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    Can't see right side of upper playfield when zoomed in portrait orientation

    On the Galaxy S4, there's a camera issue with Haunted House:when the camera zooms in on the upper playfield in portrait orientation, the right side of it extends offscreen and targets are not visible. Switching cameras doesn't seem to help.
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    Pinball Arcade better than real pinball?

    Real pinball machines are best if they're well-maintained and not broken. A neglected machine with weak flippers and half the switches out is not worth playing at all, and TPA is better than that. Real pinball is hard. By playing TPA you can get accustomed to a table's ruleset, but when you...
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    Well, that setting is either on or off. What the setting actually does could be another matter.
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    Does anyone out there want to see Jive Time in TPA?

    I found it weirdly addictive in Pinball Hall of Fame. I think the cruel, luck-heavy nature of it actually made it more addictive. If it came out in TPA I'd probably play it. But there are much better EMs out there. For that matter, Big Shot and Central Park are both better.
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    Interesting, very interesting. I wonder why!
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    Another possible clue: before I had this Galaxy S4, I had the T-Mo/Samsung "Sidekick 4G", not a real Danger OS Sidekick but a low-end Android handset (perpetually running Froyo) with a sliding screen and nice keyboard. On <i>that</i>, TPA would often hang on startup, sometimes hanging the phone...
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    OK, I have reproduced the problem! Or a problem of this sort. It happened after the Galaxy S4 had been running continuously for a couple of days of fairly heavy use. The phone got into a state in which The Pinball Arcade started stuttering quite a lot, with a very noticeable pause happening...
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    Thanks! I've messed around with TPA on a number of different Android devices, but the experience on the S4 is particularly slick. (The one major glitch I noticed happened when I switched out of the app in the middle of a game, without pausing it first; upon resuming, time seemed sped up by a...
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    So... I just got myself a Galaxy S4, and I can report that I'm not seeing any of these problems. I think I noticed a bit of a hiccup once. And The Pinball Arcade looks really good on that 5-inch OLED.
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    Where Do You Play Real World Pinball Tables?

    Hey, there's a place I know about that's not listed there (Academy Lanes, in the Ward Hill/Bradford area of Haverhill; they've got one pinball, which I think is currently a Stern Iron Man). Maybe I should add it.
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    Tilt ?!?!

    It does seem to me that Genie has a more sensitive tilt than some of the other tables. The lane below the bumper at the lower left of the playfield is vicious: it's difficult for me to convince the ball to go the right way without tilting. (I have no trouble believing that this is realistic. IRL...
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    Elvis, great table

    You know, I normally like Steve Ritchie tables, but I've never been able to get into this one for some reason. I think the one I've played (at Canobie Lake) isn't in the greatest shape.
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    First Wizard of Oz

    There's one of them at Pinball Wizard, but it's never been operating when I've been there--so far I've only seen it inert.
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    First impression

    Anyway, back to the topic at hand... I do really like this T2 table, which has all the hallmarks of a Steve Ritchie classic, and it's not one that I was ever a big fan of in real life (I confess, I didn't contribute to the Kickstarter). I might have to go back and give the real thing a try...
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    First impression

    I think it's pretty goofy when they do it, too. The Black Hole is such a weird movie: it feels like the product of a committee, half dark horror-flavored SF and half kiddie adventure, with that strange ending tacked on. I get the impression that that's exactly what it was: Disney was feeling...
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    re-themeing some of the best pins that are impossible to get licencing, good or bad?

    I'd be against this for the case of The Addams Family: so much of that table's appeal comes from the theme, and specifically from Raul Julia's voice acting, that a rethemed table would be less worth pursuing than licenses that Farsight can actually get. If someone else wants to make a generic...
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    Bug Steam - Achievements: "Theature [sic] High Score"

    Was it a bug or a theature?
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    Pinball Wizard Arcade's Next Pins

    Great! I haven't seen the WOZ actually operating yet. My kid (huge Oz fan) is itching to play it.
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    Run you clever boy!(doctor who series 7)

    They cleverly dropped another major hint by sticking John Hurt's cameo from "The Name of the Doctor" in the sequence.
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    Flubber and Teflon

    I've never played Black Hole in real life, so I can't speak to the accuracy. But it's weird: when I first got TPA, Black Hole was sort of the also-ran of the core pack, but now it's by far my favorite of the four, the only one I come back to over and over. I think much of this is down to the...

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