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I must be missing something in the PC version. How do you change the interface to that one?
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Stopped by SS Billiards today and the Big Bang Bar was on. Only played a single game, but liked it a fair amount. Absolutely no idea what I was doing, but whatever. For a buck a game I didn't really feel like trying to find out. Crappy cell phone pics ahoy!  An awful attempt at taking a picture of the dancer girl.   
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I'm surprised they dare having a BBB on location considering the rarity and value of the machines. I personally enjoy the game, it's a pity the rules never got finished.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:31
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The website says they only bring it out for special events. Is it one of the reproductions or an original? Even the repros sell for $20,000.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:37
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I feel dumb. I asked the owner about it a previous time that I was there when it wasn't on, and I can't remember if he said it was a repro (I assume) or one of the stupidly rare originals. Edit - didn't realize the repros had their own IPDB page. The one at SS Billiards is actually an original. No numbered plaque near the flipper, anyway. And the photos on the original's IPDB entry are from SS Billiards itself. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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Jun 15, 2014 17:23
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What happened? why is it so rare?
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Jun 15, 2014 18:19
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Squashy Nipples posted:What happened? why is it so rare? There's a pretty good rundown of the story here: http://www.flippers.be/pinball/capcom/bigbangbar/bigbangbar.html
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Jun 15, 2014 18:29
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Ben Heck is selling his Bill Paxton Pinball machine if anyone's interested. http://pinside.com/pinball/market/ad/13079
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Luigi Thirty posted:The website says they only bring it out for special events. Is it one of the reproductions or an original? Even the repros sell for $20,000. It's out everytime I've been there, and turned off once in a while. I don't even think the guy that runs SS owns it, a lot of his games are loaned by other people.
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MarxCarl posted:Ben Heck is selling his Bill Paxton Pinball machine if anyone's interested. I had no idea Ben Heck made that. I always figured it was something Bill commissioned for himself. 
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roffels posted:It's out everytime I've been there, and turned off once in a while. I don't even think the guy that runs SS owns it, a lot of his games are loaned by other people. He doesn't own it - that much I know for sure. Note to Roffels - he mentioned a private pinball circus of sorts for donators to the renovation - Sunday July 27th. I assume he has a way of contacting everyone.
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Zen just announced that a Deadpool single table will be dropping next week. I've always enjoyed their Marvel tables, so I might give this one a shot.
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Tony Phillips posted:He doesn't own it - that much I know for sure. I might make it. I only donated 5-10 bucks or some other little amount though. Honestly, I'm just looking forward to the place being cleaned up, and if we're lucky, a little money put in to fix up the machines he has there. Sidenote, being known as the pinball guy at work has lead me to a free machine, Bally's Mystic. I haven't picked it up yet, but I'm imagining a worst case scenario, because I'm told the key to the backbox is missing and the game doesn't work. Still, free pinball!
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Steam sale, and TPA packs are actually on sale. Season One packs 25% off at $22.50 / $30 Season Two packs 10% off at $27 / $36 And it looks like all FX2 tables are 50% off right now as well. There's always the chance that these could end up as daily deals, meaning you shouldn't buy them yet, but who knows. If you've been waiting to pick any of them up - wait till the end of the sale and go nuts. 
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Jun 19, 2014 21:40
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Last sale had every Pinball FX table except the newest one at the time (Dr Strange?) going down to 75% off as a Flash sale, so DON'T FLIP
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Lone Goat posted:Last sale had every Pinball FX table except the newest one at the time (Dr Strange?) going down to 75% off as a Flash sale, so DON'T FLIP GO FOR THE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL
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Pinball Arcade posted:Hey Everyone! Steam Summer Sale is on and Pinball Arcade is offering some sweet discounts! 25% off Season One and 10% off Season Two!!!
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#1 Cue Ball Wizard  Pretty happy about that. Also super happy that they a) fixed friend leaderboards on steam and b) looks like leaderboards no longer crash the game at least as often when browsing. Time to start grinding out since they finally got that poo poo sorted. e: Actually forgot to bitch about something that really bugs me so going to do that as well. I had to cut off my CBW run short because there's no way of knowing whether a certain table records scores past an overflow. I learned my lessons after the hours and hours of grinding 15B or whatever on Tee'd Off and not getting the score registered. I mean ideally I guess I shouldn't care since I know my score, but I do like to have some friends list competition in the game and tables randomly not scoring properly kind of ruins that. Nurge fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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Nurge posted:e: Actually forgot to bitch about something that really bugs me so going to do that as well. I had to cut off my CBW run short because there's no way of knowing whether a certain table records scores past an overflow. I learned my lessons after the hours and hours of grinding 15B or whatever on Tee'd Off and not getting the score registered. I mean ideally I guess I shouldn't care since I know my score, but I do like to have some friends list competition in the game and tables randomly not scoring properly kind of ruins that. And of course, some of them do record it when you roll the score. It's dumb. Wait. It's dumber. I've rolled some, and had my real score register on the overall leaderboards, but not on my local high scores list. Maximum Farsight. Edit - and congrats on #1 cueball. Multiple 500 million shots I assume? Nurge posted:Not as many as I was expecting. Maybe five or six total. The table is really repetitive, but it does have scoring avenues beyond just that shot, which is pretty cool. Yeah - it's a big shot, but not like the billion point shot on Bride of Pinbot. Last I checked, my score was in the 50s on the boards and I only collected it once - making up around a quarter of my points. Underrated table, I think. Repetitive, but at least entertaining for a Gottlieb. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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Tony Phillips posted:And of course, some of them do record it when you roll the score. It's dumb. Not as many as I was expecting. Maybe five or six total. The table is really repetitive, but it does have scoring avenues beyond just that shot, which is pretty cool.
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Southern-Fried Gaming Expo finals from Atlanta. http://www.twitch.tv/papatvpinball
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Sloane posted:Good time to get your friends to try TPA! Does that 1 cent come out of your Steam wallet?
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Found a well maintained Premier Nightmare from Elm Street in a pizza place in Michigan. I have no idea what the rules of that table are. Seemed to do everything by itself. I got the #2 high score and 3 free games but I have no idea how. So it's a Premier.
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iastudent posted:Southern-Fried Gaming Expo finals from Atlanta. Spent my entire day at this event yesterday, it was tons of fun. I'm pretty new to the pinball hobby, but it was really cool to see a lot of the really popular machines in person. Even got to play that Big Bang Bar game you guys were talking about earlier. Pinball Arcade made me complacent, the real thing is MUCH harder. There were tons of people, so I hope they have another expo next year.
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Call Me Charlie posted:Does that 1 cent come out of your Steam wallet?
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Sloane posted:Good time to get your friends to try TPA! I got suckered in by this. Now I want more tables but even on sale this stuff is kinda pricy. Really hope there's a flash sale or something for one or more of the seasons. The T2 demo was fukken rad, but I hit the scoring limit for it way too quick.
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Darke GBF posted:I got suckered in by this. Now I want more tables but even on sale this stuff is kinda pricy. Really hope there's a flash sale or something for one or more of the seasons. The T2 demo was fukken rad, but I hit the scoring limit for it way too quick. Chances are there are some pretty strict limits on how high they can discount due to the licensing royalties malarkey they have going on with various companies. Still, if you're looking at buying tables it's worth waiting till the last day of the sale just in case, as always.
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Small progress update on the virtual cab. Front buttons mounted and you can see under the rear legs the furniture mover rollers I picked up cheap at Harbor Freight so I can move it around a little easier.  Close up, Start/Extra Ball/Extra buttons counter sunk. Decided not to move my digital plunger over and just going with Launch Ball button.  Back box brackets installed and flipper buttons installed. They will have an RGB LED board attached to the flippers so they can change colors and whatnot depending on the table.  Close up of the flipper with RGB board which is sitting on the shelf I put in the back that will eventually hold the computer and slides out the back of the cab through an access panel.  Trying to score a coin door off of ebay so I can get that put in. Next parts to order are probably cooling fans since that's about the last stuff I need to cut out of the actual cab.
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Man that looks really really amazing.
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Wait, what is that last picture of? I see a leaf switch, and a standard arcade button for some reason, but how does it all go together?
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I picked up a free table, Bally's Mystic, from 1980. The good: Immaculate mirrored backglass and a playfield in pretty drat good shape, protected by Mylar. The bad: It doesn't do much besides power on the lights and right now, it had rotting rubber, the leg levelers are rusted in place and really short, and it has a broken drop target. I'm excited to get it going though. The boards inside look good, though I saw a busted diode leg on the MPU. I'm hoping the main problem is the power rectifier, and that reconditioning that might bring this back to life (there were a few fuses blown - there and under the playfield for the solenoids) I'm hopeful that it will take less than 100 bucks and a few hours of time go get it going.  
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Deadpool came out for FX2 today and I've been playing it a bit this evening. It has two upper flippers and a behind-the-flipper shot for each one, which got me wondering, was there a behind-the-flipper shot on any pin before (RL, not Zen) Spiderman, or was that the first one? Hurf durf, Twilight Zone! A little bit different but close enough. Any before that one? breaks fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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breaks posted:Deadpool came out for FX2 today and I've been playing it a bit this evening. It has two upper flippers and a behind-the-flipper shot for each one, which got me wondering, was there a behind-the-flipper shot on any pin before (RL, not Zen) Spiderman, or was that the first one? Technically the TZ one probably doesn't even count because the shot is doable without raising the flipper. It just makes it a lot easier. I can't think of other old ones offhand, but I'm pretty far from being an expert on table mechanics.
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I recently got really interested in pinball and I've been playing a lot of Pinball Arcade, I've been wanting to play real machines for a while but I live in a shithole where pinball machines never existed  Anyone have tips for Big Shot? I just can't seem to be able to keep control of the ball after any shots and the ball likes to go out the left outlane at the speed of loving light.
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Highblood posted:I recently got really interested in pinball and I've been playing a lot of Pinball Arcade, I've been wanting to play real machines for a while but I live in a shithole where pinball machines never existed Big Shot is sort of interesting as a table since you can't really guarantee safety ever, and also the reason why it's probably my favourite table in the entire game. My best advice is to play a lot and learn which things you hit lead to which trajectories generally speaking, and prepare to nudge a lot if it's a risky shot. Practically speaking hitting the lower 8 whenever you can is useful since it opens up the right outlane saver, but it's only easily doable when certain targets on the right bank are still up. Also getting control of the ball between shots whenever possible is very useful since it keeps the speed down at least somewhat so you may have enough time to react. Also, only concentrate on the left or the right bank when playing till you get the first bonus collect/extra ball per ball. When you've finished a rack and go for the collect/extra ball target backhanding the target is usually a fair amount safer, although it can be slightly easier to hit from the forehand. Lastly, learn to lean on the nudge a lot, you'll really need it on the table. The most important thing to nudge on the table usually is making sure the ball never hits the outside top of the slingshot. That's pretty much guaranteed drain and you have to react to a trajectory there pretty early to get the ball to move in time. Also, high five pinball lacking country dude. e: #1 Junkyard
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Saw this news article; thought of this thread. Oakland to decriminalize pinball
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prefect posted:Saw this news article; thought of this thread. Great, now the devil machines are going to corrupt our youth again.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Found a well maintained Premier Nightmare from Elm Street in a pizza place in Michigan. I have no idea what the rules of that table are. Seemed to do everything by itself. I got the #2 high score and 3 free games but I have no idea how. So it's a Premier. I played this a ton as a kid. I never really knew the rules either, but it was incredibly easy to get free credits, which is probably why I played it a ton
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I bought the one cent bundle for Pinball Arcade, it's been pretty enjoyable but I've been really wanting to play some of the tables from Season 1. Is it worth getting? I kind of get the feeling that it won't go any lower, but I'll still wait until the last day; though it's probably already a miracle that farsight bothered to discount any of their stuff.
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