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Electromax posted:I wanna see a low gravity pinball box where you have 16 flippers and fling a ball around the inside of a crane-game-like area. Playable on the moon. I'm honestly surprised one of the pinball videogame makers haven't done something like this or some other transdimensional spin on the (mostly) 2D playing field. It'd be like the Super Mario Galaxy of pinball games. poo poo, make it Super Mario Galaxy: The Pinball Game!
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McSpanky posted:I'm honestly surprised one of the pinball videogame makers haven't done something like this or some other transdimensional spin on the (mostly) 2D playing field. It'd be like the Super Mario Galaxy of pinball games. poo poo, make it Super Mario Galaxy: The Pinball Game! Speaking of weird gravity effects (well, kind of speaking of that), I played Banzai Run last week, and I recognized where the weird game mode from Zen's Paranormal came from -- I was confused by that extra playfield where the ball dropped so fast, and finally realized it was pretending it had moved into the vertical part of the pinball machine. Maybe this was obvious to everybody else, but I was thrilled when the penny dropped for me. I felt similarly about the soul gem mode in Infinity Gauntlet once I battled the power in Twilight Zone. 
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McSpanky posted:I'm honestly surprised one of the pinball videogame makers haven't done something like this or some other transdimensional spin on the (mostly) 2D playing field. It'd be like the Super Mario Galaxy of pinball games. poo poo, make it Super Mario Galaxy: The Pinball Game! Something like this?  It's a really rare machine and apparently not super fun, but that's the only way I can imagine it being feasible.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Something like this? Played this at The Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame and can confirm it is pretty meh.
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It's been suggested that Banzai Run is coming to TPA, right? That's one of the few tables, along with HS2 and TAF, that I'm still waiting for.
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AA is for Quitters posted:Really pissd the local arcade traded out their MM before i could highscore it. Right now my only HS in town is on the TAF in a local bar, where i annoyed the poo poo out of my friend by spending 40 minutes on one game. But despite weak rear end flippers, TAF is one of my favorite machines. They also have avatar, which is quite possibly the shittiest pinball ever. Of the machines you mentioned, I love Lord of the Rings, and Jurassic Park is real fun too. You could probably put up a high score on either one once you get the rules down. LotR is on my short list of "tables that I would never sell or trade once I owned them" (with Williams Indiana Jones and TSPP) And taking forever at a pinball table and boring your spouse/friends is a time-honored tradition in pinball. When my wife and I were newly married, we worked at the same store in the mall and often took lunch at this pizza place with a DE Star Wars table. The pattern was that I'd buy a game, win a replay or four, and then let her burn through the games in 10 minutes right near the end. canyoneer fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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yeah, LOTR is really fun, I've played it in various places and alway had a good time with it. Nearly put up a high score in the delta wing arcade in the MSP airport, but that's because high scores were super low, like I'm guessing it was only kids that played it. But when one has a 4 hour layover, and internet is $5, one finds ways to entertain themselves. I think part of why my friend was pissed was because i kept sending him to the bar for me. I had a comically long crazy straw that i had brought with me and just set my rum and coke on the table. But i had gone in with a mission and he knew that. Dr Jankenstein fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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McSpanky posted:I'm honestly surprised one of the pinball videogame makers haven't done something like this or some other transdimensional spin on the (mostly) 2D playing field. It'd be like the Super Mario Galaxy of pinball games. poo poo, make it Super Mario Galaxy: The Pinball Game! So orbitron1? I thought that was considered a flop?
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prefect posted:So what you're saying is that we need to get NASA involved in the construction of pinball-machine components. Gotcha. Teflon™ coat everything...
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While looking for more information on Pinball Circus, I found a blogpost saying a boutique group was planning to remake it. No further information, though so take it with a grain of salt.
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tonedef131 posted:They would still get dirty, pinball machines are self-soiling devices. Most of the vents are located on the bottom and there aren't usually fans, so they shouldn't let much from the environment in. Remember you are throwing a case hardened steel ball bearing over and over and over into a variety of plastic, metal, and painted wood components. All of these things wear and break down, combine this with the smoke from the occasionally burned up coil or blown varistor and you have yourself a machine in need of a shop job. Nuts. We put a probe on a comet. A vacuum sealed pinball machine is within our reach. Let me have this dream. Also, balls. I've got a cranky TV Lock switch now, and I'm all but certainly going to have to pull my upper playfield. I'd swear that I read repeatedly that pinball machines were maintenance free and never breaks. Can whoever is working on the NASA vacuum dust free machine please make sure that it never breaks down as well? Edit - no sense in relying only on pinside people for advice. C&P of what I posted there. Long story short - the table isn't consistently registering hits on the switch behind the TV on the upper playfield - frequently holding the ball until the table goes into ball search mode. (Which can screw you points wise hard as your TV timer counts down the whole time.) Went into the switch test mode and just tossed a ball up there over and over. It's registering maybe 1 of 5 times. (edit - for the record, even pressing it by hand was no longer registering a closed switch every time.) Also "played" a few games with the glass off, and there's definitely no rhyme or reason to it. Seems to read the hit properly when the TV mode is lit, but I was also getting it just sit there as well. Oddly enough, it would occasionally trigger the DMD animation for the start of the mode, but still hold the ball until the ball search routine before releasing it. I'm assuming the switch has to register as closed for a short period of time or something? I would have thought it was a 1/0 on or off type of thing. So my completely uneducated guess is that I need to either clean the switch, or check the soldering for it? Which of course means pulling the upper playfield regardless? Anyone willing to weigh in on this before I start? Should I maybe just replace the switch entirely while I'm in there? Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Discendo Vox posted:While looking for more information on Pinball Circus, I found a blogpost saying a boutique group was planning to remake it. No further information, though so take it with a grain of salt. They had some stuff out at Expo (a recreated cabinet, maybe some toys). Nothing terribly impressive, but they've been getting the word out for a while.
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Discendo Vox posted:While looking for more information on Pinball Circus, I found a blogpost saying a boutique group was planning to remake it. No further information, though so take it with a grain of salt. Don't miss this part: quote:...originally there was supposed to be an additional mechanism between the flippers. A snake head that would extend and bounce the ball back into play.
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Some season packs for The Pinball Arcade on PlayStation Store are on sale once again: Season 1: PS4 version $14.99 PS3 version $14.99 (includes Vita versions) Vita version $14.99 (includes PS3 versions) Base tables are not free this time. Season 2: PS3 version $14.99 (includes Vita versions) Vita version $14.99 (includes PS3 versions) PS4 version of Season 2 is not on sale. Understandable, since it just came out last month.
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Tony Phillips posted:
Everything you posted there sounds like great things to troubleshoot. Looking for a broken solder point is usually where I start. I usually end up reflowing the solder on troublesome switches as a matter of precaution. This is my personal preference, not some conventional wisdom thing. Also look to see if there are any crossed wires, or perhaps a broken diode on the switch.
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roffels posted:Everything you posted there sounds like great things to troubleshoot. Looking for a broken solder point is usually where I start. Actually just finished up. Everything back to normal. Was way simpler than I hoped. Probably could have done it without pulling the playfield, but I did. (Glad I did just to get it over with and not fear taking things apart.) Just had to bend the curved bit that comes up through the slot in the playfield a bit. Balls resting on it now press down a tiny bit more and trigger the switch. Threw 20 or so balls through there while on switch test mode and it fired off each time. 2 for 2 on the "bend that piece of metal" repairs. It's oddly rewarding in a way. (This is not meant to tempt fate, pinball Gods. Let's leave things as they are for a few weeks, OK?)
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I had a similar fix for my WCS 94. The guy I bought it from made up all sorts of weird crazy stories about why it was happening, none of which related to the "bend the metal" fix. 15 seconds later, all is good.
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I bought season 2 of TPA on my vita/ps3 today and it gave me table packs 11-14. Are there more? When I open the game I can't access season 2 or 1 but I dunno only 8 tables?
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FishBulb posted:I bought season 2 of TPA on my vita/ps3 today and it gave me table packs 11-14. Are there more? When I open the game I can't access season 2 or 1 but I dunno only 8 tables? Season 2 should be packs 11-20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pinball_Arcade roffels posted:I had a similar fix for my WCS 94. The guy I bought it from made up all sorts of weird crazy stories about why it was happening, none of which related to the "bend the metal" fix. 15 seconds later, all is good. I'll take bend a piece of metal repairs every time please. Edit - I have angered the Gods. Switch almost immediately acting up. Registering roughly 50% of the time in test mode, even when I can clearly hear it clicking at it makes contact. Took it all apart, adjusted it a tiny bit more. Played a game and had it work *most* of the time, but drat it. That switch is pretty vital to the game. Probably going to order a new one (and buy a soldering iron) just to get it over with. Edit again - For those that know their stuff. Here's a picture I took of the switch in question. Comparing it to a picture here: http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=1772  it's immediately apparent that the diode on mine has been bent over. Any chance that that could be the culprit? (My inner nerd is ashamed to admit that I have NO idea what a diode does.) I don't think the wire leading to the diode is actually in contact with that solder for what that's worth. Any reason not to just replace the drat thing anyway? Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Tony Phillips posted:Season 2 should be packs 11-20. Yeah I found that after. I'll have to see if I can download the rest of them manually i guess.
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FishBulb posted:I bought season 2 of TPA on my vita/ps3 today and it gave me table packs 11-14. Are there more? When I open the game I can't access season 2 or 1 but I dunno only 8 tables? The other ones, table packs 15 through 20, should show up in PS Store under your PSN account as free downloads after buying the pass. Are they showing up as free for you?
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Going to play with some real machines next week. They have a Fish Tales. Is that as much of a ball draining monster in real life as it is on the TPA?
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LordPants posted:Going to play with some real machines next week. They have a Fish Tales. Is that as much of a ball draining monster in real life as it is on the TPA? In my experience - yes? Yes in that the TPA version is pretty brutal, and hence more life like. It's oddly not that hard to loop alternating shots up the two middle ramps - just like on TPA. I also have a bitch of a time locking balls at times - just like TPA. And locking a ball during mutliball in order to light the jackpot - you got it.... Fish Tales is a strange game to me. It seems pretty drat good, but I find myself not enjoying it quite as much as I think it warrants. (If that makes any sense.)
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LordPants posted:Going to play with some real machines next week. They have a Fish Tales. Is that as much of a ball draining monster in real life as it is on the TPA? I played it once and it was. The lightning flippers are shorter than your standard ones. The game was basically made to drain faster. Has there been any updates on Addams Family on TPA? I'm really excited for it.
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Forgot this thread was here, need to follow it more. Just got a crazy-good personal best on pinball arcade's version of bride of pinbot. My previous best was like 17m (I'm not very good), but today, I finally had five minutes or so where I had the left ramp shot really together, and ended up getting through metamorphosis to the big wheel, which I'd never done before. I hit billionaire's club on the first spin and hit the heart ramp almost entirely by luck off the very next shot. I ended up spinning b.c. again and almost ran out of time trying to nail the heart ramp shot again, except the loops I hit in lieu of making that shot gave me an extra ball, whose announcement (I think) paused the billionaire timer long enough to get another ball on my flipper and land the shot. I will basically never play this well again.
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Cool thanks guys. I have it on the TPA and I'm pretty terrible at it so I'm looking forward to being crushed by it in person. 
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A bar I used to frequent had a Fish Tales and I played the poo poo out of it. If well kept it's a fast machine. Utilize flipper catches whenever possible to line up your shots is all I can suggest. Bust Long Casts to advance the captive ball bonuses then hammer away at it. Unlike TPA, its quite easy to get a Fastlock on the ball plunge. I dunno how to get it in TPA minus just blind luck and the stars properly aligned which hasn't happened for me yet.
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Heads up on the PA sale on PSN: If you buy the Season 2 Pro Pass, don't claim the pro upgrade until you claim all of the tables. Apparently, if you claim the pro upgrade first, you are locked out of claiming all but 2 of the table packs on PS3 and Vita. 
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We really need a :farsight: emoticon. Even if it's just "TILT! TILT! TILT!"
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Niwrad posted:Has there been any updates on Addams Family on TPA? I'm really excited for it. People keep saying Feburary, I'm not sure if that's because of the files they looked at.
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Tony Phillips posted:
Without it, current could flow in the reverse direction when the switch closes and trick the cpu into thinking other switches are closed as well. A broken diode that conducts both ways is a common cause for phantom hits, when something registers even when it's not hit. If the diode is busted and not conducting at all or conducts intermittently the switch will simply not register. You can just check the diode with a multimeter (with the game off) in diode mode or resistance mode if yours doesn't have a diode mode. If the diode is fine then the switch is probably broken. http://techniek.flipperwinkel.nl/wms11/index3.htm#switch explains how the switch matrix works. The page is about Sys11, but the switch matrix works the same regardless of system.
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Yechezkel posted:The other ones, table packs 15 through 20, should show up in PS Store under your PSN account as free downloads after buying the pass. Are they showing up as free for you? It lists a price on all of them on the vita store I haven't had a chance to check on my pc yet. I'll do that in a bit. edit: Yeah the webstore won't let me get them for free and when I tell it to download the pass I just get the same 4 packs again, on both my ps3 and vita. Balls. Edit 2: ok I went back to the vita again and found them and now they are free. Don't think it was farsight honestly. Probably PsN. I was getting a mess of errors. FishBulb fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Tony Phillips posted:In my experience - yes? Yes in that the TPA version is pretty brutal, and hence more life like. Fish Tales and Dracula are games that make me wish Farsight offered as many customization options as Zaccaria Pinball. I respect that the machine is replicated just as it shipped, but I'd love to be able to swap in regular sized flippers and see if that improves my opinion of the games, given that they were designed with regular flipper sizes in mind and just had the lightening ones slapped in there at the last minute.
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Haven't checked this thread in a few months. I don't suppose there have been any developments regarding additional TPA tables on Xbox 360? I suspect my Star Trek Kickstarter prize will remain forever unclaimed... 
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Discendo Vox posted:While looking for more information on Pinball Circus, I found a blogpost saying a boutique group was planning to remake it. No further information, though so take it with a grain of salt. Yeah, they were working with noted crazy person Python Anghelo to produce his true vision of the Pinball Circus. Since he died last year the chances of that happening either went up dramatically or down dramatically depending on your opinion of him.
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Was he the guy that ended up being a bit of a misogynist, meaning that "I CAN SPEAK - OH NO!!!!" becomes slightly creepy in hindsight?
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LordPants posted:Was he the guy that ended up being a bit of a misogynist, meaning that "I CAN SPEAK - OH NO!!!!" becomes slightly creepy in hindsight? Uh, yeah. He had some interesting views on women. At least Zingy Bingy finally surfaced! Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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LordPants posted:Was he the guy that ended up being a bit of a misogynist, meaning that "I CAN SPEAK - OH NO!!!!" becomes slightly creepy in hindsight? 
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Wow. Okay. I was trying to be polite if I was mistaken. Nope dude is for real crazy.
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Weren't the flippers also supposed to be penises, or did I imagine that? If I imagined that, nobody steal my idea.
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