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One step forward and two steps back with latest 1.21 patch..... Like usual...
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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 268316" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>The retuning is in an effort to make the tables more authentic to how they really are. FarSight used to talk about having 'tournament settings' as an option, but they never went anywhere with that.</p><p></p><p>The leaderboards, well that's something of a sticking point. I've argued they should be wiped and reset annually, or at least when a significant tuning has taken place. There are those at FarSight that agree with me, and those that worry of the blowback from people who make it a point to live at the top of those boards. In the entire history of the game, they've not been reset once.</p><p></p><p>Any time you open the coin door in TPA, it turns off the leaderboards and achievements. FarSight has no way of tracking what it is you are doing with those settings, so it universally assumes you are altering the play of the game. We have asked for a toggle outside the coin door that would allow us to turn on and off family mode specifically for a table like Elvira, but no go.</p><p></p><p>A lot of this and in general how the 'game' understands what is going on with the table itself comes down to the fact that there is the TPA program with which you interface and then once the table is running, the ROM emulation. When you get a standard or wizard goal on the table, it is a FarSight overlay triggering when a certain audio prompt or score is met. It is not looking at the ROM or even what the ball is doing to get triggered. It's an artificial overlay, which is why sometimes the goals don't get triggered when say there is multiple audio callouts happening instead of just the one that the goal needs. FarSight is not able to write code into the ROM, unlike Zen who has complete control over their tables.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 268316, member: 134"] The retuning is in an effort to make the tables more authentic to how they really are. FarSight used to talk about having 'tournament settings' as an option, but they never went anywhere with that. The leaderboards, well that's something of a sticking point. I've argued they should be wiped and reset annually, or at least when a significant tuning has taken place. There are those at FarSight that agree with me, and those that worry of the blowback from people who make it a point to live at the top of those boards. In the entire history of the game, they've not been reset once. Any time you open the coin door in TPA, it turns off the leaderboards and achievements. FarSight has no way of tracking what it is you are doing with those settings, so it universally assumes you are altering the play of the game. We have asked for a toggle outside the coin door that would allow us to turn on and off family mode specifically for a table like Elvira, but no go. A lot of this and in general how the 'game' understands what is going on with the table itself comes down to the fact that there is the TPA program with which you interface and then once the table is running, the ROM emulation. When you get a standard or wizard goal on the table, it is a FarSight overlay triggering when a certain audio prompt or score is met. It is not looking at the ROM or even what the ball is doing to get triggered. It's an artificial overlay, which is why sometimes the goals don't get triggered when say there is multiple audio callouts happening instead of just the one that the goal needs. FarSight is not able to write code into the ROM, unlike Zen who has complete control over their tables. [/QUOTE]
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