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Safecracker Tokens?
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Wow, really? The board game is awesome and I've already earned (and spent) two tokens during two play sessions. Assault on the Vault is a neat multiball mayhem mode but I imagine it could get old if they didn't make it a special reward.
May I ask what you don't like about this game? Wizard goals? board game mechanic? Tokens?
Based on the quality of that guy's posts (not StarDust4Ever's posts just to clarify), and the consistent theme of them, I think he hates everything about TPA and pinball.
I would ignore.
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They are tracking state somehow. ROM state must be reset after each play, but the token collection module is separate to the ROM state.
How would tokens earned carry over session to session otherwise?
StarDust4Ever
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Technically IRL, ROM state has nothing to do with the tokens remaining in the holding area and the CPU has no control over the order that they are dispensed. I am curious if TPA keeps inventory of the remaining tokens inside the tray. One way to determine this is to manually take inventory of every token received for 200 or 400 token dispense events, without spending a single token, and count the exact numbers of each token received and compare that to the contents of an official restock. If properly emulated, the token count after 200 or 400 tokens should match the official set. This would be the equivalent of counting cards on a game of video poker.
Additionally, the tray will become empty after either 200 or 400 dispenses barring a restock, and the game will fail to dispense tokens (because there will be none left) until you actually spend some of your hoard. Meaning if the operator put in exactly 200 or 400 tokens in, you should get the exact same 200 or 400 tokens out. Otherwise you are playing the lottery trying to win them all...
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Gus
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Well done Mad07, grats and thanks for confirming it is possible!
Dedpop
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Which one is your serious question ?
StarDust4Ever
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Man, I need to get crackin'
Fungi
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Man, I need to get crackin'
At least get crackin' before HS2 releases, 'cause I know where my time's gonna be spent when that happens.
StarDust4Ever
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HS2 hail yeah!
MadScience2006
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I haven't heard this mentioned yet (if so, sorry...I couldn't find it) but the Magic Credits and those in your actual Magic Token Collection (26 tokens) are not being synced between different devices, despite them all being on the same Farsight/TPA account. I play on my iPad mini 2 mostly and all scores, Hall of Fame scores, Wizard Goals etc are happily synced to my FS account & to my iPad Air 2 & iPhone 5s (all on the same FS account). The Magic Credits & Magic Token Collection are device specific as far as I can tell.
If the Magic Credits & Token Collections are not being synced between devices on the same FS account, how it this going to affect the Wizard Goals on Safe Cracker since one of the Wizard Goals is based on collecting all 26 Magic Tokens? Everything else is being synced.
Or maybe this is an iOS issue?
If the Magic Credits & Token Collections are not being synced between devices on the same FS account, how it this going to affect the Wizard Goals on Safe Cracker since one of the Wizard Goals is based on collecting all 26 Magic Tokens? Everything else is being synced.
Or maybe this is an iOS issue?
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Fungi
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You just blew my mind.
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MadScience2006
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Well, with that remark, I can't tell if I said something incredibly stupid or not.
Having a 9 year old kid just starting 4th grade under "Common Core", my brain is like styrofoam so maybe that's the issue?
Fungi
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Not.
MadScience2006
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Thank God I still have some of my brain intact then.