Cumberland, RI
Would love to see you guys at Pintastic New England this year. Dying to play some Houdini!
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3 weeks later
Quoted from pbu:Houdini was at Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo and was *very* playable. I had my equipment with me and thanks to Josh at American Pinball I think we now have the first real gameplay video!:
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To be completely honest, this wasn't a game that was really on my radar until I got the SFGE and saw and played it. This is an extremely well put together machine that plays well, and even with the early code was absolutely intriguing. This is a game I'm going to be keeping my eye on going forward as I'm excited to see where it is by the end of the year.
The reverse the arms thing doesn't help me at all. Everything still feels backwards.
2 years later
Joined the club over the weekend. Beautiful game and so much fun. It’s the only game I’ve ever had where it plays better with longer legs in the front. 
Is that how others have the game set up? I think the guy I bought it from had them all at the lowest setting.
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:huh? Do you mean you have it basically flat?
Joe Balcer designed the game to play more like at about 6 degrees, which would be where all your levelers are screwed all the way up. (assuming you have a flat floor), but this feels a little 'floaty' to most players. Many of us have it set to about 6.2 or so - screw the levelers all the way up, then take the rear legs out about 5-8 threads
Yeah, I’ll play around with it a bit. It’s playing pretty good but when I had the back up higher it seemed like I was getting a lot of rejects on the right ramp. Could be my flipper cool strength too. Thanks!
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:The ramp definitely takes some getting used to - you have to hit it higher up on the flipper than most other games, and as a result it can help to have higher flipper strength. But if you make it TOO strong, you'll get rejects Get the game levelers all the way in, then raise it like I mentioned above. Then you can play with the flipper strength - I believe everybody has raised both flippers a point or two, but you do have to dial in your own game specifically
Will try it that way - thanks.
Just had my first game that I feel pretty good about.
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Loving this game so much! Got to Master Magician for the first time. There was a hilarious amount of text on the screen telling me what I was supposed to do. Think I got a cramp from having my arms crossed for so long. So fun!
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:holy crap that was fast! They've been improving Master magician, but still a ways to go... I think the text is a placeholder, but I always take it like a joke as in "how am I supposed to read all that?!"
One last thing I want to check is the number of extra balls I’m being awarded. I think I got like 3 extra balls on ball one. Too many! Lol
I like the humor in the game... magicians hat shout outs to Spooky, JJP, and Stern.
Quoted from rosh:certainly sounds like it. I'd suggest rascal_h install the pre-set for 'medium' and play that a bit and see how he does, he can always go back to easy, but considering had gotten all jail escapes, which is quite impressive and had 7 stage acts, clearly some skills here. Certainly scores will be high if you get to master magician. He might have also gotten 'The Great Jail Escape' as well.
I'm working on it. Keep in mind, I only have time to work on Houdini code at home, so, that limits the time I have.
Thanks rosh! As someone just discovering this game I appreciated your continued work on it! Loving this game! I will try to up the difficulty. I did get a jail wizard mode where I think was challenged to escape all jails. Had a good game last night where Trunk and Seance were stacked.
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:and maybe remove or replace the inner washer on the shooter rod if that doesn’t feel smooth.
Oh, nice... trying this tonight.
Quoted from MMP:This is the one aspect of the game that I'd like to see changed, or at least give us the option to change in settings. My house loves Houdini but this makes me keep pushing the settings harder each time I reach because it's no longer something I want to reach, which to me is kind of sad for a game to not actually want to achieve the wizard mode. Just let the game continue... players deserve to play the balls they earned.
Kinda agree. I see the reasoning behind it but I couldn’t get GC because game just ended. Would rather have to start over.
With TNA I don’t mind as much because destroying 9 reactors is nearly impossible for a regular player.
That said, I still need to go in and make my settings harder.
1 week later
Quoted from PhantomO:I recall triggering some unexpected resets when I accidentally hit the start button with my knee during an in progress game. Was sitting on a stool.
I can try that to see what happens. Though it wouldn’t explain it resetting all by itself.
Quoted from pinballinreno:Have you checked your wall power? Maybe power going from high to low then high again?
Just an idea.
Might have been the powerstrip I had it on. Haven’t really tested yet but that’s my main suspect. Thanks.
Quoted from zahner:Here is Haldane for the brave of heart:
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Thanks, I’m gonna try to watch of these days.
I love whoever that woman is that they got to do the movie introductions. I can’t see that pic without hearing her voice.
8 months later
Quoted from pinballinreno:Do a cold reboot.
Pull the plug, turn off the power switch, hit the start button a couple times, wait 30 seconds.
Re-plug in the power cord, wait 15 seconds, turn on power switch.
Wait a bit and see if it boots.
If boot is successful wait 30 seconds after boot cycle ends and try to start a game.
Computers can get confused once in awhile, cold reboots sort them out.
Thank you for the advice. I will try that out.
Quoted from pinballinreno:Do a cold reboot.
Pull the plug, turn off the power switch, hit the start button a couple times, wait 30 seconds.
Re-plug in the power cord, wait 15 seconds, turn on power switch.
Wait a bit and see if it boots.
If boot is successful wait 30 seconds after boot cycle ends and try to start a game.
Computers can get confused once in awhile, cold reboots sort them out.
Hmm, still nothing from the monitor. No flashing or anything. No LED lit on top.
Quoted from seenev:It's a single post rubber...
Yeah. I would just buy a post rubber but I don't know where I could get one without a substantial shipping fee.
The service has really been exceptionally bad. They ignore emails and I've had to follow up several times to get acknowledgements and even so, after more than a month, I'm no closer to getting it than when I first asked. It's really dampened my enthusiasm for the game to have started every ball since I got it with a broken skillshot.
I get that this is a difficult time but I've seen several people talk about how their part/accessory orders placed after mine have gone out or been received. At this point I feel like they only send something out if it's a new paid order.
Order a bunch? Every pinball owner should have a drawer full of extra rubbers. What rubber is it? If it’s that big of a deal I’ll throw it an envelope and mail it to you.
Hmm, probably stupid questions.. but
Are there supposed to be any staged balls anywhere? Seems like my game wants to stage one at the ball lock.
Having an issue where at random times I’ll get multiple balls in play when there should not be. This happens when the ball lock opens and releases two balls. Also, I feel like sometimes a ball will appear out of nowhere from the seance scoop.
Maybe I have some optoelectronics or switches that need looking in to.
Thanks!
Quoted from zahner:What game version are you running?
Quoted from rosh:Yes the game will stage balls.
If you are on version 19.4.7 be sure the spotlights, backpanel and backglass brightness are set to 10. If those are set to less than 10 it can result in too many balls released from locks.
If you are on the beta code and this happening then send me logs right after it happens, the quicker the better, so I can try to find it in the log.
Those on beta should be able to use the dimming feature.
Thanks guys. Yes. 19.4.7. I just turned backpanel brightness from 9 to 10. Will see if that helps.
Quoted from LTG:Looks like it was adjusted bent up at the point the red arrow is pointing too.
Can you loosen the screws and move the switch body at all ? Some brackets you can, some you can't.
If not I'd check it with your finger in switch test. If it works there, it probably needs to be bent up a little more at that point. The end pointed up looks like it might be low in the hole if a ball sits on it, not depressing the switch enough.
LTG : )
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Thanks LTG! Wonder if the switch is bad. Even pressing the red button on the switch does not trigger the switch (even in test mode). The only way I can get it to register in switch mode is if I hold a screwdriver across the contacts.
Quoted from brenna98:PM sent, but i'll post my response here too so others have reference:
Inside the micro switch are contacts just like any other leaf switch. Do you have any contact cleaner spray? I've had good luck increasing connectivity by spraying some cleaner on the button of the micro switch, then working the lever with my finger several times.
If that doesn't get it working, submit a ticket and i'll get a new switch out to you: https://www.american-pinball.com/support/service/
Made a trip to Lowes and picked up some contact cleaner. Worked great! Thanks brenna98 and Houdini group!
2 weeks later
Quoted from Audioenslaved:Wow just had a MONSTER game and I didn’t do too much in it either. I managed to get to 4x milkcan multiplier mixed with 2x mode scoring on bullet catch with the left loop as the load shot, trunk multiball AND Seance multiball for a 4.195m score!! Wow just crazy! The only thing that annoys me in this game is my catapult not hitting 100% of the time
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Great score! Whoever had my Houdini before me put some kind of mod in to make the catapult hit 100% no matter what I have the game leveled at. Have never seen it miss. Wish I knew what they did haha.
I think I need to mod my milkcan shot a bit. Somehow the ball defies physics and goes halfway in and then turns around and comes back out the same way. I get so mad when I need it and it spits it right back out haha. Maybe if I put a little clear mylar on the wall it will slow the ball down a bit and let gravity take over.
2 weeks later
Quoted from Tuna_Delight:Here you go:
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Thank you!!!
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