add on table?

[Freeman1255]

when the game originallly came out, an additonal title known as devils island was addded is there a way to manually add the table or the files? (the extra table is obviously no longer for purchase and was not available with 3D Realms Anthology) but was added back when add-ons were called expansion packs

[Tig77]

I don't think Devil's Island was ever an add-on to Balls of Steel. It was sold seperately by Wildfire Studios. I bought a copy from them when it came out. It can't be added to Balls of Steel. You can buy it from eBay or Amazon.com. There are a few copies for sale there.

To get it working well on a modern PC, you can download the BOSLoader from this site - http://adoxa.altervista.org/bos/index.html which fixes almost all problems you would have getting it running.

Hope his helps :)

[Freeman1255]

Tig77, it was an add on, but it could be played seperately, I checked on a couple sites

[Freeman1255]

The basic idea was that pinball table got scrapped when a duke nukem tie in was added at the last moment, but it was later released as an add on for balls of steel

[Tig77]

Interesting. Could you post which sites mention this? I've never heard that it was an add-on to Balls of Steel. I know it was scrapped when the Duke Nukem table was created.

On this site - http://www.mobygames.com/game/balls-of-steel
It says in the Trivia:
"Devil's Island Pinball
A sixth table, Devil's Island, was made but not included with Balls of Steel. It was finally released in early 2000 as a seperate product - not an add-on. Also, it was distributed by Expert Software, rather than Apogee or GT Interactive."

[Freeman1255]

http://legacy.3drealms.com/news/balls_of_steel/

While this is a stand alone product, it can be technically used as a balls of steel add on, especially because enhanced versions of BOS loader can actually play wildfires other pinball games, it can also be manually added to BOS and launched via bos


You can think of this table as an early example of disc locked content to an extent, it wasn't added, but can run/operate fine on the game

[Tig77]

The only way to try to get the Devil's Island table to work within Balls of Steel is to try and copy over the table files. I've tried to copy the Devil's Island files over to the Balls of Steel folder, renaming certain files and whatnot to get it to work, and I've never got it to work. If you could get it to work, you'd have to use an .MNU file from another table in BOS to show up in the table selection menu, as Devil's Island doesn't have an .MNU file. I tried that, and no matter what I do, the table won't load.

It was never meant to work within Balls of Steel, as it was not released or published by Pinball Wizards aka 3D Realms aka Apogee Software, and they don't own the rights to it. It was released as a separate standalone product by Wildfire Studios.

Even though they call it an "add-on" table and earlier on the 3D Realms news feed they refer to it as an "expansion pack" it actually was never released that way. It was always and only a standalone product.

The reason the BOSLoader (coded by some third party fans) works on all Wildfire Studios pinball games is because the games all use the same engine.

If you can get it to work, I'd be interested to know how you did it. It would require some fancy under-the-hood tweaking or renaming of the files, and even then you wouldn't have Devil's Island listed within BOS in the table selection screen. :)