ROM Revisions

Williams: Who Dunnit?


       Version 1.2
       Date: May 8, 1996
U6:    Checksum: 2B12

Changes from revision 1.1:

        Enabled French language text.

        Fixed the Ball Saves adjustment so that ball saves can be turned off.

        Eliminated spurious autoplunger firing at power up.

        Extended buy-in timer if money is inserted at the end of the timer.


       Version 1.1
       Date: April 8, 1996
U6:    Checksum: 3D11

Changes from revision 1.0:

        This version works for both German and English speech.  (Separate
        sound ROMs are necessary.)

        Midnight Madness champion is not shown if tournament mode is ON.

        On some games, the autoplunger would kick one or two times at
        powerup.  This has been fixed.

        Ball search kicks out the staged ball on third pass or during
        game over.

        Novice mode auditting corrected to fix the ball time audit.

        Reduced the duty cycle on the autofire lamp, to extend the life
        of the flasher.

        Enter initials display sometimes did not show the alphabet at the
        bottom of the screen.  This has been fixed.

        Max multiball jackpot boosted to 500 million.

        Up/down 3-bank now resets correctly.

        Improved response time on spinner scoring.

        Suppressed ball search during staged ball initialization.  (A message
        is displayed if Start is pressed during this time.)


       Version 1.0
       Date: November 10, 1995
U6:    Checksum: 7410 (G - Germany)
       Checksum: 7B10 (R - Regular)
       Checksum: 5110 (B - Belgium/Canada)

       This is the release of software for production.

       Version 1.0G uses sound ROM verison 2.0, this has German speech:

U2:    Checksum: 1D00
U3:    Checksum: 9E00

       All other versions use sound ROM version 1.0:

U2:    Checksum: 5000
U3:    Checksum: F900
U4:    Checksum: 9B00
U5:    Checksum: 9B00
U6:    Checksum: 3600
U7:    Checksum: 9500

Changes from revision 0.6:

        Extra ball will never show up in the center slot machine if
        if extra balls are turned off.

        Added sounds to the sound test.

        Made TAXI skill shot never go backwards.

        The sewer speech is longer stepped on by other sounds.

        If a ball drains out the right side lit for FREE SPIN and
        AUTOFIRE is active; the ball will no longer return to
        play prematurely.

        If someone activates 3D mode it will now go off at GAME OVER.

        The jackpot maxes at 250 million now.

        The game will no longer try to stage a ball during THE ROOF.

        Ball search now kicks in if the player pushes the start
        button and a ball is missing.

        If the player is flipping the flipper then the "LAUNCH BALL"
        message is postponed.

        Added French translations.

        Removed extra speech call when a player moves into 4th place
        after losing at roulette.

        Slot reels are not as sensitive giving an error message.


       Version 0.6
       Date: November 1, 1995
U6:    Checksum: 3F06 (G - Germany)
       Checksum: 4406 (R - Regular)
       Checksum: 0E06 (B - Belgium/Canada)

Changes since revision 0.4:

        No more bets of 0 million with a broken spinner.

        Jackpots are now equalized in Tournament Mode.

        Fixed a text wrapping problem in Interrogate Suspect display.

        Added German translations.


       Version 0.4
       Date: November 1, 1995

U6:    Checksum: E804 (R - Regular)

       This is the first release of software for production of sample games.