AC/DC (LE)
Stern, 2012
AC/DC (Premium)
Stern, 2012ERMAGERDTHISISTHEHEPPIESTDAYEVMEHLEFF!!!
That was my reaction when I learned that there was a national pinball competition on in australia, it was on the AC/DC machine, and it was qualifying at my local arcade!
Now the question is, what sort of score do I need to be putting up regularly in order to win this thing? If you know a thing or two about getting a high score on ACDC, I WANT TO KNOW EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK. Please help me Acka Dacka owners. First prize, an ACDC machine!
Not sure if this helps: http://pinball.org/videos/tournament/gameworks/gameworks-2012-acdc/
Oh and this too: http://vimeo.com/45148176
Good luck with the contest!
Hopefully RGR doesn't enter or you'll need to get 1 trillllllllllion points to beat him hahaha
Dave.
lol the scores dont matter when your playing in a tournament... Looking forward to the new code tho.... Lets hope its gives a better insight into how to play the game and therefore to develop a good strategy... It would help if I owned one to be able to take the glass off...
Quoted from RGR:Looking forward to the new code tho
Is there new code in the tournament ?.
Quoted from RGR:It would help if I owned one to be able to take the glass off...
+1 RGR
This tournament will be undoubtably won by someone who already has the machine. I think there should be a little side action for us hackers that have to play in the wild.
Quoted from Gorgar1:Hope the AC/DC tournament comes to Melbourne as well I'm averaging some nice scores on my LE
Peter
Ive found this one in Sth Melb http://www.railwaypub.com/acdc-pinnie-comp/ , its the only one Ive spotted. I think the operator I bought mine from is getting ready to start up. I wonder what will happen when the code changes?
Quoted from mickthepin:This tournament will be undoubtably won by someone who already has the machine. I think there should be a little side action for us hackers that have to play in the wild
I think its an advantage for sure but not a certainty. My highest score which I still can't beat is from the early days when I just concentrated on keeping the ball in whilst aiming for whatever was lit. So I think theres still a chance for everyone?
Zac scored over 500 million on ours at Gameworks...I think if you land somewhere around there, your pretty safe. So go for that.
Have a good nights sleep. Say a prayer to the rock gods of the universe. Meditate for an hour. Grab a fistful of dollars. Put a mean face on. Chain your leg to the machine. Get the song jackpot as high as you dare before starting multiball. Mainly aim for whats relevent to the song and multiball you are in. Relax, concentrate and don't lose the ball. Erm, thats all I know.
http://papa.org/papa15/live/topA-AC-DC.html qualifying scores at papa15
Well as long as you beat the highest score on the game that you are playing thats all that matters. I assume that operators are setting these up on tournament mode then having say the top 3-5 players play off at that location. Once that is done I am not sure how they are going to run the state champs however I assume that it will be play offs. It all depends on the players that you are playing against, but I would think for tournament play on 5 balls, 200-300 mill should be fine. Highest score that I know of is just over 500 mill.
Quoted from Gorgar1:Went to Taylor's lakes hotel as its listed on the website as a comp game nothing there when I asked they looked at me like I was a freak the girl didn't even know what a pinball machine was ha ha
Peter
Same situation, Peter. A friend and I went to our local (the Vic Hotel, Wagga Wagga) to enter the comp and there was none there. Listed on the web site, but not actually in the pub. Girl behind the bar asked us if we were ok and I said I was looking for the AC/DC pinball. She looked puzzled and said she didn't think they had it, but had heard staff talking about it. My friend gave a cheeky reply "you'd definitely know if it was here or not".
We then went to the Duke hotel down the other end of town and I got to play the Premium for the first time. I got a measly 40 million on my best game. What a woeful night....and I own a Pro machine already.
Cheers!
Adam.
Quoted from RGR:It all depends on the players that you are playing against, but I would think for tournament play on 5 balls, 200-300 mill should be fine. Highest score that I know of is just over 500 mill.
If that's the case, that's the guy that set the score on the browns plains machine. I looked at that and thought 'That's gotta be a cheat.' I was struggling to get over 50 million on my best games, after mega sessions. Luckily, whoever set it hasn't been around since the tournament started 
But.... if that's what I need to be doing to win this comp, well, I've got a lot of money to be spending.
Best score so far, around 110 mil. But I haven't played it much yet. 
Just called the one in Geelong to save what happened to Peter and Adam. It isn't in the comp so I'll keep looking..
Quoted from Gorgar1:the girl didn't even know what a pinball machine was ha ha
thats funny!
Can we not use our home machines so I can use my special 'glass off' mod?
Thanks Mick yeh it requires skill to work the flippers and reach over to knock the targets down at the same time!
Went to Timezone in Geelong today. They are not in the comp but I was down that way so checked it out. Its a Pro on three ball, $1.50 a game on a swipe card system. Got a 158 to knock off the 108 which was on there. Man the Pro is faster - not as much time to think. Still good fun though!
not a lot of help on here for playing techniques. huh. 110 seems pretty low, since it seems the gameworks crew over here, seem to hit that every game. Highest i've seen was the 550 or something like that.
Yeah, everyone thinks that. Even I thought that. And then I played the competition machines. Completely took me by surprise. My first game on the competition machine was 1.1 million. That's gotta be a record, it's not even easy to do that poorly if you're trying!! Three super skillshots, straight down the middle. It was so fast I felt blinded by it.
Here's my sob story... I flew to sydney for the qualifier. The qualifier was three machines, and the winner of each machine made it into the nationals. I came second on my machine, and even though my score was higher than other guys that came first on the other machines, it didn't matter! waaah.
The qualifying idea was evil. I flew to sydney for three balls!
We had so much time up our sleeves, would allowing the extra players into the comp really have made that much of a difference? And how do you know you're the best if there's unlucky players still on the sidelines?
Quoted from Benanaman:Yeah, everyone thinks that. Even I thought that. And then I played the competition machines. Completely took me by surprise. My first game on the competition machine was 1.1 million. That's gotta be a record, it's not even easy to do that poorly if you're trying!! Three super skillshots, straight down the middle. It was so fast I felt blinded by it.
Here's my sob story... I flew to sydney for the qualifier. The qualifier was three machines, and the winner of each machine made it into the nationals. I came second on my machine, and even though my score was higher than other guys that came first on the other machines, it didn't matter! waaah.
The qualifying idea was evil. I flew to sydney for three balls!
We had so much time up our sleeves, would allowing the extra players into the comp really have made that much of a difference? And how do you know you're the best if there's unlucky players still on the sidelines?
So you scored higher but didn't get through? How does that work
Like Ben said Pete . There were 3 machines with the winner of "each" machine going through . Didn't matter if you had a higher score on another machine but didn't come 1st . All the names were drawn randomly from a hat to determine the order / machine they were playing on .
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