Madness 5 Remake

[Ermengardi Atkisson]

ChicagoGaming is pleased to offer the rebirth, under license from Williams Electronics Games, Inc., of the original smash hit pinball machine, Medieval Madness. Recreated to the exacting standards of the original game this remake contains a number of enhanced features not available on the original game, including: modern electronics, fully adjustable color display, all LED lighting, and class D digital audio amplifier.

Medieval Madness is widely held to be one of the best pinball machines of all time. This status coupled with the fact only 4,000 of these games were built has driven the resale value of the original game beyond the reach of most pinball collectors.

Whether you are a pinball novice or expert, you'll come to appreciate the game's universally appealing gameplay, which includes the exploding castle, motorized drawbridge and two pop-up trolls. Your mission in this multi-ball game is to battle for the kingdom! Step back in time to the Middle Ages of the 15th century when kingdoms were fought and lost for.

ATHYRIO GAMES has done it again and created all new full-color display artwork, re-imagined within the framework of the original Williams display artwork at four times the resolution. Over 2,000 frames have been painstakingly animated to create a display that features full color and four times the number of dots as the original Williams game.

On one of the King of Payne's many journeys he came across a rare black diamond. He ordered his blacksmiths to create the metal for Medieval Madness in the same stunning look for his Royal Edition Game. These royal blacksmiths created the speaker panel, apron, coin door, hinges, and trim to impress the King of Payne. This multiple stage powder coating appears as a high gloss black with the shimmer of a diamond.

Those 1,000 LEs sold out in just a few hours, and so a Standard Edition was introduced at the same price but minus a couple of bells and whistles. It was also announced that Stern Pinball would be assembling the games, first at their Melrose Park factory, and then at their new Elk Grove Village facility.

The artwork on the remake is almost identical to the original, with the exception of the Williams logo which has been removed from the translite and cabinet sides, and some new licensing information at the bottom-left of the translite.

So far, so similar, but when the remake was ordered the buyer could choose one of three different trim colours for their game. Originally just gold and silver were available, but a black finish was added later.

The playfield is now much more brightly illuminated than before, with a purer white light which manages to maintain some of the warm feel of incandescents without straying into the cold look of cheaper cool white LEDs.

The inserts are all suitably bright and evenly lit, with their colour coming from the insert plastic rather than a coloured LED beneath. There are even some impressive fading effects as the LEDs flash on and off to mimic the characteristics of real lamps.

The black lettering appears washed out, as though it needs a second pass of black ink, or a white blocking layer is missing. You can see the difference by comparing the yellow inserts with the blue ones leading up to the Merlin saucer, which do have that white layer.

There is one main PCB onto which most of the insert LEDS are mounted. All the LEDs beneath the playfield are white surface mount devices, with the few not covered by the main PCB on satellite boards which plug into the main PCB.

The main PCB only deals with LED outputs and switch inputs. The driving of the high power solenoids is carried out by three identical eight-way driver boards which plug into the main PCB to get their low power and control data.

Each board can drive four high-power and four low-power 50V solenoids. One 4A fuse is used per pair of high-power solenoids, with a third to cover all four low-power coils. Yellow LEDs show the health of the 50V fuses and the availability of the 12V from the main PCB.

As we saw before, the coin door is a standard US two-slot model with bill acceptor blanking plates but no coin mechs provided as standard. The menu buttons are in the standard Williams configuration with back, down, up and enter buttons from left to right.

At the heart is a Beaglebone Black single-board computer which plugs into the main controller board to provide the pinball-specific inputs and outputs. The Beaglebone Black excels at inputs and outputs, having two 48-way headers packed full of them, along with USB, Ethernet and HDMI interfaces.

The original light tray had multiple holes in it for the many lamp holders which needed to be mounted. The remake uses LED strips inside the tray which only need one power feed, so the other cables are for the flasher LEDs which highlight certain areas of the translite during specific lighting effects.

Although the Medieval Madness Remake project was announced by Planetary Pinball Supply and deposits were taken by them, the project was run by Chicago Gaming Company under licence from Williams Electronic Games, as stated on the translite. Consequently, Chicago Gaming Company are the ones who worked with Stern Pinball to get the games manufactured and are the ones providing technical support to owners.

Chicago Gaming Company have done an excellent job of recreating one of the all-time classics, keeping the look and feel of the original while bringing the underlying technology up-to-date, allowing for future enhancements such as re-rendered high-resolution display animations or networked gaming.

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In April this year, I decided I was going to remake MC7's theme from scratch, for being my all time favorite madness track. The reason I'm remaking and not remastering is because the project files for the madness tracks older than MC10 were lost to a hard drive failure, so unfortunately a remaster of those tracks will never be possible.

This track went through so many iterations it's unbelievable, it was very hard to find what stuff was playing in the middle of all the noise present in the original, my luck was that Cheshyre used mostly default Presets and Samples, but a lot of stuff had to be sound desgined from scratch.

As always, my hispanic boys have been helping me a bit with some stuff, Newitooth, the guy that did some grafittis for MC5R, has been helping me with some Tank Unit, and Nekromanzer has done the Medic Unit, so i'm very thankful and i appreciate their help!.

Since i know all the progress that i've made, how i've improved while making this and how much it took me, i still acknowledge that, there is stuff that could be improved, things that may not be a 10/10, but yeah, since i rushed a lot of this stuff, cause i was cornered by the time.

After madness day, I will express my gratitude to you as it should, but for now, we can only hope that everything goes well. in general, Thank you all to my friends from HMG and others, like TheCrossfire, Remon, Timberwolf etc..!

The plan was Re-Doing Madness Combat 5, a straight out remake of the MC5 with better sprites, better animation and some cool stuff, an overall decent animation. But things have changed, these weeks i've been thinking of not doing that.

Medieval Madness remake SPECIAL Edition! This is a new production of the great classic game. New electronics, looks and feels the same as original (minus some W logo and Williams labels due to WMS licensing requirements).

Medieval Madness remake ROYAL Edition! This is a new production of the great classic game. New electronics, looks and feels the same as original (minus some W logo and Williams labels due to WMS licensing requirements).

The Medieval Madness ROYAL comes with Black Diamond trim, Extra Large Display, Color Display, Premium Sound System, RGB lighting throughout,King Of Payne Topper, Black Mirror Inside Side Mirrors & Shaker Motor

Medieval Madness remake STANDARD Edition! This is a new production of the great classic game. New electronics, looks and feels the same as original (minus some W logo and Williams labels due to WMS licensing requirements).

Never replace a bulb again! The Medieval Madness Pinball Machine Remake features all LED lighting. Great effort was invested in recreating the warmth and feel of the original incandescent bulbs with the modern reliability of LEDs.

The LED manufacturer rates the life of each individual LED at 50,000 hours if driven to full brightness. Each playfield insert is backlit by a cluster of three LEDs which are driven only to one-third the manufacturers specified maximum brightness. Should any of the three LEDs in a single insert cluster ever fail, the system hardware will automatically increase the brightness of the remaining LEDs to compensate for the failed LED. This redundancy, coupled with the long life of the LEDs, means most owners of the Medieval Madness remake will never replace a single lamp over the games lifetime.

Over the past few years it seems as if you hear more and more people saying "I cannot believe they are making that into a movie!"I thought this when I heard that the board game Monopoly was going to be made into a feature-length film and when I heard that there was a remake of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in production (what kind of expectations should we have for that?).Only a few weeks ago I found out about a little French film that has recently made it to the States. "Rubber" is about a car tire that comes to life and causes things to explode with psychic brain waves. I wish I could say you read that last sentence wrong.In a genre where the morbid, obscene and unexplainable are praised, "Rubber" has appeared to take all the ideas of the horror movie mythos and apply them to a concept that even the most squeamish of film-goers would find laughable. The gore factor is there for fans of that particular style of horror, but what really makes the movie shine is the humor. Even the filmmakers themselves are extremely self-aware of how asinine of a concept the movie is.The film opens in the middle of an unknown dessert with a random group of people standing around looking confused. We come to find out that this is the audience within the film that is the test subjects of the "show." A police car drives up and both audiences are introduced to Lieutenant Chad. Chad plays the films semi-narrator/character/omniscient guide through the experience that is the movie.Chad asks the questions that the normal moviegoer might sometimes take for granted: googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1597166322662-mid-article-1'); ); "How come the alien in E.T was brown?""How come in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre we never see anyone go to the bathroom or wash their hands?""How come in 'The Pianist,' this guy has to hide and live like a bum even though he plays the piano so well?"All the questions that we usually ask as we are walking out the theater are answered in "Rubber."All great films have a "no reason" factor. That is what makes a good film great. As soon as the question is asked, Chad replies, "because life itself is filled with no reason." A movie about a killer car tire has just taught us a lesson in philosophy.As Lt. Chad drives away, the in-film "audience" is given binoculars and looks out into the distance. The film's narrative begins as "Robert" the car tire comes to life. No one in the film refers to the tire as Robert; we only find this out when the credits roll. Robert does not talk, he does not have any distinguishing features outside of being a tire, but the filmmakers have managed to make Robert the most interesting character in the movie. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1597166322662-mid-article-2'); ); I found the most interesting aspect of "Rubber" to be its painful self-awareness. It is so self-aware that it messes with the plot of the film. Hilarious breaking of the fourth wall is what turns "Rubber" from just a radical concept horror film into an intriguing film school study of what we expect when we are sucked into the fantasy world of books, movies, theater and television.If the concept of the film throws you off from experiencing it, don't let it. It's on streaming Netflix so it's not hard to find. Rubber is an experiment that will leave you with a better understanding of why cultures from the beginning of time have always enjoyed a good story. More stories on: Rubber, French horror movie, B movies Share with someone you care about: Casey Buchanan Special to OnMilwaukee.com Ever since the day he was the proud owner of a letterbox copy of "Pulp Fiction" on VHS, Casey Buchanan has always been a cinema nut. He has no hang-ups about what type of movie he can watch. The terrible, as well as the acclaimed, are all in the ballpark.

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