Is there a list of which tables are scripted?

[Baron Rubik]

I'm thinking emulation of the existing scripted tables won't happen now.
It was March last year when they publicly said Black Knight would get rom emulation, and in 2 weeks that will be a year ago.
If it happens Awesome - but I think this last beta was the last one I had my fingers crossed for.

 

[smbhax]

Did they hint emulation might be part of the megapatch for PSN? I may be remembering that wrong. But if it is, then maybe they're holding it off other platforms until then to avoid possibly large(er) discrepancies in table scoring between platforms. Eh but this is probably just wishful thinking on my part. : P

 

[Fungi]

Did they hint emulation might be part of the megapatch for PSN? I may be remembering that wrong. But if it is, then maybe they're holding it off other platforms until then to avoid possibly large(er) discrepancies in table scoring between platforms. Eh but this is probably just wishful thinking on my part. : P

Oooh, that's a very good point. The alternative could be that the megapatch doesn't have emulation, in which case, the rest of the platforms never will also due to score discrepencies.

 

[Zaphod77]

Advantages of scripting.

1) bugs can be fixed
2) easier to hook goals properly in a script. goals always register in scripted table.
3) good for EM games, which are effectively hardware scripts anyway.

Disadvatages of scripting.

1) if rules are not 100% endrstood (quite common for anything but simple solid state games) the scritp could have errors. emulation gets the rules right for free.
2) you have to do the light shows and timing by hand. while a lot of PHoF scrpts were close, in nearly every case somene who played the original can tell the difference. screwing these up can seriously affect strategy.

For all but the simplest solid state tables, emulation is preferable despite the advantage of easy goal detection.

 

[brakel]

Did they hint emulation might be part of the megapatch for PSN? I may be remembering that wrong. But if it is, then maybe they're holding it off other platforms until then to avoid possibly large(er) discrepancies in table scoring between platforms. Eh but this is probably just wishful thinking on my part. : P

FlippyFloppy has recently posted that he was able to get some lighting changes in for Black Knight for the mega patch so that would hint that a complete redo of Black Knight was not done for the mega patch.

 

[smbhax]

FlippyFloppy has recently posted that he was able to get some lighting changes in for Black Knight for the mega patch so that would hint that a complete redo of Black Knight was not done for the mega patch.

If this is his post to which you're referring, he was talking about art changes, not scripting changes (and he says specifically that a complete redo to get it to (paraphrasing) "season 3 [art] standards" was not done). Someone should ask him in that thread if emulation for the scripted tables is getting into the megapatch--although if they haven't mentioned it in that thread so far it seems a little unlikely.