Pinball

Pinball
Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D1
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Virtual Console, NES
Release date(s)	NES JP February 2, 1984 NA October 18, 1985 EU January 9, 1986 Virtual Console NA November 19, 2006 JP December 2, 2006 EU December 15, 2006
Genre(s)	Pinball
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods	Wii Remote, GameCube Controller, Classic Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	FACE01, FACP01, FACJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Be a pinball wizard, right in your own home! Bank off bumpers, flip double-flippers - even win a bonus round - in Nintendo's lightning fast Pinball! You'll have the time of your life as you flip from upper to lower game screens, rack up points to beat your opponent, and, if you're lucky, progress to the bonus round where you'll save the falling maiden in this video version of the real thing!

NES Global Problems

Problems that may occur with any NES title on Dolphin are listed below.

DirectX with NES Games

Most NES games suffer strange graphical issues when using the DirectX backend with some graphics drivers; notably NVIDIA. This is a driver bug.

NVIDIA Title Corruption

As of 5.0-4869, the D3D driver bugs can be worked around by setting Ubershaders to Exclusive/Synchronous (Ubershaders). It's unknown what exactly is going on with the driver that's causing Exclusive Ubershaders/Synchronous (Ubershaders) to work properly.

This seems to have been rectified at some point, though it's unclear what resolved it.

Problems

This title does not have any additional game-specific problems.

Configuration

This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Pinball since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

5.0

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5.0-20184 (current)

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
4.0-8445	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Works OK. Requires EFB2RAM.	JMC47
5.0-953	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	Perfect. No requirement for EFB Copies to RAM.	JMC47