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While doing some research on if I want to buy a physical table or not, I found Topcast. It's a podcast dealing with pinball and they have interviews with pinball designers, artists, sound engineers, software engineers... good stuff to check out on the history if your interested. Last one was from 2010, so some are a bit dated. The interviews are usually over an hour and once you get past the initial cheese factor and they get the person on the phone they go from the person's first memory of pinball to what was current at the time. Some of the interviews are: John Trudeau (Gottlieb, BoP, Judge Dredd), Michael Gottlieb & Alvin Gottlieb (Gottlieb, Alvin G.), Steve Kordek (Genko, Bally, Williams), Steve Ritchie (Black Knight etc...), Mark Ritchie(Sorcerer, Capcom) Pat Lawlor (about a 3 hour interview), Lyman Sheats, and a bunch more.
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Clouseau posted:At random I picked Python Angehlo's as the first, and was kind of puzzled why they started with a disclaimer that his views don't reflect their own. Then he started talking. I think it's only three minutes in before Python asks them if they've ever read Ayn Rand and less before he just starts badmouthing other designers. I haven't listened the Python show yet, that will go to the top of the list. I did notice a lot of animosity toward Joe Kaminkow, who did Space Shuttle at Williams and helped start and run Data East/Sega with Gary Stern. Gottlieb, John Trudeau, Steve Ritchie and Mark Ritchie didn't go into detail but mentioned him in a negative light. Kaminkow comes off as a smug rear end in a top hat to me in his interview, seems he feels he kept pinball from dying with Space Shuttle and all the entertainment tie ins at Data East and Sega. Mark Ritchie and John Trudeau's have been the best so far for me. Lot's of good detail especially about what happened at Capcom, why lightning flippers on Fish Tales, and about unrealized pin from ICE. MarxCarl fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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Der-Wreck posted:I've been listening to the TOPcast podcasts recently. The Steve Richie one is pretty cool as he tells the story behind High Speed. He said he didn't like working on Elvis. I would like to hear his opinion on AC/DC. Elvis was a great machine and is a ton of fun but AC/DC is pretty drat lame. Dennis Nordmans' was good, just finished that. There's also a newer Steve Ritchie one at http://www.musicliferadio.com/2012/03/054-back-in-black-steve-ritchie/ where he talks AC/DC (haven't heard that one yet). For those who have physical tables, are they easy to maintain and repair? I've found one I'd like, a Sorcerer, but it has a blown power supply, supposedly? Wondering if it's worth getting and fixing.
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Robot Danger posted:
There's this guy in Columbus, http://columbuspinball.com, his twitter feed that lists places is pretty active, wish there was one for Cincinnati. The Verge, and Wired, just did some articles on Stern's X-Men. Pretty neat video on the machine, how Borg designed it, why they went the comic book route instead of the movies. Stern also just released details on their Amazon exclusive Transformers table, which is interesting to say the least.
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Bobby King of Farsight was on the Spooky Pinball Podcast (its the latest episode, do yourself a favor and don't listen, the hosts are terrible) and had some interesting tidbits. -Next kickstarter won't happen until after the current ones are done, or at least Twilight Zone is out - Next Kickstarter will probably be Terminator 2 -Licensing wise, they get what they can afford, Creature only has 3 of the original 5 songs included. - They really haven't heard bad things or much from the original designers on their recreations, though Bobby apparently talked to Steve Richie and Richie has a desire to do a virtual table - Prices on physical pins that are in Pinball Arcade are going up, Ripleys was cited, seemed Stern wants more pins in it now due to this. - he really wanted to play the Pat Lawler ProPinball table which I felt was nice they at least acknowledge the competitors. On the topic of the "PRO" menu, from other sites, it's said it's just too much for what you get, though apparently there is a touchscreen mode where you can drive the ball around the table. On the Mac OS X version 1.0.5, the Elvira and No Good Gophers release, you can somehow get to an adjustment screen, haven't found instructions, but here's a video http://pinballarcadefans.com/showthread.php/2296-Mac-Version-1-0-5-Bugs-And-Feedback
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Niwrad posted:Not sure if anyone knows this, but what are the odds of Jersey Jack actually releasing the machine they've been working on? From everything I've seen, Wizard of Oz looks amazing. The LCD screen is a nice modern addition. And I'd love to see a high end pinball company get going with Stern moving to cheap crap. From what I've read and seen, I think it will come out, I think it will be sometime in mid to late 2013, but it will come out. Their Facebook page has pics of a lot of cabinets and playfields being assembled, so that's a good sign. They seem to have the playfield 80% done and are waiting on software to be completed, and with just 1 guy doing that, good luck locking down a date. I think the fact that Jack hates Gary Stern and Stern pinballs will ensure the game comes out.
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Niwrad posted:Yeah, I've heard similar stuff. I guess I don't see how they can possibly be profitable taking 3+ years to build a single pinball machine. You have to wonder at what point funding dries up when you have no revenue besides pre-order deposits. Pinball news just posted a big piece on the Jersey Jack factory, lots of pictures, http://www.pinballnews.com/games/wizardofoz/index34.html. Looks like they're trying to get the production process down and bugs worked out of the system. In their PinExpo fireside chat, Jack mentions that they have 1400 of the top of the lines and 400 of the others on pre-order, and that they're working on the next 2 tables one licensed and one original. I hope they actually get the Wizard of Oz table out and do more tables, competition is always good, but I wouldn't pre-order one, especially on their terms: From Jacks Pinballsales.com site: quote:INITIAL DEPOSIT IS $2,250.00 I didn't know they were asking for more money on top of the down payment, that's pretty crappy. Oh and Python Anghelo says he's working with someone, not named yet, and Pinball Circus will come out: http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/expo2012/pythonanghelo.mp3 - about 42 minutes in Pinball Circus, for those who don't know http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4354 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEFVkQbz-PY
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The Kins posted:New video up on Kickstarter (dunno if it's backers-only) showing some clips from the making of, and early footage of, the TPA version of Twilight Zone. Nice, on the left of the video there is the Cactus Canyon and a Dr. Dude, when they're moving tables around right at the beginning. The one on the right side of the video, I think is Big Shot, and they still have Space Shuttle, wonder when that will come. Just like Farsight, they posted the video for Twilight Zone on the Star Trek Kickstarter. Has Farsight said how they're going to handle the Kickstarter tables in the releases? Are the tables going to be a bit more for the people who didn't contribute, will they be the same price as a normal table pack, or do we just find out in November or when ever TZ is released?
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Niwrad posted:Does anyone know of a place that makes or can make the cabinet art decals? I know there are some out there for the more popular machines, but looking for one of Dr. Dude. Basically the front is in crappy shape and want to replace it. Have you tried over at Pinside.com? Someone there may have one or know where to get one. They have a thread with a bunch of online suppliers - who may have something - http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/online-pinball-parts-shops Barring anyone having new old stock or a repro, I'd think your best bet would be someplace that did vinyl car wraps. I'd stay local because you could probably talk them into doing it as a one off, if there's a copyright notice on the art that may scare some places off. And talking art, I don't know what a shop would want or have to do to what you have to make the piece work, so that may jack up the price.
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Niwrad posted:Thanks to you and Bloody for the recommendations. Didn't realize how many parts places were out there. I don't know of anyone whose used the vinyl wrap idea, I just figured that's how the graphics were originally made and you could probably do it like that. Someone on Pinside worked with the Planetary Pinball guy to get F-14 Tomcat cabinet decals made - http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/f14-tomcat-cabinet-decals-available-soon - the original cabinets were painted and this is both sides , front, and the backbox sides and that's running $239, which probably isn't too bad in the long run and I would assume you could only buy a complete set from a supplier. So you might want to speak to him. Here's another thought after seeing your damage, and the patterns on there. Can you just get some vinyl parts of the blue and white background done , and the "Pull This" sticker and carefully using an x-acto knife cut out and replace the damaged sections? You may need some black also, but just follow the lines and fit it in? FishBulb posted:Twilight Zone must be coming soon. Got 2 emails about choosing my format. Woot woot. Did you get one from Farsight that was just reply to this email and then one from Kickstarter that you went and filled out an online form on the Kickstarter site? Those are the two I got.
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So just watched the video of Jersey Jack at the Southern Pinball festival, available here: http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jersey-jack-pinball-presentation-at-spf-2012-jack-kevin-joe. Some interesting bits: He said that Wizard of Oz should start shipping in 6 months, those who ordered the most will see them first, so if your an operator and ordered 10 you get priority, least the way it sounded. 2nd machine will be themed, sounded like they went back on the unlicensed 2nd game. Jersey Jack owns the rights to all the Bally/Williams games so they could re-run old machines at some point. Pinball Circus is a venture of Python Anghelo, Planetary Pinball and some Euro distributors and if they get the money together Jack will run the game.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOtNer0zbQ $2999 US. Amazon exclusive in the US at least. Interesting target to shoot for, doesn't seem to have worked in the past, but those were more cut down machines. I think the price point is a little too high, if it was 1500 I'd consider one. I believe it's made in conjunction with Hasbro. And from the video of the wiring and internals, I think they used it as a starting point to modernize their pins going forward. FYI Sterns next pin is The Avengers, based on the film, George Gomez of Monster Bash designed. Supposedly will have a Hulk toy on the playfield.
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Scirocco Griffon posted:I definitely learned a couple things from the Twilight Zone video, hitting the locks more reliably isn't as difficult now. The better review of Dragon is the one from Classic Game Room, where Mark explains the game to you http://papa.org/blog/2012/06/cgr-reviews-dragon/ In fact the Classic Game Room Reviews from PAPA are great and are on the bottom of this page: http://papa.org/blog/games-of-the-week/ - be sure to check out the Solar Fire review, so you can see why Bowen is so good.
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Latest Pinball Arcade is out for IOS with Star Trek Next Gen and Pro Menu for Monster Bash, looks like it just hit US App Store Edit: Aoi-chan posted:Can anyone explain what this "restore purchases" thing is they keep talking about? I don't see that as an option on Android Up until the last release on IOS, everytime you updated the app, your previously purchased tables would show up with the buy now option. You'd hit start on a table and it would think and then ask if you'd like to restore previous purchases, you'd say yes and then it would proceed to download that table or table pack again. It was an annoying pain in the rear end. They looked to have fixed this latest release, as I didn't have to restore any of my previously purchased tables. Latest release also didn't wipe out any of my standard or wizard goals for once, so that's at least a win. MarxCarl fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Dec 21, 2012 |
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Yodzilla posted:So who am I supposed to contact to get my Kickstarter table? I tried contacting them a few times through the Kickstarter page itself but apparently no one checks that. Have you tried - support@pinballarcade.com I had a question about my password and they responded, took 4 days, but they did respond Alternatively you could get an account on pinballarcadefans.com and message this guy: http://pinballarcadefans.com/member.php/1498-Rob-Mann - he's the "User Community manager" If your interested in who's who at Farsight, what the office looks like, here's an posting on it, how they get any work done is beyond me http://pinballarcadefans.com/showthread.php/2992-An-Afternoon-At-FarSight-Studios
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KamikazeJim posted:I got a chance to play Wizard of Oz at New York Comic Con 2012, and I managed to trigger a glitch in the table software. Hitting one of the ball locks caused the LCD screen to go black with the audio still playing, and they had to reset the table to fix it. After I played it, I figured that would be the last time I would play it since it was probably going to be rare to find one in the wild. Now I find out that iPlay America in NJ has one, I gotta get over there one day. Jack is part owner of iPlay. Its apparently set to $1 for 3 balls and is still not very code complete, from here http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/just-played-woz-again-at-iplay-america-in-freehold-nj. Seems they're using it as a test unit.
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Hopefully, one of the distributors in the NYC area will be providing one to one of the bars in Brooklyn or Manhattan once they start shipping.
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Discount Viscount posted:I found out the arcade at my local mall has two old Gottlieb EM machines, with one of them actually being a licensed reproduction by some company that apparently does that. I forget the name. ^^^^^^^^^ That's King of Diamonds, they didn't sell all that well and it's supposedly a solid state pretending to be an EM. The Verge has an article on the Stern factory, http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3793274/stern-inside-one-of-the-last-pinball-factories-in-the-world, which has a lot of pictures. Look for the X-Men test cabinet. Stern also has the license for Star Trek, which is supposedly coming later this year with a team of Ritchie - Sheats - Feres, so that sounds good on paper. Finally IPlay no longer has WOZ out, it's been replaced by a Monopoly. So if your thinking of dropping by call first.
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Couple of interesting articles on pinballs resurgence, Stern has sales up 30% from last year and Andrew Heighway of Heighway Pinball claims it's due to virtual pinball games. The Heighway table looks sweet, pop up pop bumpers ala Circus Voltaire, a non-licensed theme, motorcycle racing, and an LCD in the play field. Quetzal's Captain Nemo table looks nice, with the LCD built into the playfield and an open source OS so you can tweak the rules if you want, unfortunately they're only making 30 of them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21200001 http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-01-28-real-pinball-sales-boosted-by-virtual-sims
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Clouseau posted:I might have said this earlier in the thread, but WOZ looks like it's The Homer of pinball. It couldn't just have the screen, it has two, it's a widebody, it has the two upper playfields etc. I wonder if Jack reached out to Lawlor first, because I imagine he's the go-to guy for over ambitious tables. I find it funny that you call WOZ the "Homer" of pinball, when The Simpsons Pinball Party was designed by basically the same team of Balcer on design, Johnson on software and Granner on sound for both pins. Considering Jack had a business relationship with Balcer prior to Jersey Jack, I doubt that Lawlor was more than a passing thought.
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purkey posted:I've been playing a bunch of Addam's Family at the local arcade and have finally managed to get to tour of the mansion a couple of times. So, what's the best way to rack up points in tour? I found myself just kind of shooting ramps and going after whatever mode popped up, but I feel like I'm missing something. Check out http://pinball.org/rules/ for rulesheets, the Addams Family one looks pretty in-depth and covers the ins and outs of Tour the Mansion. There's also http://pinball.org/videos/ or http://papa.org/blog/games-of-the-week/ for tutorial videos (same videos just different locations). The videos are usually slanted for tournament play, so it 's the quick and easy way to rack up points on the table.
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BiggerJ posted:Wasn't the final version of Cactus Canyon produced by The Pinball Factory, a company Farsight hasn't signed with? No it was released by Williams as a Bally game. Run got cut short by Pinball 2000 games. The code wasn't finished on it. The Pinball Factory is/was an Australian company that bought the rights from Williams to manufacture parts and games right after Williams closed pinball down. A Medieval Madness reproduction was going to be the first game and then Cactus Canyon, his website says MM is "In Production", but he doesn't seem to have produced anything - http://www.thepinballfactory.com. General consensus is he's a crook. Planetary Pinball bought the Williams rights from The Pinball Factory in 2010 so they conceivably can have tables reproduced, and there is talk of Jersey Jack reproducing classic tables at sometime in the future. Niwrad posted:I was trying to think of some games I'd like to see them make in the future. I'd love to see them try and make Big Bang Bar. Would be tough to get their hands on a machine but I bet the license would be cheap and it's a machine that pinball enthusiasts would probably be interested in since it's so hard to find. The Capcom license is owned by Gene Cunningham/Illinois Pinball/Pinball Manufacturing, he made the Big Bang reproduction, and is/was trying to make Kingpin. The boards in Capcom's are unique and the effort put into emulating it is probably not cost effective for Farsight to produce, license would be easy at least just Cunningham and Capcom.
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Niwrad posted:Speaking of new games, has there been any word on Stern's next offering? I hear some rumblings about Star Trek and Metallica but neither really interest me that much. I know the old Star Trek is a legendary game, but I never watched the show so the theme doesn't do much for me. And Metallica just seems kind of dark for a pinball game. I'd be all over an Aerosmith one if they stick to music. Stern usually only likes to talk about tables that are in production. Something about not getting people's hopes up and selling current product, though they still take orders for older pins and if they still have the rights and the parts will do another run ex. Tron had a run in October and is getting another run in March, but this is about future pins... Stern is listed as a licensee on the new Star Trek film, and rumor on that its a Steve Ritchie design , Lyman Sheats software , and Greg Freres art. So it's 2/3rds the AC/DC team and I assume its based on the new film series. Metallica is supposedly a Borg table, there were rumors it would be KISS but those got shot down. I'm impressed they didn't go for KISS with a built in fan base that's used to buying merchandise, they could have the game next to their KISS coffin, but Simmons probably wants way too much in royalties. I'd think tables based on musical artists would be more of a machine for bars than anything, kind of an interactive Juke Box and could see there being a different music based pin every year or two. I'm waiting for a Steel Panther table if they keep going with them.
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gypsyshred posted:Doesn't Kiss already have a table? I think it was an old SS or something. Bally 1979 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUpLZZ_Lz_U give a listen to that awesome soundtrack
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The National Pinball Museum in Baltimore is closing March 3rd. Seems they' couldn't renegotiate their lease and have no where to move to at this time. So if you were thinking of visiting, better do it fast. Press release here: http://www.nationalpinballmuseum.org/whats_new/Notice%20of%20Closing%20to%20Public.pdf
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DarthXaos posted:Just 2 weeks until the Texas Pinball Festival There are 2 WOZs at the Ohio show this week. From the review on Pinside - http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/woz-updates-form-ohio - sounds like they are far from being code complete. We are lowly Ohio though, so maybe Texas gets better code?
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Clouseau posted:This was at Emporium in Wicker Park. Come out next time a table is released, because a bunch of folks always come out for it. For X-Men John Borg, Gary Stern, and both Sharpes were around. I think Lyman popped his head in too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HOTKqQep6w So where are you in the Emporium launch video? Also, PAPA released a video on WOZ http://papa.org/blog/2013/03/wizard-of-oz-update-1/ I'm gonna try to make it to the Louisville show to play it, it looks beautiful.
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Beelzebozo posted:I'm getting ready to head to the Louisville Arcade Expo. Come out and say hi! We have one of the 10 Global Warfare machines ever made there along with Wizard of Oz and some other great pins (full list). I didn't see Global Warfare, but this gem was there and sadly neglected between a Time Fantasy and a TOTAN  If you ever see a Varkon it is a must play. Also, only got a 3 ball game in on WOZ. The game is beautiful both cabinet and play field, the flippers were strong. I was not impressed with the crystal ball toy, the video wasn't that clear and you had to have the right angle to see anything in it, I'm 5'9" and could see it, my son is 4'8" and couldn't see anything in it but flickering light. The software isn't there yet, and it was running the latest version.
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Beelzebozo posted:It was over by the room where Roger Sharpe spoke (all his were) drat, didn't see it, saw the owner, the guy from Pinball Magazine who's got all the Game Plans though. I forgot about Joust. That was a blast to play. My son and I were smack talking each while playing it. The guys on it before us had each racked up a over a million points each on it, how they did that was beyond me.
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Someone over at that the Pinball Arcade fans page has done an interview with Bobby King http://pinballarcadefans.com/showthread.php/3737-TPAF-Audio-Interview-With-Bobby-King-(Round-1) Points of interest: They're still talking to Steam and it looks promising (yeah yeah I know) They are working on a Windows 8 release, but sounded like they thought Steam bought them more They're emulating Gottlieb games now so no more scripting They're going to emulate roms and fix Black Knight graphics There are only about 20 of them in the office and looking to expand a bit They're looking to release something for Windows Kickstarter backers They are not looking at the next gen consoles at this point, no ps4 and no next gen Xbox at this point Looking at fixing Circus Voltaire problems There's probably more I missed, but its a pretty good and focused interview
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Boxman posted:I feel bad for asking since I like the table a lot, but what's wrong with Voltaire in TPA? I dont play the table enough to have experienced it, but they were talking about lighting and that the balls would fly off the table. I'm not sure if it was just for one platform or all? King said they're working on user configurable views, where you got to pick the angle you liked at the beginning of the game.
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Farsight lists one of the new features as an "update all button".  To access it open options from the title screen and then Manage Tables, and it's there. Using it updates all the tables that have recieved updates, it doesn't say what the tables are that are getting updated, but shows the number of tables getting updated. It saves the hassle of starting a table and it downloading the update. And hey look, there are version numbers on the tables, anyone know where you can find what the fixes/updates are? Anyone else ever have this happen?   This was on my iphone 3gs, and was on all tables. I reinstalled and it was back to normal, so that was good. Unfortunately, they were unplayable as after ball launch the camera locked, though the ball didn't seem to drain.
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If your near Milwaukee this weekend the Midwest Gaming Classic is happening, http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com. Which looks to be a lot of fun, and I wish was a lot closer to me, so i could attend. Ben Heck should be there with his Ghost Squad pin, so maybe he'll bring his Bill Paxton, I think someone wanted to play that, and looks like there should be some WOZ machines.
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Clouseau posted:I'm going be at MGC this weekend, I'm looking forward to it I've never headed out to anything like it before. Farsights gonna be there, so you can ask them about old Sterns. If they emulate the Bally CPU for Centaur, it shouldn't be that bad. I'd be in for Flight 2000, Stargazer and Orbiter 1. Orbiter 1 would require a physics engine that allowed spin on the ball and I don't think they have that yet.
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Clouseau posted:There was a dude who modded out his Cactus Canyon rom and added four or five new modes including drunk multiball. Which was activated if you hit the beer mug post several times. During Drunk Multiball the flipper buttons were reversed. He also managed to track down one of the voice actors and got him to do more quotes. It's a real shame that Farsight could never add his rom. The programmer of Cactus Canyon Continued just did an interview with Spooky Pinball. He is using a P-Roc board and is recreating the software from scratch, so he may have missed some modes or nuances in the code? His site is here http://soldmy.org/pin/ccc/index.php?title=Main_Page and it's pretty interesting stuff, and unless Farsight wrote a P-Roc emulator it will never be seen. The programmer did mention he bought his Cactus Canyon new and was on IRC with the Williams guys at the time, so got to know some of them. He also said that the Cactus Canyon developers knew it was going to be a short run game and that production of it would stop once Pinball 2000 started up, which must have sucked. There's also a new pinball simulation out for iOS that recreates real life tables, well they're Zaccaria tables, who were the 3rd largest manufacturer in the world at one time, so says their byline.  . It's from A.S.K. Homework so I'd expect the physics to be utter crap like Age of Pinballs, but it's nice to see someone else trying. Once it gets the Snake Plisskin table I'm in  . It's still no Black Fever, but that's from Playmatic anyway 
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So that Zaccaria pinball app for iOS is now free. Their facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/askhomework, has videos of gameplay. The person demoing has no clue how to play, they are constantly hitting the flippers no matter where the ball is. It's worse than my son when he first played, and probably explains their understanding of pinball and why their games suck. I also noticed this on the Cactus Canyon DMD   I haven't seen a Farsight ad on any of the other DMD tables. I'm guessing that they set that in the operator menu on their in office Cactus Canyon machine, dumped the roms and forgot about it. MarxCarl fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Original_Z posted:Zaccaria Pinball got updated with a "simulation" mode which apparently has better physics. Didn't seem terribly different from my experience, the ball still feels too heavy and has barely any bounce on the flippers, although I do want to say it's easier to make shots now. I'll agree that's it's easier to make shots with this upgrade, but I've run into a more issues than fixes with this release. I can consistently pull the plunger back and have the ball fall out of the shooter lane onto the floor, then the camera will lock onto a nice view of the floor. They added landscape mode, and modes will switch between portrait and landscape during gameplay if you move just the slightest bit. I've also had the ball pass thru the white flippers on Time Machine. All of this was not happening before the upgrade, which is a shame as I really like Time Machine.
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zoux posted:Did I read somewhere that new IOS PBA tables are released on the 15th of the month, or is it just whenever? I wanna play Whirlwind! They just posted pics of the tables on their Facebook page so it's getting close to release. You may be disappointed though as the tables are Space Shuttle and Whitewater.
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zoux posted:Graaah it's Friday are we getting the new PBA tables today or what? Also is Circus Voltaire just buggy as poo poo for me or everyone (iOS)? It's around midnight Eastern US that stuff gets released on iOS, I think, it's usually late in the day. CV is buggy, Farsight has even said so. I think they were looking to patch it.
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Eegah posted:Eh not so much for IAP updates like this. Last pack hit around 3pm Pacific Time I think. Well you're right it's available now in the App Store. Time to play some whitewater
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Clouseau posted:I just picked it up and after playing Time Machine for a while bought the whole gold package. The devs are really responsive to feedback and the tables are really weird with spectacular art. I feel bad about passing up the chance to play Time Machine at MGC when I had the chance. I just bought the Farfalla table and I'm liking it. The flippers in the outlanes are really inventive. It's better than Time Machine. It seems to have different characteristics to it than Time Machine, ball moves faster, the ball doesn't pass through the flippers, and it doesn't have the ball falling out of the machine in the shooter lane. Are those differences consistent with the other new release tables, if so I may pick more tables. Also, how does the "custom" game mode work? I have mine set to simulation which seems to be right for me, but may pick that extra up. On Metallica news, Stern released video of the LE. looks like a fun game Borg gives an overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB1SUsubMuA Lyman gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzxc59Y6GcA Lyman makes the game look slow which I would not think would be the intention for the game. Some of the shots on the left side look incredibly tight especially the inline drop target. Still want to play it though
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