I see under "Account and Privacy" in your Profile there is a checkbox that allows the posts to be displayed. I can see your Whitewater score under your profile.

I would like to see a distinction between physical and virtual machines-- for example I've been playing virtual Whirlwind a lot on the Wii lately but it's been quite a while since I've played the real thing.

JMO but virtual pinball scores should be left off. They are fun to play as a video game but are nothing like the real thing. No need to over complicate things. But like I already said that's JMO.

Yeah, no virtual pinball scores of any kind, be them from game console games, from Visual Pinball, or Future Pinball, none of them are the real thing so they shouldn't belong in the high scores.

Sidenote: The "quick profiles" are WAY TO COOL!

I think virtual scores should be allowed, just clearly in a separate category. After all, while scores on my Black Knight 2000 and yours may not strictly be comparable, scores on virtual hardware ARE comparable because the game is going to be exactly the same.

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I really doubt that a software program, no matter how sophisticared, will be the same as a pinball...

My vote for no virtual pinball scores. I don't subscribe that VP is even pinball. Should be an OT discussion like any other video game and not mixed in with real pinball. Maybe I'm old school and a pin 'snob' but that's my opinion.

As for the OP's original ?, yeah I was hoping the high scores listed by each member would be consolidated into a psuedo high scoring table for all machines. But on second thought, it probably wouldn't make too much sense since each game's scores can be so affected by game settings, number of balls, pitch of the machine, and lastly, the integrity of those posting their scores.

You can add my vote too...

Add a no for me as well.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm definitely planning to do more with the scores but at this moment scores can be viewed only in a Pinsiders profile. As more scores are posted and the data becomes enough to display averages and such I will add a special score section. So: keep posting your high scores!

Especially the integrity. Making a "global" high scoring table per game (even if separated by number of balls or other settings) would invite some folks to post fake scores and that would clearly ruin the whole system. So for now , scores are rather personal. I did include a ranking percentage, so people have an idea where their high score ranks - but whose score that is is not disclosed at this time. Hope that makes sense.

I would gladly add an option to the "where" select box. Choose from home, wild, tournament or virtual ... That way we can separate the real pinball scores from the virtual ones. In that way I could exclude them from the aforementioned ranking percentage and they wouldn't hurt anyone. But letting virtual scores compete with real scores is -in my opinion- uselss. They just can't be compared.

Since there's now a seperate topic for the voting of what scores should be entered in the hi score charts, and getting back to this topic... i.e. where can the hi scores be seen... surely there should be a list, or tab, on each game's page showing the top 100 scores (or maybe all the scores...) I, for example, can see I got 87% of the highest recorded score for Tron, but I don't know if I'm in 2nd place, or 100th place... I know the high score is my score time 1/0.87, but that's it... I don't even know who the high score owner is...

Can we have a hi-score chart on each machines page? Without it, having Hi scores at all seems a bit meaningless...

We were writing at the same time Robin

It makes sense, but at the end of the day, without seeing a chart it seems a little odd... I can see the problem that people will probably just post fake scores, it's the equivelent to trolling really, just being a pain for no reason... unfortunatly these people are out there... just to try and spoil the good natured and honest fun of others... sadly there's no way round it, other than to spot the fraudsters somehow... Not an easy one!

How about having everybody upload a picture of the score as well? Yes, you can still cheat by playing with the glass removed but you would at least have to have access to the game. Not perfect but it would be more difficult to troll.
I guess if we try and play, our fun can be spoiled but not playing at all is no fun at all.

I will add a high scores overview to each page in the Pinside archive once we get enough scores in!

I will also think about promoting the scores section a bit more.

What we really need is a mobile app which can post scores to your profile. Aargh, if only I had some more spare time

No seriously, a mobile version of the Pinside is coming soon!

I'm just going to be entering mine as a personal reference in case my batteries die or I have to reset my machines. I'm pretty sure my scores are nowhere near the Wizman level.

That's not a bad idea... there's already the option to do this, so when the charts are revealed for each machine, there could be a little marker (camera?) next to the score to signify that a photo has been posted to back it up... that way these scores would have more validity... The scores I've entered so far are from memory of games I've played in the past where I remember getting some mega score, but from now on I'll take pics if I do something good