īackstory: My dad was a coin-op operator. Pinball 2000 Software Update with Windows 7 圆4