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Batman '66 Tribute VPX Reveal Stream

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 20m·analyzed·Jun 2, 2021
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TL;DR

Fan-built Batman '66 VPX table reveal with 27K lines of code, detailed turntable, 1.0 beta ready for testing.

Summary

A live stream reveal of a fan-made Batman '66 VPX (Virtual Pinball X) tribute table, featuring the development team including DeFishbowl (coder), Mr. H (3D modeler), Ken Swift (video/animation), and others. The table is presented as a comprehensive recreation of the 1992 Stern Batman 66 pinball machine with 27,000 lines of custom VB code, a meticulously detailed rotating turntable mechanic, and extensive ruleset recreation. The team discusses the multi-year development process, design challenges, and plans for community beta testing and polish before final release.

Key Claims

  • The VPX Batman '66 table contains 27,000 lines of VB/VBScript code

    high confidence · DeFishbowl states: 'oh man let me check what the latest is here i think we're at 27 000 lines of code'

  • Mr. H began modeling the turntable 3-4 years ago while on holiday in Vietnam

    high confidence · Mr. H: 'I started that like three or four years ago when I was on holidays in Vietnam I uh I took my laptop and because I work for myself so I took my laptop but just while I was over there had some downtime I'm like I just kind of start modeling this table'

  • The development team collaboration began last year when Mr. H and DeFishbowl connected

    high confidence · Jon Hey mentions the turntable work started years ago, then 'last year when me and the fishbowl hooked up Guardians happened I might have tried to suggest Batman 66 as a table to create'

  • DeFishbowl's previous VPX project was Guardians of the Galaxy, which was built primarily by Mr. H and DeFishbowl only

    high confidence · Ken Swift: 'this is the fishbowl second game his first one was uh guardians of the galaxy' and 'guardians was really Mr. H and the fishbowl only'

  • Batman '66 is described as 'ridiculously deep' with complex rulesets requiring knowledge to play effectively

    high confidence · Every physical pinballer mentioned says 'You picked like the most Ridiculously deep game ever' and the team notes it's not a pick-up-and-play table

  • A previous Ghostbusters VPX project used Sam Stern ROMs and Pinball Arcade DLL, resulting in takedown action

    high confidence · Jon Hey: 'Ghostbusters used Sam Stern ROMs' and 'Ghostbusters used the ROMs there was a there was a guy who was had a Patreon who had actually broken Spike 2 emulation' with someone receiving 'a cease and desist from Sam Stern'

  • The Batman '66 VPX table is being handled to Terry for polishing after beta phase

    high confidence · Jon Hey: 'the goal is once you know we get out all the kinks we're gonna give uh it over to terry and terry is going to polish the hell out of this thing'

Notable Quotes

  • “There are absolutely no Sam Stern ROMs in here. There are no – this entire table was created out of pixels”

    Jon Hey@ 6:22 — Clarifies the legal/technical distinction from ROM-based projects; emphasizes fully custom code implementation

  • “27,000 lines of code of just shoot myself in the head visual BASIC or VB script”

    DeFishbowl@ 7:15 — Emphasizes scale and complexity of custom VPX coding work; expresses fatigue with project scope

  • “I started that like three or four years ago when I was on holidays in Vietnam I uh I took my laptop and just kind of start modeling this table because I'd love to see this table in vpx one day”

    Mr. H@ 14:58 — Reveals long development timeline and personal motivation for undertaking massive modeling task

  • “It's like every Every pinballer Like physical pinballer that I talk to Yeah Me and my team we did Batman 66 And they said You picked like the most Ridiculously deep game ever And decided to do that one”

    Ken Swift@ 26:01 — Highlights the challenge of recreating one of the most complex pinball rulesets ever designed

  • “This is an especially deep table... if you're thinking to pick up and just start flipping it, you're not going to get anywhere and you might not enjoy the table, you have to know what you're doing”

    Jon Hey@ 34:07 — Sets expectations for players: Batman '66 requires rules knowledge and practice; not casual-friendly

  • “The short answer is nothing does, But the longer answer is, I think there are about 400 or 500 pinball machines that are ahead of this one on the list if Sam Stern wants to do anything about”

Entities

DeFishbowlpersonMr. HpersonKen SwiftpersonJon HeypersonSuper DemipersonNail BusterpersonTerrypersonLyman SheetspersonSam SterncompanyBatman 66 (Stern VPX Tribute)

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Multiple VPX developer/designer contributions from established community (Nail Buster framework, VPW physics team, Flipstream moderation); demonstrates active collaborative ecosystem

    high · Credits include: 'Nail Buster's framework', 'VPW team', 'Flipstream', 'Eight Ball', 'Mr Rick', 'Decoy', and 'dozens of alpha testers' listed in opening discussion

  • ?

    community_signal: Substantial community engagement demonstrated by large tip donations (2,000 bits from anonymous supporter) and active participation from established VPX community members

    high · Anonymous viewer sent 2,000 bits with appreciation; Ken Swift, Mr. H actively participating; chat engagement evident throughout

  • ?

    design_philosophy: VPX development team prioritizes comprehensive ruleset recreation and mechanical fidelity over time constraints; explicitly rejecting rushed timelines seen in prior projects

    high · Jon Hey references Harry Potter being rushed and commits to giving Terry adequate time: 'we're not gonna rush him... we're gonna give him his time to do his thing'

  • ?

    event_signal: Live stream reveal format with simultaneous participation from core development team (DeFishbowl, Mr. H, Ken Swift) and community Q&A

    high · Stream structure includes live gameplay, direct developer commentary, real-time chat interaction, and explicit invitations for team members to explain their contributions

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Stern Pinball enforced IP protection against Ghostbusters VPX which used proprietary ROMs/code; Batman 66 VPX avoids this by creating entirely custom code implementation

Topics

Virtual Pinball X (VPX) development and technical challengesprimaryBatman 66 pinball machine recreation and ruleset complexityprimary3D modeling of complex mechanical features (rotating turntable)primaryFan-made vs. licensed pinball software and IP/legal constraintsprimaryVirtual pinball community contributions and collaborative developmentsecondaryStern Pinball enforcement against unauthorized ROM-based projectssecondaryGameplay demonstration and rules explanationsecondaryProject timeline and development process over multiple yearsmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.85)— Host and team express enthusiasm and pride in the Batman '66 VPX project. Community members sending substantial tips/bits. Acknowledgment of challenge and complexity is framed as a mark of achievement rather than complaint. Some self-deprecating humor about playing ability, but fundamentally celebratory tone. No significant criticism of the product or team.

Transcript

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Just sit right back and you'll hear it. © BF-WATCH TV 2021 All right, Phil, we're going live now. 66B's Flipstream Thank you for that Tier 3 Freaking sub You are a legend Well this is now my favorite shirt This is now my favorite shirt Forever and ever and ever So let's get I'm gonna wait We're gonna let everybody's Redeems play Let me make sure everybody's redeems can be heard Because the volume is a little low Oh god fiends Fiends Here he is Oh my god Who's that That is the fishbowl It's a travesty. You probably do have music. If you have it, it's going to show up in about 20 minutes. What's up, Lynn? Let's hear what's next on WMPT 3K Radio. Well, we have a big... Do I need... Do I need to turn redemptions off? Can we play nice? I didn't turn... Oh, by the way. By the way, Flipstream, please, Flipstream, if you're there, please do me a favor, moderate, and don't trigger... Don't trigger stuff. It's not even helpful. Flipstream, if you're there, please do the moderation stuff. Don't trigger stuff. Make sure people are nice, okay? Sorry. Sorry. Thank you, bro. Welcome to the stream, guys. I also have with me the coder. Welcome to the stream, guys. I also have with me the coder of this table, DeFishbowl. What's up, my man? Hey. Hey, what's up? How's it going? Let me know, guys, if you could hear DeFishbowl just fine. We've got me. We've got DeFishbowl. Possibly we'll have Ken Swift. And maybe Mr. H? Possibly Mr. H? What do you think, DeFishbowl? Yeah, he'll pop in for a little bit. All right. A tiny bit, otherwise, yeah, a tiny bit quiet. That's because I told DeFishbowl his voice is very like, you listen to the sweet, sweet sounds of DeFishbowl. He's very low key. My friend, how do you feel about what we got so far as an official 1.0 beta of the Batman table. Let's take a look. Yeah, man, I'm excited. There's a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, man. It's good stuff. Shows you how much work really goes into one of these things. Oh, man, this was an incredible undertaking, guys. You know, we're still going. We're still rolling. um we are official like what 1.0 right now but it's still beta yep we're still beta just uh trying to we're going to open up the beta a little probably get some more people in here test this out but there's uh i think all the codes in there just we got to shake out all these little bugs yeah yeah so if you guys see some some weird stuff um remember let me let me start this off with And this is, I see you guys chatting. It's still beta, but don't worry, it's close. We wouldn't be showing you if it wasn't so close, okay? We wouldn't be showing you if it wasn't. It's always going to be in beta. It's like Disneyland. It's never going to be changed. It's never going to be finished. I'm going to start by saying this is a fan tribute by the group that put this together. You can see them in the back glass. The Batman 66 table by Stern. There are absolutely no stern ROMs in here. There are no – this entire table was created out of pixels, and so was the pup, right? This is officially Nail Buster's work. Not – I mean, you know, it's our work, but it's Nail Buster's framework, so to speak. visual pinball it's all visual pinball all pup pack and how many lines of code to fishbowl oh man let me check what the latest is here i think we're at 27 000 lines of code my god dj djq thank you for the thank you for the uh that's called a follow isn't it 27,000 lines of code of just shoot myself in the head visual basic or VB script VB code and if any of the other VPX builders out here know the pain that we have gone through or I should say I should say know the pain that the fishbowl has gone through nice code flex bro um so like i said total fan built thing 100 percent uh love letter to uh batman as well as stern for creating the batman pinball machine this was a lesson in lyman sheets code this was a lesson in lyman sheets's brain to figure out everything that's in here um i'm gonna just start a game and then we'll talk and then I'll do another game and then we'll talk and later on I hope to show you guys how this table looks in VR also I'm not gonna play in VR I'm gonna show I'm gonna see if I can show you around with the VR headset so you can see some of the amazing work by so many of the people who contributed I mean myself the fishbowl mr. H and Ken Swift we're just the main four but there are many other people who are amazing talents in the virtual visual pinball community virtual pinball community we could not have gotten here without those people looks like what do you think it's just joined uh yeah i mean man it's uh man goes through the whole list it's uh it's huge and it gets it gets bigger every day it's uh i mean we got you know super demy um yeah super demy definitely super demy's like five he's like team member number five yeah and then uh you know we got eb is lit you know with the playfield we got nail buster with that pup i mean absolutely impossible without that and then uh we got our super tester mr rick and uh just unbelievable thousands of games played um you know flip stream i mean giving input your input and uh wax i mean with the physics the vpw team with some of the enfazi stuff and details and i mean joey on graphics dj rob and g5k helping me out on that turntable pinball fan uh helping me out with uh his real his real uh he has the real table and input there and then all the alpha testers that we have i mean just list goes on and on and that vpw team i mean there's a group of like benji apophis i don't know say iaki or an astro nasty board six toe i mean they're just a list goes on and on just tons of people tons of work yeah awards speech right there hey good day mate it sounds like a mr h hello yes a little late to the show but hi hey so that's mr h everybody uh what's what was fun about this i will flip in just a minute but i gotta talk to mr h for a What's fun about doing this is the entire time it's me and Ken Swift and DeFishball and Mr. H in the Facebook group. And Mr. H keeps complaining that we have a funny accent. Dude, I always thought that was really mean, man. What, my accent's funny? No, mine. Oh, I thought I was copying it from Ken Swift. I'm from Brooklyn. I'm from Brooklyn. All right. So once again, this is almost the whole team. Ken Swift wants to jump in, but Ken Swift is in the chat. Let's start off. Let's find out if this game actually can flip. And I don't have any sound. Oh, I didn't have sound. You guys got that? I think my I think my V-Pen Was waiting for so long To play a game That it decided not to play sound for me Alright Linda Linda's like Oh come on I'm the one with the funny accent Alright So let's talk about What we got here The general illumination came on And once again I gotta tell you guys Fully Built With Pup pack And visual pinball And various other things so many other things. We have... Let me just do this and show you guys that I can actually play. We can actually play if I don't suck today. Here we go. Really hard to hit that ramp. There we go. Let's start Catwoman. Oh! We gotta have Nudge. Crap. Yes! Just like Batman. Yeah. Mr. H, how are you doing this evening? I'm good, man. I'm good. I'm very... It's a little bit chaotic at the moment. We've just gone into lockdown again. Work, kids, and Batman 66. Yeah. And repeat. Work, kids. Don't mind a little lockdown. That sucks you guys are in lockdown again. Yeah, just last week it's all turned to be paycheck in Victoria, Australia. But we'll get through it like everybody does. Guys, look at how amazing that... Look at that. Is that Ken Swift? Is that Ken Swift? Did I hear? Nah, I don't see him on the stream. Oh, okay. I thought I heard. Look at how amazing that... The turntable is amazing. All right, so what I'm trying to do right now is I'm trying to complete the entire Batcave sequence. That consists of not only shooting that scoop, but you want to shoot Commissioner Gordon twice. All right, we're on our way. And what did that do to Fishbowl? That doubled my multiball score if I got a multiball now? Right, it doubles your multiball score, yep. Okay, now I can try and shoot. No pressure, right? It's like I never played pinball on my stream before. What the frack? Okay, do that again. There we go. To the back poles. Can he make the last shot? Oh, nice. He made it. And he got a mystery. And he got a mystery. So that doubles everything. Oh, man. I'm going to do like Jack Danger level playing right now. Here we go. Now you can get... Oh, that was terrible. You can get gadgets. Oh shit. No! No! I'm going to backhand this because you can backhand this. Just like in the real table. Combo? Nope. No combo. Oh goodness. Hey, Mr. H, talk a little bit about how long it took to just build the turntable back there. I started that like three or four years ago when I was on holidays in Vietnam I uh I took my laptop and because I work for myself so I took my laptop but just while I was over there had some downtime I'm like I just kind of start modeling this table because I'd love to see this table in vpx one day right so I just started modeling that uh rotating turntable and um i just could do your hell yeah god gosh got to the point i didn't know anybody with the table at that point and there's only so many references on the internet i got to the point i'm like whoa man this mech is there's so much going on in there there's so much going on in that thing yeah and just in the inside there there's um a heap of heap of stuff i just got to the point where i just sort of i don't know just stopped it and just thought i'll just pick it up again later on i'm like i couldn't put this table together like i just do not know coding at all right so uh i don't know i just left it and i probably just worked on another little bit some pieces here and there and just trying to get into the vpx creation community you know just trying to find where i'd sort of would fit um but yeah that was that was years ago and then once years ago last oh man would be like three or four years ago when I was in Vietnam yeah then last year when me and the fishbowl hooked up Guardians happened I might have tried to suggest Batman 66 as a table to create and away we went I think I think I was at that point I had a Batman in the garage and I was streaming it it's not a long stretch for you guys to know that Batman 66 is one of my favorite pinball tables ever so getting me in on this was I think that's actually how I came about finding you too is seeing your streams on YouTube and you were doing Batman 66 at the time. Started last year. I love this table. Becca, yes, this is real. No, no. It's not real. It's really virtual. It's really virtual. It's really virtual. You guys fooled me. Holy smokes. Let me keep this going and I'm going to try and finish Catwoman. with gadgets so i'm going to shoot this ramp here and then i'm going to use can i hit this nope so i'm going to use oh oh okay i'm going to use two gadgets one two that lights my super anytime you have a gadget i don't have a gadget uh light on my lock bar. DeFishbowl has an actual physical lock bar, light, and button, and I hate them. I hate you, DeFishbowl. With a multicolored LED, by the way. With a multicolored LED. That reacts to this game. Let's just collect. Let's collect right now. What does multiple players look like? Looks like player one, player two, player three, player four. Very similar to the actual table Let's go for TV How about that Let's do Shane Just because Guys never do shame Never do shame But this is a demo So we'll do shame Pop right there is awesome Don't waste your time with Shane guys. Oh, let me show you guys something else that... Can I do it? Oh, damn it. All right, I'll show you something else later. I was going to try to show them channel changing. I'm going to do better soon. Wow, I am missing so much in chat. I'm sorry guys. Dang, I don't have any Magna Save buttons. Is there another way to do the action if you don have Magna Saves There an option So you can do Magna Saves you can do the plunger button the launch button or you can do the lock bar button. So there's three different options. Nice. Or you just hit the left off key if you're on a desktop. Nice. I like that if you hit the plunger button. So hopefully you have a plunger button. Yeah. Thank you for all the Thank you for all the follows guys Credit to this great team To bring us this awesome table Well we haven't brought it to you yet so But it's close But it's close You will Trust me Trust us you will have it But Not yet We're gonna try and break some shit tonight Alright Let's do it again So Another glorious morning in Gotham City Another glorious morning in Gotham City. We used... We grabbed some other sounds, too, that are in the DVD, actually. So if you have the real table and you play this one, you may be getting some other sounds because no one vetoed it and we thought it was cool. So there you go. Do a two-player game, Manu. Here you go. All right. Two-player game. What's the next? What's the next? We don't have a next yet. I know. We're not thinking of a next yet. This one's not done. Sleep. That's my final answer. Fish came out of the bowl on this one. Aerosmith. That's an interesting one. All right. Let me show you guys something else. So you have your standard skill shot, right? The three lights correspond with the three lanes up at the top. You can also hold the left flipper to access a super skill shot. So if I can, it'll shoot the ball all the way around. Hi, Rastan. Missed your streams. I do too. It'll shoot the ball all the way around. Notice how all the shots are lit up, right? So this means all I need to do is hit the shot once and it will start the villain. Okay, so if I hit a cat ramp, it'll start Catwoman immediately, Penguin immediately, Riddler immediately. So let's try that. Ed Boon. Joker's hit. Joker will immediately start. All right. I'm going to go for my full Batcave sequence again. Alright, if I blow it, that's fine Man, I really blew it Oh, I super blew it I'm going to try and get into it Whoa, thank you for the bitties What? 2,000 bits from Anonymous? Wow, I don't have a reward higher than like 200 So, Anonymous, thank you so much. You're an absolute legend, and I hope you appreciate what you're seeing from this amazing team. Mr. H to Fishbowl and Ken Swift. I'm going to throw Super Demi in there, too, because no one did more grunt work than Super Demi. Holy smokes. Guys, I got to tell you, the amount of assets we had to go through for this. Yeah, that was a lot. it it almost made us cry so mr. ages fault area so man and we did not realize how much was in this. That was, uh, we kept saying, whose idea was this? That's player two, by the way. Ken Swift in the house. How you doing, Ken Swift? What's going on? You guys are doing a great job. Oh! By the way, uh, everybody, the, the, uh, that opening animation with the Batman theme and all the different starring DeFishable and stuff, that's all Ken Swift. He is our resident, amazing video creator and pretty much the choreographer of getting all the video into the game. That's fair enough, right, Ken Swift? Yeah. um you know really this i don't think anybody realizes so this is the fishbowl second game his first one was uh guardians of the galaxy and uh throughout this whole process i've been calling him the michael Vecennia Jordan uh of vp even though you guys have not you know uh really seen i think i think every table he does he realizes what he's capable of and it's scary every time we come up against a hurdle in this table uh he'd figure it out and work his way through he'd be like hey it's just programming. I could do it. And, um, and I don't think we left, it's just code. It's just code. But I don't think we let, you know, so for, you know, people that said that things were left out of guardians, I don't think they realized it was really, you know, guardians was really Mr. H and the fishbowl only. And, um, and you know, with this one, thankfully, you know, he, he, he let us help out a little bit and, uh, I don't think there's anything left out of this. I think this is really comprehensive. So, uh, they can be blown away. Yeah you got that right It's like every Every pinballer Like physical pinballer that I talk to Yeah Me and my team we did Batman 66 And they said You picked like the most Ridiculously deep game ever And decided to do that one I don't think we I don't think we Went yeah let's pick the most ridiculously deep game ever I think we didn't know Yeah how bad it was gonna be oh i think i think mr h wanted to model that turntable from the get-go he had no idea probably didn't play the play the game he's like man that turntable's cool i want to do that and that's how it all started that's how it all started drain-o-matic let me see if i can catch up with chat i've had some insane conversations about things i didn't know were even possible with the fishbowl yeah uh not to be a downer but What keeps Stern off the page? He's thinking of Ghostbusters table from a couple years ago. Well, Ghostbusters? What happened with Ghostbusters? By the way, I didn't, who just, let me scroll back. Frog, Frog Dog, JD, Frog Dog JD, welcome to the theater. I mean, the short answer is nothing does, But the longer answer is, I think there are about 400 or 500 pinball machines that are ahead of this one on the list if Stern wants to do anything about, you know, anything. I think that was a music issue, Manu, I believe. The music from Ghostbusters, I think, was the issue. Yeah, thank you. because I was like there was a there was yeah Ghostbusters used Stern ROMs exactly thank you Flipstream yeah so Ghostbusters used the ROMs there was a there was a guy who was had a Patreon who had actually broken Spike 2 emulation right he'd actually gotten it solved and I think either got a cease and desist from Stern or decided to just kill it I don't know Terry has the answer Terry's got the answer Yeah, there's a bit more to that. It was, I'm sure everybody's just yelling at him in chat. Terry's got, he says he used Pinball Arcade DLL, and that was the reason. That's it. Yeah, that's stealing their code directly. That's pretty much stealing their code. And, you know, 27,000 lines of VB, DeFishbowl can attest he wrote every single line, or at least most of it, because I think you started with Orbital Framework? Yeah, I typically try and start with stuff that's out there, and Orbital was the first thing that kind of got me going, but I've modded that quite a bit. Some carryover from Guardians, too, I would imagine, right? Yeah, yeah, lots of carryover from there, and all the tutorials out there, I mean, I cut and paste. Hey, what? Mr. H, why don't you tell them a little bit about other stuff that you've done? Because I don't think anybody has an idea how many tables you've had your hand in that are just amazing models of yours that are in other tables. It drains just like the real thing, am I new? Were you watching? I did. I've done little bits and pieces. I don't know. There's a couple of tables that haven't seen the light of day. as well. Yes. Maybe. Hopefully. I don't know. You put me on the spot, didn't you? Didn't you model something for Harry Potter? I think I helped with... That's loud. You helped out on Pizza Time. Pizza Time. Did the pizza model and then maybe the plastic ramps. I kind of helped out on the dragon on Harry Potter. Oh, nice. Can you do some monster stuff? Oh, yeah. I did the bash toy. So humble. He's so humble. I was really hoping that table would be as good as these tables, but it just didn't get there. That's where I've been. It's like when I see a table that I really like or what I'd like to see the light of day, it's like pounce and just go, right this is what I can do you know to the person that's creating it's like this is what I can do do you want me to help I'm happy to help however you want and you know it might just be a little bit of modeling here or there or yeah I bet I mean I couldn't I couldn't do anything else like day job and doing this table and this life it's crazy it's crazy I mean like you guys have touched on it, I wouldn't have thought that there was so much work in a table. Let alone this table. Let alone this table. You just couldn't do it by yourself. And if you did, you'd do one table and burn yourself out and never do it again. I mean, I don't know how Scotty Wick does it time and time after again. Yeah, Scotty is a one-man... Scotty is a monster. Yeah. Got it. Atta ball. No sleep. Sleep when you're dead. When you guys see that turntable model, especially in VR and the level of detail that's in there, it is crazy. I think it looks better than the real one. I'm going to take him on a little trip in VR in a minute so we can take a look at that. yeah and so uh the goal is once you know we get out all the kinks we're gonna give uh it over to terry and terry is going to dof the hell out of this thing and and uh you know super lucky that he agreed to uh you know to to uh to work on this and we're not gonna rush him um you know like uh like has happened sometimes to him in the past harry potter uh we're gonna give him we're gonna give him his time to do his thing and it's gonna be amazing That was nice of you, game Well, there's an example of some of the multiball I see haunt freaks in chat Wow, hey, hey By the way, guys, thank you for that hype train I hadn't even noticed it, but Thank you so much Lockdown bar faceplant Lynn, you are just You are the best Let me see if I can do the penguin skill shot Shoot it right into the scoop Ready? Ready? Ready? Here we go Take it back, take it back I can do it It's trying to steal it I can do it Nah, I can't do it anymore Because the time runs out After a while you can't Should keep trying. Let's go for another TV mode, maybe? Maybe? Oh! Yes, you can drop catch on VPX. Who said you couldn't? Ed Boon. Let's continue? No, let's collect, because I'm going to see if I can... Oh, this is ball three. Screw it. I'm not going to make it through to villain escape. So, one thing that's important to know, is this isn't a table I think that you could just pick up and just start flipping. You have to know what you're doing. You have to know the rules. Manu, literally before we started, I think he did like 10 or 12 videos. And I'm not talking about short videos, but, you know, just amazing videos on the rule set. And that's how deep it is. And so everybody needs to understand that. You know, if you're thinking to pick up and just start flipping it, you're not going to get anywhere. and you might not enjoy the table, you have to know what you're doing and there's a lot that goes into it. Yeah. This is an especially deep table. What's up, Game Time Television, by the way? And if you could get... If I can get... Oh, you suck! Oh! I mean, thank you all for joining me today on this wonderful stream of... All right. I'm going to do another single player game and hopefully do better. Let's get a little more progress. Once again, guys, in chat, we have Ken Swift, Mr. H, and the Fishbowl, all part of the team that helped to bring this to life, so to speak, in its digital form. If you have any questions, I hope you guys are all looking at chat, right? MPT3K, you suck. Hello, guys? Yeah. Oh, you're still here? Good. I was just checking to see. You guys are looking at chat, so make sure that you... Yeah, I'm trying to answer. So you have the alpha release of Deadpool? We're not talking about Deadpool right now. We're not talking about Deadpool. I got a Deadpool downstairs in the garage. It's going to be leaving soon, though, so I'm trying to decide what to get next. Let me show you guys another thing, a feature in the actual physical game that we have in here. When you start, you start with the four villain episodes, but there are four more. And generally speaking, people only see them when they go through all four and they go to Villain Escape. then they'll see four different episodes you can switch to those episodes in the beginning of the game already you hold down the right flipper you can see i have perfect crime setup for uh catwoman but i can switch to uh the other ones joker's wild i can switch the serfs up fine feathered franks i can switch i like this one because this one introduces batgirl so and then hi little riddle this is the one where they fight in the ring so the flipper codes are in the vpx also we we try to take everything that's in there there are things in this game i didn't even know until we had the glass off and the ball and just the fishbowl and i sat with this game for like an hour trying to figure out what the frack the spinner does and it was a little mini game that little mini game it wasn't that there was no it wasn't that there was no uh documentation on it but the documentation didn't go very deep it was like you shoot it and you could get a jackpot if you do a thing and we're like well specifically how many times does this have to spin and how many points do you get and so we sat there and we just did it and did it and did it and we cracked the code we got a video about 30 times hitting that thing, if not more. Oh, man. It was too much, man. All right, I'm going to try the super skill again. Oh, I let it go. Gosh darn it. Don't let the flipper go if you're doing the super skill shot, guys, because then it's not a super skill shot anymore. All right, you guys want to see the crane? You all want to see the crane, right? Everybody wants to see the crane move. Is there a two-screen version? Yes. I'm running... I think Harlan... Harlan. Okay, we know his name's Harlan. I think... Ken Swift posted a picture of his pin. He's got the three-screen version. I'm doing the two-screen version because I have a thin DMD. It's all developed on desktop, so we support desktop single screen wax yes wax at home wax made that made sure that was happening no but it helps you know it helps no it's got to be there that working the other stuff it's got to be there and it's not the thing that we were like no we're not doing that we were like oh yeah that needs to go in you want to see what else is in there guys Oh you moved You son of a guy Let's see Amazing work, can't wait to play it I really need to upgrade my v-pin to three screens What do I have? I have four screens Thank you Baldus Geek. Alright, what else is in here? Let's see. Let's capture Penguin. Now you guys noticed that every time I in a villain I go for the super skill shot so I can get a gadget Gadgets are everything in this game So if you want to save shooting that left ramp over and over again hold the left flipper activate your skill shot It says it right up there. Hold left flipper, press launch to activate super skill shot. Launch the ball, get control of it, and hit something. If you don't get control of the ball, the time runs out and you don't get that gadget shot. And now with the gadget, I can actually redeem one of those. So I don't have to hit it. The gadget light will flash. It's telling you you have a gadget available. And you can also see how many gadgets you have. Let me lock a ball. You can also see how many gadgets you have through the status. so if I hold down the any flipper either flipper right the fishbowl yep any flipper I will get the status all right combo pop bumper level zero gadgets okay I've got no gadgets let's get another one good control nope wait nope all right whatever I promise you I'm good at this Okay one more hit to ping You just gotta get your son in here Oh you know what Really you gonna call me out like that The other day man You had to bring the rain man You brought him in Oh it was a whole different game Yeah My son My son is a beta tester on this And he is quite good The crane looks great Everything that I'll show you guys Once this game is done we're going to jump to a commercial and I'll show you guys some of the VP the way it looks. Let's collect. Now normally if you want to make big points, don't collect. Continue. Because then the shots become double and triple every wave that you do of the villain. I'm going to go for Joker. One more hit to Joker. Let it bounce. There we go. And always go for that skill spot. Oh! Okay. It got caught behind the turntable, so it's going to have to ball search. And it's a thing the actual table does. I will re-chat. The DMD video is the same as the real pin. Did you match those up? Ken Swift said yes. Oh! And it's gone. There you go. Oh! Oh! Get it! Yeah! Ooh. I'm a poet, and I didn't even know that I was. Ah, crap. Oh, man. Tell me about it. Yeah, that's how I live, bro. Right on the edge of the flipper. Yeah. This one's fun, because it's Batman versus the Joker. Surf boarding it's the best. Yeah. Oh we have to start that turn also we haven't started that turn Oh boy, there we go. Let's knock a ball Let's lock another ball with the super skill shot ready ready this ball right here Oh, he didn't do it But it would have been great if I had just called it And done it, right? No Damn You gotta nudge forward When it hits the top of those slings Okay, 75% flashing shots Let's get our gadget Let's get our, Ed Boon Ed Boon Let's Whatever your name is If I can trap up for a minute Let me see if I can trap Can I trap two balls? Maybe I don't need to I can just change the channel now Look at that folks We have changed the channel back to The Joker if I want to concentrate on the Joker shots even though I don't need to because I have the super jackpot lit so I'm going to change back to and I almost had the super damn it I'm trying to show features here give me a break super jackpot lit make sure everybody gets that so you saw that little TV next to the big TV so he had two modes going at the same time and you literally can switch back and forth and you could get a third tv going it gets crazy i can't even again this is all stuff that before we got into it we had no idea i remember we were watching some reference video and we were like there's a fourth tv now what the hell oh yeah lyman sheets on uh one of the pinball reveals with jack danger um managed to get four screens going one main and three on the outside we were like what mode is he in i think it was a minor villain, a major villain, bat turn, and possibly multiball. And juggling all this in code, I can imagine what ridiculousness the fishbowl had to go through. Hey, you want to hit the seven key? The seven key? Oh, you mean open the coin door? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll show you guys. You guys really want to see somebody who needs help? That would be the fishbowl he really needs he needs bro you need so i'm gonna open the coin door right now oh i gotta oh i gotta crash oh it crashed what the heck well don't open the coin door wait i'm gonna try again let's try again of all the features it crashes on it's the coin door it's the coin door yeah can I try again Phil? yeah let me see let me try again let me do the coin door Manny what did you do? I opened the coin door wait let me try again let's see alright alright well as long as we're recording so you can set the you can set the volume so he's working on this actual service menu which is ridiculous I think you're here let me let me go back to to this service menu. Oh, I'm turning it off, Ed Boon. Not everything is active in here. It's kind of a show, but you can do adjustments. Is that the one? Yeah, and you can go to standard and we can change our initials, our extra balls, the extra ball percentage, the match. Let's see what else. I'm just reading the screen to you guys. I don't need to read the screen. But for those who don't like to deal with the script all the time, you can actually come in here and change your settings just like a true pinball machine. And you can also do them in the script, I'm sure. But some people don't want to deal with the script. And back out. All right. So all that's getting worked on. I mean, I'm telling you, I'm not working with schlubs here. These guys are all obsessive about perfection. Jeez. About the details, man. The details in this are ridiculous. All right. Wait a second. Did you just say we're obsessed with perfection? Yeah, I did. I did. I did. I did. Now you shut your mouth, Ken Swift. Yeah, I have no idea. I have no idea. Yeah. All right. I'm going to try something real quick. We're going to go to commercial, and then when we come back, I'm going to show you guys a little bit of the table in this view it's pretty baller pin bot go to commercial commercial sign in five seconds when zero zero two percent of people struggle to find companionship because of their choice and unpopular hobbies these same people may find it difficult to be happy or enjoy themselves when alone. Because being good at something requires effort. Or they may rely on social lubricants in public situations to feel a level of normalcy. Or may give up entirely. But now, there is TPN, a non-FDA-approved network of affiliated streamers who work together to bring a niche hobby better than mediocre content. Gone are the days of celebrating one's ephemeral and worthless accomplishments alone. Together, we can celebrate them. Together. Online. In a public forum. On the internet. Don't call your doctor if you think TPN is right for you. 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This Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, it's myself playing some pinball and DJ Quaggio spinning the tunes. So this will be a third time where I have a live DJ and he's spinning whatever he wants. Calypso, hip-hop, reggae, rap, 80s. So join me on that stream this Thursday, 2 p.m. right here on Mystery Pinball Theater. Okay. Once again, I'm here. Let me make sure these guys are here. Once again, I'm here with DeFishbowl and Mr. H and Ken Swift, the team who has put together the tribute table to the Batman 66 table. It's a love letter. You know, Stern made a love letter to Batman when they made the table. We actually wrote another love letter and said, us too. We just added us too. We like you too. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how you do it. So we're going to try this for a second, and let's see if this works. Let me see if I have my casting work. Let's see. I'm going to just take you guys around the table and fill – sorry, I just said your real name. The Fishbowl and Mr. H and Ken Swift and can you guys just re-chat for me? Because actually I don't need you to. We have a problem. No, I know I'm not showing it yet. So just wait. There's no problem yet. I know you can't see anything. I need to center everything. Get everything right. So people want to know what's that thing on the top of your headset It's a battery It's my This thing Yeah It is a VR I forget what it's called VR You gotta get one If you have an Oculus Quest 2 Get one of these Pinbot open internet My pleasure all right i'm gonna go full screen with that too see if we can uh fix this all right hang on guys because i want to show you some of the amazing work that these guys have done all right let's go full screen and Ken Swift was just saying, oh, I'm amazed at how seamless you make all this look. And I'm like, well, you're about to see some scenes, my brother. You're about to see some scenes. It's all falling apart in the second half here. Okay, okay. Now, please take note that we do not have a VR room set up yet. That's teamwork. DeFishbowl, who's working on the VR room for this? So, Six Toe should be working on something for us. He's the one who did Guardians. He's amazing. So, this kind of proves, guys, that this stuff is actually built in 3D. Everything's built in 3D. and rendered by, you know, VPX. There's our gadget targets. I want to show you how amazing a lot of this stuff looks. And Mr. H did an amazing job at bringing stuff over. I'm going to go around. and I can't quite see... Let's see. What am I looking at? Can you guys see the car? Oh, it just blacked out. Oh, tracking lost. Okay, wait. It didn't black out for us. Oh, wait. There it did. Yeah. Wait, where did it go? I lost my tracking. Oh, no. Oh, no. All right. guys credit to joey for those beautiful side blades you're looking at too he just uh he's amazing he did the back glass uh image and i i don't know how he does it he's just incredible and probably has his hand on more tables and pup packs than anyone else uh it's it's unbelievable how talented he is. Oh, no. Are we back? Oh. We're back. I don't know how, but we got it back. All right. I really want you guys to see the... Oh, this is not working out. I'm sorry. It was working a minute ago. Oh, that was so close. We almost had everything working. And now my Oculus Quest has lost its mind. Oh, wow. I'm sorry, guys. I could try again, but you guys, I guess you get the gist. Yeah? Pinbot, close internet. Okay. Well, that's a drag. I knew it would... It worked in rehearsal. But, all right. Well, it's just supposed to be a tease. Was this supposed to be a tease? Any other? So if you guys, once again, this is not being released yet. It is going into beta. And I don't know how that's going to work. I gave the fishbowl like 10 minutes before the stream to start to figure out how that's going to work. Yeah. So, I mean, like the thought with the beta, I mean, like, man, I mean, our testers that we have, I mean, they beat it up really good and hard. And but the big thing I think that that really killed me on Guardians was all the different configs, you know, I mean, just testing different setups and, you know, just different little things. I mean, like I know some people have a problem with the plunger right on their table. I mean, and a lot of it's config, I get, but there's just minor things. Like right now, you know, Manu and Harlan have that issue with the audio doesn't play sometimes on one of the scenes on the end. And so mine works great. So little things like that just round out the edges. So when it's just about a probably about a week or so, you know, want to kind of clean up all the bugs we currently have and start opening it up to those who, you know, who really understand the table at first, you know, so they're not going out these issues, these, you know, little issues like it doesn't do this. Like, well, it's supposed to do that, you know. Yeah, this is a pretty deep table, and it helps if you have a pretty good understanding of the table. You don't need to have a level that we have, but it'd be pretty good if you knew what the skill shots were, and if you knew how the multipliers work, if you knew how the minor villains work, right? Because a lot of that is fun to discover On your own But When you're in a beta It's not really about discovery phase anymore It's about actually You know Man we see some cameras You're ruining the illusion You know what My whole stream is not about An illusion anything you want to know about streaming I will absolutely tell you In fact thank you for that because I need to remind people of my OBS series that I have Just answer the damn phone. Answer the phone. All right, there we go. Wow, look at that Hurry up. 1,850. That was pretty sad. Much love. That's a few you guys hate. Swallowed. I'm going to do a shameless plug after this game for my OBS series that is not yet complete but in the works so obviously this game works in VR terrific and I pretty much I pretty much exclusively test this game in VR Because I do have a little bit of flip Not flip or lag Display lag on my system So in order for me to really really get to go deep on the game I Which sound a little dirty I I play it in VR So anybody who's playing A little It's on your YouTube I'm going to use a name to pull my focus Exactly Thank you, Ice-Kidoo. Ice-Kidoo is probably one of the people who got me to do the OBS series anyway. But I play this in VR, and that way I can get really far into it and not have to suffer for any of the... Get in there! Oh, I didn't make it. Didn't quite make it. Just impact it on the surface! dang it was kind of working yeah yeah that looked that looked a little crazy hang on i want to see what that looks like that was ridiculous i almost saved it almost yeah I think I think I do have one broken leg on this thing I want to I want to I just want to give a quick plug to myself let me see if I can do that real quick you guys indulge me real quick I want to give a quick plug to myself pin bot open internet Affirmative. Well, that's the wrong thing to click. I want to say view full. I have a full series, a full playlist for beginners in OBS. And I currently have four episodes up there. They're very extensive and they'll teach you all this stuff. The next one's coming up is about nested scenes. But I have, you know, beginners, basics, studio mode, scale and transform, which is really important if you're going to be doing complicated things like I do on the Riff Theater. So check that out. So you've probably heard of. No, you shush. Check that out if you want. Pinbot close Internet. Pinbot close Internet. Pinbot, where are you? affirmative that was weird don't ask me about voice control robots because i apparently can't really program them well um let's see love obs uh let's see oh my god who's that nail buster nice everybody please now it's a party now it's a party everybody please put up your drinks for mr nail buster in the his house who who allows this actual table to become a virtual table that is this table would be zero we wouldn't we would we would not be doing this if it wasn't for the incredible work that Nail Buster has put into. And as far as I know, to Fishbowl, you can correct me if I'm wrong, there's a couple of new features in here that we kind of begged Nail Buster to put in. Yep, yep. That drop shadow. I was dreading the thousand lines of code I was going to have to do to do that. Nail Buster saved me. Appreciate it, man. Respect. John Youssi the crazy stuff he's doing with VR now, too. Nail Buster is... It's like somebody gave him a headset and he's off and running. Unbelievable. Wow. So much respect to Nail Buster in the chat. And I always throw Terry Red under the bus also, because without Terry and amazing support... And Terry will be doing the doff for this table, is that correct? Oh, yep. Once we're there. So Terry's gotten so crazy. Terry's like, you know what? I can get a projector and we can hook a projector up to it and we can have a bat signal. I'm like, Oh my God, I'm scared to see what he's going to do. I'm excited, man. It's going to be good. I'll do some Riddler. So we're going to flip a couple of games. you guys ask questions and then I'm gonna call it because I'm older than everyone in chat. So today was my kid's last day of school also. So he's super happy now. It's like Overwatch, Roblox, and Minecraft for like the whole summer. Oh man. Now I'm locked out to I'm locked. I'm locked out into Penguin again. Can we get Catwoman, at least? Maybe we can switch back to Catwoman. Let's do this. Nope. So Joey asked, how does it feel to be this far now? How does it feel to be this far? This far, yeah. Coming to the finish line is what he means. Oh, yeah. Go ahead, guys. You can answer. Go ahead. No, I was going to say, let's leave it to Michael Vecennia Jordan. Go ahead, man. Oh, you. Oh, freaks, you win. It was a lot, man. It was way more than I ever thought. It feels good. It's good, like, now that I can just go play it a little bit. I'm like, man, that was fun. Before, it was like, that didn't work. That didn't work. I'd play for like two seconds, you know, and go write down an issue or I'd release one to the alpha group. I kid you not, man. It'd be on. It'd be up there for four minutes. Rick would send me a post. Hey, man, I got like 18 issues for you. I'm like, dang it. Four minutes. Yeah. If Rick doesn't send you a bug in less than four minutes, there's something wrong. Yeah. Yeah. He's busy doing something else. Don't get distracted by minor villains too. This is what I always do. Oh man. You know one thing on this? Shout out to Nailbusters. We really tried to push the limits on Pup. On, you know, no limits. Showing it can do just about anything. I do, Ken. I'm sorry, go ahead, the fishbowl. No, no, that's all I've done. It's just showing, you know, puff is more than just a video playing thing, man. You can do way more. So I think Nailbuster, it's safe to say that this tested the limits of the puff. Is there another table, I think, that threw everything this table has thrown at it? I'm focusing guys I'm focusing let's see if nobuster responds I don't know I I tried to I think I tried to use everything he could he could give me right yeah and he has a feature for everything I'm like you know just switching the video so having those four TV screens I wanted them to be seamless so I didn't want the TV screens to stop it I'm giving it all she's got captain I wanted to move the physical TV around and he goes well I got this piece of code I was like sweet sure enough man it freaking worked except for it was one little glitch he goes oh do this and do this then do that code dude it worked can't believe how much code he's put into that he is the man he is Oh, 13,000 times two. I'll take it. You guys can get deep in this game when you have it in your house, okay? For the stream, I'm gonna be speedrunning through villains, alright? Who do we gotta let? Riddler's ready. Of course, because Riddler was ready before I qualified Riddler So Riddler is now ready At the phone Stop it with this game I'm playing What am I doing Give me that gadget That's the best shot in Frickin pinball Well no the katana in Deadpool is the best shot in pinball That's the second best shot in pinball Holy smokes I love when I do that Let's clean that glass Get this game ready There's a There's a particular piece of this table The actual physical table That I know The fishbowl actually owns now Yeah Because they went out bought something because that's how dedicated they are. Yeah, sometimes assets aren't all on... That's okay, baby. I forgive you. Any of you guys that haven't seen the real table, I encourage you after you watch the screen, just pull up Jack Danger smacking the hell out of this thing and I think you'll be shocked at just how, you know, it's like, wait a second, I just saw that. Ken Swift, Did you just tell them to go to Jack Danger's site To look at No no no A YouTube video Batman footage Is that what I just heard It was weird I thought we were on delay Can't you Someone's acting weird a little bit I'm just saying Nah Jack Danger blows this game up We So So I want to give a shout out to all the streamers we watched. I mean, yes, I had the physical pinball machine. And we used it a lot, the physical machine. But there are times when we didn't reference the physical. Oh, my super's lit. My super's lit. My super's lit. Oh, you got to actually get it through there. See if I can do this. Crap. Give me a freaking super at least Don't lose it Don't lose it Oh it's going Damn it Maybe last minute Two seconds Uh oh you got one Gotta give a shout out to Pez Johnson Pez If you're there if you're in chat You don't know this but we watched Hours and hours Of your stream guys go follow Pez Johnson right now because Pez helped us and didn't even know it also Jack Danger mbt3k I want to buy something for your table too I'll buy your new tilt so long as I get to adjust it are you serious that's ok that's ok Jack Danger Definitely And you know Between you, me and the 90 something people Who are in the stream right now Jack actually helped us A little bit With the table I think I think I love that guy I love that guy That's all I'm going to say That's all I'm going to say Jack was aware Jack was very aware that we We were doing this Um Who else did I watch Who else did we watch I think it was mostly Jack Danger and Pez Johnson Yeah Yeah Alright I'm gonna finish this game up And then we're gonna call it Maybe go uh See if our buddy Oh Extra ball if I collect Extra ball is lit Two villains completed Light's extra ball In the standard default Let's see if we can get an extra ball here Nope, nope Let's try again Backhand that It's hard bro Yeah, yeah Did John Youssi that live catch though? Did John Youssi that freaking live catch? Good night everybody You know what That was my moderator wasn't it That was flipstream Please tell me that was you That destroyed my game just now I love you baby I love flipstream all right um anything else you guys uh want to chat about or uh uh see on this it's uh it's up for grabs any any words from the team thanks to everybody couldn't have done it without y'all i mean everybody yeah it's a great team too we've worked on this for like a year and literally every day talking to each other conference calls uh it's been crazy but it's just such a these guys are just amazing and um again everybody that helped us all the you know so many hands in there like uh like chris said and you know we appreciate it and hope the community embraces it 10.6 is fine for this uh what's amazing guys I think that'll work, yeah. 10.6 for now. We'll circle back to 10.7, but trying to minimize the different variations. Yeah. All right. Thank you guys for joining the stream for the Batman 66 tribute table. Keep your eye on the forums. Daz, you're a legend. I'm just throwing that out there. Keep your eye on the forums and stuff and the chatter for the beta and the final release to you lovely people. And with that, I'm going to say goodbye. Thank you, guys. Don't forget, me and Kwajo, Thursday. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. And that's all, folks. Thank you. I love you guys for redeeming everything after the stream is done. We're going to go raid our buddy Mr. Scoot. And you guys can tell him how awesome this stream was. See you guys Thursday. Thank you. I'll see you next time.
  • Mr. H contributed modeling work to Pizza Time, Harry Potter, and other unreleased VPX tables

    high confidence · Mr. H discusses work on 'Pizza Time. Did the pizza model and then maybe the plastic ramps. I kind of helped out on the dragon on Harry Potter'

  • Jon Hey@ 27:09 — References licensing/legal backlog preventing Stern from pursuing VPX projects; implies resource prioritization

  • “We're gonna give him his time to do his thing and it's gonna be amazing... like has happened sometimes to him in the past harry potter uh we're gonna give him we're gonna give him his time to do his thing”

    Jon Hey@ 32:04 — Implies Harry Potter VPX project was rushed; team committed to not repeating that mistake with Terry's polish pass

  • “I think every table he does he realizes what he's capable of and it's scary every time we come up against a hurdle in this table uh he'd figure it out and work his way through”

    Ken Swift@ 25:10 — Characterizes DeFishbowl as exceptionally talented problem-solver; 'Michael Jordan of VP' according to Ken

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    Harry Potter (VPX)game
    Pizza Time (VPX)game
    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000person
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    Visual Pinball X (VPX)organization
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    high · Jon Hey discusses Ghostbusters receiving cease and desist from Stern for using their ROMs and Pinball Arcade DLL; contrasts with Batman 66's fully custom approach

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    market_signal: VPX fan projects creating comprehensive recreations of licensed commercial pinball machines; suggests strong demand for deep ruleset digital versions not available from manufacturers

    medium · Batman 66 VPX described as deliberately recreating 'ridiculously deep game' with 27,000 lines of code to capture all rules; implies gap in official digital offerings

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    personnel_signal: Mr. H transitioned from occasional VPX modeling contributions (Pizza Time, Harry Potter) to co-lead role on Batman 66; multi-year commitment to single project

    medium · Mr. H describes starting turntable work 3-4 years ago solo, then 'last year when me and the fishbowl hooked up' - indicates formalization of development partnership

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    announcement: Official reveal of Batman 66 VPX table at 1.0 beta stage with timeline for community beta testing and polish phase

    high · Jon Hey and team publicly presenting functional beta build on livestream; explicit statement 'We have... officially Nail Buster's work' and commitment to opening beta to more testers

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    product_strategy: Batman 66 VPX planned release after beta phase and final polish; intended for broader community distribution through VPX platform

    high · Jon Hey: 'We wouldn't be showing you if it wasn't so close' and 'the goal is once you know we get out all the kinks we're gonna give uh it over to terry and terry is going to polish'

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    product_concern: Harry Potter VPX experienced quality/completion issues from rushed timeline; team learning from this to protect Batman 66 VPX quality during polish phase

    medium · Jon Hey: 'like has happened sometimes to him in the past harry potter uh we're gonna give him we're gonna give him his time' - implies Harry Potter suffered from insufficient polish time

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    technology_signal: Batman 66 VPX developed entirely on custom framework with minimal reliance on existing code; represents comprehensive reverse-engineering of Stern Spike 2 ruleset outside proprietary systems

    high · Jon Hey: 'There are absolutely no Sam Stern ROMs in here... this entire table was created out of pixels' and 'all visual pinball it's all visual pinball all pup pack'