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JohnnySmitch posted:This guy's project is what inspired me to build mine: That is freaking awesome. I too have built a few MAME cabs from scratch and was looking for a new project. Oh man, really tempting. edit: after watching the video of this one in action http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?s...3&hl=dexllgamer I think I'll def be building one! mattfl fucked around with this message at Apr 20, 2012 around 22:10 |
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Oldstench posted:Any ATL goons know where some good tables are? A bar in Marietta used to have a Simpsons table which is alright...but I don't know anywhere else that has one. - AC/DC - Transformers - Tron Legacy - The Rolling Stones - Ripley's Believe it or Not - Iron Man - 24 - World Poker Tour - Family Guy - Shrek - Batman (Dark Knight edition) - Wheel of Fortune - Spiderman - Pirates of the Caribbean - Simpsons Pinball Party Plus some more classic machines, including a few EM tables: -  Black Knight - Hurricane - Nightmare on Elm Street - 8 Ball - Genie - Jet Spin (may be gone now, I haven't seen it in a while) - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (may also be gone)
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Robnoxious posted:Cirqus Voltaire has all of this in spades. I can't wait for the DLC release. It's one of my favorite tables. The light sequencing and music play off of each other so well. Plus the pin itself progresses so well into a ball flipping FRENZY of a conclusion. I saw this table the first time watching that TILT documentary the other day and it looks so cool
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goferchan posted:I saw this table the first time watching that TILT documentary the other day and it looks so cool
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Honestly, Bride hasn't really scratched the itch for me. I'm having a lot more fun with Medival Madness even though it's missing some crucial functionality
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goferchan posted:I saw this table the first time watching that TILT documentary the other day and it looks so cool Yeah, ever since seeing it in that I've wanted to play it. It'd be really neat to see Revenge From Mars, The Pinball Circus, and Baby Pac-Man all somehow end up on the DLC slate. And Wizard Blocks with artwork!
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So people on twitter hooked up Zen Studios and the art director of Archer, and it sounds like they're interested in doing a table for Pinball FX 2. *Sploosh*
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Gann Jerrod posted:So people on twitter hooked up Zen Studios and the art director of Archer, and it sounds like they're interested in doing a table for Pinball FX 2. *Sploosh*  Holy poo poo, Pinball FX 2 reinstall GO
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Gann Jerrod posted:So people on twitter hooked up Zen Studios and the art director of Archer, and it sounds like they're interested in doing a table for Pinball FX 2. *Sploosh* I believe a "Yuuuup!" is an appropriate response to this news.
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I haven't had a chance to check out many of the pinball games on PSN. (I don't own a XBOX) This thread makes me want to go pick up some of them. It's nice to see that they are putting out virtual replicas of old machines instead of just making poo poo up. I live in Portland, which has probably already been mentioned as having a poo poo-ton of pinball machines at bars and whatnot. Some of my wife's and I's first dates were getting high scores on WHO-Dunnit. It's not as fast as some machines since it keeps asking you to guess who the killer is, but it's pretty goddamn fun.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Lost your ball? Here's a consolation prize - a sweet fuckin' sitar solo! Enjoy! I pretty much almost choked to death on soda when I read this. God damned funny.
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Anyone up for friendly tournament's here in the thread? I'll pick a daily table from zenpinball/pinballfx or pinball arcade and we all play and post scores. Of course you'll all be on the honor system that you actually played and aren't just posting your best score or a false score.
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Besides adding more playable camera angles, another PHOF feature I hope they add to PA is the ability to pause, zoom in, and pan the camera around so you can see which lights are lit and read the text on them. Another sort of broken thing you can do on Arabian Nights is just shoot the bazaar over and over. That gets kind of boring though.
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Can anyone hit the right captive ball in Arabian Nights reliably (to advance the bonus multiplier)? I can hit the left one no problem, but I'm so bad at hitting the right one that I'll start multiball or wizard mode just so I can relight the left ball and hit that one again. I've been experimenting with all sorts of weird nudges and bank shots to hit the right ball, but no dice so far.
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I finally got past my incompetence point in TOTAN and got the harem multiballs and my last standard goal done. I was on fire that game, I went all the way to freeing the princess (thanks to all of those here who pointed out that you have infinite multiballs when you fight the genie as long as you keep putting them back in with the plunger). My previous best was 23 millions and that game I went over a 100 millions. I was satisfied with myself. So I go check the wizard goal... I did all of them in my magic game but they did not register because you have to start a fresh game after completing the standard ones. This universe is conspiring against me I tell you !
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Dantes posted:I finally got past my incompetence point in TOTAN and got the harem multiballs and my last standard goal done. I was on fire that game, I went all the way to freeing the princess (thanks to all of those here who pointed out that you have infinite multiballs when you fight the genie as long as you keep putting them back in with the plunger). My previous best was 23 millions and that game I went over a 100 millions. I was satisfied with myself. So I go check the wizard goal... I did all of them in my magic game but they did not register because you have to start a fresh game after completing the standard ones. Yep, wizard goals can only be collected after completing standard goals and then starting a new game. You did it once, you can do it again!
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Zip posted:Anyone up for friendly tournament's here in the thread? I'll pick a daily table from zenpinball/pinballfx or pinball arcade and we all play and post scores. I'm up for this.
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So, I picked up the wood for my mini pin cab today! Gonna be ordering the actual system during the week. Going to go with a 23" play field with a 19" back screen. i5 2500k with a GTX460 most likely. Following this guys build for the most part http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=11708
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I posted this on PAfans, but I might as well post about it here too. Apparently Black Hole on my Android version of Pinball Arcade is slightly broken. The left rollover in the top trio does nothing when the ball goes over it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AYNoy6c9E8&t=01m09s You'll see a few seconds after this video starts that the ball goes from the left upper flipper into the left top rollover from below, but I get no sound, no score increase, and my bonus should have gone from 2x to 3x. Can't get away from broken tables even in a virtual format. *sigh*
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KamikazeJim posted:I posted this on PAfans, but I might as well post about it here too. Apparently Black Hole on my Android version of Pinball Arcade is slightly broken. The left rollover in the top trio does nothing when the ball goes over it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AYNoy6c9E8&t=01m09s You'll see a few seconds after this video starts that the ball goes from the left upper flipper into the left top rollover from below, but I get no sound, no score increase, and my bonus should have gone from 2x to 3x. I'm reasonably confident that stuff like this is going to be patched soon enough. I'm not playing Theater of Magic or Ripley's on the xbox version because I'm assuming bugs in those tables will be patched soon.
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jabro posted:I'm up for this. Alright cool. I'm never gonna win this btw. I have slower reaction time due to a head injury from the army. In fact I think I have a lot of you to thank for my renewed enthusiasm in pinball and helping me to improve my hand eye coordination. Truth be told though I am not great at pinball. I just sort of re-discovered the same spark I had for it back in the day, and am really having fun gaming / posting to this thread. So thanks. Day 1 of the tournament, let's do something most of us have. Pinball Arcade-Black Hole: best score FOR TODAY. Honor system people. No glitching, no posting scores you didn't earn today.
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If I entered it would just make everyone feel bad.
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Parallax Scroll posted:If I entered it would just make everyone feel bad. I've been taking a little solace in beating your Trials times. It's not much, but I'll take what victories I can when I'm obviously playing against some sort of Pinball playing android.
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Okay, I give up. How do I do the 200k skill shot on Bride of Pinbot? It's the last standard goal I have left (iPad version) and no matter how much I try, I get either 100k or 25k. Any tips or a screenshot of exactly how far back to pull the plunger? EDIT: Figures I'd land it as soon as I posted that. Physics! 
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My wife and I went over to the arcade today, which finally had Stern's AC/DC out for public play. Not being a fan of the band or Stern's more recent tables, I went in expecting the worst. I saw the playfield art, which is a hideous drawing of... some AC/DC guy, and the photos of the band look like they were taken from a Google image search, badly cropped, and pasted onto the machine. Not looking good*. Once I hit Start, the gameplay completely changed my mind. The table is full of awesome features. When you start, you select an AC/DC song, which will add a multiplier to all related targets for the rest of the game (for example, Hell's Bells makes the bell target worth more, etc.). I wasn't clear on all of the table rules, but I managed to figure out how to activate two of the multiball modes, which were both standard "hit lit ramps/targets for jackpot" sequences. There's a cannon on the right side that can be loaded and fired, although it seemed pretty inaccurate and I was never able to hit the correct target. The angles are excellent. The ramps and orbits are well-placed, and ramps rarely reject a well-flipped ball. The only target I had trouble hitting consistently was the bell, which is at the end of a narrow lane just to the left of center. I'm sure it just takes practice. As a bonus, the generous outlane position prevents a lot of "bullshit" drains, and I didn't see any situations where a kickout or ramp path led straight to a center drain. Control-wise, the table is solid. I'm not very good at advanced techniques like live catches, but I was able to post transfer and even do a couple of passable three-ball cradle separations during multiball. The rubber on the flippers seems to have higher-than-normal friction, which makes it very easy to catch and control balls from the inlanes. The machine I played on is brand new, so that might fade over time. I'm not a very physical player, but I was able to nudge my way out of trouble more on AC/DC than any other machine I've ever played. It doesn't hurt that newer Stern tables are light as hell -- a quick slap to either side is enough to get decent movement on the ball. The tilt on this machine seemed overly lenient though (a pretty hard shove to save an outlane drain only gave me one warning), so your mileage may vary. Overall, I was impressed. AC/DC isn't much to look at, and I'm sure it helps if you enjoy the band's music (I'm apathetic at best), but the gameplay is awesome. You can get some decent playtime on a single credit, but it never feels too easy, either. * Seriously, look at this poo poo: 
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Too bad you didn't have the special edition. It puts a lower play field in the place of the giant head.
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Progress! Got the cab built today! 23" playfield and 19" back glass have been ordered and the PC and misc buttons will be ordered during the week!  The full set of build pics are here -> http://mattfl.smugmug.com/Video-Gam...22580614_M7B6dt The measurements I have laid out in the first pic were too small so I basically changed all of them. It's 33" long, 11" tall in the front, 19" tall in the back and 16" wide. The back glass box is 21" wide and 17" tall.
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Posted two minutes ago on The Pinball Arcade's Facebook page.The Pinball Arcade posted:We are very excited to announce that the next two Pinball Arcade downloadable tables will be Cirqus Voltaire and Funhouse! Another Williams Collection table but also Cirqus Voltaire  . Played it a bit in Visual Pinball yesterday, fun table.Looking over that potential DLC list on Pinballarcadefans, I'm disappointed that there are zero Gottlieb tables mentioned, especially since they cancelled the XBLA Gottlieb collection to do TPA instead. I know the tables in the Gottlieb collection are a bit simplistic and outdated, but surely there are some out there besides Black Hole deserving of digital remake. Cue Ball Wizard from the Microsoft Pinball Arcade collection is quite fun. Hell, I wanna see them put something like Slick Chick in just to see how people react. KamikazeJim fucked around with this message at Apr 23, 2012 around 02:06 |
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They're gonna have to fix the no DMD on the actual Cabinet thing that PA has now to get Circus Voltaire right, but holy poo poo eff yeah. Funhouse is my dad's favorite machine of all time.
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Hopefully they got a hold of the audio masters for Funhouse, as the originals contained in the shipping tables are scratchy and annoying as hell. It's usually hard to notice in an arcade because of the noise, but Rudy's voice samples sound like they're being transmitted over a CB radio.
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There's a poorly maintained Funhouse at a laundromat in my town, so I'll be looking forward to seeing what that table is supposed to play like. e: My daily Black Hole high score was 2,081,710 in case we're still doing that. Dad Beer fucked around with this message at Apr 23, 2012 around 02:53 |
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My kid loving (3) loving loves Black Hole. She calls it Space Pinball and she'll just sit there smashing the flippers for an hour. I thought she would like TOAN or Theater but nope, it's Daddy let's play Space Pinball! She got on the inverted table once and she freaked out. It was pretty fantastic. Sorry if that's a little E/N I just thought it was cute.
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Two excellent choices. Funhouse is a classic Lawlor table with almost all of Lawlor's idiosyncrasies. It's a typical layout example for its era -- work to set up multiball, run multiball for million-plus jackpots, repeat cycle -- but it has a wide variety of shots that build towards the locks, a decent array of alternative scoring methods (building to Super Frenzy on the mirror, Steps awards, progressively larger Trapdoor awards, gangways), and Rudy is just such a loving fun playfield gadget.
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This might be a dumb question, but how do you buy the starter pinball pack for Pinball Arcade on iOS? If I click on a table, it gives me the option to buy the individual table, but not all 3.
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KamikazeJim posted:I posted this on PAfans, but I might as well post about it here too. Apparently Black Hole on my Android version of Pinball Arcade is slightly broken. The left rollover in the top trio does nothing when the ball goes over it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AYNoy6c9E8&t=01m09s You'll see a few seconds after this video starts that the ball goes from the left upper flipper into the left top rollover from below, but I get no sound, no score increase, and my bonus should have gone from 2x to 3x. Despite the glitches I keep going back to that table. The open playfield is like a rigged carnival game that looks so easy to master.
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Speaking of Black Hole glitches - has anyone ever got to a point where the lower playfield stays lit no matter what, and it will not let you lock a ball on either playfield? I don't know if this is a glitch or the rules of the game, but I got two or three multiballs before this happened. Also just to slide a little brag in here, this was my only really good game on this table, got the bonus up to 2 mil on one ball mostly from playing multiball on the lower playfield. Ended up with 5.4 million at the end of the game. I have top 10 psn scores on all the tables except TotAN, which has a lot of suspicious ps3 scores (Ripley's meanwhile has a bunch of highly suspicious mobile scores on the leaderboard). Also being a pretty rabid pinball player when Cirque Voltaire came out, I don't remember anyone calling it a classic or favorite table back then. There are a lot of toys and it looked cool as hell in a dark arcade, but I remember the rules being pretty simple and the ball would always get stuck on the Ringmaster head. I'll still buy it of course but to me its a little questionable bringing out three VERY similar tables(ToM, TotAN, CV) in such a small time-frame.
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Sent out some friend requests as Uncle Stalin to folks on the list in the second post. Help a guy with a bad wizard score out, friends!
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Teenage Fansub posted:Too bad you didn't have the special edition. It puts a lower play field in the place of the giant head. Also has an actual moving swinging bell to hit instead of a standup target with a bell toy.
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Disease posted:Also being a pretty rabid pinball player when Cirque Voltaire came out, I don't remember anyone calling it a classic or favorite table back then. There are a lot of toys and it looked cool as hell in a dark arcade, but I remember the rules being pretty simple and the ball would always get stuck on the Ringmaster head. I'll still buy it of course but to me its a little questionable bringing out three VERY similar tables(ToM, TotAN, CV) in such a small time-frame. The Internet Pinball Database says pinball fans have voted it the sixth best solid state pinball table of all time. That said, I definitely felt like having ToM and ToTAN as two of the four launch tables was a bit much. I love mid-90s pinball as much as anyone, but those two tables really are quite similar in feel and that's a bit of a shame when there are so many other eras to cover. Personally, I'm just waiting for Elvira and the Party Monsters.
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oblique posted:Sent out some friend requests as Uncle Stalin to folks on the list in the second post. Help a guy with a bad wizard score out, friends! I'm sorry, everyone else, this has nothing to do with pinball. Dude! I must not have seen your posts before. Because it just blew my mind the combination of your Desolation Jones custom title and your regdate of my wedding day.
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