dups.

Stargate has 3 wizard modes. Only game I know of that has 3. But it's bascially like having CV and TAF combined into one game.

How is the video mode on MM started? I have never seen it, not even on a tube recording. And never heard anyone mention they've done it.

This is the actual "correct" answer, though I voted SDMEWM in the poll since achieving that is my own personal Holy Grail.

I had this discussion with Bowen a few months back, and he was the one was the one that corrected my assumption that SDMEWM was the hardest. He said that the fact that Do or Die MB must all be earned on a single ball or it resets, makes it the defacto champ for hardness. That doesn't seem to interesting to me personally, but it is very hard. I think he also said it pretty much has to be done on ball one or it becomes impossible. Something to do with the Drone shots if I remember correctly.

-Jim

X-Men - Dark Phoenix.

Hardest one 'to beat' - battle for earth: avengers. Hands down.

Tommy is a hard game in general I think. I haven't hit wizard mode on it yet, but I haven't had it very long yet either. But, sometimes it's hard to score 100 million on that game with easy drains from the slings. I hit my highest so far yesterday at 475 million with no buy-in on 3-ball. Lyman's still up on my game too, but GC is Wolfy (who I bought the game from) with 1.5 billion. Beginning to wonder if that was a glass on or glass off score! lol Have a feeling it's going to be up there for some time...

You have to spell "FIRE" a certain amount of times at the inlanes. I believe it's 8 times but not certain.

You need to complete the FIRE rollovers eight times. Then shoot Merlin's scoop to start the mode. Almost always requires you to be deep into a long game. You'll never get the mode by just going for it. On a game where you've gotten tons of extra balls (2 castles, 28 mill, treasure room, royal madness) you'll have progressed enough to get video mode usually.

The mode is like 'Defender' where you defend three children from being carried off by giant birds. You kill 20 birds you get an extra ball chance during video mode. You kill 30 birds and you win the mode. You can use a troll bomb on the video mode. The first few times you play it you'll lose and be overwhelmed. After that you can win most of time especially if you use a troll bomb.

Video mode and smack-a-troll are rare from Merlin's scoop because they require tons of progress to get. I think smack-a-troll only comes after you've gotten level three super jets which is not easy. Also on the home rom for MM I believe they set the extra ball light to flash slowly to indicate you have video mode enabled.

because like ij4 nobody wants to play it that long ZIIIIIIIIIING HEEEEEEEEY OH!

The key to Tommy is learn how to backhand the Union Jack shot. Practice it, get it down. It's the only way you should be shooting for it. Master that, and Pinball Wizard mode is just around the corner. I got to Pinball wizard the 2nd day of owning it. Still hard to do, I just had a good game, but that union jack shot is the key element.

My game is set up factory except for scoring achievements are set to "extra ball" award.

I go for the artifacts and never just let it time out.....unless I'm one mode away from Final Frontier and on my last ball....then I'll wait and go for Final Frontier. I've been to Final Frontier more times than I can count, and I've only had the game since December.

I've never been to warp factor 9.9!

I have escaped the cops in High Speed a few times, so that isn't the hardest.

I have never made it to any wizard mode, but I almost got to Final Frontier last night using all 3 continues. Maybe I should change it to 5 balls for a while.

BBH my friend.

That is 100% the key to achieving the wizard mode on Tommy. Backhand the union jack and then shoot the left orbit to relight the scoop. It's difficult to get to the wizard mode on Tommy but not impossible, I've done it a handful of times. TSPP on the other is pretty damn close to being impossible.

This man actually has a point. I never could get to open season. I've gotten monster buck before, but never could I get with all the other achievements. Owned BBH for 2 years too.

You likey have the extended Outlane guides...or you are REALLY good to get it that often.

I've gotten Warp 9.9 several times, Final Frontier more times than I can think about, and Portal...just as many times as Final Frontier I think?! I'm not sure any of these should be called hard to get to, or to complete..

Been two shots off Valinor before, and one song off Encore @ 6 requests on AC/DC. Got the wiz mode completed on MM and TOTAN, and started on RBION on Pinball Arcade, not that it really counts that way LOL.

What's the third wizard mode? Are you counting Sandstorm?

some count Sandstorm as a 3rd hidden wizard mode. I don't know what happens if you complete the Stargate and complete all the modes. Never had it happen in the same game. Came close once or twice. Don't know if there is a bonus mode for both.

I'm not a big nudge'er but for some reason I have learned how to nudge STTNG just right to avoid those outlanes.

People like to diss the BBH all the time. I think they diss it because they suck at it. Only once did I complete Monster Buck. Two times I got Turkey multiball.

no, people dis it, because the art package sucks, and it's during the Econo time of Stern. When they went extra cheap on everything. it's not a bad game. Better than a lot of Stern. Especially from that era. Can be fun, but the art package is very bad. Still better than ID4 or Xfiles tho. Those games are the worst of it.

I'd call it more of a mini-wizard mode. It's definitely a cool mode, though. I love the intro for it with the lights and the blowing wind sound.

I've done it several times. Unfortunately, there is no bonus mode. And yes, all the high scores you had on my game have long been surpassed.

now turn it off of 5 ball and put some pitch on it.

Really? I think the art is bitch'n. Backglass is beautiful. Side art is well done.

There are many challenging wizard modes

Gauntlet of the pirates from POTC is hard to reach and deserves a mention.

DoDMB from IM is one of the most recent hard to reach wizard modes. There are many many wizard modes we can talk about that are extremely tough. I don't know if Valinor and TSPP will reign supreme. They were the start of the ultra hard wizard modes and have been around the longest so they get mentioned the most since more players have probably had access to the games.

In general I feel Wizard Modes under the modern Stern years seem to be much harder than other eras.

Since a few mentioned Super Hero on spiderman, can anyone tell me what all it entails? I still haven't seen any kind of rulesheet for the game, and I'm just now getting good at hitting shots and getting to Battle Royale. I know defeating all 4 bad guys 1 time lights extra ball, 2 times is Battle Royale, and I thought 3 times did Super Hero, but do the other web/white modes factor in to it also?

To reach SuperHero, you have to defeat all the villains 3 times and play all of the timed modes.

TSPP has one of the deepest rulesets with the most difficult qualifications for the wizard mode anywhere. I'm a decent player, but other than Alien Invasion, I rarely see any of the qualifying wizard modes for the big whammy at the end. Of course completing Alien Invasion (to qualify for SUPER DUPER MEGA EXTREME WIZARD MODE) is another matter altogether. Must work on pin-fu!

Anyone who voted for portal as the hardest wizard mode is smoking crack. Tron is a great pin but has a relatively easy wizard mode to get to. I don't know about do or die, but TSPP wizard mode is pretty much impossible to get to.