EAB/Lemon Super League 2010: Round 8 - Pinball Illusions

[blade002]

No luck, disk 1 worked at first and got to the bit where all the donuts are spinning around in a dance then i pressed F1 to load a table only to find that it asked for disk 2 and that disk is completely stuffed! (mind you, i could only find disks 1, 2 & 4), so i then i tried to reload disk 1 in an effort to choose a different table that may ask for disk 4 but to no avail because disk 1 then developed a bad block

Sorry Mailman, these disks are old and i was hoping they would still be ok, but alas they are not. But i KNOW there is a version out there that does everything it is supposed to! I "had" that version but i do no longer.

[Retroplay]

Law'N Justice

284,351,060

BabeWatch

217,227,240

Extreme Sports

287,220,000

Total Score
788,798,300

[mailman]

Small improvement on table 1. No changes in the second and third table.

Table 1: 491,464,880
Table 2: 574,139,620
Table 3: 458,570,940

Total: 1,524,175,440

[skateblind]

221,917,730---155,752,180---302,731,000

Total: 680,400,910

Better score, but I still stay where I am in the rankings.
Only 1.7 million behind graham though, so watch your back mate.

[mailman]

@skateblind

1.3 to be precise

[Graham Humphrey]

Shame we can't deduct points for being crap at maths

[skateblind]

Ahem...

Edit:

348,842,570---393,974,800---315,496,000


Total: 1,058,313,370

[capehorn]

I've played A LOT of Fantasies and Dreams, but never really spent any time on this game until last week. Interestingly, it seems from the screenshots that everyone plays in lo-res mode.

971,561,620, 545,482,350, 265,018,000 = 1,782,061,970

[mailman]

Originally Posted by capehorn

Interestingly, it seems from the screenshots that everyone plays in lo-res mode.

Not everyone. I discovered that playing in hi-res the ball acts more naturally. When playing in lo-res I am sometimes able to shoot the ball to the back of the flipper which in natural conditions is not even close to be possible.

[Anakirob]

Considering all the votes this game recieved I was expecting to see a bit more wizadry. Nobody else has even cracked a billion points on ANY of the tables! You are all not going to like the scores I am going to post in a couple of days =)

[Graham Humphrey]

Extreme Sports: 440,953,000

Total: 1,004,424,100

[capehorn]

I just can't get a big score on Extreme Sports table. I think there may be a problem with the version I am using, even though it is the same one posted in the top of the thread.

Whenever I activate the Extreme Feature, the feature runs out of time very fast. I think I remember the few times I played this table years ago that you keep hitting ramps and the sport moves up from dull ones like chess and bowling to extreme ones like bungee jumping (I can't remember an actual one). But using this version I find even if I hit the ramps with regularity, I only get up to the fourth or five sport before the feature ends. I am sure I have also had ~30 seconds remaining before and have had the feature suddenly end abruptly for no reason I can work out. Has anyone else had this? How is that feature supposed to work? You get 30 seconds don't you? Is there a reason the time would run out faster than that?

Edit: It's just happened again. I have 30 seconds left, I hit a ramp, and then I only have 5 seconds left which makes it impossible. I have a savestate proving this...

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by capehorn

I think there may be a problem with the version I am using, even though it is the same one posted in the top of the thread.

Are you using the ADFs? If so I've no idea if there are problems with them or not - I only really test them to make sure they actually load, it's not really feasible for me to check if the games work without bugs and so on, particularly for a game I don't know very much about - so I wouldn't necessarily assume that the version linked to in this thread is a fully-working copy.

[capehorn]

Yes, the ADFs from the first post. Can anyone else confirm they have had this happen?

I've never been able to get hard drives/WHDLoad to work on WinUAE, although I'll be having a go over the summer so I can play some of these Chaos Constructed Levels.

[john4p]

These are the alternative ADFs:

Disk 1
Disk 2
Disk 3
Disk 4

[TCD]

They are still marked with [b] (bad) in the latest TOSEC dat, so I guess that's not really an option

[john4p]

Ah, okay. Didn't know [b] means bad.

[Simmo76]

After meaning to do so all week, I finally got around to checking the Pinball Illusions ADFs that I have on my Xbox...
I am utterly useless at this game, so won't even think about posting my scores(!) but I did eventually manage to activate multiball (on the Babewatch table) and Hi-res mode activated all by itself - just as I remember all those years ago! What it did NOT do however, was switch back to lo-res mode once multiball was over (very quickly).

Initially I was going to post this for Mailman and Blade (re comments made earlier in this post), but reading that capehorn is struggling with his version of the ADFs I thought this may be of interest to others too?

I have no idea what 'set' of disc these are, as the Xbox cannot cope with long filenames and so these would've been renamed (possibly by me) some years ago (sorry).

This is what I do know though:
There are 4 ADFs - called Pillus-1, Pillus-2, Pillus-3 & Pillus-4.
They initially load up a cracking screen/intro by Paradox.
The game runs at 50fps (PAL?) - Don't know if this is relevant or not?

I am more than happy to upload these if anyone thinks they may be rare/unusual, although I realise that this is highly unlikely.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Simmo76

There are 4 ADFs - called Pillus-1, Pillus-2, Pillus-3 & Pillus-4.
They initially load up a cracking screen/intro by Paradox.

The '[cr PDX]' bit in the filename of the downloads in the first post means 'cracked by Paradox'

[Simmo76]

Ah, ok. I cannot access the links at the moment (I'm at work and they're all blocked), so couldn't see that... Cheers.