Ryuga Death posted:A quick question about the monster bash table. The phantom flip thing where the flipper hits the ball for you automatically seems terrible and more likely to hit the ball into nothing or into a drain, am I doing something wrong? The hilarity with Phantom Flip (and what will be the same hilarity with Thing Flips, although hopefully not as terrible, considering Thing Flips is given a much more stable situation) is that the data it uses to eventually figure out how to flip is stored in the NVRAM. The NVRAM Farsight has yet to store properly AFAIK. As such, Phantom Flip will always suck major balls and turns from something that is at least not terribly detrimental to something that can and will gently caress your game up with a terrible shot unless you've played for ages without quitting. At least the left ramp miss goes dead on Frankenstein's Monster fairly safely most of the time and the right ramp miss goes in the scoop a lot, so if you can sort of deal with its terrible choices, you can at least make some headway on Lyman's Lament and Frankenstein Multiball, which is nice. BiggerJ posted:Okay, people, time to guess. How much do you think the Addams Family Kickstarter will be asking for? Well, TZ was 55K, STTNG was 60K and T2 was 66K, so taking that into account and guesstimating a bit based on previous comments that TAF was too expensive (can't remember the exact wording), I'd say that 100K is a good guess. Same Great Paste posted:I'm enjoying High Roller Casino so far. Hadn't played it before, but it reminds me of Monopoly. High Roller Casino is one of those Stern tables that completely went under my radar like Striker Extreme (or NFL), mostly because it's a Stern that wasn't based on a license. It's pretty good, but that Craps target is really making GBS threads on my games so far, which is fitting.
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VG-Robot posted:I have been reading the comments from Farsight studios (of Pinball Arcade fame) on the Playstation Blog and they are probably one of the least consumer friendly small teams I have ever seen. The more you like their poo poo, the less of a poo poo they seem to give. I have purchased physical copies of everything they have done, and then repurchased them digitally when Pinball Arcade was released on PS3. Hell, I even re-bought the Williams collection disc on the PS3 because it added a few extra tables over the Wii version. I think the Season Pass problem is not on Farsight's end, but on Sony's. Something about selling content that isn't available yet, or something? I know that the Season 3 Pass is still there on the Steam version of the game, so it must be related to the platform. Of course, that's still no excuse for all the other wank they pulled, like having TZ be literally unplayable once you hit LITZ for ages until the recent update.
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VG-Robot posted:I don't know if I buy that. Pretty much, but that's what Farsight says (although I misremembered, it's because of Apple, not Sony): http://pinballarcadefans.com/showthread.php/7361-Season-3-pack-removed-from-all-platforms!
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Ryuga Death posted:I just got a blue screen error message from TPA. It scared me because I thought it was a windows BSoD but, thankfully, it wasn't. I guess I used up too much memory or something. I had that happen to me for the first time a few days ago too, same deal about memory. Seems there might be some issues in the last update.
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cosmicjim posted:Pinball machines are pretty tradeable. Given that you can easily move them, yes. The Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man standing in our family cellar begs to differ, though. Stupid special backbox that can't be brought down and instead has to be completely dismounted for the drat thing to fit through the door... I really hope we don't have to move soon, because getting that son of a bitch down there was a hell of a trip. Still have to polish that one up, too. Anybody know where you can get some Wildcat polish that ships to Germany, by chance?
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cosmicjim posted:Oh man. How wide is that thing? Will it not fit through a normal door? I've been intrigued by that machine. It should. The problem isn't the width, it's the height. Since they decided to get creative with the backbox, you can't properly strap the sonofabitch to one of those trolleys you need with stairs as steep and hallways as narrow as we have. So you've got to write down where every single plug goes for every part of the units in the backboard (so that's MPU, sound, a few other miscellaneous CPU components, and the entirety of the SS display), completely take the thing apart, then carry the poo poo down and put it all back together. Took my dad and me the better part of an afternoon.
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SALT CURES HAM posted:I just did every standard goal in TPA for Elvira and the Party Monsters in one game. Depends on the game. I got all the standard and wizard goals for Scared Stiff in a single game - of course, it didn't count because you have to finish the game where you finished the standard goals before you can start working on the wizard ones. Annoying.
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Am I starting to get good at pinball or is that just a really easy game?
Tony Phillips posted:Scared Stiff has at least one wizard goal that's a bit of a pain. Collecting all the drat awards on the spider wheel. It's doable since games on that table can last a stupid long time, but it gets frustrating as Hell if you repeatedly screw up and select items that you've already chosen. The resulting Spider Mania mode is pretty drat fun though. I suppose I had an advantage of having played SS a lot in Visual Pinball, so timing the spider (which works on the same timing in both TPA and VP) wasn't that much of an issue. Hell, I had more problems getting the loving spell cast. Stupid targets in their position that's just begging for an outlane drain...
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Man, I felt like a loving badass when I broke 500K on Genie - took me about half an hour and more than fifty games to get it right (most games never went beyond ball 1, obviously). Then I saw the 3 million goal and my jaw just hit the floor. I'm not even touching that one for a long time. Instead, I went and tried for the Ultimate Challenge in Champion Pub - got knocked out on the last fighter when he had half his life remaining. Annoyed the hell out of me. Didn't even get close to getting a good score on that game, just 290 million. Compared to my 594 million I got on another game, that's peanuts. Then again, that score is also the only top 100 leaderboard score I have, so maybe it's a lot better than I think.
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Tony Phillips posted:It's nervewracking as can be, and obvious, but the key to the higher scores there is of course taking the max bet cash fight each time. I've had games where I got to the ultimate challenge end with scores under 50M due to screwing those up. Its like the drat roulette wheel in Whodunnit but at least you're in charge of the outcome. Yeah, my strategy was to stock up on as many Smart Punches as possible so that if things got rough, I could spam them to secure a victory. Then Master Bim Bam Boom happened. gently caress that guy. I ended up with like three Smart Punches before entering the Ultimate Challenge (even though I was trying to get them at every opportunity) and had to use them all on the first fighter because I couldn't get the balls to fly correctly, which probably boned me in the long run.
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Collateral Damage posted:Friend of mine gave me a good tip on AFM. If you have a martian bomb, start Martian Attack and shoot three of the four martians, then shoot the risky shots like the shield/ship. If you drain, just hit the launch button to kill the last martian and start multiball. Personally, I like to stack Martian and regular multiball, so I usually don't need bombs. This seems like a pretty interesting trick. Here's one for Who Dunnit some people might not have figured out yet - make drat sure you get the Mystery Slots when your ball goes down the outlane, since there's a chance you'll either get multiball or you get two of the same but one different one and get the last chance spin, which relaunches a ball. Also, the interrogated person either talks about the killer or they are the killer (remember, Tex = Bruno and Butler = Walter), but you probably knew that already. Still, that one eluded me for a long time. I've been plugging away at Champion Pub now to finally win the Ultimate Challenge. Still no luck so far (god drat those outlanes are a bitch and a half), but I did get something even more "difficult" - a royal flush on Poker Night right off the bat. It spotted the last jewel I needed for the Ultimate Challenge. Then I drained my last ball on a lovely heavy bag shot. Then I shoved my head into a nearby pillow for about a minute and quit playing.
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prefect posted:Also, it's always Trixie who kills Butler. (Seems like it, at least.) I think there's some sort of built-in grudges system going on, but it's not always the same AFAIK. Judging from the story, there's a lot of motives going on: Walter has a motive against Tony (cheated Walter out of his half of the casino), but not against Victoria (his daughter), Trixie (no real reason) and Tex (doesn't know that Tex survived and now is Bruno). Tex has a motive against Tony and Victoria (the two he suspects of having tried to kill him, has vendetta against Victoria in particular), but not against Trixie (his daughter) and not really against Walter (it was never stated that Tex found out that Walter was behind the attempted murder). Trixie has a motive against Tony (learned that he's intentionally keeping her locked to her job at his casino) and Victoria (her stepmother, abandoned her when she was young and both her parents were dead), but not against Tex or Walter (no real reason). Victoria has a motive against Tony (long story, basically she's after the casino), but not against the others (no real reason). Tony has no motive against anybody (thinks everything is fine). Now, of course, if we add the possibility that people find out about the previous identities of Walter and Tex and their plans, then the whole thing basically blows up into a total web of hatred that makes every possibility viable except a few (Tex killing Trixie and Victoria killing Walter or vice versa). I'm also not sure if the whole thing is connected with the NVRAM and the TPA version ends up being a bit predictable because of that. Lone Goat posted:I think Sopranos does. Sopranos is the best about that, because it adds an extra mode. At the Pork Store mystery, big points becomes "loving Big Points" and starts a frenzy mode where every switch scores points and plays a f-bomb. It's a riot. TheMcD fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jul 17, 2014 |
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Robnoxious posted:There are more sexual innuendos Elvira spouts off when Family Mode is off like one of the deadheads you collect is Good Head and Elvira just screams "Yes! YES!" and if you rock a good end of ball score Elvira says "What a huge bone... ...us." Stuff like that. And of course, the classic "Oooh, I'm having multiple jackpots!" line. I was really annoyed when I found out Farsight had to cut that from their regular version. I'm generally against buying the Pro versions because I think it's a ripoff, but Scared Stiff in family mode just isn't right. ...I just now got the "good head" bit. Like, right after finishing that last sentence. Wow, I'm dumb.
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Just managed to get Harem Multiball for the first time in TOTAN and cleared the regular challenges. In a game where I also cleared all the wizard challenges, but once again it doesn't count because of that asinine "you have to clear all the regular challenges before attempting to clear the wizard challenges" poo poo. God damnit, Farsight. I wouldn't be so annoyed if it didn't keep happening to me - that's the second time I managed to do all the wizard challenges in one game where it didn't count because of one annoying or buggy regular one (Harem Multiball and the Spell).
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prefect posted:Don't bother picking up Pinbot. I can't even fathom to think of how long I tried to get that loving goal. Probably one of the worst shots in any table in TPA.
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Ah yes, the old loose screw. Had my share of those flying around the pins I played at different local places before they all gave up. Most of them made their way down the drain and into the electronics in the cabinet, just sitting there. Still, the crowning moment of hilarity was when I cleanly knocked out one of the bulbs on the electric chair in TAF. Now that was funny. That one stayed on the playfield for a while, hell, it even stayed on the playfield until the next day, when we decided to complain for the second time, this time more emphatically. I don't know if it's just bad luck, but every single op I had to deal with just did not give a single poo poo.
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BiggerJ posted:How common is this? What are the worst and/or strangest instances of this you guys have had to deal with? Have any of you ever had to bribe someone to fix something or get it fixed, for example? My personal favorite is a T2 at a bowling alley a decent distance away (but still the closest location with a pinball until we got our own). At one point, it stopped working (I think the launcher was broke, but it's been so long I can't remember), and the op claimed they had to order a part from overseas. It's been two years.
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Big Bidness posted:Make him a lowball offer for the machine. I know someone who got an Addams Family dirt cheap because it sat turned off in a bar not making money and taking up space for a few years. He put something like 75 bucks into the repair and its perfect. He's insistent on not selling. It baffles me just how this rear end in a top hat expects to make money.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Yay! Finally got my Multiball Super Jackpot in AFM! Rule the Universe was actually pretty easy once I got there. There's two, apparently. http://hem.bredband.net/b257182/Cows&Easter.htm#3781 posted:Sometimes when you shoot the Big-O-Beam, a cow is displayed and a female voice says: "Would you look at the size of that cow?!" and a moo is heard.
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canyoneer posted:There's a shopped-up Jurassic Park without a topper on sale near me for $2300. It seems a little high for that game, even though it's in great condition and has LED upgrades and new rubbers. You do have to take into account the fun you have with the machine. I'd say that if you buy a machine for 2300, own and play it for a couple years, then resell it for ~1800, then I'd say you still got a great deal.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Speaking of music, I played No Good Gofers for the first time the other night, and I think I recognized some of music ques from Junkyard. Did the same person do the music for both? Who makes the original music for pinball tables? Composers change over time and projects, but you can look all of that up on IPDB.org. Junk Yard was Kurt Goebel (and that was his only pinball-related project) and Junk Yard was Vince "best guitars in pinball" Pontarelli. But since they're both Williams tables, I wouldn't say lifting some music cues is out of the question.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Wait, there is a Dungeons and Dragons pinball machine? Let me guess, it is based on the terrible movie from the 90s. No, it's an '87 Bally release. It also has some pretty bitchin' music.
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DevCore posted:There's another fantasy style pinball table that has you fighting monsters in the top left playfield. I forget the name but I prefer that one over DnD anyday. Swords of Fury? That's another game with a really bitchin' soundtrack.
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Smoking Crow posted:Since Dracula is coming, what are the chances of getting Addams Family? It's already been confirmed that an Addams Family Kickstarter is coming AFAIK, because yeah, there's no loving chance Farsight pays for that out of their pocket.
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Werthog 95 posted:The $100 level gets you the Gold Edition. God dammit. That's kinda dickish, since I'm pretty sure the Gold ROM is objectively superior to the regular ROM. The Gold ROM should be standard.
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Tony Phillips posted:Never heard of it playing any differently though. Someone with more knowledge please post. Gameplay differences are ROM only. Quoting from the rulesheet at IPDB: quote:Edition Differences It's not a lot, but it's still a superior version.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I thought all the Mario games were late Gottliebs. Yeah, as far as I can remember, both Mario tables were Premiers.
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I loving love Frank Thomas' Big Hurt, and it's probably one of the few Premiers I actually like. That big-rear end ramp is sweet as hell.
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Seems Dracula is still having some problems. I played about ten to twenty games (most of which ended quickly because holy gently caress these outlanes are killer), and had the machine lose track of my number of balls twice. Both of which involved Mist Multiball, so maybe that's where the problem is.
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Nurge posted:Apollo 13 probably won't happen because of how hard it is to cram 13 balls on the playfield and have it run smoothly. poo poo, Apollo 13 didn't even work in physical form in 13 ball multiball, let alone in a digital version.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:(ok, it's because they wanted a Stern table, and non-licensed Stern tables aren't exactly a plurality) How many are there, anyway? I count like three - High Roller Casino, Grand Prix, Striker Extreme, and that's it. I thought Sharkey's Shootout might count, but that's licensed as well.
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There is NO loving way Farsight is getting to do the Pinball Circus, unless it's with the reconstruction that has been planned. I've been active for some time in the VP scene, and we haven't even managed to get the loving ROM from either of the owners. The one in the PHOF will not be touched, that much is certain, and I don't even know where the privately owned one is. Last I knew, it was in Somewhere, Germany, and the owner would only allow the ROM to be ripped if somebody in particular asked for it (and whoever that was didn't ask) but that could have changed. Either way, nobody's gotten the ROM so far, and without that, we're not even getting close to seeing Pinball Circus in TPA. And it's not like the reconstruction isn't one of those very impressive sounding, but logistically very difficult projects undertaken by a pretty much unknown company, either.
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Same Great Paste posted:Tip for Whonnuit? - there is the "bug" where if you just let a super skillshot drain it'll let you do it again, and collect all four bonuses again. I say "bug" because I believe it's intentional because it reliably stops working after you lock a third ball for multiball. Nah, it's not just habit - a lit lane will mess up the whole thing. However, if you lock ball three for multiball, you should normally just be able to do the same thing over again on the next ball. It's a code thing where the unlit inlane doesn't count as a triggered switch, so the game thinks something went wrong when the ball just hits the trough after coming out of the super skill shot (basically, it figures the player never had a shot at the ball) and it just feeds you another ball until you trigger a switch.
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prefect posted:
Eh, I'm even worse off than that with about 95 achievements unlocked, but I have one of those great scores myself with roughly 600 million on Champion Pub, good for #78 at this point. Also about 8 billion on Creature, good for #201, and some more sub-#1000 scores. I find this to be acceptable.
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FutureFriend posted:They just revealed that they'll do a modification of Haunted House with a Ghostbusters theme But why.
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The Kins posted:They got the Ghostbusters license in the deal they did with Sony. I guess that makes sense, still, why Haunted House of all tables? Just because it's a SS and they don't have to actually put any real effort in like they'd have to do with a DMD?
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Well, I had a few runs on Phantom, and I don't know if it's the fact that it's like 2 AM here and I really should be going to sleep or if it's something with the table, but this game is really hard. I think it's mainly that the playfield art seems to be playing tricks on my eyes (but again, the fact that I'm kind of tired might play into that as well) and that some of the shots are really killers (watch out for that organ, that can send a ball right down the middle if you're unlucky). Guess I'll have to try again tomorrow.
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prefect posted:Using my psychic powers, I will now predict that a future Pinball Arcade table will be ''The Getaway: High Speed II". Well, yeah, that's basically how that worked with those two tables. High Speed 2 is High Speed, but with updated hardware (and therefore a deeper ruleset) behind it. That's about it.
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Call Me Charlie posted:South Park Pinball is already listed on Steam. And there's a trailer of it. Well, it looks a lot better than the Sega one. I'll probably get those - I just can't resist a Butters themed pinball.
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