Baron Rubik
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As soon as it plays on the Shield, I'll be buying the non-tpa tables.
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Welcome Back to Digital Pinball Fans - please read this first
Stern Pinball Arcade available now in the Play Store, early thoughts
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- May 8, 2012
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Yep for sure.
Spork98765
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So, to add to the issue of why this bad marketing monstrosity should never have been a separate "collection" for mobile is made evident when you try it on Steam. But hey, maybe no-one thought about this, as the general consensus seems to be that double dipping is OK if they added a few new "lights" to something for a mobile app.
On mobile when you log in to your Farsight account it makes no effect on what is available in game, however, on Steam logging in will unlock all tables that you own as DLC in TPA. If you have anything as entitlements from FS you're just as screwed as if you are on mobile.
On mobile when you log in to your Farsight account it makes no effect on what is available in game, however, on Steam logging in will unlock all tables that you own as DLC in TPA. If you have anything as entitlements from FS you're just as screwed as if you are on mobile.
AnvilCloud
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Have you been able to log in on SPA? Last time I tried it sat there 5 minutes "connecting"
Spork98765
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Yes, I reconfirmed it by logging in on another device with TPA and SPA before making the post.
AnvilCloud
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One thing I like in SPA over TPA is the pure black backgrounds. Far better looking than the low res backgrounds used on TPA. Now that I said that, it will probably change sometime in the near future just to piss me off.
kinggo
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uhhhh.......... uninstalled
What a POS? FS, what's the point of releasing something in a state like this?
Portrait-landscape is broken. Game stays in orientation it was started forever.
Onscreen android buttons stay on forever.
Can't change sound volume on tablet as long as the game is active.
It takes forever for a table to start.
UI is...... Wait, what UI?
And worst of all, tables (tried just mustang and frankie) look the same as in TPA. Nothing new when it comes to visual presentation. Or at least nothing that seems like an obvious improvement.
What a POS? FS, what's the point of releasing something in a state like this?
Portrait-landscape is broken. Game stays in orientation it was started forever.
Onscreen android buttons stay on forever.
Can't change sound volume on tablet as long as the game is active.
It takes forever for a table to start.
UI is...... Wait, what UI?
And worst of all, tables (tried just mustang and frankie) look the same as in TPA. Nothing new when it comes to visual presentation. Or at least nothing that seems like an obvious improvement.
- May 8, 2012
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Everything you say is true for me as well, with the exception of load times, which are longer than TPA, but not intolerable for me.
The big problem perhaps is the lack of user feedback while tables load.
Could be the hardware I'm running, particularly the amount of RAM they have. 3GB is the recommended benchmark for the time being until they can get the game more performant.
If your device is not a 2016 device with 3GB of RAM, you may want to extensively try the Stern demo tables until you pull the trigger.
Apparently.
kinggo
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RAM is not an issue. Even when the game is running I still can open a few more apps, even FF with a couple of tabs and SPA still runs in the background. It's just that app is some prealpha v,0.000017.
Loading time is not that long, tolerable but still far longer than TPA. Performance is OK once the table starts. OK, ball bounces like crazy on Mustang but MSF is as good (or bad) as it is in TPA. It even looks the same
Loading time is not that long, tolerable but still far longer than TPA. Performance is OK once the table starts. OK, ball bounces like crazy on Mustang but MSF is as good (or bad) as it is in TPA. It even looks the same
- May 29, 2013
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That's fine and you have all rights not to buy it. But we know it by now, since you mentioned it in the last 3 of your 7 posts.
Kolchak357
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Since I don't see any difference in visual presentation comparing to TPA I would say that it will run on the same HW. After all, FS is known to support ancient HW far longer then manufacturers.
I know on iOS you need 1gb ram and must be running iOS 10. So that cut off some devices that TPA still supports. Don't know about Android though. So I can't help on that one.
EldarOfSuburbia
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Well it appears to run just fine on my Galaxy Tab S2, which is on Marshmallow. Except for the 4:3 aspect ratio cutting off the tips of the flippers in all the camera modes. Kinda like playing Tommy with the blinders on, but all the time....
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Stuzz
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This is incorrect.
I just got myself a cheap 7" tablet for Christmas. On the play store TPA is able to be downloaded (and runs perfectly well) but SPA says "Your device isn't compatible with this version".
Sad news for me, but great news for SPA that Farsight is finally leaving some hardware behind.
Stuzz
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Yep, had the same thought not long after my post. Have Android 5.0.1 right now. Anyone know what SPA requires?