Are you sure that your machine is working correctly?

I have no problems with any of those modes.

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There’s definitely a software issue with Cold Ethyl. I have seen several times when I’m in that mode that when I drop a ball in the crypt from the upper playfield the display says ball saved like I drained a ball. Then it gets stuck and you can’t advance rooms or lock in a monster to battle. Several others in this thread have had also described it.

I only share my observations. You are lucky if you have never faced a disappointing situation like that (see comments #44, #45 or #48) ...and I have no problems at all with any of the optos or switches.

I, too have had issues in Cold Ethyl. It's not common, but then, I still suck playing it.

I guess that depends on the stage you’re in. If you play Cold Ethyl as 1st, 2nd or 3rd - no problem. Otherwise...

Only issue I notice with Ethyl, is once I lock in that mode and I start crypt mb before starting Ethyl, it switches to Igor. This might be what it is supposed to do, but I dont like it.

It could be intentional. But if you reached the laboratory, you will loose the chance to collect a weapon. I don‘t like the switch, too.

Today it happend again. Pit Creature mode started as first monster - after hits in the Scoop and Center Hole (no monster in both, green arrows lit) no monster is recognized when hitting Ethyl Lock several times („not here!“), green arrow keeps on blinking, so obviously no chance to progress in the game, frustrating... so I just wanted to turn the game off, when all of the sudden, the monster was detected in the Ethyl Lock! Couldn‘t believe it, after 5 or 6 hits!

A problem with the optos can be excluded since the Ethyl Lock works 100%.

Does anyone know if fawzma is still working for spooky? Has been awfully quiet for awhile..

Maybe test your subway switches? I had an issue with one of mine not registering regularly which was causing some questionable behavior similar to what you are describing.

I ended up replacing my flakey switch with an MRS switch and it made a world of difference.

...I don‘t believe it‘s a switch issue. When hitting Cold Ethyl, the software reacts in saying „not here“. That means that the ball was detected.

Got it, I missed that part.

Yes, but that switch could be missing the shot and it thinks you hit the left scoop

Actually, this makes sense. There are 2 subway switches and if the right side from Ethyl is not registering regularly, it will think you hit the left scoop as finnflash suggested. The other subway switch is the one for the middle subway entrance and that is the switch that rarely would register on my game. When my switch was not working, I had the exact same thing happening when I would shoot the center subway entrance, it would say NOT HERE and think I hit the left scoop. I also could rarely activate the mystery award light due to my switch not working.

I believe the Pit Creature mode reads from the subway switches, not the upper optos. So even if your optos are 100% working under the crypt, that does not matter when it comes to searching for the Pit Creature. I would suspect your subway switch on the right side.

Correct. You can also see this from dropping down the left lane on the upper playfield. Iirc it'll also treat it as a scoop shot in the mode (at least during phase 2...)

Thanks guys I will check it out...

Thank you @finnflash, Calfdemon and zacaj for this great tip.
The switch in the tunnel under the Crypt was actually the cause! Not easy to adjust, but finally i got it

My apologies to Spooky!!!

I‘m glad that the Pit Creature now works for me too...

Glad to hear you got it working. If the switch gives you more problems in the future, consider the MRS switches that Sonic makes. It is a one-time fix and they work great!

Great!!

Agreed. The forced switch to Igor is a bummer, especially if you worked to get the weapon for Ethyl.

The mode should remain Cold Ethyl after you enable crypt multi ball. They can always disable the Cold Ethyl mode from starting while the crypt multi ball is in effect (like how you can't start Frankenstein Monster mode while in Crypt multi ball).

Since updating to the latest code, the Extra Ball callouts and videos are getting cut off, or just not playing at all.

Had crypt mb running (2 balls in play) and started pit creature.
Shot both balls in the center scoop.
The left (vuk) edit: scoop ejected them both stdm..
Ball saved - one ball returned into play.
From then no pit creature shots registered.. arrows remained green and shots did not register.
I made several, different shots, so it's not an issue with a specific switch not registering.

I hate that left VUK. You think you have it adjusted correctly and the next thing you know it shoots it SDTM. What coil power setting are you guys using on that?

There are no VUK's (Vertical Up Kicker) on ACNC. I assume you are referring to the left scoop?

Yes the left scoop.

Another bug : ball launch at start off ball 3, I let it bounce on the flippers and it drains into the right outlane.
The game now launches 2 balls into play ??

Just had another issue, but it's probably more related to pyprocgame/skeletongame than the specific ACNC code.
I'm on my extra ball (already had a great score...) the ball launches onto the playfield, I hit one of the 3 center targets, and the ball immediately drains.
Somehow the game doesn't realize the pinball has drained.. so it's playing the launch / skillshot music, but not offering a pinball again or doing a ball search after a while
Only option I had was to turn off the machine.

I've had this issue happen to me as well. It's annoying, but when it happens I just open the coin door and manually plunge a ball to the shooter lane so that I don't lose my game.

I’m having an issue with the Drop Target 3… It will go up and down, but when I hit the drop target it does go down but doesn’t register the Frank servo or make that boom sounds like it suppose to? It works some times but most of the time it doesn’t? Does anyone have an idea why?