Originally posted by: gutsman004
If I remember reading it correctly from gamefaqs,levels 5 and 6 have snakes on the inlanes that can eat your ball. But you don't want to advance the table for the most part as it makes things harder and the scoring doesn't increase for each successive table.
I can say that the solar value maxes out at 5 million and if you get multiball,shoot one ball into an eye socket (2x solar value) and shoot the other ball onto the solar ramp while the first one is locked,you'll get a whopping 10 million points.
Also getting vortex multipliers are huge. I'm not sure what it maxes out at,but I've gotten up to 8x. When you first put the ball in play with the plunger,try to get it in the middle hole. That's the vortex. Base value is 100k. So if you have a high multiplier,each shot into the vortex can really boost your score. It resets if you lose your ball though.
The easiest way to do this is to hit the solar ramp and while the ball is trickling down the right side,hit select several times (nudges the ball right) to try to get it in the right slot back to where the plunger is.
Oh and select and start are your table nudging/bumping buttons. Select will nudge the table and ball right,start to the left. Each press will nudge the ball slightly. Just be careful not to tilt the table. Also,if you do advance to table 2,rapidly pressing start and select will free your ball from being eaten by the ball eating blob monster. Usually he will let it go once you see the "danger!" message at the bottom of the table. You can do this for the monsters for the other tables too,but it's harder as you progress.
Hope this helps someone.
Thanks, guts. Those are some good tips. I didn't know most of that!
When I fired this up, I realized I had played this game before, probably as a kid. It must have been a rental. However, my love for Rare Ltd games continues!
