Search results

Yes, Twilight Zone does that too. The physical balls trapped can get out of sync with a player's lock credits in many ways, like if any player starts any other multiball, all balls are released from the lock because they're needed in play. But the game perfectly remembers everyone's lock...

No glitch. I intentionally stopped at x9,999 for style points and so that the ROM would recognize the 9999M score without rolling over again. Yeah, that makes it look pretty hacky and Farsight even asked me about it. :) The "glitch" compared to the real table is that the center standups are...

Ok, I found it (on XP it was C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\My Games\Pinball Arcade) and copied it over, but TPA didn't seem to recognize it. I know I'm in the right place since if I delete the directory, TPA re-runs the configuration tool and re-creates a new Settings.ini file there...

So I finally moved up from XP to Windows 7. After installing Steam and TPA, naturally it doesn't have my wizard goals and other local stuff saved. Anyone know how to copy this over from a previous Windows installation? The new Windows install is on a new hard drive and I have everything on...

For running online polls, it's actually better to make it look like ballot stuffing is working then subtract out those votes on the back-end. Then the ballot stuffers won't know that their ploy isn't working. If they can see when their votes do or don't take effect, then they'll have...

It's all legit. Just get 10 door panels every ball and you will play forever from all the extra balls. Lots of tables in TPA can go infinite like that, Bride and Funhouse being the most notorious. My velocity on TPA TZ is a very consistent 10 billion per hour. The first hour scores 5 billion...

That navigation is rather stupidly coded, it depends on a Flash plugin even though the navigation buttons and score table aren't Flash themselves. You need to have Flash working and enabled for it, or else be on a browser like iPad Safari where you'll get a plain HTML version instead of the...

Can I blow away this thread? Current #1 on AFM, El Dorado, Monster Bash, Taxi, T2, Victory. Former #1 and still top ten on Centaur, Pinbot, Space Shuttle, Whitewater, Star Trek TNG, Funhouse, Twilight Zone, Class of 1812. Assorted other top tens including NGG, Teed Off, Cirqus Voltaire, Dr...

PC only and nothing else. The precision of keyboard input is too important. Touch screens are right out for serious competitive score play, and even a console gamepad doesn't do it for me. (Also I don't own a console that TPA is on, just a Wii and PS2.)

999,990 is the real bonus max. Once that's reached, there's nothing to do on the lower playfield for the remainder of that ball. You will get the full x5 value up to 4,999,950 awarded at the end of the ball.

Someone said that Visual Pinball really is like owning the real tables, with how much attention and maintenance they need. :)

I'd be all over it if it could automatically import scores somehow, either from Farsight online or TPA's local save file. I have a hard time seeing all the manual data entry being worthwhile, but certainly appreciate the effort.

I've never seen that happen. I've always gotten the 100M jackpot credit if the countdown is still running. You have more time than you think. It is true that triggering any other switch on the table cancels the double jackpot chance. Is that happening somehow? There aren't any standups or...

This is still a disguised way of thinking in terms of average. Yes, the average per ball is higher in the 3-ball game. But why would the population size be measured in balls? I'd measure it in games. Per game, the additional two 1x balls can't ever hurt. This is correct, if you're measuring...

It's not the average bonus x that matters for a game, it's the total. 1x-1x-1x-2x-3x will always be more than 1x-2x-3x. The thought of spotting your good ball into a 3x bonus slot is a gambler's fallacy. Each particular ball doesn't know how many other bad balls you had around it. Ball #5 is...

Nice work, yes I like the exponential decay approach (and not just because it makes me look good!) A refinement could be to consider only a certain amount of rankings for each player, rather than the entire population of available tables. Like take each player's 20 highest rankings, or maybe...

Mark, I suspect you haven't played enough tables to show up highly here. This ranking system heavily rewards playing every table even if the scores are merely adequate, since just reaching the top 50 is worth as much as the difference between #50 and #1. I'm sliding down the list slightly at...

I may be #1 overall, but pretty terrible at Central Park as far as top players go. Only managed 6500 which is a third of the top score and isn't even in the top hundred. I can do an EB on each ball but that isn't the limiting factor, it's the limit of 15 specials/EBs total allowed in one game...

What is that way? I have been trying to figure that out for months now. :)

Nooo, not Haunted House. That game is punishingly difficult even for experts, newbies will get nothing out of it. I wouldn't recommend Black Hole either, that lower playfield reentry gate will piss off folks, you have to know what you're doing to work towards multiball. Shuttle or Gorgar are...