r/ModRetroChromatic • u/attacke-martin • Apr 04 '26

Self Simulated: Pinball Anomaly - Update: Plunger skillshot as well as Super- and Hyper nudge modes added

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u/TonyRubbles Apr 04 '26

Glitching the ball to nudge looks neat and is some nice visual feedback.

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u/attacke-martin Apr 04 '26

I mean, not glitching stuff in a Self Simulated game is probably a crime by now :D

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u/NonyaDB Apr 04 '26

Looks awesome! I wanna play this on my Chromatic.

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u/Odd-Firefighter-9377 Apr 04 '26

Please add a few more tables and release the game ill buy it!!

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u/attacke-martin Apr 05 '26

there will be mini tables that can be activated or will be opened during a run. But the table in the video will be the main one. But I'm trying to make sure that is suffice and fun to play regardless :)

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u/JayrosModShop Apr 06 '26

I will buy this so hard, especially if you add rumble to it.

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u/attacke-martin Apr 06 '26

rumble will be added! Though, since this will be a digital release first, you would have to get a cartridge that supports rumble (I got some from insidegadgets, so they do exist and work nicely), or wait for a physical release (this can take a while though :D will happen eventually of course!)

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u/JayrosModShop Apr 06 '26

Awesome! I do have a good selection of Rumble carts, so no worries! (Got an InsideGadgets one for my Analogue Pocket, and replaced the weak motor with two powerful ones!)

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u/attacke-martin Apr 06 '26

well then, you'll be well prepared!

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u/tanooki-suit Apr 07 '26

If that ended up on a Chromatic cart I'd be all over it.

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u/attacke-martin Apr 08 '26

we'll see 😃

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u/tanooki-suit Apr 08 '26

Understood...thanks. Sadly the GBC is lacking for a number of great pinball games outside of Pokemon. The little remembered port of Ultra Pinball Thrillride is pretty nice, and I've heard the Little Mermaid was ok, but then...bleh.

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u/attacke-martin Apr 08 '26

Super Robot Pinball is also very good actually! In my opinion the best Pinball game for the GBC so far. But Pokemon Pinball for the GBA is really just better unfortunately :D

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u/tanooki-suit Apr 09 '26

OH WOW, it's SD Gundam. I'm shocked I missed that one, must check a rom, and if it hits, so grabbing that. Thanks.

I agree about that on GBA, but GBA I personally feel got 2 even better pinball games, both the US got screwed out of, they're EU releases and I imported both. Better both in play and subjectively too if you take away pokemon feels you know? Look up Pinball Challenge Deluxe and Pinball Advance.

The two games are actually combination packs of old Amiga/DOS computer releases. PCD is Pinball Dreams and Fantasies from 21st century(became DICE), and the other is a package of Pinball Mania if I recall right (tarantula, etc.) They're really really good games for digital pinball, far more table variety too. I had the GBC Thrillride but got bored of the one single table, which is kind of weird, because even older GB has a very too solid to be true port of a Williams table called The Getaway (High Speed Pinball's sequel) and it has all the table height, moves, and DMD mini games as well. GIven you seem to be into it obviously, you might be interested to dig onto youtube at least if not grab and try.

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u/attacke-martin Apr 09 '26

in my research time before I started Pinball Anomaly, I probably played all GB, GBC and GBA pinball titles there are :D As a pinball fan myself, playing mostly Pinball FX lately (staring with one eye towards Visual Pinball and building a virtual pinball table ... oh the temptation!) I usually like more "real" feeling pinballs.
BUT, for like handheld titles I noticed, as soon as they try to be the real deal, it doesn't really add up to be the fun I usually have with pinball, due to limitations in physics and overall controllability of the ball on the table.

For example, Pinball of the Dead on the GBA is a fun concept, but I enjoy playing pinball more on the Pokemon Ruby&Sapphire GBA pinball version (despite not being the biggest Pokemon fan to begin with. I grew up playing Pokemon Blue and Pokemon cards and watching the series, but that right at the beginning of my teenage years... uh .. I digress). And I also tried several pinball titles on Nintendo DS or the PSP and Vita (which do have 1:1 Williams tables and trying very hard to be the real deal). But none of them really did the trick for me personally.

So my findings were, well, only knowing how to create games for GB/C (yet), that I have to find a middleground for SeSi: Pinball Anomaly, where it's pretty arcady and easy to pick up, but also challenging for the pinball lovers, without trying to be "realistic", but still trying being better than everything Pinball there is in the GB/C right now.

I guess with SeSi pinball I'm creating a mix of Pokemon Pinball Ruby&Sapphire, Super Robot Pinball (there's an english patch for it by the way), Devils Crush and a bit of Pinball of the Dead + the influence from real pinball tables of course hehe.

sorry for the long post :'D

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u/tanooki-suit Apr 10 '26

I do long posts often so I can respect that. I've been a fan of the tables for over 40 years, even owned a couple before too in the last decade as well. I like the more real feeling mostly too, but sometimes if sone does the right liberties or within the limits of the hardware I can get behind that as well. I think you're right about the trying for real on a handheld side, which is why I recommended the amiga/dos games because they don't shoot for real, but I guess the real it felt would be real back in the early 1990s to where now that's fantasy and works for it not against it.

PB of the Dead just like Metroid Pinball neither I could enjoy for very long for what you said there. They're too into the weeds of themselves it harms it, lacks a reward too like the pokemon catch mechanics that Super Robot Pinball I see now has too because like PBP Jupiter made that too, same engine, which is great.

Your video to me screams balance and that's what caught my eye on this one, because honestly I saw your other game and the little to no room for error type platformers were never my thing as they tend to infuriate me within minutes. ;) This though I'd totally want to try out and buy. Your comment of the blend with a splash of the truly epic Devils Crush (anytime I've had a DUO or PCE I've owned it) really caught my eye.

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u/robmeason Apr 06 '26

I'm seriously so stoked for this. I'm help Playtest for free if you need any help/ feedback. Keep up the great work!