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Sorcerer Pinball (Williams) System 9 – Rom Upgrade Chip Set

Name: Sorcerer Pinball (Williams) System 9 - Rom Upgrade Chip Set
SKU: WMS-ROMSET-SORC
Availability: InStock

Price range: $35.99 through $71.99

For those of you that cannot burn your own roms, these are the chips needed to upgrade your Sorcerer pinball machine to the latest version, play a different version, or replace missing/damaged roms.
Bally Williams Part #’s:
SORCERER CPU GAME ROM 2 U19: A-5343-10765
SORCERER CPU GAME ROM 1 U20: A-5343-10764
SORCERER CPU SOUND ROM U49: A-5343-10766
SORCERER SPEECH ROM U4*: A-5343-10806
SORCERER SPEECH ROM U5*: A-5343-10807
SORCERER SPEECH ROM U6*: A-5343-10808
SORCERER SPEECH ROM U7*: A-5343-10809

Note on Speech roms:
Per Pinwiki.com, “Only the early Space Shuttles use 2532 EPROMs from the factory. Later Shuttles, Sorcerer and Comet use 2732 EPROMs.”)

*The U4,U5,U6, and U7 locations are per Planetary Pinball, and differ from the speech roms listed as U6,U7,U8, and U9 in the original manual available on IPDB. I have shifted the part number association based on this.

System 9 Roms

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Brand: Williams Pinball SKU: WMS-ROMSET-SORC

Categories: Bally / Williams, Pinball Roms, System 9

Tags: arcade, chip, eeprom, eprom, pin, pinball, rom, sorcerer, sys9, system 9, upgrade

System 9 games have the software revision identified with an “L” to signify the Level of software release.

To see what version your game is running, set your test switch to AUTO/UP and press ADVANCE while in Game Over mode. You will see “2GGG” in the player 1 display, where GGG is the game number. The player 2 display will show the number of the installed game revision.

Official revision history was never released for this item or not available at the time of listing.

Sorcerer (System 9) Game Information:			Software Checksums
Game Number	Game Name	Software Revision	Game ROM (CPU Board)	Sound ROM (CPU Board)	Speech ROMs (Sound Board)*
532	Sorcerer	L-1	U19: DF99 U20: DA19	U49: 648B	U4: F3C9 U5: E724 U6: E1BB U7: E67F

Revision History For L-3 Tournament Edition (Unofficial Rom Readme Pasted here):

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐

│ WILLIAMS SORCERER TOURNAMENT EDITION L-3 │

└──────────────────────────────────────────┘

This modification adds the ability to modify the multiball start behavior on the

Williams’ pinball game ‘SORCERER’.

Burn the file ending with 732 onto a 2732 eprom and install in socket U19.

Burn the file ending with 764 onto a 2764 eprom and install in socket U20.

When entering the audit/adjustments, the game # will now be shown as ‘532’ and the

revision/subrevision of the software will be shown next to it (currently 3.7, for

level 3, subrev 7). The original software showed the game # with a leading zero

this has been changed to allow the revision/subrevision to show.

Note that currently the software is considered BETA. While it has been tested,

there may be unresolved issues. Additionally, the rom checksum corrections have

not been applied, so the on-board self-test will fail.

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The setting that controls the attract mode sound, #37 (erroneously listed in the

manual as setting #36 – it is setting #37) will now intead control options to light

ball locks/release settings. (The attract mode sound is permanently off.)

The lower digit of the setting will control the maximum level of drop banks

needed to be completed in single ball play to light locks/releases. The upper

digit of the setting will control the minimum level of drop banks needed to be

completed in single ball play to light locks/releases. Note that a ‘level’ does

>NOT< correspond to # of times the drop bank needs to be completed; rather, it

refers to the # of multiballs achieved by the player.

SETTING

ABA = Minimum level

B = Maximum level

The levels are as follows:

0=Locks/releases always lit, as stock

1=One drop bank completion lights lock and release

2=One drop bank completion lights lock

One additional drop bank completion lights release

3=Two drop bank completions lights lock

One additional drop bank completion lights release

4=Two drop bank completions lights lock

Two additional drop bank completions lights release

Example settings:

Set adjustment #37 to 04 [minimum level 0, maximum level 4]:

Player’s first multiball will have both lock and release lit without

requiring drop bank completions. Second multiball will be level 1; one

drop bank lights lock and release. Third multiball will be level 2; one

drop bank completion lights lock, and the next completion lights release.

Set adjustment #37 to 22 [minimum level 2, maximum level 2]

All multiballs will require one completion of drop bank to light lock,

and one completion to light release.

Set adjustment #37 to 00 [minimum level 0, maximum level 0]

No completions required. Mimics stock software!

Note that if you set the minimum level greater than the maximum, the

game will auto-adjust this in gameplay to merely set the minimum level

to the maximum level.

Balls shot to an unlit lock saucer will score 1000 and eject. Balls already

present in the saucer will simply eject.

Drop bank completions whilst in multiball will not count towards the next multi-

ball.

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Release history

031 initial release

032 corrected filenames, readme for file types

033 corrected assembly error for tilt situation with ball locked

034 corrected unresolved situation if lock lit solid, release not lit

035 corrected lock ball during multiball while other ball draining

added animated lock/release lamps during multiball instead of simple blinking

036 tweaked lock ball/other ball draining situation

037 reverted to v35, revamped ball handling at multiball end in case ball in

saucer when trough processing

Weight	.25 lbs
System 9 Roms	CPU Rom Set vL1 [U19, U20, U49], CPU Rom Set vL3 Tournament [U19, U20], 2732 Speech Rom Set vL1 [U4,U5,U6,U7], 2532 Speech Rom Set vL1 [U4,U5,U6,U7]