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Same Great Paste posted:How are you guys going for score on HRC? My highs are definitely dependent on doing well during the Casino Frenzy and Break the Bank multiballs. A good run during those can be huge. The key of course is getting there. Helps a lot for me anyway when I'm able to use the cheat thing on poker and or craps. That dealer is a straight machine at poker, and craps seems to be a (ha) crap shoot for me.
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Playing the one free table with Pinball Arcade and I finally did it! Got all of the jewels in Tales of Arabian Nights. Oh God unlimited balls until someone wins! The fight is real.  I DID IT!  The difference between going for the jewels and not going for the jewels.
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Had a really irritating glitch on Twilight Zone earlier, and managed to capture it on shadowplay. Firstly the TILT message persisted to the following ball, and wouldn't go away. Secondly the ball passes through the flipper and drains. Here's the video: http://a.pomf.se/bbkiuo.webm
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frameset posted:Secondly the ball passes through the flipper and drains. Is it STILL doing this? Farsight explained TWO YEARS AGO that this was because the physics engine and the graphics weren't syncing right, and optimizing this was their highest priority. There is no good reason stuff like this should still be happening, especially with a table they had to crowdfund. Farsight isn't lazy, far from it, but they have a serious problem with prioritizing.
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Tasteful Bulge posted:Is it STILL doing this? Farsight explained TWO YEARS AGO that this was because the physics engine and the graphics weren't syncing right, and optimizing this was their highest priority. There is no good reason stuff like this should still be happening, especially with a table they had to crowdfund. Farsight isn't lazy, far from it, but they have a serious problem with prioritizing. They're terrible game developers and can't seem to ever get their poo poo together enough to do anything other than ask loyal customers to dump loads of cash on very uneven software. Don't get me wrong I've had a ton of fun with TPA on multiple consoles but I have pretty much zero respect for Farsight at this point. They're terrible at customer communication which makes it all that much worse too.
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Kilometers Davis posted:They're terrible game developers and can't seem to ever get their poo poo together enough to do anything other than ask loyal customers to dump loads of cash on very uneven software. Don't get me wrong I've had a ton of fun with TPA on multiple consoles but I have pretty much zero respect for Farsight at this point. They're terrible at customer communication which makes it all that much worse too. It would be a beautiful world if zen bought farsight.
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xarph posted:It would be a beautiful world if zen bought farsight. Provided of course that they don't force the Farsight team to crank out not-quite-actual-pinball "pinball" tables based on licensed properties, with stupid animated features and gimmicks that distract from the core gameplay.
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Going to visit a new pinball place today. It has the following tables: AC/DC (Premium/LE) Addams Family, The Black Knight Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Creature from the Black Lagoon Cyclone Doctor Who Dr. Dude Flying Carpet Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street Game Show Grand Prix High Speed Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure Johnny Mnemonic Medieval Madness NBA Fastbreak Pinbot Ripley's Believe It or Not! Star Trek Stargate Tales from the Crypt Taxi Terminator 2 The Simpsons Pinball Party Theatre of Magic Twilight Zone X-Men (Pro)  I don't think I've ever played a TZ or ACDC in person.
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Kilometers Davis posted:They're terrible game developers and can't seem to ever get their poo poo together enough to do anything other than ask loyal customers to dump loads of cash on very uneven software. Don't get me wrong I've had a ton of fun with TPA on multiple consoles but I have pretty much zero respect for Farsight at this point. They're terrible at customer communication which makes it all that much worse too. Yeah and when we dare to make constant requests for them to fix these tables that we actually paid for, somehow WE'RE the assholes.
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On Attack From Mars, is the score not supposed to show up properly on the display after hitting 100 billion (or whatever this score is)? Like here:  Also, I'm really proud of my final score on AFM, I know it's nothing impressive to you guys, but I'm really bad at pinball: 
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Jul 26, 2014 22:25
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Nice. Score rollovers are awesome. Also, is there a database/spreadsheet with peoples various online pinball usernames listed? I was playing some of Zen's Star Wars Pinball and I noticed none of my friends in Game Center have it. As far as TPA goes, I've got two friends who I've added but they both stopped playing.
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Jul 26, 2014 23:15
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The Joe Man posted:Road Show is loving bullshit btw Take it back. A Williams wide body with two talking heads will transcend even the most bizarre theme, racist voiceovers and lovely country music that pinball has ever seen.
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Jul 27, 2014 01:42
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Sundays are the best days for pinball, so why is the bowling alley with the pinball machines closed on pinball day??
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Jul 27, 2014 17:18
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Jul 27, 2014 17:43
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Ryuga Death posted:On Attack From Mars, is the score not supposed to show up properly on the display after hitting 100 billion (or whatever this score is)? It might say 1B on it I can't really remember, it's been a long time I got a score that high.
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Ryuga Death posted:
That's a drat good AFM score. I assume that's Ruling the Universe 3 or maybe 4 times? On a personal vendetta against the wizard goals note - knocked off the final Haunted House goal, and ended up beating my previous high score by nearly 2 million. Good for 7th overall.  As is typically the case - Space Tractor just kills it.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:05
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Cabinet update with crap cell phone pics. I'll take some better ones tomorrow. The paint looks so much better in person than in these pics. Got lockdown bar, side rails, glass plastic in last week. Decided to paint today, 2 coats of primter then 2 coats of each black satin for the outside and white satin for the inside and front. Saw another guy do this combo on his cab and it turned out great.    Gotta fix the drip on this one.    Now it's just a matter of getting all the electronic bits and pieces ordered and in and put together.
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Tony Phillips posted:That's a drat good AFM score. I assume that's Ruling the Universe 3 or maybe 4 times? I think I got it 3 times with a lot of total annihilations and by the end of it, I was getting really tired so I became super sloppy. AFM was really the only reason why I bought the season one table pack.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:49
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mattfl posted:Cabinet update with crap cell phone pics. I'll take some better ones tomorrow. The paint looks so much better in person than in these pics. Lookin' good. Why didn't you go with a digital plunger though?
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Jul 28, 2014 01:58
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Lookin' good. I had one in my last build and I just didn't care for it and I wanted the cleaner look of just having the launch ball button and not both the plunger and the button.
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Jul 28, 2014 11:11
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What was the issue? Was the feel of it off, or was it a technical thing where it would lose calibration or something?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:What was the issue? Was the feel of it off, or was it a technical thing where it would lose calibration or something? Yes and yes. There was quite a few tables where it wasn't setup to work with that specific table and I just got tired of futzing with virtual pin to make it work. Apparently there is a newer version of it with better calibration and whatnot but I decided to just go with the button route.
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How does it work when a game has a skill shot? I'm thinking Twilight Zone for instance. Everything looks great. I'm insanely jealous. I plan on moving out to the suburbs at some point and building one of those is my first project in an actual garage.
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Niwrad posted:How does it work when a game has a skill shot? I'm thinking Twilight Zone for instance. Hold the button to pull back the plunger, probably.
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Niwrad posted:How does it work when a game has a skill shot? I'm thinking Twilight Zone for instance. You hold down the button and it acts like the plunger being pulled back. It's not just a push button, ball launches type deal. Hold in button, watch plunger come back and then release.  I'm gonna take some good pics when I get home, the iphone pics don't really do the paint justice.
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I'm not even a huge pinball aficionado and I'm stupid jealous of that build. When you're all done with it, think you could post a part list and estimated total cost?
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jivjov posted:I'm not even a huge pinball aficionado and I'm stupid jealous of that build. When you're all done with it, think you could post a part list and estimated total cost? Sure, it might be another month or two before it's all done though, now comes all the really expensive stuff! Although I'm not sure if I'm gonna wanna post a total cost lol. If I had to throw a quick estimate now, 3-5k.
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mattfl posted:Sure, it might be another month or two before it's all done though, now comes all the really expensive stuff! Although I'm not sure if I'm gonna wanna post a total cost lol. If I had to throw a quick estimate now, 3-5k. Oh my. Well, if its something you love, go for it!
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jivjov posted:Oh my. Well, if its something you love, go for it! I don't have many cheap hobbies lol. Built up Jeep Golf Lego Pinball That's about it though.
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Video Games, maybe airsoft. I'll stick to only one expensive hobby, thank you. But you have my support for the really awesome thing you're doing.
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Ularg posted:Video Games, maybe airsoft. I'll stick to only one expensive hobby, thank you. But you have my support for the really awesome thing you're doing. Thanks lol. Luckily I have a fiance who supports these silly hobbies too! As long as I buy her a purse or some new shoes every so often!
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mattfl posted:Thanks lol. Luckily I have a fiance who supports these silly hobbies too! Only if the purse/shoes are pinball themed.
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mattfl posted:Sure, it might be another month or two before it's all done though, now comes all the really expensive stuff! Although I'm not sure if I'm gonna wanna post a total cost lol. If I had to throw a quick estimate now, 3-5k. Man, what's driving that? I can't imagine building a virtual pinball PC can be more than $600 or so, and you can get a decent TV for as much and maybe another $100 for the backglass monitors used?
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canyoneer posted:Man, what's driving that? I can't imagine building a virtual pinball PC can be more than $600 or so, and you can get a decent TV for as much and maybe another $100 for the backglass monitors used? Wood, paint, sundry supplies, chrome, glass, graphics, driver boards, electronics, coin mech, actuators, knocker, tilt mechanism, shaker, and on and on and on. There's virtually no ceiling on price as you can just keep adding and adding stuff to a virtuapin.
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canyoneer posted:Man, what's driving that? I can't imagine building a virtual pinball PC can be more than $600 or so, and you can get a decent TV for as much and maybe another $100 for the backglass monitors used? Bloody Hedgehog posted:Wood, paint, sundry supplies, chrome, glass, graphics, driver boards, electronics, coin mech, actuators, knocker, tilt mechanism, shaker, and on and on and on. There's virtually no ceiling on price as you can just keep adding and adding stuff to a virtuapin. Yes, all of this! 46" TV - $300 32" TV - $200 DMD - $300 Controller boards - $200-400 LEDs - $100-200 Misc buttons - $50 Cabinet Legs - $75 Wood for cabinet - $100 Side Rails - $50 Audio components - $100 Contactors/other force feedback devices - $100-500(depending how crazy you go) Glass - $100 PC - $4-600 Lockdown bar - $50-100 Those are estimates but most pretty close to the price and then another 3-500 for misc things that I'm forgetting, like paint, extra tools I had to buy, my time! etc.
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I had the opportunity this weekend to buy a Data East TMNT machine that had been played maybe 20 times total from a friend of a friend for $1200 that I had to turn down due to just buying a house. How badly should I be beating myself up about it?
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BobbyDrake posted:I had the opportunity this weekend to buy a Data East TMNT machine that had been played maybe 20 times total from a friend of a friend for $1200 that I had to turn down due to just buying a house. How badly should I be beating myself up about it? I'd guess it's all about how much you would enjoy playing the table, and maybe how much you were into TMNT. cosmicjim posted:I paid $1300 for that table. You got a great deal. That being said, the game is pretty shallow. The key to the game is being able to hit 3 consecutive shots when a certain thing is lit. Hitting one ramp, then the other, then the sewer. It's a pretty low scoring table and hitting that combo is worth like 10 million by itself, when otherwise your total score might be 10 million.
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BobbyDrake posted:I had the opportunity this weekend to buy a Data East TMNT machine that had been played maybe 20 times total from a friend of a friend for $1200 that I had to turn down due to just buying a house. How badly should I be beating myself up about it? I did not find it fun at all. You could maybe get a nice profit on it if you found the right buyer, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I paid 950 for one that didnt have much wear, and I think I overpaid.
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