/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7808570]

has there ever been a /vr/ pinball thread?

[Anonymous No.7808578]

[Anonymous No.7808658]

>>7808570
There used to be, but they died out.

[Anonymous No.7808668]

>>7808570
Lots. Welcome

[Anonymous No.7808685]

>>7808570
>Super Pinball: Behind the Mask
Huge negative emotional aura to that one. Cursed game, please do not discuss.

[Anonymous No.7808692]

>>7808685
it's a weird shitty game. i've had the cart for years.

[Anonymous No.7808710]

>>7808570
Yes, there's even been a /pin/ general at times, but interest and activity seems to wax and wane, haven't seen one in maybe a year.

[Anonymous No.7809542]

Yes and I try to brag about my world record (tm) in Shrek in all of them

[Anonymous No.7809552]

I used to make many of those pinball threads, but with the rule change the board became too fast and they archived in two days.

>>7809542
Which town was this pinball in?

[Anonymous No.7809558]

[Anonymous No.7809565]

How to find pinball and pinball tournaments in your area:
US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Finland, London
https://pinballmap.com/
Worldwide:
https://pinside.com/pinball/map
Europe:
https://findapinball.com/en/

Tournaments:
Depending on where you live, there may be a facebook group for players in your area.
You can also find tournaments near you here:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/

Pinball Simulators that will give you a free virtual pin or two as a sample:
Pinball Fx 3 (Sorcerer's Lair, Fish Tales)
Zaccaria (Time Machine)
Pinball Arcade (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
Stern Pinball Arcade (Also Frankenstein)
There's also Visual Pinball, which is a freeware pinball simulator.

How to become Good at Pinball (wholly optional):
https://www.deadflip.com/tutorials/ (techniques in gif form)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-WQLGFMr97DnxeE1Rmi-wAwa-Vm7D-7i

[Anonymous No.7809579]

>>7808692
It's not shitty

[Anonymous No.7809762]

>>7809558
I downloaded this but It won't work.

What filetype does retroarch pcsx accept? My rom was a bunch of tracks and a .cue file

[Anonymous No.7809789]

>>7809762
i checked the documentation and it said it accepts bin/cue i never used pcsx though i use beetle psx with .chd files

[Anonymous No.7809802]

>>7809762
It doesn't work on pcsx full stop, most ps1 pinball games don't. you need to use beetle or duckstation.

[Anonymous No.7809845]

>>7808578
Awful fucking port

>>7808692
Bullshit it's great

Pic related is the best tho

[Anonymous No.7809864]

Tempting the fates

[Anonymous No.7809883]

>>7809845
Absolutely. Mean Machines is incredible.

[Anonymous No.7809953]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwTbciizHIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4maoo4A3x4

nice rip off

[Anonymous No.7810005]

Best 8-bit and 16-bit pinball console games? Tables are rare as fuck in my country because you need a gambling license to house them in establishments, Space Cadet is pretty groovy, but I want more options.

[Anonymous No.7810026]

>>7810005
Naxat pinball games, 21st centurys pinball games on amiga, the rareware pinball games on nes (high speed and pinbot) and the majority of the ones made by nintendo.

but if you want the authentic pinball experience try Visual Pinball, it's the closest thing to a pinball emulator there is.

[Anonymous No.7810092]

>>7810005
Psycho Pinball on genesis is also pretty rad.

[Anonymous No.7810259]

>>7808570
Yes. They just don't happen as often as a lot of other threads.

[Anonymous No.7810382]

>>7810005
Check out the few on Saturn

[Anonymous No.7810636]

Keith Elwin
Eric Meunier
Steve Ritchie
and for code:
Keith Johnson
The greatest minds in pinball.
George Gomez is good too.

[Anonymous No.7810695]

>>7808570
The wizard theme is amazing in this game. I feel like this game walked so Necronomicon could run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwTbciizHIQ

[Anonymous No.7810702]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6bPyYPAKmo
DON'T GET ME WRONNNNNG

I'm genuinely wondering if these two arcade games even physically exist anywhere anymore.

[Anonymous No.7810707]

More neat arcade digital pins

1985 Pinball Action, not to be confused with 1991's Super Pinball Action, which has one of those "undress the waifu" mechanics to it.

[Anonymous No.7810727]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCQZa32lz8
Most of these are awesome, except Grand Cross, man I hated that one.

I've yet to see physical cabinets of any of these pins, there really aren't a lot of people who seem to care about arcade video pins.

[Anonymous No.7810992]

>>7810636
>no Pat Lawlor
>no John Trudeau

[Anonymous No.7811458]

Is there an up to date all in one VPX torrent or collection or something?

Any time I've ever tried to get VPX setup it's been a torture installing and configurations and files and patches and roms and just a huge hassle.

Surely there's a zip you can grab, unzip, everything's there with 200 tables. That isn't 6 years old?

[Anonymous No.7811569]

>>7810727
They would have had to compete with actual pinball machines, who would want to play pin bot on a playchoice 10 if you could just play it for real at the arcade?

[Anonymous No.7811717]

I thoroughly enjoyed the "crush/crash" pinball games. Especially Devil's crush

[Anonymous No.7813042]

>>7809552
Lyon in France, in the biggest bowling in town

[Anonymous No.7813445]

[Anonymous No.7813502]

>>7810695
Necronomicon is truly an achievement for the genre. An absolute rush to play.

[Anonymous No.7814048]

>>7813042
I see. There's also one in Lille so I figured I might know you from that place.

[Anonymous No.7814103]

My job is to post Timeshock in this thread. The recent high-def Steam remaster is recommended. I flip my monitor and play at 1440x2560, it's gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.7815414]

Has anyone ever gotten multi ball to work on this? I follow the table rules on tables but I've never gotten multi ball to trigger on any of them.

[Anonymous No.7815505]

>>7808685
fuck you, Super Pinball was ace. A bit repetitive since every table did the same shit, but that's true for most Pinball games. The music was also aces.

You check out its Saturn sequel, Digital Pinball Necronomicon. It's the same shit but in 5x the resolution, Lovecraft based tables, and prog metal music (featuring John Petrucci of Dream Theater).

[Anonymous No.7815521]

>>7808578
This played fine, but what they did to the music on the SNES port was a war crime. Imagine a tracker song with every single sample reduced to 1/10th the sample rate. Only one of the tracks sounded fine, because it was a menu song (so no sound effects to take memory) and the amiga original samples fit into the SNES sound ram.

I still listen to the amiga originals music, especially the Stones N Bones table and the Steelchambers title song. Some guy remixed the title song to use the original quality Roland samples, it sounds so much clearer:
https://www.remix64.com/track/saga-musix/pinball-fantasies-steelchambers2-hq-remake/

[Anonymous No.7816880]

>>7808570
I bought one of those arcade 1up pinballs. It's fun.