{"id":523,"date":"2009-07-15T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:36","slug":"is-this-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Am I cheating?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well with my new MCU board and L7 rom, the game certainly is a little different now: the display for one shows a larger score during play which takes up most of the display. I’ve also notice that the pinballs eject into the shooter lane more smoothly.<\/p>\n

An additional adjustment which I had made in the setup menu prior to playing was to award extra balls instead of extra games as rewards. I thought this made more sense, as games are free anyway and awarding extra balls may make the game a little more interesting (if not longer).<\/p>\n

So when I played this evening (purely to test the MCU board, you’ll understand) in my very first game, not only did I manage to complete the mansion for the first time, but I once again became Grand Champion, with a score of<\/p>\n

337,773,980<\/h2>\n

Although I was very happy with this, I was left with a strange taste in my mouth, as I’m not sure that with all of these extra balls and a 5 ball set up, it’s not just cheating a little.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should revert the game back to 3 ball play with the extra ball setup? Or was this just beginners luck? Let’s wait and see….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well with my new MCU board and L7 rom, the game certainly is a little different now: the display for one shows a larger score during play which takes up most of the display. I’ve also notice that the pinballs eject into the shooter lane more smoothly. An additional adjustment which I had made in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}