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geecab:

Hi! I'm trying to add a ProMonacoGP mode to my MonacoGP remake. As far as gameplay goes, I know there is very little difference between MonacoGP and ProMonacoGP. However, looking closer at the ProMonacoGP Bezel (I've attached a few below) I am confused by a few of the LED sections. Never actually played ProMonacoGP in the arcade and I can't find any good youtube clips to help me get my head around how some of these sections function. Hoping someone on here knows a bit about the game, or just has some idea and can let me know what I should expect.

So looking at the ProMonacoGP bezel this is what I find myself asking....

1. What's with the 2 strips?
The gaps in the Bezel for 'Time', 'Your Score' etc allow space for 7 segment LEDs to shine though. But for the "Number Of Cars Successfully Overtaken" section there are 2 thin strips?? To the right hand side of the bezel, in the 'Play Instructions' I can just about read "Following bonus points awarded at end of game: Overtaking 16 successive cars - 1 Bonus (200 Points)". So I'm guessing these strips start to fill up as you pass cars, but why have 2 strips   :-\

2. One bonus (200 points) awarded for passing 16 successive cars hardly seems worth the bother?
The comment under the 2 strips that reads "Bonus Points (x200 PT.)" which kind of implies at the end of the game the number of successive cars you have passed is multiplied by 200 :) but that contradicts what is written in the 'Play Instructions' that you only get 1 bonus (200 Points) for passing 16   :-\

3. Impossible to get in the "Best Score over 10000" section?
The "Best Score over 10000" section contains 4 x 7 Segmented LEDs thus it can not display a score greater than 9999   :-\

Thanks for reading, hope someone can help :)

Generic Eric:


--- Quote from: geecab on November 21, 2013, 05:12:06 pm ---Hi! I'm trying to add a ProMonacoGP mode to my MonacoGP remake. As far as gameplay goes, I know there is very little difference between MonacoGP and ProMonacoGP. However, looking closer at the ProMonacoGP Bezel (I've attached a few below) I am confused by a few of the LED sections. Never actually played ProMonacoGP in the arcade and I can't find any good youtube clips to help me get my head around how some of these sections function. Hoping someone on here knows a bit about the game, or just has some idea and can let me know what I should expect.

So looking at the ProMonacoGP bezel this is what I find myself asking....

1. What's with the 2 strips?
The gaps in the Bezel for 'Time', 'Your Score' etc allow space for 7 segment LEDs to shine though. But for the "Number Of Cars Successfully Overtaken" section there are 2 thin strips?? To the right hand side of the bezel, in the 'Play Instructions' I can just about read "Following bonus points awarded at end of game: Overtaking 16 successive cars - 1 Bonus (200 Points)". So I'm guessing these strips start to fill up as you pass cars, but why have 2 strips   :-\

2. One bonus (200 points) awarded for passing 16 successive cars hardly seems worth the bother?
The comment under the 2 strips that reads "Bonus Points (x200 PT.)" which kind of implies at the end of the game the number of successive cars you have passed is multiplied by 200 :) but that contradicts what is written in the 'Play Instructions' that you only get 1 bonus (200 Points) for passing 16   :-\

3. Impossible to get in the "Best Score over 10000" section?
The "Best Score over 10000" section contains 4 x 7 Segmented LEDs thus it can not display a score greater than 9999   :-\

Thanks for reading, hope someone can help :)

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The 1 is assumed?

geecab:

>>The 1 is assumed?

Since you said that I took another look at the second picture of the bezel again. I reckon I can see a really faint "1" in the black space immediately to the right of the trophy symbol. I bet it just illuminated that when someone scored over 9999... and I bet that's the same deal with the "Your Score" too as there is the same black space to the right of the trophy! Cool, thanks, thats one bit of confusion cleared up :)

Just thinking now though, I wonder what happens in the "Best 5 of 300 Games" sections when over 9999 is scored. Say someone scored 10001 and got 1st place. Would it show 9999, or show the roll over score 0001? It would look really confusing to see a 1st position score of 0001 above higher scores below. I reckon it would have to show 9999 otherwise the game would look like its messed up.

BadMouth:

Had some time to kill at work, so did some searching on this.
I didn't come up with any answers and probably came across the same things online that you've already found.

Did you try contacting this guy?
http://davesgameroom.com/GameDetail.aspx?GID=5
All the sites are re-using his pics.

This ebay seller has some Monaco GP parts including two Pro Monaco GP bezels:  EDIT: Doh!  It's the same pic you're using above!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&item=151154556001&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&_osacat=0&hash=item2331837c61&_ssn=gameboardsoc1234&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313&_nkw=monaco&_sacat=0&_from=R40
Maybe they could help?

Have you asked over on the KLOV forums?

The two lines are clearly visible.
My guess is that it either had 8 blocks or car outlines per row which would light up one at a time as you passed cars.
Would be nice to see an example of it lit up.  :-\


BadMouth:

Looking at the bezel from the back, you can see the 1 which isn't part of the 7 segment LED display.
There is also one there for the current score.

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