Stern Pinball Arcade Hack 1.1.8 + Redeem Codes

The tables play ok. The app did crash a few times when first downloaded, but I’ve since shut down and rebooted my phone and the problem seems less apparent. The physics are good, and there are always at least two free tables to play, often with a selection of several others. My biggest complaint is that I can’t see the DMD display on any cabinet due to the notch on the screen. Even ones where I would of been able to see it I can’t because they put a mini display that is almost the same size over it, so it gets blocked then it blocks the screen underneath it. There’s no option to turn off or move the redundant display either. Notched phones have been out for awhile now, and the solution is pretty simple, give an option to move the floating DMD, like a drop down menu with some options maybe. Why couldn’t of this of been fixed by now? The app is good, but not being able to see the dmd kills the immersion for me. I don’t know my score, what goals I need, or even what ball I’m on. I played the Star Trek table (which is pretty good), and my ball disappeared and had to relaunch it so I thought I drained it, and it turns out I had hit a goal instead. The dmd is pretty important, so not being able to see it really needs to be fixed if they expect anyone with a newer phone to buy any tables.

There doesn’t seem to be any in-app purchases for the tables I really want to buy like AC-DC and Star Trek for my iphone anyway. I’m running iOS 13 something on a iphone SE first edition for reference.
There are a number of free tables that are pretty good, and the purchase packs are reasonably priced. I guess the games I want just require too much work to get the sound working beyond table noises on IOS. If they did, I’d give it 5 stars!

STAR TREK especially....GOES WHERE NO PINBALL TABLE HAS GONE BEFORE! This Star Trek table is the BEST PINBALL TABLE I HAVE EVER PLAYED, and I own all of your PA and SPA tables! $9.99 for one table is a bit high. I've obviously been a loyal customer since I own all of your Pinball Arcade tables. I've been paying $4.99 as each one has come out. And $4.99 is plenty per table, especially when Zen Pinball charges usually $1.99 per table and sometimes $0.99 per table. Granted your costs are probably higher than Zen's. But now to ask almost $10 per table seems a bit too much. Look, I love what you guys do. I'm sure it takes tremendous work to do what you do. You should be applauded...and thanked. At $4.99, I will continue to be a loyal customer. As far as your tables themselves go, Stern and Pinball Arcade is unsurpassed! Brilliant work! One thing on the AC/DC table though, I have the camera set to roam, but when the ball is at the top, the camera remains fixed. I would like to see the top of the table a bit too. That's all...kudos to the best gaming on IOS!

Update October 2017. Ipad Air running v11. No update from Farsight since my last posting a month ago. Still unplayable because the data box is virtually unreadable. This is not a user error. I have tried all brightness settings. Piball Arcade looks fine. It is only the Stern app, and it is on EVERY table. What a shame, if this was fixed I would give it 6 stars if I could. That is how good this should be. Come on, I paid my money. Fix this!!!

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Huge fan of both apps. Have all tables. Dont play this at all as the score and info box is much too dark, so much it is basically unreadable. Has been that way for months. Dont you play your games? How could you miss this, and then not fix it immediately your customers have told you? I am not the firsto notify you. I would be furious if I was Stern. It is unplayable.

Update: Still not fixed, and new poblems arose. The biggest one is AC/DC doesn't work any more. You guys have great talent, but you are spreading yourself way too thin. You are supporting too many platforms with few too programmers (ouya, really). Tables are released every single month on Pinball Arcade with obvious bugs, making it appear they are released before final testing. You may think people would rather have a table a little buggy but every month, then have to wait longer for a bug free version, but I assure you we will wait. My guess is you need the revenue monthy, but I decided I am waiting now until I hear the tables work right.

For reasons unknown, access to all in-app purchases has been removed. All the free tables are available but there is no place to purchase tables. I can see a button to restore purchases in the options menu, but that is the only place in the app where purchases are even mentioned.

I’d also like to share my grievance where many of these tables were ripped from a perfectly functional app and placed into a new app with completely sub-par shell that uses the exact same engine. Some of which I paid for previously and will likely end up now paying for again. (Something I believe the owners of these pinball IPs were counting on.) :(

That said; hey FarSight, why are the features in this app so utterly lacking compared to TPA?

Gameplay - Great physics and good table recreations. I love the gameplay.

Observations:
- In the main shell, there are two tables in a banner labeled “Free Tables”. Beneath this is a scrollable list of 11 free tables, which include the same two free tables from the banner. When scrolling through the list of 11 tables, you are presented with duplicate links to the two tables shown in the banner above. Just seems like a waste space to show two instances of the same tables.
- No local multiplayer?
- Only 3 gameplay cameras?

It's a great app in that it's a wonderful replica of real tables. There are opportunities to try it a table before purchasing it, and has a good model of feeling like purchasing a full table is worth it. But it's filled with so many game-breaking bugs. Everything from randomly induced game ending glitches to tables not even starting up right. Currently, Star Trek is nearly unplayable as there are no table sounds other than the mechanical SFX, and the DMD only displays box outlines without any animations or gameplay variables. The issue persists through fresh installations of the app and through device reboots. For context, the device is an iPhone 8 running iOS 12.0 . I wish the devs the best of luck in figuring out the bug, and I look forward to being able to play again!

Edit: I can not purchase Ghostbusters, due to network connection error, probably on Farsights end. Please fix and I'll change my rating back to a 4. The next issues is a ball control joystick now present in all games.

Stern makes the absolute best pinball machines and Farsight has done a great job bringing the machines to digital format. No problems purchasing or running DLC table pack 1, however, unable to purchased Table pack 2 resulting in the app just closing. Star Trek and AC/DC are amazing. The lighting effects on the multicolor LEDs in Star Trek are the best I've seen on a virtual game and the sounds are fantastic. It makes me happy that Stern partnered with FarSight. Hi-roller Casino has some artistic errors on both the back glass and table on the backlight portions making words unreadable. Ripley's Special won't light even though it's active.

Gameplay- outstanding flipper physics and acceptable ball physics. No 'english' implemented on ball.

Missing Standard features - No 2-4 player options. Why can't I play this with a friend?
Missing camera angles of firing the cannon view in AC/DC, no events camera option. No pro options like TPA. I want pro tips and the ability to explore the table and view the back glass.

I love Pinball Arcade so, of course, I picked up this spin-off. I like that Star Trek and AC/DC are here but, honestly, there hasn't been enough development for this title. Half of the tables can be found on Pinball Arcade, so there's not much choice. Added to that, buying new tables costs ten bucks which is outrageous.

The PS4 version has been promising Ghostbusters since December (no word on whether the same title will be on iPhone as well) but it's STILL "coming soon". That said, Stern Pinball has had the same ten tables since it's launch whereas Pinball Arcade has managed to put up a new table every few weeks.

I like the app but with no TRON Legacy or Spider-Man or Ghostbusters or anything new, this app is like a blog that's been abandoned by its author. The only thing we get every so often are vague "bug fixes" -- and there's no specific info on which bugs have been fixed. It's just "bug fixes" in the version history and that's it.

The menus are also highly unappealing.

Please make this better. This title has potential and it feels like Farsight has lost interest in the project.

There are only three apps, Williams, Stern PBA, and regular PBA that allow you to play virtual tables. The review from four years ago shows the same issues as 2023. Star Trek sound and dmd don’t work. Mustang crashes upon loading. Same for the challenge. All tables are sized differently and Ripley’s for example is too big regardless of camera choice. The iPhone X I have has my camera bezel obscuring the score so I have to play horizontal on tables like high roller during the video modes.

However, this app is free. You get 10.5 ish modern tables with no stupid nickel and dime grinding like the Williams app. Use this app to decide if a table is worth buying on the regular PBA app is my best advice.

The game is pretty good you get 11 tables to play. Although for some reason the controls are all messed up so you gotta change them in the settings. F works well with me, there’s one thing I don’t understand is the fact that it says free tables above 2 of them, yet all of them are free.
(Also remove tilting, it’s not an intended thing. Your not supposed to do it.