High Scores are Bogus...

[Meto]

I just played the game of my life on Arabian nights and scored over 250 million while playing on my phone. Then I check the leader board thinking I must be up there a ways and see the leader has 7 Billion points? No way... obviously a cheater

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

I just played the game of my life on Arabian nights and scored over 250 million while playing on my phone. Then I check the leader board thinking I must be up there a ways and see the leader has 7 Billion points? No way... obviously a cheater

Probably, but perhaps not in the way you're thinking. There's a known issue in the table itself that enables billion-plus scoring, and it's been successfully replicated in TPA.

Tables of the Arabian Nights - Harem Multiball Genie Battle Exploit

 

[shutyertrap]

Interesting video. Certainly seems to take some work to get the table set up for that kind of scoring, so at least its not a super easy exploit. Always makes me wonder how long it takes some of these people to get those scores, with or without exploits.

 

[spoonman]

I bet some people are benefiting from this glitch without realizing it too.
Just as with the Monster Bash nudge glitch (though that was a TPA error).

So was there not a ROM revision that fixed this for TOTAN?
And if so, why didn't Farsight use the fixed version?

 

[Matt McIrvin]

Interesting video. Certainly seems to take some work to get the table set up for that kind of scoring, so at least its not a super easy exploit. Always makes me wonder how long it takes some of these people to get those scores, with or without exploits.

Besides which, Harem Multiball seems to be particularly hard to get in TPA...

 

[Richard B]

I bet some people are benefiting from this glitch without realizing it too.
Just as with the Monster Bash nudge glitch (though that was a TPA error).

So was there not a ROM revision that fixed this for TOTAN?
And if so, why didn't Farsight use the fixed version?

Their goal is to reproduce the tables to as close to reality as possible (except for the Roger Sharpe crap). Since this was in the original game, it has been recreated in TPA as well. There were no official ROM revisions that I know of, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were some unofficial hacks.

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

So was there not a ROM revision that fixed this for TOTAN? And if so, why didn't Farsight use the fixed version?

It was never fixed in any of the official ROMs.

 

[Metalzoic]

(except for the Roger Sharpe crap).

What?

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

Apparently Roger Sharpe requested that FarSight make the TPA tables slightly easier than their real-world counterparts:

http://digitalpinballfans.com/showt...e-tables-easier!?p=33376&viewfull=1#post33376