People have build IRL Space Cadet pinball machines.
CNCDan is working on one right now, here's episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_02HABZ4s
3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
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Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#32space bar - shoot ball z / - press it x . - shaking
Does the shaking even do anything in this game?
I recall shake/tilt was most useful in the sections of the field where rolling over a sensor would toggle a light, and lighting all three toggles yielded a prize.
There is one cluster at the top centre, and another in the left purple platform. The ball is moving slowly enough here that a nudge can send to one toggle or the other.
I bought this knowledge with my uni gpa, NO RAGRETS.
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does the shaking even do anything in this game?
Definitely. Looking at the code it weirdly changes ball accel, which is not how nudging works in actual pinball. https://github.com/alula/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/master/Space...
Possibly because it's easier to approximate the ball's position moving vs the table than simulating the table's position in space moving (which is what happens in real life with a nudge?) and the ball's trajectory not altering?
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#34Or https://pinball.alula.me/
In this port, using the menu to disable the music has no effect. Surprisingly, typing "hidden test" does have an effect, but the interpretation of mouse movements is weird and uncontrollable, unlike the original Windows EXE game.
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely did - that MIDI file is etched into everyone's soul who played Space Cadet but this was early days, maybe it's possible the win9x machine you played on didn't have a sound card? EDIT: From what others have said it sounds like it's off by default. It's been decades so I don't remember.
Huh, I don't remember turning it on. Who would want it off? The music is amazing, and it laid the seed for me to get into chip music, especially early keygen music (much of which can be found here: https://keygenmusic.tk/# ).
Right? Space Cadet, Tempest 3000, One Must Fall 2097 - so much fire tracker/chiptune music from that era.
This site's been around for a while and is really good as well (has a bunch of classic collections including High Voltage SID)
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#36I never really got into the 3D pinballs, for some reason those are less fun, maybe because visually they are harder to read? I always preferred the "2D" pinballs, with Pinball Dreams and Slam Tilt my two favourites. I still play those from time to time.
I also liked a lot pinball illusions, it had great music, graphics and gameplay. Given that it was created by Dice, the studio that years later created the Battlefield franchise
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#37That brings back memories. I didn't check if it store highscore, but remember finding how to edit to highscore list in the original game to totally destroy my brothers best score
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#38Did it always have this music? I don't remember it having music.
I only discovered very recently that it was supposed to have music as well. I played on Windows XP back in the day, and I'm 99% sure the music must have been turned off by default.
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, I don't remember turning it on. Who would want it off? The music is amazing, and it laid the seed for me to get into chip music, especially early keygen music (much of which can be found here: https://keygenmusic.tk/# ).
Right? Space Cadet, Tempest 3000, One Must Fall 2097 - so much fire tracker/chiptune music from that era. This site's been around for a while and is really good as well (has a bunch of classic collections including High Voltage SID) https://chiptune.app
Thanks for the link!
Re: 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
#40Unrealistic physics.
I had a ball last more than 10 seconds.