Arcade Paradise - run your own arcade while pretending to do laundry! (Switch/PS5/Xbox/PC)

[Eighthours]

1 hour ago, Monkeyspill said:

That’s it. When you open it up it’s called “sound recorder” and won’t close.

 

At least that’s how it is for me on PS4/5.  It might be fine for other versions.

That was OK for me on Switch.

[cassidy]

I'd really like my gopher game to have gophers. It's a hell of a bug. 

[Eighthours]

2 hours ago, cassidy said:

I'd really like my gopher game to have gophers. It's a hell of a bug. 

Close Arcade Paradise completely. Reload. Gophers!

[instasis]

I had no idea how much extra cash tinkering with price/difficulty per arcade could net you, especially once you've clocked off a few goals and made a machine more popular.

[LaveDisco]

So I’m getting tempted by this. I could get it on X, PS5, switch or steamdeck. Any standout versions? I’m tempted by switch for easy docking but worried about the performance. 

[Eighthours]

1 hour ago, LaveDisco said:

So I’m getting tempted by this. I could get it on X, PS5, switch or steamdeck. Any standout versions? I’m tempted by switch for easy docking but worried about the performance. 

Handheld is so useful. Switch doesn’t run as well as the others but it’s still fine.

[Not Thread Owner]

8 hours ago, LaveDisco said:

So I’m getting tempted by this. I could get it on X, PS5, switch or steamdeck. Any standout versions? I’m tempted by switch for easy docking but worried about the performance. 

No performance issues here on the Switch. Lots of (mostly benign) bugs though - most of which have been fixed on PC now. Completed it this evening and none of them broke it for me.

[Monkeyspill]

The only reason I got it on ps5 is that my joycons don’t work, so I’d have had to play it on the telly anyway. Handheld would be better.

[LaveDisco]

Great. Thanks everyone! 

[Siri]

Got to the point where cabinets are starting to cost 10k+. It's a bit of a grind with cabinets taking two days even with futzing the machine settings, but I'm getting there. I'm a bit concerned how long this will drag out, though - even after this wave of machines, I still haven't seen the lightgun game from the title screen.

 

The table football game is a bit of a banger, though.

[cassidy]

I'm at the same stage as you. No longer have any washing machines just pure arcade paradise. Have you been doing the goals? Some of my games rake me in £250 every few hours. 

[Not Thread Owner]

Yeah, shouldn’t be taking two days to get a new cab near the end of the game. I got the final few two at a time!

[Not Thread Owner]

44 minutes ago, Siri said:

The table football game is a bit of a banger, though.

Unless you try and skip the goal replay, because that breaks the camera.

[Siri]

I think I'm getting around 7k a day at the moment, although that's skewed by leaving the second I either finish all the tasks in the to-do list or it's a load of bobbins. In reality, it's probably 10k if I really catch onto something.

 

Or play a round of pool and spend an entire in-game day malding over the physics.

 

I forgot to mention - the golf game is also great.

[Stejay]

I'm playing on the Switch and I think I have missed something.  Is there a way to transfer funds to the auction site that I am missing?  Everything time I try to buy something, it just tells me I have insufficient funds.  No problem with buying arcade cabinets though.

[Orion]

39 minutes ago, Stejay said:

I'm playing on the Switch and I think I have missed something.  Is there a way to transfer funds to the auction site that I am missing?  Everything time I try to buy something, it just tells me I have insufficient funds.  No problem with buying arcade cabinets though.

 

The auction site uses different money, pounds not dollars which you earn through doing they daily 3 To Do tasks.

[Stejay]

7 hours ago, Orion said:

 

The auction site uses different money, pounds not dollars which you earn through doing they daily 3 To Do tasks.

 

Thank you.  I'm away from home at the moment and playing handheld and missed the differences.

[Not Thread Owner]

Might want to hold fire on buying upgrades - the update (due any day now) makes them cheaper.

[instasis]

ANNOYING.

 

I'm starting to burn out on this. Some of the Goals on the games don't fire - I've 100% a song multiple times on the dance game and it won't give me that one, now Not-Bubble Bobble won't give me the "drop 13 bubbles at once" award - and I've switched it off and on again. I've just bought the Whack-a-gopher as the last arcade from that group and have an investment opportunity too now.

 

I've finally started giving up on washing - it seems to have strangely gotten busier now that I've shrunk it down! The arcades are pulling close to £6k a day though, so it doesn't really give me a boost any more.

 

I reckon I'll keep going until I hit the credits, but I think I'll be ready to be done then.

[Monkeyspill]

12 minutes ago, Pelekophoros said:

ANNOYING.

 

I'm starting to burn out on this. Some of the Goals on the games don't fire - I've 100% a song multiple times on the dance game and it won't give me that one, now Not-Bubble Bobble won't give me the "drop 13 bubbles at once" award - and I've switched it off and on again. I've just bought the Whack-a-gopher as the last arcade from that group and have an investment opportunity too now.

 

I've finally started giving up on washing - it seems to have strangely gotten busier now that I've shrunk it down! The arcades are pulling close to £6k a day though, so it doesn't really give me a boost any more.

 

I reckon I'll keep going until I hit the credits, but I think I'll be ready to be done then.

Some of the goals fire multiple times. Due to a bug, I ended up with more than £1,000 for the upgrade shop.

[cassidy]

2 hours ago, Monkeyspill said:

Some of the goals fire multiple times. Due to a bug, I ended up with more than £1,000 for the upgrade shop.

One bug i never got sadly. 

 

Current bugs for me are bugai won't work I start the game and it says game over and you can't play.  Have to restart and quit game to get it back.

 

Table football whatever you do, don't skip replay cos the camera angle fucks up. 

 

Jukebox just doesn't register any goals at all. 

 

Hope the first patch fixes these. 

[Not Thread Owner]

2 hours ago, Pelekophoros said:

ANNOYING.

 

I'm starting to burn out on this. Some of the Goals on the games don't fire - I've 100% a song multiple times on the dance game and it won't give me that one, now Not-Bubble Bobble won't give me the "drop 13 bubbles at once" award - and I've switched it off and on again. I've just bought the Whack-a-gopher as the last arcade from that group and have an investment opportunity too now.

 

 

You mean not-Puzzle Bobble

 

But that's a bug fixed in the update.

[Not Thread Owner]

Full patch notes (from the PC version - there may be more things fixed in the console one, I assume):

 

Patch Notes :

 

UI Fixes

- UI scaling issues fixed on Steam Deck, Ultra Wide, and less common aspect ratios/resolutions

- Fixed Windowed Mode UI cropping
- Fixed FOV Slider displaying over two lines
- Field of View in the PDA was hard to edit with M&KB. Fixed.
- 'Objectives Done' UI could show incorrect values when first shown. Fixed.
- Various PDA UI fixes
- Monospaced the Leaderboard scores for easier reading
- Fixed some issues with too many decimal point numbers appearing on PDA
- Credits now render correctly in 4K
- Credits updated to include some absolute legends
- Improved a number of text and UI issues on the PDA menu where fonts would render at the wrong size or elements would appear too dark on the “Goals” menu
- Changed font on bank balances to make them more legible at lower resolutions
- Resized Jukebox album covers so they all appear correctly scaled
- Changed text kerning on email browser so that emails can be larger without being cut off

 

Tasks and Goals

- Zombat 2 Sniper rifle goal tracks correctly
- Zombat 2: To do - "shoot 300 bullets in one life in Zombat 2" now resets at start of day
- Racer Chaser: Complete 3 Levels task in Racer Chaser now works
- Vostok 2093: To do - Destroy 100 enemies in vostok 2093 now tracks correctly
- UFO Assault - "Destroy 500 building floors" goal now functions as intended
- Championship Darts - "Win with a 6 dart finish" goal now functions as intended
- Strike Gold: "Destroy 1000 tiles in Strike Gold" to-do now functions as intended
- Cyberdance goal - complete a song on cyberdance without missing a beat made easier and now triggers correctly
- Bomb dudes - have all powerups active at once goal now triggers correctly
- Line Terror: "get a score of 1250 on line terror" fixed
- Line Terror "complete 3 stages in line terror" todo made easier
- Meteor Madness - "collect 10 diamonds" was looking for 20. Fixed
- K&K "Eat 15 apples in snake" goal now tracks
- K&K - To do - KO 50 enemies in Knuckles and Knees now works
- Toad and Turtle: Complete a level in toad and turtle without moving left or right now works, and made easier
- Bugai - Throw 13 Bubbles to your opponent now working correctly
- Thump-A-Gopher: "Hit woodguy 10 times" wasn’t completable due to resetting on each playthrough. Fixed.
- Blobs From Space - defeat motherships now tracks
- Jukebox Goals and playtime did not have an effect on income. Fixed
- Jukebox Goals tracked but did not save progress. Fixed
- To Do 15 laundry loads was reduced to 7 to be more achievable
- Achievements should now all trigger correctly
- Multiple other Goal and To-Do tracking fixes
 

Arcade Machine Fixes and improvements

- Arcade machines now receive the correct amount of money at the end of the day
- Racer Chaser - Leaderboard score now accumulates correctly
- Woodgal Adventure: Coin hopper is now easier to select
- Woodgal's Adventure inventory items now save correctly. (But note that you have to use the Save Points for this to work. Will be fixed in later patch)
- Table Football - Fixed Camera getting stuck in replay mode after replay is skipped
- Table Football - Footballers rotate while on pause
- Bugai: The first time you try to play on each new boot it wouldn’t accept input. Fixed
- Woodguy golf - golf arc was not showing up on some platforms. Fixed
- Bomb Dudes - Enemy corpses no longer kill the player
- Thump-a-gopher: Gophers were not always appearing. Fixed
- Space Race - Fixed issues with craft not being able to move, and UI showing negative numbers.

- Communists from Mars explosions have been tweaked to make getting chains easier

- Darts - Alex's character had some graphical issues. Fixed.
- Blockchain - Issues with placing blocks on the top most row have been resolved.
- Blockchain - Player could get blocked after filling board and placing last block with one move left. Fixed
- Air hockey - if “Allow Multiplayer” is disabled in the Front End then it would not work properly on first play. Fixed.
- Stack Overflow - >100 minute games would display the wrong time. Fixed.
- Multiple crash fixes across all games
- Improved glow particles on Woodgal Adventure and Thump-a-gopher
- Blockchain cabinet instructions have been re-written

 

General Fixes and improvements

- The notification for holding over $5000 was very distracting when collecting more money. Disabled.
- Multiple instances of hard-to-collect trash fixed
- Including the Crushed Cans on the window-sill (you know the one!)
- Multiple instances of hard-to-collect, misplaced, or floating gum fixed
- Rival emails - Attack Vector - Was only showing 4 emails instead of 5
- Rival emails: ‘Unread’ state wasn’t saved. Fixed
- Rival email reward pictures could only be opened once. Fixed
- Laundry baskets now randomise in colour when spawned
- Player could pick up two washing baskets causing first one to disappear. Fixed
- Player was able to disable some of the upgrades that should be permanent. Fixed.
- Rare issue where you could not collect laundry after the tutorial. Fixed.
- Idiot's guide to PC items could disappear from desktop after purchase. Fixed.
- In the first shrinking of the laundrette there was a metal basket holder which made the washing machine inaccessible. This has been removed.
- It was possible to freeze time by existing the Safe. Fixed.
- Crash when looking at Music player with all extensions unlocked fixed
- Pixelated NPC eyelashes were not disappearing in some situations. Fixed
- Some missing collision in several of the levels was fixed
- Fixed some issues with the Map, Tutorials and VO
- Multiple crash and progression blocking fixes
- Increased interaction distance to improve item picking
- Characters now begin to glow as they appear/disappear
- Reduced bloom and exposure on some platforms to improve performance and increase legibility
- Grunge male character was using wrong eyelash material.

- Many of the player upgrade prices have been reduced to make obtaining them easier

- Improved Skyboxes to increase performance

[Not Thread Owner]

 

[instasis]

Well, it's fixed the goals that wouldn't trigger. However, it's broken my laundrette - I'd saved and quite out before the patch hit, and had 3 machined washing and 3 machined drying. They now all still have the baskets by them, but no clothes in them, and they're not running a cycle.

 

Gonna see if I load over them today, but it's a bit shit to have ~20% of my revenue scuppered.

 

It also reset my emails to unread, and the emailed challenges are a bit broken ("hey you beat my 182! Try beating my 183!" Is a poor response to me getting well over 200 on Woodgirl Jr).

 

It's also weirdly made the hoppers even harder to highlight, which is frustrating.

 

I've got two expansions left to do. I did the investment but chat cut off quicker than it had previously too so I have no idea what happens there now.

 

Feels like I need to wrap this up before they patch more broken things in. 

[Monkeyspill]

Have they fixed the bug where you can’t reach the washing machine behind the trolley? I got caught out a few times holding washing but being unable to load it in the only free washer. The only solution was to quit out of the game.

[Orion]

My jukebox goals are all still stuck. Bit of a shame as the buying new songs thing seemed fun but I've gone back to ignoring it again. 

[Not Thread Owner]

11 minutes ago, Monkeyspill said:

Have they fixed the bug where you can’t reach the washing machine behind the trolley? I got caught out a few times holding washing but being unable to load it in the only free washer. The only solution was to quit out of the game.

 

That's one of the things on the fix list, yes, so I'd expect so.

[Eighthours]

Hurry up, Switch patch!

[wullie]

I'm glad you get a random selection of 'to do' tasks because one of them was to get 200 points on Woodgal Jr so I just turned the game off entirely. I think 16 is my best score, the game makes me panic too much to get on with.