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DataEast "Hook" Hacking.

By RipperHook

3 years ago



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#1 3 years ago

Hello all,
We are 2 students studying Design and Gaming.
For our FInal project, we decided to take a Pinball Machine and to make a bridge between the early tech and the new one.
We took the DataEast "Hook" pinball for our subject.
One of our goals is to make an inner game while the machine is running, and in order to enter it, we want to use the Skull Object (See added Image), as that portal. For that, we need to "hold" the ball from being lunched back to the game.
as far as we know, the machine is "searching" for the ball when it's stuck, so eventually, we cannot keep it for a long time, cause the machine will bounce it back.

Maybe someone knows how to help us with it? is there someway of hacking it in a different way?

Thank you all,
RippersHook.

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#2 3 years ago

pretty much no, game starts to search for the ball, unless you can hack the software/game code.

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