I think the scoring is to liberal or your just that much of a badass.

Your machine is set up too easy. How long was that game? And you're only on ball 2.

Time to sell my friend..........................

This.

It does have Rev2 shooter lane, so that Super Pops trick can be exploited, but even so... you need to tighten up your setup, or else register for PAPA in the fall and bring home thousands of dollars...

Find a Rev3 shooter lane, and the entire ruleset is more equalized.

How many minutes was your ball 1?

First, congratulations on the fantastic score! I'm not a great player (and I don't own a GnR), but I'm normally happy to get a couple hundred million at the GnR at Cactus Jack's in Oklahoma City. However, I did score over 1B in my first game on the GnR at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas last year so machine setup can definitely be a major factor (and I probably got lucky). I think the GnR in OKC is a little steeper, but I'm sure that's not the only difference.

And yes, I believe that most if not all of the Data East DMD games max out at 9,999,999,990. For any programmer types out there, this would theoretically be 5 bytes of BCD data. They could have had it go to 9,999,999,999 but as far as I know Data East (like other manufacturers of the era) never scores anything but a 0 in the tens place. Presumably, this is for aesthetic reasons.

I'm not sure if this was merely rhetorical, but the answer is yes, someone^ could go into the code and increase the maximum possible score. However, it is FAR from a minor change and I doubt it would happen.

_{Post edited by classicgamefan : Added carrot.}

And yet this happened:
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-mod-data-east-star-wars-pinball-with-added-timed-ball-save-feature

And this is in progress:
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jurassic-park-rules

Currently, I know almost nothing about GnR scoring but I would say the better fix would be to look at how it scores overall and balance it as appropriate. There must be some exploit or unbalanced scoring if the game is that easy to maximize.

Chad,

Yep, I know you could do it and I was actually making a very subtle reference to you with the carrot next to the "someone" being a subliminal reference to your post above mine.

You know better than I, but for the benefit of others reading, such a change would almost certainly require modifying not only multiple functions in the main CPU code, but also multiple display code functions and implicitly the messaging between the main CPU and display board involving these functions. As you mentioned, I agree it would probably be better to address any unbalanced scoring rather than just increasing the maximum possible score.

_{Post edited by classicgamefan : Removed a lot of detail and speculation that probably wasn't appropriate here.}