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Magic Pixel has done a nice job with their Zaccaria Pinball, making improvements along the way when you consider the initial release a few years back. Unfortunately they are hindered by being ridiculously small (4 employees) and in need of a surge of capitol so they could hire more and maybe...

Cactus Canyon would be my guess too. They are super rare in Europe and those that do have them, won't part ways with 'em. FarSight jumped at the opportunity to buy one when they did, and paid through the nose for it too. If I'm not mistaken, they picked it up for something like 13k, more...

You might wanna watch our latest podcast... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5IcPVsy5Dk

I looked back, couldn’t find another Norman interview. I used to get phone calls from him and we’d talk shop, so I might have confused one of those conversations for an actual podcast. It’s rather amusing though listening back to some of those podcasts with us being super optimistic after...

Well part of that was the as mentioned railroads for balls. The same kind of thing can be noticed on Medieval Madness with the gate before the catapult. I suspect this bit of behavior is no coincidence with the scripting they were using for gates. Now I agree the physics were rather easy with...

I was trying to find the podcast we did with Norman Stepansky (TPA audio engineer) that addressed this, but it was prior to our YouTube days. He went into it with us though, that they had tried a few different methods of recording. Ultimately though they couldn't go straight off the ROM because...

It is wireless, but you can plug it in with a USB cord (which is how it charges) and use it that way. That’s what I do since my PC doesn’t have Bluetooth

You could always just play using Zen physics instead of Classic Arcade Physics, as then the play is easier while still retaining all the better visual and sound qualities! FarSight did do beta tests, but the builds were never “finished” for us to give final notes on. We’d provide a laundry list...

The difference between how Zen does their ramps and FarSight did theirs is of note. In essence FarSight's engine never had a way for the ball to travel up and down in 3D space. Jared explained it in our podcast at one time that it is nothing more than a layering of planes, where the ball gets...

My controller of choice for everything is a PlayStation Dual Shock 4. I just prefer the feel of that. The Xbox controller however works with everything, whereas some games I have to use a 3rd Party app to make the DS4 work properly. If I used Steam’s Big Picture interface that wouldn’t be such...

That'll get 'er done! Plus he can plug in any controller and it'll work like a champ, be it Xbox or DualShock. As a bonus, Zaccaria Pinball will run at max specs on that and Pinball Wicked can have most of it's stuff turned on high. And then should he still feel like diving into the VPX arena...

We will have an interview with Mel on Thursday at 3:30pm PDT on our Twitch channel. Hopefully he'll drop some nuggets for us all to chew on. Feel free to watch live and post comments and questions. I already have a list, but I do read comments as we go and will incorporate any as needed...

I'm gonna throw one more wrinkle into your decision making...you are aware that the mobile version is a free-to-play model, where you can't just purchase the tables outright but have to grind for stuff? Many of us are fine with this, many not, but I'd hate for you to go and purchase a new tablet...

My PC running on an Nvidia 1060i card produces a fantastic experience with FX3. I recently acquired a monitor that rotates into portrait mode, so paired that with a second monitor for the backglass and am now running in cabinet mode. Even before that, on my older 680 gfx card (I think that's...

Gotta remember, TPA was running in a game engine that even an iPad 1 could render. FX3 and the Williams app are running on a game engine that’s only 2 years old.

How old is your iPad (and what iOS is it running?) And what kind of laptop are you using?

I don’t know about Stern, but Williams System 11 machines certainly had the replay value change up and down depending on recent scoring. I hopped on a Centaur machine a few years back that on one quarter I managed to stay on the machine for over an hour, racking up at one point 12 credits...

Pro mode is the new Williams physics. If disabled, you are playing standard Zen physics, which includes higher angled flippers and less spin on the ball. Do you ever play real tables? They were designed to have the random player have about 30-45 seconds with each ball. Site operators could...

No, I get it Wolfson. Both sides here like ripping into each other, but it's gotten to a particular kind of nasty where people all but stop listening to what the other is saying and instead it becomes a who can shout loudest and get the best ding in. You see it on Twitter, Facebook, any Yahoo...

I rarely pay attention to this thread, so imagine my surprise to check in a see politics. I’m not here to say “stop it”, only to say keep it respectful. That means not purposely provoking either side with name calling, describing Trump’s coloring, referring to media sources as ‘fake’ simply...