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Yes. A good comparison is Haunted House's big brother. It's interesting, and more so on a real big physical machine, to see the ball changing levels through all the possible pathways... but there isn't really much of interest to the gameplay beyond that.

I'm about 95% confident that it's not possible. It was possible in an early release of TPA that had an old TOTAN ROM and I saw it captured in a Youtube video. But I've done what I think are the correct steps about five times and have never gotten the Harem/Genie stack to work. I presume TPA...

Yeah, counting up the missing ones is easier if you've played a lot. I'm missing Gorgar, Big Shot, Genie, Firepower, Space Shuttle, Centaur, Flight 2000, Victory, 1812, El Dorado, Black Rose, BK2000, LCA, Dracula, Phantom, Party Zone, SS Troopers, Xenon. Unsure about Black Hole and Road Show...

The real right way to do this is to use Genie Battle instead of regular multiball. You can stack 3x Lightning Lamp into the wizard mode. It's tricky but very possible to keep LL going during the Skeletons phase, and then once you reach the unlimited-balls phase, the LL timer doesn't even run...

Yes, Pinbot does give another EB at the replay score after every rollover. It doesn't happen right at 10M, it happens each time you reach X2,000,000. I do shoot for the skill shots, that's the biggest point value on the table by far, 500k average and 1M max is way bigger than anything else...

I'm talking about all players comparable to me in skill level and presence in contending for #1 positions on a leaderboard or tournament. The size of that set is not a concern to my arguments. :)

It's possible only if Farsight anticipated and implemented it. They didn't for some tables, like AFM and it would seem Road Show, where they never expected someone would roll past what the ROM can handle. It's not a trivial amount of work to figure out how within each ROM to monitor for rollovers.

Do remember we're not just talking about our top 10 or 100 scores. Syncing the leaderboards would include all tens of thousands of scores, all the way down on all the tables. For all the platforms. And including the weekly/monthly/alltime designations as well. I can see where it might be a...

This is very possible to be just generally improving at TPA, though. I often find on going back to a table I haven't played in a while (6-12 months), I find myself surprisingly more able to aim and hit shots. Happened noticeably on Co1812 and Teed Off in the PC tourney, and when Ripley's was...

Yeah, 1k to 7k. A full shot gets about 10 spins for 10k to 70k which is what I meant. Some of both. In a regular game, I always try to catch both balls then time a shot, since that's how to maximize the primary metric of points/risk. But I'll take an untimed shot with a ball that I can't...

Zaphod, yes that's what I did for Lightning Storm, let the ball do a partial rollback on the flipper each time then release and flip up the middle again. You can keep two balls in the same loop this way, if you're sharp at adjusting the timing so they don't collide. Flip each ball when the...

The max is indeed four. Europe, South America, and Asia (also 2x scoring) can all stack into anything else. You can then add Australia or any multiball or Road Trip, but any of those blocks any more continents. My favorite weird stack: Europe into Atlantis. You need 6 Ripley's letters lit...

Yup, Lightning Storm is what I did to put up my 6.5B. Some points came from regular multiball, where I pushed the jackpot to 300M then collected six of them. But then 4B came from Lightning Storm. I can accurately keep two balls looping through the central shot without missing, to score 25M...

And got 424M on Cactus Canyon in the final hour. In the most boring and narrow way possible. Got the 1M bonus bounty twice, then just pounded Gold Mine for twenty minutes to rack up 80 x 4.5M bonus. And something weird happened on Haunted House. The scoreboard says 3.75M but unless I...

Yeah I gave Haunted House some more shots instead of CC so far, since HH is the table where I have the most positions available to pick up. Got 2.5M but only registered 0.5M. I went to time rather than ending the game. So ending the game might be the key to recognize rollovers on these...

FINALLY got Co1812 to recognize a rollover, on the 5th try. I got the rollover very carefully with a spinner shot that rolled from 99,99x,000 to 10,000. Also I made sure to end the game, to the enter-initials screen, rather than letting the time run out. Don't know which of those if either...

I do agree with you on this claim. But this is only true as long as 10 players haven't found and followed the one narrowest fastest scoring path. I'm fairly sure from regular play on CC that the optimum route to the highest score in 20 minutes is to stack Gold Mine + Showdown as soon as...

Players who think that finding the scoring paths within 20 minutes is more fun and prefer that to be a more significant factor to the tournament than executing them. JPelter and Tann chimed in to that effect. But if your own fun factor isn't affected, then hey, that's great. Yes, the optimum...

I'm wondering if Dizzer2012's scores are legit or not, since that doesn't seem to be someone we've ever heard of anywhere else. I'll trust Farsight to sort it out. And I do indeed have time tonight to pound some tables.

I do too. It's definitely neat to see the tables through a new lens, shaking up the strategies we've known forever. This tournament was the first time I shot the slot machine on TZ in ages, for example. But the problem is each table is only really solvable once. There's always a fastest way...