Big treat for everyone in this edition of the Barcade. Norman Stepansky, audio director and producer at FarSight, sits down and discusses buying tables, audio quirks, Pinball After Dark, and more. Also Jared has tales of San Francisco, and Bonzo files a new Germany report, that somehow lasts...
Perhaps if I added pinballs with depleted-uranium cores to my two real machines, this statement would be true. Zen does many things well that FarSight does not, but physics is not one of them.
This. I own an AC/DC, which has a nearly identical playfield to T2 (compare the two online if you don't believe me), but of course AC/DC's ruleset is more complicated than rocket science.
It depends somewhat on the particular machine - drainy tables like Iron Man are usually have their tilts set somewhat more liberally than tables where players have a greater ability to control the ball - but in general most tournament machines will have tilts ranging from merely conservative to...
Problem: When you finish a game that has a secondary high score list (such as Medieval Madness's Castle/Joust/Peasant/Catapult/Damsel/Troll Champions, Twilight Zone's LITZ Champion, etc.), the score is not saved.
Solution: These scores are lost when the ROM is reset to its "known state" at the...
This is not an official forum; FarSight has no control over what gets posted or removed here, nor do they exert any influence on the moderation team. I can tell you that all six of the current and former moderators have posted things that likely made FarSight's management cringe, such as the...
For whatever reason, we've picked up an excessive number of polls in the last couple of days. These polls are clogging up the general discussion area, and members have been complaining that there are too many of them, so I've temporarily hidden them until the mod team can come to a consensus on...
You only have to change the actual Family Mode setting once. What you do have to do each time you fire up Scared Stiff is turn the operator mode itself back on, as it shuts itself off each time you exit the table.
If operator mode is on at all, goals are disqualified, so you can't play the...
Due to time constraints in Podcast #7, there was no LITZ, so if you wanted to submit a question and didn't yet, here's a second chance!
And thanks to all who have submitted questions already!
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