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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WilliamPorygon" data-source="post: 5683" data-attributes="member: 386"><a href="http://papa.org/blog/games-of-the-week/tales-of-the-arabian-nights-haremgenie-battle/" target="_blank">This video</a> pretty much explains the Harem/Genie Battle glitch.  I don't know what ROM version the Pinball Arcade version uses (I'd think it would be the last revision but who knows) or whether it works in PA or not as I haven't actually tried it.However, you definitely can stack lightning lamp with the genie battle (also mentioned towards the end of the above video), and if you don't lose your ball and keep the lightning lamp from timing out during the skeleton phase, the lightning lamp will stay active until the genie battle ends regardless of how long it goes between spins.  Like in the harem/battle situation, the lightning lamp animation supersedes the genie battle animation so it can be tricky to tell if you're close to winning or losing at times, but if you've gotten good enough at doing the genie battle you can keep racking up ridiculous points essentially risk-free just about forever.(FWIW, even with no special modes stacked on the genie battle you still get standard points for stuff you hit during the genie battle, at least in the ROM version Pinball Arcade uses.  So if you're good enough that you can drag the genie battle out for a long time, you can still get tens or even hundreds of millions of points beyond the 20M rescue bonus.)[EDIT:  I can confirm now, the harem/genie battle stack <a href="http://youtu.be/OWvIDt4lAZM" target="_blank">can be done on Pinball Arcade.</a>]</blockquote>

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