Quicksilver (Stern 1980)¶
Classic early Stern table build with physical kicker replacement technique and custom ROM availability. Built by metated and sixtoe with apophis79 assisting on scripting.
Table-Specific Details¶
Mechanisms & Hardware¶
- Classic Stern single-ball trough uses
cvpmBallStackwith one drain switch and one ball release switch. The firstInitSwparameter must be the drain switch number (not 0) or the drain will not function. - Physical kicker replacement: the VPX kicker was deleted and replaced with a hole in the playfield mesh. The ball falls into the saucer naturally via gravity rather than being teleported by a kicker. Script logic was rewritten to match.
Art & Visuals¶
- Playfield font identified as Classico Black (also "Classico Becker Black Regular").
ROM Variants¶
- Custom ROM (
quicksic.zip) available from carny_priest/Slochar with modified rules: free play mode, spinner counters with special awards, multiplier reset, spinner sound swap, drop target sweeping award, and forward/backward adjustment settings. Child ROM requiring originalquicksil.zipas parent. Requires PinMAME v1122+. Available at VPUniverse.
See Also¶
- VBScript Patterns -- trough implementation patterns
- Physics Tuning -- era-appropriate flipper strength