All sounds great.

Sounds awesome

Noticed some of the call outs are uneven in volume...
I have FX on 70 and music on 50.
Some of the speech is incredibly loud, like the girl screaming. Other speech during modes is barely audible. Not sure if some speech is in the music track itself. Have fiddled with amp setting but can't get it right....

Ben,

Is there anything you can do in code to stop some of the cracking in the sound? Charlie said to adjust the FX volumes, but I can find a combination that works good and sounds right. Are there any defaults you can put in code? Or can anyone suggest any settings?

Thanks.

Brian

I like the Season Finale Mode, thought I'll input a side thought. Once you defeat a boss you can't restart the mode so if you don't complete the tour first/before beating the boss you can't get "Season Finale"? Second side note how would you know you qualified the mode? Where would you shoot to start how would you know to shoot that? Or would it just start? Would you have to get to and /or defeat the demon to qualify it?

Sub wizard mode: I can see where starting all 6 bosses could be a little much for qualifying the sub wizard mode. Thought I still think it could be a valid threshold. I see it much like tron Starting all the modes in tron isn't that easy which makes sea of simulation feel great when I get to it as I feel like I accomplished something hard and I don't think I will get to portal. That being said I think just the Photo Ace, MB and Minion Master is to easy a threshold. I mentioned I think Photo Ace is too easy a objective, could be that you need to complete two or three photo hunts to qualify it. That or require photo ace, MB, Minion Master, and two or three of the Ghost bosses. What would this Mode be called? Ghost Graveyard Photo Hunt ^^^ . I feel like it needs to fit the story and I can't think of anything that would tie Photo ace, MB, and Minion Master.

Pause Ball search timer during story line scenes like doctor intro and such. I have a short ball search set since there are some common hang ups and the ball search will kick in before the doctor intro will finish. Which will open the door and kicks the ball up the VUK more or less at the same time the ball auto launches from the story line finishing. Now the game is confused as it still thinks the one ball is behind the door. but both are still in play.

Couple things in there I like or could be expanded on.

Combos: A Super Combo/5-way combo(AMF)/7-way combo(the shadow) that would give you some jackpot or start special scoring or end of ball bonus add on? What is the longest combo you can do with out hitting the same shot twice? Hotel, Doctor, Theater, Scoop? Ohhh "AMH Mini Series Jackpot/Bonus" or "Season 1 Bouns" that way if you repeat the combo you can get the doubled "Season 2 Bonus" and so on. Or Call it collecting the Season DVDs.

Orb roll overs could be spotted by the Wiki (O), Tech (R), and Psychic (B) targets.

Skill Shot awards points but also Advantage. I.E. the Orbs would give you points and complete ORB roll over set (give you 2X), Pops would give you points and x# of hits toward Bar/War ghost, Basement would give you points and spots a letter in Wiki, Tech, and Psychic. The advantage might give you more reason to go for one over the other since the points are all the same. Could increase the advantage for repeat skill shots to the same location, Orbs gives you 3x, Pops gives you double x# of hits to war/bar, Basement gives you 2 letters of each. Might need to include a blinking Orb letter if you select orbs so that you have to not only hit the orb lanes but you have to move the blinking orb letter to make sure you roll over that one. And the Skill shot Trifecta Bonus if you do all three skill shots.

Super Skill Shot? Full Plung, Full Plung plus hold in left Flipper? to any shot? Just Points? any shot qualifies that boss ghost (Prison, doctor, war(center), hotel, theater, bar(scoop)), 3 bank drops 3 bank, Spots complete word (wiki, tech, psychic)?

With adding so much I think trying to finalize what you plan to add and not add first and then getting the larger portions out on V23. Then following up with any would be fixes and easier stuff in a hopefully (pending no bugs) Final V24 later.

One thing I've notices is that sometimes during Photo Hunt, there isn't a flashing lane. Most of the lights are just off. I know I hit one due to the DMD animations. But the lights aren't strobing. A bug? Or a problem on my machine?

Could not Hurt to give the owners what you have done and finish when you can.

Thanks so much for all the work

It is a known issue, typically if the lights are out the flashing shot should be the hellavator ramp, at least it always is on mine. Still don't know what causes it but it does happen.

Also I'm fine with release of what is done as of now and more coming later, as always thank you for the continued efforts to make this game so amazing. I think it is a large factor in earning Spooky the reputation they have in the pinball community and contributes greatly to their success.

My machine does this as well, photo hunt starts but camera lights won't be on.

send v23 once you have it polished a bit, but soon. That will give everyone a chance to find any new bugs and provide some feedback.

Then push 24 this late summer.

Heads up that there will likely be v25 with final small polish. It is inevitable with this many changes that we will discover some small tweaks needed from the new things added.

HUGE THANKS for all this work Ben!!! This should be the precedent for ALL Spooky coders! Deliver the games, and KEEP updating to make things better!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a question and not code related: Anyone have a fix for the ball getting trapped by the lower bumper on the left side?

I vote for release what you have and add a new update later.

Also Ben if you need any testing I'm happy to help.

Add extra rubber to the post back there.

yeah, code

needs a quicker ball search with a few fast pulses starting at that pop. That is the most common stick point it seems. You can change the rubber under there to be a little bigger and it will help. Take off the jump ramp landing thing and you will see what I mean.

So just double up the rubber back there on the post? I can try that.
Thanks Tommy.

double bag it. Have you seen where that girl has been...

Yeah it has worked well for me, and I believe I recommend it to GeneX when he wanted to use his AMH for a tourney and he also reported positive results, its not perfect but it seems to work pretty well. I have over 1300 plays on mine now and only had a ball stick there maybe a handful of times. I've had most of my issues with my scoop but that is only since installing the cliffy....tough call on protection for playfield, or removal for better play.

I removed and put down mylar. All seems to be just fine. Spooky pfs are TOUGH as nails.

I installed the mylar there day 1, but it had already worn through once, and I was starting to get some clear chipping on edge of scoop, but agree other than that the spooky playfield is far superior to other companies right now it seems, just passing their 1,000,000 airball test was awesome.

So can this bug fix make it into V23? I like idea of another update in the Fall with time to evaluate this version.

What do you guys have your scoop set at in coil settings? Mine is at zero now but I had it at 2. I either get the ball SDTM or bouncing off the slingshot post or on the right flipper. It is pretty random. A buddy told me he bent the scoop up and it helped get it consistent on his but I haven't had the same result. My switch also seems to be inconsistent lately so I may need to replace it if I can't get it adjusted correctly.

I have an early run AMH, this happened to me. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the scoop to kick out correctly. Then I noticed there were some broken welds on the scoop. Called Spooky, they shipped me a new one, I had to pay for it. The old one had two welds near the speration, the new one had 4 or 6 where it separated, but the scoop they sent me was reinforced greatly.

Now the ball goes to the right flipper 9 times out of 10.

Thanks. I'll check mine out. I believe mine was made somewhere in the middle or later but not sure.

mine comes right down to the right flipper every time. i will check my settings tonight to see where i am at.

Just remember to write down your settings before updating code so you know where to put them back to

I Doubled up on the rubber and it helps a bunch. Though balls do still get stuck there but now they always get knocked loose during ball search were as with one rubber sometimes it wouldn't.

A memorial weekend update would be awesome!

With all of this adding new stuff I hope that the goal is to make sure its all bullet proof. With a last update in the near future I would much rather the current code be flawless and all we get then a bunch of new stuff that has bugs that will never get fix.

I greatly appreciate the continued support to improving the code. Thanks for all you have done Ben.

Any chance of attract call outs when you hit the start button or flippers with no credits on the machine?

Pretty sure that's what Ben means:

But no mention of start button.

Ahh, of course...

Excited to get the update.

I'd like to see an Easter egg or two added. Like entering moo for a high score shows something funny or holding in flipper button and pushing start, replaces floppy ghost with a cow

OMG Whysnow has a good suggestion!!!!!!

thanks

My door problem is solved. It looks like the white gear attachment plastic piece that screws into the bottom of the door stripped. I replaced it and the servo for 10 bucks and the door works fine.

Three questions tho,

In the doctor mode, I can hear the servo "grinding" when you are trying to hit the door ( with the glass off). I assume that is what re closes the door after a hit. The door servo doesn't "grind" at any other time.

I have been getting a couple of balls stuck in the VUK at one time. If in multiball , you get two balls down there at the same time they will not clear until the one ball you are playing drains. The machine will go into the clear mode after a few seconds. Sometimes it takes two or three clears to get the balls out of the VUK.

My multiball for the Bar Mode seems to go on for ever. the ball save logic keeps brining all the balls back after total draining many times.

You may have a trough switch issue. That was affecting my multiball ball save for awhile basically giving me unlimited ball saves. Had to tinker with them to get them just right. It still concerns me for using the game in any tournaments.

Check switches i know i had adjust some at times. Also check what you have the coil power at for the vuk

Playing the video mode it bugs me how it isn't worth any real points even if you get kinda far into it. Little floating point values or an EB could be added as you get further into it. Might make it more worth while because as is it's not really worth it and half the times it drains of the magnet after.

Hey just getting caught up on this thread. Was at Pin-a-Go-Go this weekend and brought my AMH there and Todd, the one-armed player was there and got to play it for the first time ever with the device Ben made for him - pretty cool!

I also vote for splitting up the update and wanted to share notes from the weekend...

The machine was down two times for separate reasons and got 453 plays over the 2.5 days and 33 second average ball time and 809 minutes played. The first problem was that the servo on the ghost melted down (see pics). we fixed that and it held up the rest of the weekend although I re-set up the machine at my studio and the ghost wasn't turning but I didn't have time to check on that.

The other issue was a 3A fuse blew, which we replaced and that was that. It was down maybe 4-5 hours in total over the weekend as far as I knew (I was in the tournament and ran another tournament, so wasn't around it that often).

There were two stuck balls (one is shown) that a Pinball Medic had to free and that was it. I asked for any input too and overall everyone was really happy with it and I think the only other thing that would be cool is to maybe have a mystery award of "add a tilt warning" or similar. I had the tilt set slightly tight but I've always loved that award that I think only Dr. Dude gives out?

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Thanks for sharing genex, I've never had a ball stick there, but I have gone through the same servo on the ghost. Mine was a results of tightening the plastic down on top of him too much when replacing rubbers. Glad it went well.

that ball stick spot looks like it could be fixed by just switching to the old school rubber nut thing or possibly a smaller height nut in place of the nylon lock nut?

The trapped ball looks like it was caused because the wireform nut over the slingshot plastic has come loose. You can see in the picture the end of the wireform is pushed all the way over to the right. This opens up a gap between the wooden rail and the wireform where the ball got stuck. Normally there is not enough space for a stuck ball.

That nut is regularly coming loose on mine. The post is a little too short and the nylon ring on the nut doesn't bite properly. The wireform moves over like yours did and the ball gets stuck on the slingshot plastic at the wireform exit. I'm going to try replacing the lower nut with a couple of washers.