Baby Pac-Man settings

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Does anyone know if Baby Pac-Man limits the amount of Extra Babies (lives) that you can earn per round of pinball?

I've earned up to 4 extra lives in one round of pinball before, and every single time it says I've been awarded an Extra Baby, but it only gives me one of them. However, once I lose my ball, and then die in the maze, it will then start awarding me Extra Babies correctly again...until I earn more than one extra...again.

Has anyone ever heard of this?

Sorry if it's a simple setting I'm overlooking.
 
Mine does the same thing. I have been too lazy to look into it though.

Does anyone know if Baby Pac-Man limits the amount of Extra Babies (lives) that you can earn per round of pinball?

I've earned up to 4 extra lives in one round of pinball before, and every single time it says I've been awarded an Extra Baby, but it only gives me one of them. However, once I lose my ball, and then die in the maze, it will then start awarding me Extra Babies correctly again...until I earn more than one extra...again.

Has anyone ever heard of this?

Sorry if it's a simple setting I'm overlooking.
 
Good to know I'm not alone on this.

That is just part of the kick your ass charm of baby Pac-man. There is no setting to allow you to amass more babies. You can basically replace one with the extra baby feature. After that you want to leave it as close to winning he next one as possible. ;)
 
Doh!!!

That's the one thing I didn't want to hear! :)

Oh well...guess that's why it's soooo tough.

Still love her anyway.
 
Doh!!!

That's the one thing I didn't want to hear! :)

Oh well...guess that's why it's soooo tough.

Still love her anyway.

If it gives you any hope, my wife put up a score just over 1 Million. My high score is just below that at 980k. So learn how to work those mazes, and get all the points and upgrades you can at pinball.

And to think this game has a special high-score board for people that score over 10 Million. :confused:
 
Only once I got over a million. Only once. The irony is that I was drinking that night and was pretty hammered, but for some reason, I was in the zone.

Haven't been able to do it since, and trust me... I've tried! (It gives me an excuse to get lit) Lol!

Bill
 
??????

Oh my!

They must have tested it with the play field glass off. ;) The world record is something like 7 million if I remember correctly. It talks about the special 10 Million club or whatever they call it in the manual. It would have been more realistic to have it be 1 Million. Maybe someone should hack the ROMs.
 
They must have tested it with the play field glass off. ;) The world record is something like 7 million if I remember correctly. It talks about the special 10 Million club or whatever they call it in the manual. It would have been more realistic to have it be 1 Million. Maybe someone should hack the ROMs.

If somebody did that, I'd be interested in a set! I like that idea!

Bill
 
Baby Pac - couple of questions

Hi Folks!

I thought while current owners of this game are chatting, I would ask a few questions.

I bot mine off ebay and the description was sale for parts, but I have enjoyed restoring it. Almost playable but....

Plastics: I have the complete set - but they are broken around the screw holes and slightly warped...ideas to fix?

Playfield "leveling": I don't see any levelers like you do on a full pin. I know mine is very flat - not sure what angle needs to be.

Ball in upper middle: not sure how to adjust this to actually do a 180 - might be part of playfield angling.

Flipper sticking: easy to adjust or do I need to do a rebuild?

Intermittent freezing during power-up...every so often it starts up, I look at the 2 green lcds - but the monitor does not go past a purple haze... I have found that if I turn all the switches to off that this somehow resets it.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris
 
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Hi Folks!

I thought while current owners of this game are chatting, I would ask a few questions.

I bot mine off ebay and the description was sale for parts, but I have enjoyed restoring it. Almost playable but....

Plastics: I have the complete set - but they are broken around the screw holes and slightly warped...ideas to fix?

Playfield "leveling": I don't see any levelers like you do on a full pin. I know mine is very flat - not sure what angle needs to be.

Ball in upper middle: not sure how to adjust this to actually do a 180 - might be part of playfield angling.

Flipper sticking: easy to adjust or do I need to do a rebuild?

Intermittent freezing during power-up...every so often it starts up, I look at the 2 green lcds - but the monitor does not go past a purple haze... I have found that if I turn all the switches to off that this somehow resets it.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris

Check here for how to flatten your playfield plastics:
http://www.xmission.com/~daina/tips/pub/tip0018.html

As far as leveling, I'm not sure what angle it should be at, but the loop ball at the top should be able to make it 180 degrees when hit with enough force, and will sometimes bounce back to the other side if hit too hard.

There are levelers, or legs, that should go under the playfield on each side in the front. They screw into the bottom of the playfield. I have 2 in mine, one on each side. Perhaps that's your leveling issue. Of course you can always prop up one bottom end of the cabinet higher than the others to see if that helps too.

The sticking flipper can be either a shorted wire, a bad pin in your connector on the solenoid board, a bad coil, a bad diode (or diodes) on the coil, dirty EOS switches, and/or cold solder joints on the solenoid board. It depends. Is it intermittent? Does it work but move slowly?

I've had my machine behave weird because of a stuck switch or 2 also. Check to make sure that all of your switches are not stuck, and are properly spaced. But, most likely this is due to communication errors between the MPU and Vidiot. So, if you haven't replaced the connectors in the machine yet...do so ASAP.

Plenty to keep you busy for sure. :)
 
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