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If you do a GOOD drop or live catch, the ball sticks to the flipper. If you do one with close but not perfect timing, it will absorb most of the ball's velocity but leave it bouncing a little bit. TPA/Xenon seems to have only the first part of that, perfect catches, not a detailed range of...

Farsight's going to have to step up their game on getting the lesser licenses without Kickstarting. Stuff like No Fear, Judge Dredd, Johnny Mnemonic, Demo Man, Shadow, Corvette. There's a good number of good DMDs yet to be had. Now that precedent has been set for license-related alterations...

Sega-Stern was fine during the transition. Space Jam is a good and very overlooked later Sega, as was Starship Troopers before it came to TPA. Austin Powers is annoying but that's the nature of the source material, the pinballing is fine. Same goes for South Park. Monopoly and Ripley's and...

The weekly tables have gotten ahead of the tournament schedule, since there are more than 4 weeks per month. It might reduce confusion to synch those up better, possibly by skipping a week or two on the weekly tables. Road Show's release would be one good time.

Fully in this time, I like all these tables (CBW is tolerable) and none have any grindy degenerate flaws. Only thing is I'm busy most of the day Saturday, but should get home in time to play at least a good bit.

No, I played more and this isn't true. I got that railroad my first five times in a row, but after that it happend maybe 25%. There are other railroads that occur. There's one that hits the top of the right slingshot but calmly drops towards the flippers, and another that comes down the right...

Huh, you're right. I tried it and it does look like that's a reliable railroad for South America. I'd misremembered about the head putting the ball into the bumpers, confused it with the behavior during North America. I'm still not sure if the risk/reward beats out just spinning for more...

I don't agree that South America is no danger. The head doesn't always catch the ball, maybe 80-90%. And it feeds the upper bumpers, which don't yield a guaranteed safe return. You get an upper flipper shot but there's no railroadable catch from that feed. I also don't agree on one shot at...

Is this possible? The tube can kick out directly into the right slingshot, which seems to be unpredictable and not railroadable, at least as far as I can tell.

Yes. DE Simpsons as a kickstarter reward tacked on to TSPP makes no business sense. It's not like TAF Gold where the bonus involved a few extra art assets and a ROM swap. It's a full whole extra table of work for what wouldn't be a full whole extra table of sales. The only way DE Simpsons...

We've been over this in the Ripley's forum. The bug is that TPA thinks the game has ended while that's not true in the ROM. So when you try to start another game in TPA, it will "press start" on the ROM. The ROM acts like it does in a real machine: it interprets the start button either as...

Once again, Pro Pinball does this right for a simulation. It allows buy-ins, with a separate high score list. But you have to earn the credits in-game via replay or special.

Well, when the tube is lit for a lock, do aim for that over the spinner lane for the saucer. You never know when you'll suddenly get three straight friendly bounces back into the saucer for free completion of the X's, but you do have to have the ball locked to take advantage of that. And nudge...

The key is to use the LIVE-RIDE targets after about 12 cities. Complete them to light Next City at the scoop. They're not super dangerous to shoot and are quite a bit easier to complete than those humongous amounts of miles. Remember that they reset when starting any multiball so be careful...

There was etiquette around rec.games.pinball back in the day that buying in for real money is frowned upon, but buying in with an earned credit on the machine is okay. Some extend this to buying in for money when you're just short of the replay score, since you'll then earn back that credit...

It's an improvement, not a big one, but welcome. It doesn't really feel like fluid physics, though. It's not really modeling the flipper acceleration and deceleration to do the catches. It just feels like a few more chunky if-then statements. Live catches in particular. When one happens...

Broken on PC for me.

Sultry female voice. It's not too drainy, but it is too violent, just like every older table Farsight puts out. The flippers and slingshots are way too strong for an old SS machine. The ramp should be made only by a good accurate shot, not by any random flaily bounce that deflects off three...

It came here. I have no idea, but it sure as heck doesn't look like Getaway.

Yes, people have been crying wolf on Getaway for too long. It's been "confirmed" for like every table from #28 on up. Not believing it. Leaked files just mean they started a bit of work, not that it's nailed down for anything. A top DMD (most likely Getaway or Road Show or Safecracker) makes...