Pirates of the Caribbean v1.15 (English,Italian) - MAME machine

Pinball published 18 years ago:

Disney Pirates of the Caribbean © 2006 Stern Pinball.

TECHNICAL
Stern S.A.M. System

Main CPU: Atmel AT91

TRIVIA
Based on the hit movie, starring Johnny Depp.

UPDATES
POTC V4.00 - April 27, 2007

• Replaced changes 3.0 undid from 2.0
• Added small flasher effects for the JACK ramp.

SYS 1.25

• fixed the extra ball crash bug.
• fixed multiball decvice problem, trough will no longer appear dead or cause endless multiballs.

POTC V3.00 - April 13, 2007
SYS 1.24

• changed ticket notch to be active closed.

POTC V2.00 - April 11, 2007
SYS 1.23

• Fixed the way the ticket notch switch responds.
• Added a Davy Jones Champion.
• Added the base bonus value to the end of ball bonus display effect.
• Added blow off of bonus with both flippers.
• Added new boarder for ball saved screen.
• Fixed the broadside speech and in general cleaned it up.
• Fixed the 'Cheated speech' and made it easier to hear.
• Made the base bonus scores larger and non-linear.
• Reduced the scores for Davy Jones.

POTC V1.15 - November 15, 2006
SYS 1.17

• Fixed Tortuga lock staying lit post Tortuga Multiball.
• Fixed Port Royal compass lamp not lighting from Liars Dice.
• Added Door open Ball Save adjustment.
• Added Instant Info # of shots to sink next ship
• Added Instant Info current PARLAY letters
• Added Instant Info current jackpot value
• Added Instant Info current Heart super jackpot value
• Added Instant Info Heart letters

POTC V1.14 - October 11, 2006
SYS 1.16

• Fixed a super skill shot restarting bug.
• Beta brite support was added for the tournament system.

POTC V1.13 - September 19, 2006
SYS 1.15

• Fixed the flipper EOS coil fire timing
• Added a super skill shot and a super duper skill shot
• Tournaments will continue to run if the game is turned off. This was introduced in v1.09

POTC V1.12 - August 24, 2006
SYS 1.14

• Fixed some tranlation misspellings.
• Fixed Time Lock lamp was staying lit after time lock ended from draing the ball.

POTC V1.11 - August 17, 2006
SYS 1.14

• Fix some foreign language misspellings.

POTC V1.10 - August 10, 2006
SYS 1.13

• Canada - English/French selection now available.
• Fix overlapping text in sound text.

POTC V1.09 - August 8, 2006
SYS 1.13

• ADDED - French translations.
• ADDED - German translations.
• ADDED - Italian translations.
• FIX - Coin switch denounce will not give extra credits at power-off.
• FIX - Ship will always sink during the game.
• FIX - Tortuga, time lock, Port Royal lamps will now be in the correct states all the time.
• Lowered the priority of the walk the plan sounds.
• Tweaked the "sink ship" boat effect
• Tweaked the "sink ship" lamp effect
• Made the game over music last longer
• Added sound to sinking ship sequence.
• Tweaked when the JACK monkey sounds occur.
• Added a Davy Jones defeated Lamp effect.
• Added more defeated Davy Jones sounds.
• Added a timer to Collect Crew BG Display effect.
• Added NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST to the Four Winds BG display effect.

POTC V1.08 - Thursday July 27, 2006
SYS 1.12

• Fixed some 4 winds score initialized for the nth 4 winds past the first one.
• Made Liars Dice be deterministic if in competition mode.
• Reset Jackpot values back to 1 million at the start of each ball if needed.
• The player will be spotted a plunder lamp if a ball exits with no targets hit.
• Tweaked the start of Battle Kraken or Fight Davy Jones speech timing.
• Cleaned up the choreography for defeating Davy Jones.
• Added Burn-in for the ship and plunder Disk.
• Improved dedicated switch scanning.
• Added HSTD feature so you don’t have to enter initials twice as a player.
• Made Four Winds pick up where you left off on 2nd plus four winds in a game.
• Fixed pop-bumper hits are no longer awarded during Four Winds.
• Gauntlet now mask out all the lamps.
• Removed the bell sound from the start of four winds.

POTC V1.07 - Wednesday July 26, 2006
SYS 1.12

• FIX - The Davy Jones Total was not being calculated correctly and now is.
• Fixed the appearance of the Gauntlet initials screens.
• Added new sounds for jackpot grows.
• Increased the pulse on the chest pin to help with edge cases.
• Tweaked some Kraken Speech.
• Reduced the max plunder target hits per plunder lamp movement.
• Reduced how hard Davy Jones is to defeat after you have defeated him. He was getting too hard to defeat.
• Made Big points be 500k or Jackpot-value which ever is greater.
• Rum Combo scores that were 2X or 3x were not being displayed correctly.
• Added a sound to the kick out of the top VUK.
• The correct sound plays now when the sails fall from Liars Dice.
• Attract mode tournament Messages after an update of code will now look correct.
• Added a sound to the top of the Ball Saved display effect..
• Added 'Yo ho yo ho and a bottle...' to the flipper sounds if '15 men...' was first.
• Made the Heart MB is lit background lamps blink slower.
• Tweaked the timing of some captain speech.
• Changed the order of the rum combo ramp speech.
• Stopped PARLAY letters during multiball.
• Raised the score values and Max for hitting the ship.

POTC V1.06 - Tuesday July 25, 2006
SYS 1.12

• FIX: Some game state flags were not getting reset correctly. The singing at the beginning and the liars Dice being 2 examples.

POTC V1.05 - Tuesday July 25, 2006
SYS 1.12

• FIX: 4 winds starts correctly. This problem was created in V1.04
• Sounds, Speech, and music were tweaked for some volume level other issues.
• Made language selection toggle to English and back.
• Canada language selection factory to off.
• Lowered the max value for kraken super-pops.
• Made Parley easier the first time. Since a post now makes it harder to go in hole.

POTC V1.04 - Monday July 24, 2006
SYS 1.12

• FIX: Heart Multiball Super Jackpot now awards during the grace period.
• FIX: Four Winds total now displays the correct amount.
• FIX: Bonus Multiplier Held now works correctly.
• Held off the start of the 'yo ho' music till the kraken super jackpot ends.
• Held off the start of the 'Kraken Battle' and 'Fight Davy' music till the kraken super jackpot ends.
• Added some translated text.
• Increased the maximum Bonus to 30X.
• Added lane change to the top lanes.
• Changed council scoring to be higher.
• The ship will now go to the correct state after diagnostics.
• Game over flipper speech will only play after the game over music ends.
• Increased the length of time Instant Info last per frame.
• Adjusted the order of the game audits.
• Only the first captain will delay the ball when the ship is hit.
• The HEART lights are now reset at the end of heart multiball.
• Held scores up longer at game over if there is more than 1 player.
• Balanced the Top Lanes scores some.
• Made left orbit awards not happen if ball came from Disk
• Lighting Time lock during Tortuga Multiball will no longer stop the disk or pin.
• 4 Winds and Gauntlet will now restart themselves if they add-a-ball during grace.
• Shooting Four Winds during grace will no longer start the four winds hurry up.
• The center and right top lane audits now chalk correctly.

POTC V1.03 - Tuesday July 18, 2006
Initial Release, English and Spanish

STAFF
Designers: Dennis Nordman, Dwight Sullivan (XAQ)
Playfield: Dennis Nordman
Artwork: Kevin O'Connor
Software: Dwight Sullivan
Dot Art: Mark Galvez
Dot Software: Lonnie D. Ropp
Mechanics: Ray Tanzer, John Rotharmel, Rob Blakeman, Oleg Korepanov, Mike Redoble
Music and Sounds: David D. Thiel
Front Man: Marc Schoenberg
Operating System: Lyman F. Sheats Jr.
Super Wizard Mode: Keith P. Johnson
Development Help: Phillis, Sheridan Oursler, Eran Marco
Testing: Joe Blackwell, Chas Siddiqi, Pat Powers
Owner: Gary Stern
Very Special Thanks: Anna Sullivan, David Sullivan, James Sullivan

CONTRIBUTE
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