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[fel]

Hi, My name is felix, i'm an italian pinball passionate, but due to a lack of pinball machines in my town i'm forced to play almost exclusively visual pinmame. In the few pinball machines i have seen in my town, local pinball wizards succeeded in breaking the grand champion score, but I can't do it. Anyway their scores are nothing compared to top scores reported in pinballhighscores.org., so I made some research about default grand champion scores on many pinball machines looking for a comparison value.
My question is How are these scores set? Are they a good reference value for a normal player? or they are too low or too high?

Bye and thank you

Here follows a list of what i found.

Pinball machine Default Grand champion score

Adventures of Rocky and bullwinkle and friends 500 000 000
Apollo 13 2 400 000 000
Attack from Mars 7 500 000 000
Austin powers 500 000 000
Back to the Future 7 500 000
Batman Forever 2 400 000 000
baywatch 2 400 000 000
Black rose 70 000 000
Bram stokers dracula 300 000 000
Cactus canyon 100 000 000
Cirqus Voltaire 60 000 000
corvette 1 500 000 000
Creature from the black lagoon 180 000 000
Demolition man 1 250 000 000
Dirty harry 900 000 000
doctor who 300 000 000
Dr. Dude 10 000 000
elvira and the party monsters 8 000 000
Elvis 250 000 000
F-14 tomcat 4 000 000
fish tales 300 000 000
Funhouse 15 000 000
Goldeneye 2 400 000 000
Guns N' roses 2 400 000 000
Hook 450 000 000
Indiana Jones the pinball adventure 500 000 000
johnny mnemonic 9 000 000 000
Judge dredd 130 000 000 regular game - 350 000 000 super game
Junk Yard 50 000 000
jurassic park (data east 1993 ) 500 000 000
Mary Shelleys frankenstein 2 400 000 000
Medieval Madness 52 000 000
monopoly 30 000 000
Monster bash 150 000 000
NBA fastbreak 150
No fear: dangerous sports 2 000 000 000
No good gofers 60 000 000
popeye saves the earth 260 000 000
Red & ted's road show 1 200 000 000
safe cracker 4 000 000 | assault champion 5 500 000
scared stiff 20 000 000
South park 400 000 000
Star trek the next generation 1 000 000 000
Star Wars (data east 1992) 400 000 000
Star wars trilogy 24 000 000
starship troopers 250 000 000
Striker Xtreme 400 000 000
tales from the crypt 500 000 000
tales of the arabian nights 9 250 000
terminator 2: judgment day 150 000 000
terminator 3: rise of the machines 100 000 000
The addams family 200 000 000
The flintstones 1 000 000 000
The lord of the Rings 75 000 000
The shadow 700 000 000
The simspons pinball party 50 000 000
The whos tommy pinball wizard 1 000 000 000
Theatre of Magic 800 000 000
Twilight zone 750 000 000
Twister 2 400 000 000
White water 200 000 000
Who dunnit 1 750 000 000
world cup soccer 2 000 000 000

[ta2686]

Welcome to the forums!

The grand champions scores are usually preset in the ROM content at the factory. These are usually set, if I reacall correctly, to challenge the average player. These scores are usually reset, either by the operator after a cartaiin number of games played (especially if they feel the score is too high which would discourage the average player from playing the game) or by the software after a certain number of plays.

In addition, there is an option within the ROM to sdjust those scores to make them higher or lower than the default scores. The operator would go into the ROM options menu system to adjust those scores. Depending upon the machine Master Processing Unit (MPU) the adjustment is made by scrolling through the options to get to the item they want to adjust and using the buttons inside the coin door they would make that adjustment.

For VPM tables, you can make those same adjustments yourself. There are tutorials hosted here which show how to adjust replay levels on tables, and the same procedure would apply for the grand champions score. You would probably need the manual for the table to find which option you need to scroll to and adjust.

There are links in my signature for posts with links to those tutorials. Check out the posts for replay level adjustment for DMD tables and replay level adjustment for non-DMD tables (Alpha-Numeric tables) and click on one of those links to bring up the procedure to make those adjustments.

Hope this answers your question.

[Sabbat]

welcome

[bolt]

Welcome here on VPForums fel.

[fel]

Thank you very much Ta2686 for your answer. ow I understood, and thank you all for welcome

[faralos]

welcome to the site! Glad ya' like it and all that...

Edited by faralos, 02 November 2010 - 03:30 PM.