A Bored God Plays 3D Pinball Space Cadet

Otherwise known as \»[TAS] Full Tilt Pinball Space Cadet — Fleet Admiral in 1:43.25\»..
This is a Tool Assisted Speedrun of Full Tilt Pinball Space Cadet, done by running a Virtual Machine of Linux, then running a Windows 3.1 emulator inside of that Virtual Machine and using LibTAS as a TASing application. The goal of this TAS is to achieve the in-game rank of \»Fleet Admiral\», noted by lighting up the entire series of orange dots near the center of the machine. This is done by completing several missions in quick succession, all having different objectives..
There’s an incredibly high amount of \»randomness\» in this game due to how the ball’s trajectory is manipulatable by both the flippers and the mouse position on the screen. I use this to my advantage by brute-forcing a good outcome in scenarios like Attack Bumper hits and selecting missions..
The oddest thing is that the Windows XP version always requires you to complete three missions to go up one rank, but the Full Tilt version varies for reasons I don’t understand. Going from Rank 1 to Rank 2 requires the completion of three missions (Or two of the \»Secret\» missions), but going from Rank 2 to Rank 3 only required the completion of one, and Rank 6 to Rank 7 requires 2..
Regardless, this is what I came up with. There’s still probably some improvements that can be done with stuff like ball trajectory manipulation in some areas, but I still think this is a solid attempt for the first ever TAS of this game..
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Beating Secret Mission with Tips in 3D Pinball Space Cadet!


From what I’ve heard, learned, and experienced, one of the most difficult and hated missions in the Pinball Space Cadet is the infamous \»Secret Mission\» because of its time-wasting, rigid tasks that players have to send the ball into the yellow, red, and green wormholes respectively, and the players most likely will eventually fail before finishing all the objectives in the mission! I’m also the one of the Secret Mission haters!
I hope this video could, more or less, help increase the probability of beating this mission by studying some of my tactics and tips for the probable approach to beat this mission!
Fingers crossed to those who have never completed this mission before. I believe one day you’ll succeed!
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Full Tilt! Pinball — Space Cadet Speedrun (Fleet Admiral: 19:13.97) [WR]
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And I never thought I’d see sub-20..
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Full Tilt! Pinball — Space Cadet: Fleet Admiral (42:10.83) [Former WR]
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I hope speedrunning pinball becomes a thing once again. I figure this is something everyone recognizes, so why not? (Run starts at 0:18 in.).
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3D Pinball Space Cadet — High Score


I’ve now beaten this score quite significantly. You can watch that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDPhiQEWWcw.
That recording has the music switched on too!
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3D Pinball Space Cadet 25M score (strategy in description)


The highest fully recorded score, as far as I can tell..
The strategy:
1. Hyperspace:
Always attempt hyperspace but only if there are less than 4 lamps on, i.e. do NOT trigger Gravity Well. This focuses on keeping Extra Ball Available..
— If you get an Extra Ball this way (the ball goes into the side kicker), hold the ball and wait until the 4-th hyperspace lamp turns off, then attempt hyperspace again to keep the Extra Ball Available. This waiting may not be worth it if you still have a lot of time on the Center Post and have no side kickers at all..
2. Commendation (3 drop targets in the center).
Since it is very difficult to get 3-rd Level Commendation, only attempt to get it if you already have 2 levels commendation by luck..
3. Missions: only focus taking/clearing missions if you have 4 hyperspace lamps on (strategy 1 takes priority). Mission selection preference:
Set 1: any mission, even Science Mission is fine..
Set 2: Bug Hunt (best), Alien Invasion (good), Rescue Mission (kinda bad)..
— Do NOT take the Secret Mission! It is too hard to complete. If you accidentally get it, hold the ball and wait until the fuel runs out to abort the mission..
— Rescue mission is not preferrable. It gets stuck if you have already 4 hyperspace lamps because we don’t want to activate Gravity Well (strategy #1).
Set 3:
— Cosmic Plague (best).
— Stray Comet mission is better than Space Radiation because we can specifically target the right hazard target lights, but have to rely on luck to hit the left ones..
— Black Hole mission might be great or bad (not sure). Upgrading engine is relatively easy, but hitting the Black Hole is hard. You can target it from both paddle (requires bouncing ball if from the left) but probably with very low accuracy..
Set 4: dunno:).
4. Replay balls: You can attempt to get one if the yellow or red wormhole lamp is on. Yellow is easier to hit but be careful not to activate Gravity Well. If you have fewer than 4 hyperspace lamps, strategy 1 takes priority IMO (arguable), don’t attempt replay balls unless you are very accurate..
5. Commendation: Level 3 Commendation is very hard to get (yellow drop targets in the center), so I’d only attempt this if I already have 2 levels by chance. In this case, this takes priority over hyperspacing, because we can directly get an extra ball and have less than 30 seconds to do it! We can shoot the drop targets from both paddles..
6. Hazard lights: if one of the side kickers is used up, you can send the ball up to get the hazard lights since it will reactivate the side kickers. But IMO strategy 1 (hyperspacing) should take priority.
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No tilting or bumping!!! WTF!!!! I am convinced there is some cheat going on but am too lazy to watch entire thing,
Edit, I think it’s the timing and maybe me just bumping so much causes the ball to go faster. I cannot get past first mission on windows 10. It looks weird to me tho. Idk how tf you did this
Чот я не понял. Тут сказано про Pinball 2 какой-то который после Windows XP появился? Щито?
Судя по скриншотам, я играл в этот «Pinball2» еще под Windows 98, который был тогда под названием Pinball 97. ))))
И когда в Виндовс ХРю я увидел этот спейс кадет, он мне показался жалкой пародией на Pinball 97. )) Такие дела )
Ну не знаю, по-моему у любого человека, мало-мальски обученному пинболу, шарик редко когда будет улетать строго по центру, когда до него ни левым флиппером ни правым флиппером не дотянуться (хотя есть некоторые «злые» пинболы, где зазор просто большой между флипперами, это да, это раздражает). А вот то что эта круглая сволочь на настоящих автоматах постоянно хочет улететь через боковые вылеты, а в некоторых пинболах эти боковые вылеты по умолчанию открыты и не дают второго шанса — вот это просто выводит из себя. Справедливости ради, на это есть веская причина — когда-то пинболы были игровыми автоматами, в них выигрывали и проигрывали деньги, поэтому они и сделаны очень тяжелыми. Современные пинбольные машины рассчитаны на казуальную аудиторию, в них больше подсветки, целей, бонусов, сложность ниже и даже неопытный игрок вполне может долго продержаться в игре.
Нечто подобное, только в более сильном виде ощутил совсем недавно. Бушков написал в конце 90х неплохой цикл из 2 книг про попаданца (в альтернативное то ли прошлое, то ли будущее, то ли во временную петлю),»Летающие острова»и «Рыцарь из ниоткуда», но цикл явно не законченный, завязка была такая, что не всё было распутано в конце второй книги. Сначала я очень ждал продолжения, потом как то забыл. Улёкся вот тоже компами и играми. И вот недавно решил перечитать и обнаружил,что книг написано кроме тех 2 ещё 17!!! После первых книг, вешедших почти одновременно,был перерыв 6или 7 лет, и немудрено что устал ждать и увлёкся другим. Цикл кстати неплохой, на фоне основного треша по попаданцев так вообще шедевр. Странно, что за это время перечитал кучу других книг Бушкова, но даже в голову не приходило узнать есть ли продолжение цикла про Сварога.
Ностальгия. Было дело играл в Space Cadet иногда)) Кстати Maxis сделала много пинболов. Я в детстве на сборнике Crazy Collection как-то помню увидел игру их не помню уже название на old-games.ru посмотри лучше там она есть вроде, там в ней несколько пинбол автоматов. Все сделано классно. Бывало иногда заигрывался в нее частенько, когда Wolf3D или что-то другое приедалось уже)
Мне одному нравился Video Pinball?) На моем клоне Atari 2600 (который Рембо ТВ Гемс назывался) был среди встроенных игр. Хотя даже среди игр на Атари пинбол, боулинг и т.д. особого интереса не вызывали.
I recently downloaded this game on Win10 because I remembered it from my childhood on Windows XP!
Unfortunately, I do not really understand a lot about this game
Do you have any videos explaining it?
То есть ничего мы не потеряли. Skulduggery ужасен: вырвиглазный фон и сам по себе раздражает, и шарик не позволяет нормально увидеть. Dragon’s Keep получше, но и дизайном и раскраской Кадету уступает. Инфа любопытная, но бесполезная.
Вить, а вот был какой-то ксоникс на старых виндах, прям затягивал, помню, на рабочем компе играл, а найти вот никак не могу, может знаешь, как назывался? Все остальное по поисковому запросу ни в какое сравнение с ним не идет.
What is the meaning of life?
Where is the next planet capable of sustaining life?
What happens when you light all the slots in the center in Full Tilt Pinball Space Cadet?
These are questions I thought would never be answered in my lifetime. I now have hope for the other two.
Никогда особо не увлекался играми и не очень-то за ними следил. Но обнаружив эту игру в Windows NT 4.0, залип в ней надолго. После скопировал экзешник (и по-моему у неё ещё были рабочие файлы?? Уже не помню) и раздавал всем знакомым у кого стояла 95-я винда, на ней этой игры не было. Хотя тогда еще мало у кого компьютеры были, не то что машина с 586-м прочессором, на котором сверх новая и прогрессивная, на тот момент, Windows 95 действительно работала.
«The oddest thing is that the Windows XP version always requires you to complete three missions to go up one rank, but the Full Tilt version varies for reasons I don’t understand. Going from Rank 1 to Rank 2 requires the completion of three missions (Or two of the «Secret» missions), but going from Rank 2 to Rank 3 only required the completion of one, and Rank 6 to Rank 7 requires 2.»
rewatching this video, i think the reason behind this is that you start a new mission so quickly after ranking up that it tricks the game into lighting up all of the blue lights in the center and allowing you to rank up instantly upon completing the mission. i think going from rank 6 to 7 took two missions because you didn’t start a new mission quickly enough after hitting rank 6
This was my work day back in 2002. Sit there and wait for something to do, spend hours playing pinball and Popcap and Yahoo Games, jump on the phone as soon as someone calls. I loved and hated that job.
Выпилили ее потому, что не смогли перевести гавнокод индусов на 64 бит платформу — оно тупо не компилировалось, а человек, отвественный за перенос игры не смог (!!!) понять, что там и как работает — не нашел даже детектор столкновений объектов. Как-то так.
Hey Retro Smack,
i have a small Instagram and Youtube channel and I make one minute Retrogame Videos.
So my question is, if i can use your content to make a video about «3D Pinball»?
Of course I will put a Link to your video in my discription.
Thank a lot:)
Christian
How do you get this game for Windows 10 and 7? I used to play this all time on XP before Vista came out.
I only was able to find a Russian version of it. The Windows menus are in Russian but the game HUD is in English.
Лично я ее запускал только тогда, когда мне только купили мою первую пекарню и я не очень то знал, где брать игры. С первым же диском, на котором были старые НФС (тогда еще ни разу не старые), об этой игре я сразу забыл…
I used to play real pinball years ago. I miss it. This program is really good for virtual pinball. I wish I could play some of my favourite oldies with this type of program. I scored up to 1 billion, and my computer froze when I crossed 1 billion:( I wanted to do it again, and I did it. On the same computer but the computer didn’t freeze the second time around. So if you want to know if you can get additional yellow circles once you fill them all, yes you can! There is a hack, or trick. Still have to be good though hehe. Run the ball up the right hand side until you get an extra ball. Then you wait until it times out and keep getting more extra balls. You can play the same game for weeks, I kept pausing the game as I couldn’t spend that much time in one sitting.
I don’t know if you’re still checking the comments on this vid, but anyway, nice run. I can’t remember exactly what my high score was, but I do remember that after I hit 999,999,999 the score resets. My strategy, if you’re interested, is a little different:
Priority1a: Get a replay ball, then get an extra ball. Every time you lose the replay ball, get another replay ball and another extra ball. This way, you can pretty much play forever. Things happen in pinball and even experts lose balls regularly, but by constantly refreshing your replay and adding another extra ball each time you do, that safety net is there so that things don’t have to go wrong once but rather things need to go wrong three or five times in a row for you to simply move on to ball2.
Priority 1b: the replay is simple- just hit the wormhole switch and the appropriate wormhole. As for the extra ball, the first thing you want to do is establish both side kickers. Once they’re both activated, you can learn the timing so that the hyperspace launch return can be hit right back up the hyperspace ramp (and get a little reflex bonus, but that’s inconsequential.) Do this five times in a row to, yes, activate the gravity well. The gravity well does make things harder, but if you have the center post and both side kickers activated, it’s rare that it will cost you the ball. Turn off the gravity well immediately by just keeping the ball in the lower center, and the next priority is to get the far side kickers for the extra ball. TILTS CAN HELP YOU HIT IT MORE OFTEN (tilts are not just for saving a bad ball position.)
Priority 2: Once you’ve established a replay and an extra, you want to use the hyperspace ramp only up to the center post. If you don’t go for another extra ball, the center post will go away at the same time the hyperspace ramp unlocks it again, so you can have the center post pretty much the whole time.
Priority 3a: NOT MISSIONS YET. Before going for missions you want to hit the 3 sets of drop targets. The first priority is the top left field multiplier targets. It’s easy to keep the ball in this general area, and note that you can multi-task getting the field multiplier up and resetting the side kickers as they’re in the same area. Once you get the multiplier up to 10X, move on to the next priority. 2 minutes later when it drops to 3X, get the ball back up there and get it back to 10X. Note that when you lose a replay and (as per priority 1) go to reinstate the replay and the extra, if the 10X is on the gravity well will give you 1.5M instead of 150K, and the side kickers will give you 200K twice instead of 20K twice.
Priority 3b: You may have noticed that aside from the 500K-1M bonus for completing a mission, there’s also a light above the left kicker’s left entrance that lights up when you complete a mission, and when you hit it, it says «bonus awarded: but it doesn’t award any bonus. SImilarly, you may have noticed that every time you move on to the next ball (not replays) you got a crash bonus of 25k. These values can be increased immensely by getting 3rd (and 4th) level lights on the center and right drop targets. I believe it records how many points you score (including multipliers) while that level is on, and awards you that bonus (but it decays over time) every time you complete a mission or lose a ball. I forget which target set does which, but you just want to build both of them up.
Priority4: Missions. For me, missions are a way of staving off mental fatigue from how long expert games take (as well as F3 to pause and step away for an hour or so.) After 2 or 3 hours of 1.)constantly replenishing replays and extras 2.)keeping the field multiplier up and 3.)constantly adding to the bonuses for missions and lost balls, you need a game-within-the-game to keep it fresh and focused. To me, these are the purposes of the missions.
So while you’re first prioritizing extra balls (without consistent center posts) and then focusing on missions will get you to fleet admiral more quickly, your score could go up immensely if you first prioritize refreshing your replay and getting one extra ball per replay, then keeping the multiplier up, then establishing mission and ball bonuses for your never-ending supply of extra balls. And use missions to help keep your head in the game.
Витя, перестань ты хейтить XBOX, взрослый мужик, а все херней занимаешься. С играми на XBOX все отлично (не веришь, проверь), у Свитча проблемы с играми, но ты про это почему то не говоришь в каждом видео, напоминай нам об этом каждый раз, уж будь добр быть объективным. А контент у тебя очень годный, смотрю всегда тебя, спасибо за это
How were you able to clear two promotions at the same time at the end of the run? I’m still slightly confused on how the levelling works depending on what mission you clear lol. Grats on the under 20 minutes run!
you’re still playing pinball?
Its hard to find people who enjoy this game in 2019, but im a player too. My strategy is exactly like yours.
I found the other two demo versions for download other day.
Anyway, Nice to know man.
Спасибо за видео. я вот посмотрев его скачал себе официальный zen pinball и меня зацепило ненашутку теперь я немогу отлепиться от этого приложения но платный стол под названием pasha меня впечатлил ещё больше.