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Yes, just turning on Pro mode makes any table ineligible for the leaderboard. The score will save locally but will not register publicly. It's this way because TPA can't really tell if you've changed any settings within the ROM. The computer program mostly doesn't know what the ROM is doing...

There are only two leaderboards. X360 is sectioned off because Microsoft's backend doesn't talk to anything else. Everything else is together: Sony, Android, iOS, PC all share the same high score list. Farsight is pretty good about removing fake scores. I've got a number of legit #1s. I...

Top five: Simpsons Pinball Party Lord of the Rings The Getaway Revenge from Mars Pirates of the Caribbean Next five: No Fear High Speed Sopranos Spider-Man Star Trek (2013 Stern) Tables I have a personal soft spot for, that I'd love to play but not at the expense of something more important...

Yeah, I got the 1M goal on a continuation extra ball as well. 1M for real on a single ball is nearly impossible. Bonus maxes at 570K, so you need 430K of other points. The highest score value anywhere is only 5K so you need almost 100 hits on *lit* drop targets or rollovers. I put up the #1...

Yeah, confirmed that it works that way, I pulled it off last night. I'm not sure it's worthwhile though, giving up both regular and mania multiballs for the 9-ball shortcut. Mania often scores 200M-plus. Maybe carefully play Mania by trapping and shooting drop targets, doing what you can to...

Taxi sounds perfect for what you want. Simple open playfield, no action you care about obscuring anywhere besides the flippers, objectives that can be reached in a couple minutes. Multiball is only two balls and isn't required for the big million scores. Scared Stiff is probably the most...

Has anyone done any streaming with the PC version, and on a somewhat older machine? It's a Core 2 Duo (Wolfdale) with Windows XP, and I'm trying to stream through Twitch.tv. XSplit as the broadcasting software barely works, but can't maintain any usable quality, even dropping to 640x360p at...

Took me a while to understand what this means. So you mean light the 8 ball towards regular multiball (by completing 1-7 or 9-15), then start Mania then 9-ball all without hitting the 8 ball so it stays lit. That skips the 1-7 phase of 9-ball so you can proceed directly to 8 then 9 for the...

TPA detecting the ROM score rolling over isn't perfect, on multiple platforms. Sometimes when you score a gigantic whack of points (multiple billions) at once, TPA doesn't realize there was a rollover. I've had this happen on CFTBL with a massive super jackpot (like 1.5B x4 for 6B), and on...

Castle Crusher, yes just destroy all six castles. I don't think the King of Payne's castle behaves any differently (unlike Conquer Mars in AFM.) To use a troll bomb, just hit the launch button while a troll is raised for any reason. Note that winning Trolls! requires 3 hits on each troll and...

Troll bombs are collected in a few ways. 1. Complete the troll standup targets 8 more times before starting Trolls!. 2. Shoot a troll -> Merlin's or troll -> lock ricochet combo during Trolls!. 3. Random award from Merlin's Magic. The Multiball Madness rounds can be relit only once you've...

It's arguable whether this counts as a ROM bug, TPA bug, missing feature, or by design. If your score is over 10 billion, only the portion of it under 10 billion can be doubled by Skins!. I had racked up 12 billion total, and doubled it, only to find at the end of the game that TPA recognized...

I had both of these happen, on the PC version: I had the same, the regular ball disappearing into the captive area. Instead of calling the attendant, I played around trying to nudge the double captive balls into their bumpers. Never worked. But after about a minute of that, another ball...

I was last there about five years ago. It had a small arcade with some racing game or two, some claw machines, and a Ms Pac/Galaga. No pinball but Galaga occupied my time well enough.

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Ah yeah, I played that one a lot, into some #1 leaderboard spots. And recorded some gameplay. Here you go: Also one of me controlling both two-player ships at the same time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whIE7IYQLjY

The KO shots don't depend on the boxers, only on how many times you've previously KOed in the game. If you never KO through the first four boxers, then Steveo will go down to a simple jab-jab-KO. Save the KOs for the harder boxers or cash fights.

Yup, Bride is the easiest table in TPA to play forever. It's like a nuclear explosion, critical mass occurs when every neutron (extra ball) spawns on average more than one additional particle. Funhouse is the next most notorious table for that, though it can happen on any table that allows...

You can do that three times in a game, then the required ramp shot combos become too long to get them all in before the stopper drops. So if your goal is Ultimate Challenge, beat the first two boxers normally then cheese the other three. If your goal is a leaderboard high score, you'll need to...

I think it would be useful to detail how the score multiplier works, since the in-game instructions don't really cover it. The multiplier is increased by 1 by completing the F-I-N-I-S-H targets in the center of the table, maximum 8. It carries over between balls, so once it's maxed, it will...