Hey Pinball Fans!

Our next update is here, just in time for Easter! To celebrate the season of surprises, we’re releasing three new tables: one Deluxe and two Award series additions (including a long-lost gem from 2011). Plus, we're unveiling something special outside the game too…
As always, we appreciate your bug reports and testing. Your feedback helps make the game better for everyone! This update focuses heavily on improving performance and fixing issues.

Here are some major fixes:

• Multi-Screen Crash Fix (PC & macOS). For more details, check out our previous devlog.
  
• Resolved memory leak from Steam overlay.
  
• Improved macOS external display support.
  
• Improved macOS window mode support. Now the Full Screen mode is the Exclusive Full-Screen Mode and the Borderless is the native (green button) full-screen mode.
  
• Fixed In-game UI visibility settings, now the NONE option behaves as expected.
  
• Improved the in-game DMD panel and now hidden in VR.
  
• Fixed borderless mode flickering issue.
  
• Renamed windows for easier use for streamers. Now it's easier to find the game windows with your favourite capture application.

Some known issue:

• On Linux, in Borderless mode, you have to press ALT + TAB twice to work correctly.
  
• There is a not yet found memory leak in our engine. It is possible that the game crashes after 20-30 table changes.

For a full breakdown of all known issues and updates, visit the Bug Reports section in the community forums.

Now, let’s talk about the exciting new tables!

The first table is the Moon Flight Deluxe table which joins our Deluxe series. Based on Zaccaria's 1976 electro-mechanical table Moon Flight, this reimagined Deluxe version takes the spirit of the original and launches it into the cosmos with a modern twist. Get ready for a dazzling journey through space, complete with vibrant visuals and a fully remastered soundtrack. Whether you're a nostalgic fan of the original Moon Flight or discovering this celestial classic for the first time, Moon Flight Deluxe is a pinball mission you don’t want to abort.

Prepare for launch… and don’t forget to check the engine before you leave orbit.

Next on the crime list straight from the vault is the Gangsters table, which is an unreleased original table we began developing way back in 2011. For years, it sat forgotten on the shelf, but now we’ve dusted it off, retooled the rules, and brought it back to life.

Step into the shadowy world of 90s underworld legends, where loyalty is currency and power can only be earned in one way. In Gangsters, you'll place your bets, crack the safe, arm yourself and climb the criminal ranks with scores. How to get this table? Earn it the hard way by reaching 2,800 achievements, or get instant access with the Zaccaria Pinball - Achievement Table Pack DLC and step straight into the shoes of a true kingpin.

This ain't all, pal. The gangsters busted open the Magic Pixel vault, and now with 2,800 achievements, you ain't just getting 1, but you're getting 2 free goodies! Double the trouble, double the fun.

And what's the second table, you ask? The second one’s a real wild ride, straight from the streets, get ready for Wild Games!

The last table for this week was originally launched on mobile back in 2012. Now the Wild Games table is back and better than ever. Whether you're into skateboarding, cycling, snowboarding, surfing, or going on a quad, this table has it all. It’s chaos in the best possible way, with ramps, loops, and combos. Wild, just like your teenage spirit.

This is your table, your world. No limits, just raw energy and endless action. So grip it and flip it. Because if you’re not flipping… you're not really living.

For those who love a great soundtrack, the awesome music tracks from these new tables are available separately if you own the Zaccaria Pinball - Original Soundtrack DLC.

And a special surprise is not to be missed.

A small part of our dev team has been focused on reimagining how we present Zaccaria Pinball to the world, building a cleaner, more modern, and easy to navigate platform, not just for the game, but online too.

We're happy to announce that the official Zaccaria Pinball website[zaccaria.magicpixel.hu] is now live!

Got thoughts on the new site? We’d love your feedback! Drop a comment below or join the conversation on our forums.

…. and the last agenda item of the day is some clarification on Steam Achievements.

We’d like to clear up some confusion regarding our Steam achievements for the community as things have changed recently and we've found that there's a lot of misunderstanding.

Due to Steam’s technical limitation on the number of achievements allowed per game, we were forced to make a tough decision. In order to add new achievements for upcoming tables, we had to remove a portion of the existing ones.

But don’t worry, your progress will not be lost, only transformed.

Here’s how it works right now:

All achievements you’ve earned on Steam and not deleted will remain visible on in-game. But this achievement list may change in the future. The removed achievements (let’s temporarily call them Table Tasks) are still stored locally on your device, but they are separate progress from Steam. The Table Tasks are not erased, as long as you don’t delete your local save data. The Achievements menu in each table opens an Achievements List that currently displays a mix of both Steam achievements and the Table Task.

This system is still evolving and we intend to move the Table Tasks to an online-based tracking system, so they’re preserved independently from local files. But for now, as long as you keep your local game data, everything you’ve unlocked, both Steam achievements and Table Tasks will remain just like before.

Thanks as always for your support and whether you're hunting Easter eggs or high scores, we hope this update brings you a basket full of fun.

Happy flipping,
The Magic Pixel Team

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Hey Pinball Fans!

We value your support and feedback, and we want you to know that we’re actively ironing out issues to deliver the best possible pinball experience.

We’ve fixed a crash issue that was affecting some players using multiple screens. After a lot of investigation, we discovered that the problem was related to how the Steam overlay interacts with the game. It wasn’t easy to track down, but the issue has now been resolved. We also addressed a similar problem on macOS. The fix will be included in Thursday’s update.

Thank you for your patience and support as we continue improving the game!

If you're curious about what caused these issues and how we fixed them, we’d love to share a bit more detail. It turned out to be a deceptively simple problem with a not-so-simple solution, and we had to get a little creative to work around it. Here's what happened behind the scenes:

Some of you have reported crashes on setups with a second or third screen. After a thorough investigation, we discovered that the underlying problem was very simple. In addition to this, we want to be transparent about our development process. We do not use the Steam version of our build during development, which meant that we didn’t catch this issue early on. It was only once players experienced the game on Steam that we were able to identify and address the problem.

Steam overlays its interface without distinguishing between the main game window and additional ones. This means that every time our game refreshed the content on any window, the overlay reinitialized itself. This constant reinitialization was causing a memory leak in the Steam overlay’s implementation.

However, the solution to this issue was far from straightforward. With no available API from Steam to restrict or manage the overlay’s behavior, our team had to think outside the box. Instead of refreshing the content on the second and third windows, we reverted to a legacy OpenGL function that updates the content without triggering a full screen refresh. In doing so, we moved away from using double buffering for these additional windows. Instead, we adopted a single buffer setup. By avoiding the full screen refresh altogether, we stopped the overlay from repeatedly reinitializing and switching windows, effectively preventing the memory leak.

We also identified an issue affecting our macOS users. Our Metal implementation was not handling external displays correctly. Since we develop on a MacBook Air (M1, 2020) without an external display, we had only been verifying the built-in screen.

Meanwhile, we saw a memory leak problem in our macOS implementation.
This fix was not easy, as it involved debugging across multiple programming languages (C++ and Objective-C). Once we identified the root cause, we were able to address the issue successfully.

Happy flipping,
The Magic Pixel Team