Picked this up on Saturday, outstanding game. Really stands toe to toe with the best from JJP, AP, and Stern in all facets. A tough shooter, but I love that. Got to have a mix at home between long and short players, tight shooters and more open, grindy ones. Really sweet mix of songs, too. When I first saw the track list I was all, "it's missing so much classic Coop!" but really every song here is entertaining and plays so well with the modes. "Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever" might be the best song ever in a pinball machine, which is saying something.

A few new owner questions:

- Updated the code to the latest, which reset the high scores, but is there no other way to reset the scores? I've been through the menu 15 times and can't find anything for that, or other common options like limit high score entries to 3 initials, lower/remove match percentage, nothing on LED intensity, etc.

- Speaking of the menu, I don't understand most of the "Machine (Replay)" menu. Backdown amount? Increase amount? Losing threshold? Don't quite understand what these, and pretty much everything else in this menu, does. There's no manual online yet, it seems. Has anyone ever gone through the menu and explained?

- Finally, just looking for some strategic tips. Some games I'm drilling shots, some are brick city, but either way I have that "chopping wood" feeling -- a lot of work for little points. It's all about activating modes, I assume. The modes seem pretty fat here in both points and ball save time, so I assume they're key. A manual! That's the only downside. So many questions, so few answers. Then I wouldn't have to bug Pinsiders with basic new owner questions.

Same here. And since my games are in a basement with an unfinished ceiling, it's easy to stick a clamp light over a pin if someone wants the extra light. Personally I'd just want to light the upper playfield a bit better to show off the castle.

Swapped out those slick, bouncy, purple flipper rubbers (are they superbands?) that came with the game for some generic Stern black ones I had lying around, and my god does The Coop play so much better now. This game is so much trap/control & aim, so being able to trap/control more easily is pretty key. Might trade 'em out for some purple standard or purple silicones at some point, but either way, I'm happy as I was not enjoying the play on this lately. The music and art package is top notch, but play wise, you need to be in the mood for a fight. People say Houdini is hard, but it's minor leagues next to Coop. Even good tournament players who come over to my house are like "Eh, I don't feel like wrestling with this" and play something else.

If any of those four aren't spoken for, or you're gauging interest to make more, you can definitely count me in for one. I love the way this looks.

Haven't seen it mentioned here or on Spooky's site, is it alright to install this latest update if I haven't done 1.1.0.0 from Feb. 4 yet? I assume so since it isn't mentioned, just want to be sure.

Enjoying the update. Only about 6-7 games so far but I like how it plays, the new animations, definitely a lot snappier overall. Seems like the lighting has changed as well (for the better) but I can't put my finger on how. But as I said above, I didn't do the previous update, so maybe some of this was there already.

Two problems though:

- The game still resets after game over or after high score initials entered. The backglass goes dim, the LCD goes dark, and Alice's closing line is cut off after a word or two. Happens 100% of the time.

- My Danesi lock is going crazy. When a new ball is put into the shooter lane, the drop target will keep going up and down. So in one way it's easy street, I can just stand there and watch the game reward me a skill shot then a crypt multiball, but yeah, obviously it's not supposed to do this. Not sure if a glitch with the code or something mechanical on my machine, but this is the first time it's been happening. Happens about 50% of the time a new ball is put in the shooter lane.

Oh, balls. Maybe this is why I got some glitches in my update, I had the USB stick in when powering on. I was going to re-run it tonight anyway, now I suppose I'll try the right way.

My crypt lock is still going apeshit but I haven't been underneath the table yet to check it out. I think I figured out the other problem though. When I have match off in settings, Alice's game over call out gets cut off mid-sentence every time. However when match is on it goes through the match animation, then Alice's closing call out in full, then does a quick little lights off reset thing. So that's fine.

Is anyone else playing with match off but not getting Alice's closing call out cut off? I really hate having match on for any of my machines.

Yeah, good question. Was thinking of putting pinstadiums on my ACNC, but reading through this thread on the subject it sounds a bit tricky, unless you just plug into a service outlet (which I don't remember this game having?) or run a plug out of the bottom of the cab. If anyone who put Pinstadiums on this game wants to comment, it's appreciated.

There are a lot of "how to build LED strips" videos out there, for pinball and otherwise. I just noticed last night this guy has a lengthy video on how to build them:

And how to install them:

I only skimmed through so can't really vouch for the videos, but they seem well done.

This is how it went for me, too. Didn't really care about Pinstadiums, I'd just use a tap light or something mounted above my super dark games (WoZ and ACNC), but the used AIQ I bought recently came with a set of Omegas, and damn, what a difference. I played some Wonka directly after Avengers last night, and was like "what is that greyish lump moving around the playfield? Is that the ball?" They're overpriced, IMO, but their effect is dramatic at least.

This one is driving me nuts, I've had this problem for months now and it's made my game unplayable as the drop target will keep going up and down, rewarding points and sending out multiballs until the game either crashes or loses track of balls/scoring. Spooky sent me a replacement opto for the crypt but it's the wrong one. Zooming in with a camera phone, I think, maybe, possibly, there's a frayed wire from one of the optos touching metal. Maybe. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned something about bending the drop target assembly to get it to align correctly with the opto, but that seems a little vague (or my memory of that post is vague). Reseating connections sometimes works for a ball or two. Doing drop target tests in settings also works for a ball or two. Just waiting for the correct optos before I take stuff off to get in there, although it's a long weekend, maybe I'll mess around anyway. Weird that it's false triggers instead of no triggers, which is what usually seems to happen with dead or dying optos.

*Speaking of the wrong opto, if anyone from Spooky sees this, I sent an email to Morgan early this morning about getting the right opto, but no response. It's a busy week, perhaps people aren't in the office at Spooky today or this week, I'm just checking to make sure Morgan still works there or if I should contact someone else. Thanks.

Oh no. What potential solutions are you looking into now? A ball ejecting into the shooter lane is a common culprit to start the crypt lock misfiring for me. I'm so good at this game I don't even have to launch the ball to get the skill shot and crypt multiball.

Any way to know what code I'm on? I can't find it in any of the menus, nor does it seem to be on any attract screen. It's gotta be somewhere but I'm stumped or oblivious. I assume I'm on 1.1.0.5 (the latest) but I don't know that for sure, and I also can't find a log of code update history on their site.

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So should the code version be on this screen or it just changed looks? I'm pretty sure there were Fang Club screens on older code, but this does look different as far as I can remember. Oh well, I'll just download and install it, only way to be sure.

Just to answer my own question and put the info out there in case anyone needs it, under 1.1.0.4 (and earlier?) there wasn't any way to know what code you were on except during a boot up screen, under 1.1.0.5 it says so on the top of the settings screen.

Yes, same problems here, I got new optos from Spooky (wrong ones, though, had to unscrew the opto from the mount and install it on the original opto mount) and those seem to have fixed the issue. Well, technically me and my friend only did the right side crypt opto and not both, since it seems like the whole upper playfield needs to come off to get to the left side one. Might as well try the easy one first and see if that fixes things, was his wise idea.

Last time I played I was getting a ball count error, but don't think it had to do with the crypt. Wasn't the same "crypt lock triggering for no reason" problem, anyway. The fix was done sometime last fall but I'm not sure how many games since. 20-25? Enough to assume the problem fixed. Was planning on playing 'Coop again soon so I'll let you know.