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För att glädja alla som bytt har 5.01 kommit med följande ändringar.

CPU Release           5.01
Date                  January 28, 2004

Game ROM   1M     U210            $46FF        5.01      lotrcpu.501
Game ROM   1M     U210            $5FFF        5.01      lotrcpul.501

- *** THIS CPU RELEASE REQUIRES DISPLAY VERSION 5.xx ***
- Fixed the final shot of Bash Balrog immediately awarding stuff that was on
  the center ring shot.
- Fixed ring bonus being held between games.
- Added some speech for Destroy the Ring Lit.
- Added a Destroy the Ring flasher effect while the mode is running.
- Fixed a ball being released from the Ring after Destroy the Ring ends from
  draining awarding a ring shot.
- Ring Destroyed value now increases by 2.5M for each successful win.
- Cleaned up the choreography of destroying the Ring.
- Added an Elf Gift for destroying the ring.
- Vastly improved the choreography at the start of Valinor.
- Added a "Valinor Tease" effect after a successful Destroy the Ring (it
  tells you one of the items you have left to accomplish before reaching
  Valinor).
- Fixed a nasty bug that wouldn't relaunch all your balls during Valinor.
- Changed the scores given for Rings of Power during Valinor (higher start,
  lower cap).
- Changed the super jackpot choreography for ROTK (new display effect and
  new sound effect).
- Fixed a couple bugs in ROTK relating to the super jackpot stage.
- Fixed ROTK end-of-ball bonus to properly report and score the winning of
  that multiball.
- Changed the level advance display effect of ROTK to stack behind the
  jackpot effect instead of preempt it.  It won't display if you shoot a
  jackpot at the new level.
- Changed the sound effect call for TTT super jackpots.
- Fixed a display bug for TTT end-of-ball bonus that would show up after
  you won it (it scored correctly however).
- Fixed 2 different bugs that could potentially light ALL shots for super
  jackpots during TTT.
- Fixed There and Back Again total not being cleared at mode start.
- There and Back Again total page should now properly show up in all cases.
- "Add-a-ball" now has higher priority than "ring jackpot" on Palantir during
  Ring Multiball.
- Palantir will now add 20 seconds to There and Back Again up to 3 times, up
  to 99 seconds.
- Fixed yet *another* bug with Little Points given by Palantir.
- Nothing else should be awarded after making the final shot for There and
  Back Again now.
- Added an Elf Gift for finishing There and Back Again.
- Increased scoring for Destroy the Witchking mode.
- Fixed a bug where the pop bumpers would get confused with what it should
  be doing with Boromir.

Till Staffan (och alla andra intresserade) så kommer här program ändringarna för LOTR CPU ver 5.00. Skickas ut nästa vecka.

Center loop diverter now closes during non-valid playfield for skill shot.
- Balrog now scores things awarded on center ring when it's out.
- Stopped raising Orthanc diverter post from the right inlane during
  non-Gollum multiballs.
- Orthanc now scores things awarded on the center loop if a ball arrives
  when it is physically open and an orbit wasn't recently shot.
- Fixed a problem where the top right eject would abandon too quickly.
- Ring Frenzy now shows its status properly during other events.
- Bulletproofed several lamp and flasher effects so they don't tie up
  resources forever (or until the ball drains).
- Added a Path of the Dead Soul Bonus when the ball drains into Hobbiton
  instead of the wire ramp.  Doing so will add 250+50 up to 750 souls.
- Worked around a display bug for showing Special points.
- Changed Balrog score to something more appropriate (it was wrong due to
  late-hour rule change).
- Added a total page for There and Back Again.
- Added a sound call for Ring Multiball jackpot.
- Changed storing and display of Game ID, country ID, and version number.
- Now wait longer before showing CPU info to give display time to calculate
  its checksum.
- FAST BOOT now defaults to NO for non-USA games.
- Corrected display of some scores in background effects for Ring Frenzy and
  Victory Laps
- Corrected display bug in ROTK multiball that would cause already-shot
  jackpots to stay on the display if the jackpot multipliers had been
  increased.
- Changed some event lamp effects to mask off KEEP, POTD, and FOTR lamps.
- Changed FOTR multiball lamp effect to reflect the # of people that have
  crossed the bridge.
- Standard Adjustment 14 (BALLS PER GAME) can now be set 1-10.
- Software Meter now doesn't chalk anything since it doesn't work anyway.

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