Back up your scores/goals

[Gord Lacey]

If you have pba.dat, pba17362.dat and pba173624657.dat (as an example), you copy all those files to your desktop from the first iPad. Then you disconnect that, plug in the new iPad and copy all those files back to the new iPad in the same location.

Hope that helps.

 

[typh00n]

if you have a jailbroken device there is a very handy application called datadeposit, it will autonmatically backup your save game datas on an dropbox account so you can uninstall/reinstall and keep the cloud save or restore the data if you have lost them.
main problem with pinball arcade is about the tables as all tables are saved as user data so it will backup also all of your downloaded tables and it may require some time.

 

[MadScience2006]

New backup/restore funtion that actually works in TPA v1.2.4. See:

http://digitalpinballfans.com/showt...cal-high-scores-and-HOF-scores-across-devices

for more info.

 

[Sean]

I do wish they'd just add iCloud support for this already. Seems like a no-brainer, but I don't know how difficult it is to implement.

 

[Kevlar]

I do wish they'd just add iCloud support for this already. Seems like a no-brainer, but I don't know how difficult it is to implement.

What difference would that make over the current method? It's would just be backing up to an apple server instead of a farsight server wouldn't it?

 

[Sean]

I'm not thinking of using the existing system of manual backup/restore, but the scores living on a file in the cloud and some kind of automatic local sync to facilitate offline play.

If they do this with their own servers, fine, but iCloud should be more convenient for them I'd think.

 

[Extork]

Just be like me and complete all the goals and high scores over again. Worst advice ever

 

[Fungi]

Just be like me and complete all the goals and high scores over again. Worst advice ever

Yeah, I did this months ago. It wasn't 'til after that I remembered I got the Atlantis goal in RBION. I haven't been able to get it back since.

 

[DanBradford]

this doesn't seem to work any more, which is a shame as the leaderboards / HOF points / backup & restore machinery is all still broken.

i had the PBA files all saved on my laptop, but now it doesn't do anything to manually put them in the app, so i lost all my scores and points *again* while trying to move them all across to a borrowed ipad

 

[Kevlar]

this doesn't seem to work any more, which is a shame as the leaderboards / HOF points / backup & restore machinery is all still broken.

i had the PBA files all saved on my laptop, but now it doesn't do anything to manually put them in the app, so i lost all my scores and points *again* while trying to move them all across to a borrowed ipad

I haven't had any trouble with the backup and restore options, I did it a few times over the weekend what with swapping back and forth between 2 different betas and the retail version. I always backup to remote if that makes any difference.

 

[sotie]

I haven't had any trouble with the backup and restore options, I did it a few times over the weekend what with swapping back and forth between 2 different betas and the retail version. I always backup to remote if that makes any difference.

Me either. I save and restore remotely frequently as I switch play between my iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini. Always works. Occasionally, when I open the app the HOF points says 0. When it happens I kill the app and restart and then the points return to where they should be.

 

[DanBradford]

Well that's great for you all. But it does for me and I suspect I'm not the only one. Anyone?

 

[amblin23]

I had a strange glitch where all of the tables I loaded would only show the bottoms and legs of the tables and they were all mirror images left-to-right. When I tried to play a table they quickly froze and died. I figured it was more likely a problem with my old iphone4 than the app, so I backed up both locally and remotely, then deleted and reinstalled. When I restored my data, however, it must have restored someone else's goals, because many more goals were completed than I had done. But the table high scores were all correct. I'd rather start over with the goals since I didn't have many completed in the first place, is there a way to do that? Or is it possible that a logout/login will restore my goals correctly again?