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[winkdot]

To me it seems like the flippers need some work.....especially when both are hit at the same time. Its like they both will not respond when pressed at the same time - its either left OR right and not both.

Hey Arenafoot. If the left difficulty is set to A, the joystick up which fires both flippers is disabled. If set to B, joystick left = left flipper, joystick right = right flipper and joystick up fires both flippers. B is the easier choice. Think that's what you are seeing?  

[Arenafoot]

Hey Arenafoot. If the left difficulty is set to A, the joystick up which fires both flippers is disabled. If set to B, joystick left = left flipper, joystick right = right flipper and joystick up fires both flippers. B is the easier choice. Think that's what you are seeing?  

That was the trick......before I'd get 20k now I just got over 60k!!!

[winkdot]

So has anyone found the easter egg in Alien Pinball?

[Mountain King]

Sadly, no. This gives me an excuse to play it some more.

[save2600]

So has anyone found the easter egg in Alien Pinball?

 

I tend to want to stay away from eggs in Alien games.  

 

[winkdot]

Alien Pinball release 0.8 (see first post).

 

This is a maintenance release with some optimization. If you use a harmony cart. This one is for you.

 

Let me know if you run into issues.

[SpiceWare]

During the game play it's stable.  There's minor jitter during screen changes.

[winkdot]

A youtube lets play of Alien Pinball:

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Missed this one until now. Good job!

[sramirez2008]

Missed it too.  Looks cool. Can't wait to play it later this week.

[Papa]

 

Fun!  Thanks for this one.

[Tangentg]

I thought it was pretty good despite what you said about it not resembling pinball I thought it was pinball-like enough... Though the ball seems to keep passing through the thing at the centre from both directions... I'm probably missing something though.

[winkdot]

Glad you like it. Make sure you have the latest version... alien-pinball-08.bin. 

[neotokeo2001]

Glad you like it. Make sure you have the latest version... alien-pinball-08.bin. 

 

Shared with Atari 2600 Homebrew on FaceBook.

 

https://www.facebook...ari2600homebrew

[Tangentg]

Yeah I did get the .8 version.

[winkdot]

Ah OK. Not sure then.

Left Switch on B = Easy game

Left Switch on A = Harder Game

 

SWITCH A:

Gravity is more of a factor 

Ball behavior is different

Joystick up for both flippers is disabled.

Wall hits are slightly different.

The tilt is more sensitive. 

If the left difficulty is set to A, the joystick up which fires both flippers is disabled. If set to B, joystick left = left flipper, joystick right = right flipper and joystick up fires both flippers. B is the easier choice.

 

All I can think of.

[Tangentg]

[edit: never mind]

Edited by Tangentg, Sun Apr 8, 2018 5:49 PM.

[winkdot]

Sorry it took so long to reply Tangentg. Get the latest version from the first post of this thread. It is the last one (bottom) of the list.

There are so so many ways to run a Atari emulator I'm not sure the one you had the problem with.

[chewy]

this is the 1st pinball homebrew ive seen!

[cimmerian]

We'll be featuring Alien Pinball on the ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream LIVE today at 6PM PT/9PM ET! Hope everyone can tune in to watch us play!

Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.t...ropagehomebrew/

 

Featured Games:
Thrust+ Platinum (2003) by Thomas Jentzsch

Alien Pinball (2015 WIP) by Ed Riley aka winkdot
Sync (2006 Compilation) by Simone Serra aka seemo

 

EDIT: Link to Episode Archive

 

Edited by cimmerian, Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:27 PM.

[Arenafoot]

Wonder if Ed was able to fix the scanline issues???

[winkdot]

Wonder if Ed was able to fix the scanline issues???

Have not looked at it yet.