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Quoted from rosh:I assume you do have flipper buttons on the machine. Guessing someone just tossed those on a desk and they somehow ended up landing in a coin box. Go Blue!!
Yeah machine plays great! flipper buttons didn't cross my mind as they are fine.
My shooter lane gate busted and while waiting for the new one I've seen the ball go back down the shooter lane a number of times. It might get kicked out by a ball search (I've not waited long enough to see), but seems to me it should just auto-launch if the ball ends up there during play. While in single ball play it is obvious to plunge it back out, but during multi-ball, if a ball goes airborne and lands in there will it auto-launch then? Seems like then it should auto-launch for sure. Can this be changed (or is it already in the next version) so it always gets auto-launched?
Quoted from rosh:When I first heard that most games lose settings, including pricing, when updating I didn't believe it. What I have heard, is that some operators don't update code on their machines, since they don't want to set back up pricing, etc. I guess it is possible that we could have some update that would for some reason require that, but we already have support for saving settings to a usb stick and then re-importing them, so hopefully that would minimize the pain.
As a side note, you can also just save your settings on the machine and then restore them back. So for example if you decided to change a bunch of settings, for a party or league event, you could first save your current settings, switch over for the event, and then load your original settings back.
Seems to me like the release notes and website where it tells you how to install an update should include instructions on how to save and restore your settings. I think that would go a long way towards making people comfortable to doing the update. Since it isn't mentioned in those notes that it is even possible you aren't making people aware that they could do it. I know with our software, new features don't get used very quickly unless we pop up windows to tout them. Just having them documented isn't enough. I know I would like to see the notes revised with the proper steps included in them so I don't have to hunt for them every time I do an update.
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