Daytona To The MAXX Recreating?

[myPinballs]

Hey! I just found this. I have been working on wanting to recreate the security board for many years. Since about 2009. I got to the point of figuring out the schematic and even bought a small cheap scope to try to determin what each pin does. Even bought some of the chips and a programmer that was said to be able to glitch the chip to extract the code. Needless to say that the glitch trick did not work on it as I believe the PIC controller was a newer revision. Anyway with AI helping me out with just about everything I figured AI could help either rewrite the code or build something like you are working on. I originally had 2 kits but wanted to try to replicate it to the point where I could have a spare set or even make it available to people that want to run it on real hardware. I have a lot of projects I'm working on but I would be glad to help out where I can. If we can get this security chip figured out on real hardware that would be great!

Cool, I have an updated build for my board now to try so should have some more updates in the following week

 

[myPinballs]

Also i finally fixed my monitor to

 

[jaygroh]

Cool, I have an updated build for my board now to try so should have some more updates in the following week

Cant wait for your results. I have a hand full of the PIC's around somewhere along with the programmers. I'll have to find them so I can get started on this myself.
One thing I was spitballing with Claude and Gemini was seeing if I could make lets say a raspberry pi act as a rom selector. I was going to use https://github.com/stevej0/DaytonaTestRom as a starting point. My goal is to have the arcade boot to a rom selection menu where you can select the version of the game you want to play and it will boot to that version of the rom. With a twin or more machine if this is possible I would also sync the other machines to the same roms for easy multiplayer support. I had the idea when thinking about trying to find a twin Daytona USA 2 and having the option to boot to the different versions of the game so I would not have to swap roms every time.

Another idea I had was to somehow intergrate a way for streaming interaction. Lets say I'm streaming on youtube and someone donates $1 it will invert the direction of the wheel. Or $2 will mess with the gears, $3 swaps gas and brake, or they could change the view or something.

I hope you, me, anyone gets this working as To The MAXX is my favorite rom hack. I have the GTX 2004 upgrade kit and its really fun but the one thing I love about To The MAXX is the ghost car. If GTX 2004 had the ghost car I dont think I would be even trying to get this working.

 

[myPinballs]

Ghost car was the reason I started all this. But all the MAXX features are great

 

[myPinballs]

Whilst working on this update and security board, i've also been working on making some changes to the graphics roms to improve the MAXX logos and such.

This is work in progress so not final and there issue still to resolve like artefacts and abit not rendering at the top but i wanted to share a little update

 

[2DForever]

This is insanely clever and I have no idea how you've been doing it... but it looks great! Love the new logo, looks loads better.

 

[cools]

Please fix the spelling of gauge.

 

[myPinballs]

Please fix the spelling of gauge.

Yep that won’t be a problem . I also want to fix the uplight (upright) spelling error in the test modes

 

[myPinballs]

This is insanely clever and I have no idea how you've been doing it... but it looks great! Love the new logo, looks loads better.

thanks yes the original logo additions were not the best but the features added are great.

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