Pinball Challenge Deluxe

Pinball Challenge Deluxe
Developer: Binary9 Studios Publisher: Ubi Soft Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in EU: July 5, 2002 This game has unused code.

A GBA compilation of the classic Amiga (and then everything else) pinball titles Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Challenge Deluxe puts pinball in the palm of your hand! Tilt it as much as you want!

Save Support

While the game as published by Ubi Soft is unable to save the player's high scores or options, this is a limitation entirely enforced by hardware. According to Stewart Gilray, Binary9's director of development, this was likely a cost-cutting measure by the publisher:

We created the game to allow saves etc, but for some reason, I'm guessing budgetary, Ubisoft at the last minute decided to NOT manufacture the game with EEPROM save memory.

If run through alternative methods to the commercial cart (emulation, flash carts, etc.) the game will indeed save, just as originally intended.

Oddly enough I encourage people that play it to play it on a backup cart just so to allow saving.

(Source: Stewart Gilray)