Hi everyone, longtime lurker, somewhat recent bm66 owner.

I think I've found an interesting bug in the .92 update but haven't been able to verify it on another machine yet. The bug has to do with completing the Mad Hatter minor villain mode, which seems to not only reward you with his ability of replaying minor villain modes but also seems to reward you with Bookworms ability of carrying rewards between balls.

I initially noticed that rewards were carrying ball to ball after beating Mad Hatter but couldn't figure out why for a few games. One particularly good game I earned a high score of 107m on Mad Hatter and at the end it gave me the high score for Bookworm instead despite never even playing Bookworm in that game.

I guess I'm curious to see if anyone else can test this out for me to prove it as a bug?

Ah good, I'm glad they know about it already. I guess I'll miss the lucrative side of this bug, having nearly continuous shame mb is pretty nice while it lasts.

Sometimes the arrow colors are blended but not usually, what you can do is press and hold the lock bar button to switch the focus between modes to the one you want to work on.

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The 4 main villain modes have 3-4 stages, Joker and Riddler have 3, Catwoman and Penguin have 4. There are also alternate episodes for each villain that are selectable before your first plunge that are 1 stage less to fully complete.
There's the Riddler boxing episode, surfing Joker, Eartha Kit as Catwoman, and my favorite call out in the game thus far in the alternate Penguin mode. "Next time we see you Penguin you'll be hollering uncle instead of daddy"

So far they've just filled in the greyed out ones so it doesn't seem likely that they'll add new MVs. Just alternate versions of the same 6 that are featured on the play field. They totally could though and I hope they do.

The saucer up top.

Mine falls to the knuckle of the left flipper, maybe your side to side level is off?

You can select which villain episodes you want before you plunge the first ball when the Batman logo fades out. Press and hold the right flipper to select the villain, then press the left flipper to select the episode. Press and hold the right flipper again to go to the next villain, ect. ect.

To change between active modes on the lcd, press and hold the gadget button for about a second.

I'm not sure on that but I think it's somewhat tied to whatever is on the big lcd.

Looks like the 4th wizard mode is called "gas attack". There is a slot in the high scores for it even though we can't play it yet. Just scroll near the end and you'll see it between batusi and holy multiball.

Maybe it's for completing all 8 major villain modes?

In that there are alternate episodes of each major villain. So 8 major villain modes total.

They take more shots to qualify after the first completion but yes.

I just started going through the sounds on pinbrowser and see a bunch of good tilt callouts, I wonder when we're going to get those? They're under request 50 in the sounds. "Aw gee Batman, I guess I was a little rough." -Robin

I put together a list of all the personalized call outs I found in the browser, here they are in the order they appear in the sound scripts starting at 0x970.

Al, Alex, Andrew, Bob, Brandy, Brett, Buddy, Carl, Charlie, Chris, Dan, David, David, Dennis, Dino, Ed, Eugene, Frank, George, Haarold, Harold, Jacklyn, Jerry, Jim, Jim, Jimmy, Joe, John, John, John, John, Julian, Justin, Ken, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, Lee, Loyd, Loyd, Markus, Mark, Martin, Matt, Michael, Mckayla, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Dale,(?) Paul, Paul, Peter, Peter, Peter, Rich, Rich, Richard, Robert, Ron, Ron, Saul, Scott, Stephen, Stephen, Thomas, Tim, Tim, Todd, Todd, Tony, Travis, Victor, and Victor. The next sample is an adorable personal message to Burt's wife(?) Tracey.

Not the best game ever but I bought Batman 66 as I thought it would go well with my Austin Powers. The gameplay is fairly shallow but the call outs are great.

I haven't done it personally yet but it looks like you can make it longer if you edit the file in pinbrowser.

The gadget will prioritize mode shots from left to right and will only complete shots for the currently displayed mode on the main screen, not for any other modes that may be stacked on the same ramp.

The exception to a stacked shot I've seen is that you can use a gadget for the second bat pole shot when starting Riddler.

I've tried taking the glass off to count the bookworm hits but gave up after 20+.

I think certain minor villain rewards do carry ball to ball. At the time I thought it was a bug but Mad Hatter's reward seems to carry ball to ball. I'd bet that Tut's reward also carries.

Just checked and Mad Hatter does carry ball to ball but Tut doesn't.

Bookworm only being 10 shots now instead of ~20 is quite nice, I completed him for the first time yesterday.

Don't forget the fantastic tilt call outs!

I'm having some fun changing sounds/music in pinball browser. I'll just say that Mr. Freeze is now "cold as ice", and that when I enter my initials I'm "the best around".
Other than those silly things I changed some of the major villain music, added a call out on top of the tilt sound effect and added a penguin laugh on top of the clang crane hit noise.

I haven't looked for the Riddler laugh but it should be in there somewhere. There are so many unused sounds in there. I found the penguin quack sample then exported it and overlayed it with the existing clang sound from the crane. Pinball browser is an excellent tool.

The first numbers after the spk are the number of files, so in this case 3 files = 003. The next three numbers are the file numbers, which should be 000, 001, 002. My .99 files all have the proper full file name so maybe try unzipping it again, otherwise try just renaming the last file to 001.

Also, the 001 file should be about 1,953,360 KB

It's not too hard to figure out but I did end up watching a how to video which helped a lot, I think it was on Buffalo Pinball's youtube page. Since BM66 has a LCD screen you don't have to worry about any of the video stuff as that can't be changed, apparently you can do your own animations and such on a DMD machine though.

Just being able to change the default settings in the code itself is quite nice, for example I set the minor villain selection screen timer to 25 seconds, which is more than the normally available max value. You do have to register pinball browser ($20) in order to edit the sound files but I've found it very much worth it. I did run into some issues trying to get the modified files onto my machine but I can help troubleshoot if you run into the same issues.

You can also edit some of the game text, now my machine has "The Big Cheese" instead of "Grand Champion"

X2 Multiball

The lane multipliers awarded from hitting the commissioner Gordon shot can apply to the bat phone total.

3 hits lights a x2 that can be applied to any lane, (except left orbit) then 4 hits for x3, and up to 7 hits for x6.

By far my favorite silly pinball browser sound change I've done. If I had more modern machines I would likely do this to all of them. I also changed the text of grand champion to "The Big Cheese"

0.99.1 confirmed, haha.

Wow, those are some big rule changes, can't wait to try them out!

It seems the "updates every 2 weeks until we get you there" Gomez quote has finally come true.

There is an option in pinball browser labeled "SLE custom speech" in adjustments, it seems to only be a toggle between 1 and 0. Although maybe changing the default and max value to a higher number might yield some results for non SLE owners? My name isn't on the list, otherwise I might try it out.

I also just noticed a adjustment called photo shoot, I wonder what that is?

Each additional shot multiplier is a higher value than the last with a maximum value of x6, so the real max multiplier is X90!

Yep, as far as I know that's the maximum. Your shot multipliers could be x30, x45, x60, x75, and x90. I'd love to have the x75 on the joker shot and x90 on the penguin shot. That could bring scores up to a trillion points I imagine.

Yeah, just one shot will be x6.

The shots are different for all of them as far as I've noticed. The rewards are the same though with the exception being tut giving you a "main channel" multiplier after completing him a second time and a further multiplier for each completion after. (Default setting up to x5)

I keep meaning to make a rule sheet draft now that we're at 1.0 but haven't been able to find the time.

A progress meter would be great but once you play the modes a few times they aren't too hard to remember. A good thing to know about stacked modes is that you can switch the focus to a different mode by holding the gadget button for a short time. This is important with the new tut multipliers as he only gives his bonus to whatever mode is on the main channel.

Last I checked you do lose the Mr freeze benefit even if you complete bookworm on a later ball. It's a powerful strategy if you do it right so it makes some sense that there is only one way to do it. As far as I know the only way to play a completed villain again is to either complete all the minor villains, or fail at both mad hatters and start all the minors. Greying them all out should relight all of them.

The way I play when going for big points is to always go for bookworm first, if I fail and it's early in the game I'll go for mad hatter next in order to retry bookworm. Even if I fail to get bookworm, Mr freeze is still worth it as far as points are concerned.

Mad Hatter's award does carry ball to ball without completing bookworm.

The 2x from the batpole sequence does last the whole mode but only applies to the shots you make during the mode, this does directly raise the value of the sjp but doesn't give you a multiplier on it. The ways of multiplying the sjp are from the play field multiplier, (3x max) the Gordon shot multipliers, (6x max) and Tut's channel multiplier. (5x max) These can all stack together as well for a maximum of x90!

There are settings that would let you keep them ball to ball but the default is no. Yes, you do get to keep the tut multipliers if you've completed bookworm.

I haven't had that problem at all before or after this update. I'm not sure what to say, maybe try re-installing the update?

Edit: The left Riddler switch or the saucer should award it, for both not to is interesting. Maybe in your settings extra ball is turned off?

Each Tut completion after the first gives +1X. If I understand the code notes right you could beat two Tut's on one ball without completing bookworm, then drain, then complete another Tut on the next ball and your channel multiplier would be 3X.

He has a default max of 5X.

I didn't see it it the release notes so I'm thinking not. (Yet?) It could be just a bug at this point if 3X happened without beating a third Tut.

If you beat 3 Tuts then that's why you had 3X, I did that for the first time a few hours ago. I can't wait until I beat 5 Tuts for that sweet 5X channel multiplier. With 3X playfield every main channel shot would be 15X before shot multipliers!

I just "finished" a BIG update to the rule sheet on tilt forums, go have a look!

http://tiltforums.com/t/batman-66-rulesheet/2463/

Edit: It might be a good idea to make this a key post, or some way to make it visible to anyone looking here for a rule sheet.

I should be done with the minor villain section/walkthrough soon.

Awesome, thanks for your input! I just tested the tut award carrying ball to ball because last I checked (pre 1.0) it didn't, thanks again!

I guess I didn't count points awarded so it's possible it does multiply it, I guess I'll run a test now.

Edit: I wasn't sure about Mad Hatter 2 at least, I thought you wanted to avaoid the pink "radioactive" shots. Turns out that's not the case.

Welp, never mind it is applied to SJPs, it's just not displayed in the cliffhanger screen. Now we know for sure.

It might be a mix of pink and blue, but it seemed like less shots by just going for pink shots. I did test the mode twice with the glass off but didn't go too deep as I was doing a quick test of all the minor villains.

I'm pretty sure it was all created or re-created for the game. Even blue-ray remasters of the show seem to lack the same modern quality of the music used in game.

They mentioned the code was 1.01 near the beginning, the only difference I noticed was that bat turn displayed total points at the end of the mode.

Edit: I see now that Mr Freeze's second wave is different as well. Lyman also mentioned changing the 1st wave shots so that falling in the scoop isn't a penalty.

You can change the music with pinball browser. ($20)

I changed my high score screen music to 80s montage music, specifically "you're the best around" as made famous by the Karate Kid film. Not very fitting with the theme but it makes me grin every time it comes on.
I've also replaced most of the major villain music but it can be tough as most of them are looped clips of around a minute long, meaning it takes a bit of audio editing get get things right. The second Riddler mode is the toughest as it loops to a point halfway through the song so you need a matched tempo for it to loop properly.

You can go to sound scripts, then search for 0x970, all the files under that will be the custom call outs.
It should still be there but sometimes the code updates move sound files around.

Sadly the SLE custom call outs sound pretty terrible as the name was just pasted on front of Adam saying "get to the batphone" with no thought of matching the intonation.

It'll take you there if you type it into the bookmark box.

90X on the turntable and a couple wizard modes would get you there. I thought we'd see some build up toward 1T, instead someone smashes right past it.

I think it was Rotordave on here who was up near a billion on batphone.
In fairness that Gordon stand up can be a pretty risky shot. Each hurry up level also increases mode scoring by 50k, so it's a valid strategy for play.

I really like bonus heavy games, gives you a real reason to not tilt. I just wish it would tell you how many points you tilted away to rub it in.

If anyone has rule questions or curiosity, I've covered ~95% of the rules over on the tiltforums wiki.

http://tiltforums.com/t/batman-66-rulesheet/2463/

If I try solely for Villain Escape by exiting the major villains at the first cliffhanger I can get it ~33% of the time. I usually don't play the minor villains with the goal of getting the wizard modes but when I do it's with Mr. Freeze, Bookworm, and then Egghead, so the scores get pretty crazy.

Wait til you hear the unused tilt call outs. I hope they get integrated soon, for now I've just layered some of them over the tilt sound effect and change it up with every update.

Favorites are:
Aw gee Batman, I guess I was a little rough. -Robin
Great heavens, what a fool I am. -Batman
You're so strong and forceful batman. -catwoman(?)

Since they aren't implemented yet I just edit the existing tilt sound to feature them. So one slot at the moment.

Once, and only once I did hear a tilt call-out. I think it was because the ball took a while to drain. (It was stuck) So I guess it is somewhat implemented already? But still, out of 50+ tilts I heard the call-out once?

The main thing I'm still surprised hasn't happened yet is a different colored insert light for the multiball SJP. I remember first playing the game and hearing that the SJP was lit but not knowing where to shoot. I guess if you notice the turntable moving it might clue you in but otherwise there's nothing telling you where to shoot.

There's a modern-ish rule sheet on tilt forums that will answer almost any questions you have on the multipliers. Commissioner Gordon multiplies individual shots, the atomic pile multiplies the playfield, and king tut multiplies the mode in your main channel. The bat pole sequence or continuing on the cliffhanger screen will increase that major villains scoring by 1X.

I should probably update it to 1.02 now...

It will work for Riddler atm.

I was a bit disappointed with Bowen's tutorial for the first time ever, he usually seems to have deeper knowledge of the game he's playing. He's still #1 at talking through his thought process though. Although not as concise, Jack's stream is much more informative as a tutorial at this point.

In fairness the rule sheet is about 18 pages long at this point so I really don't fault anyone for not knowing every little mechanic in this game. Tilt forums even had to increase their max post length just for this game's rules to fit. I am however a little disappointed now that the info is out there and isn't being utilized fully.

Yeah, you need to extract it first then put it on a flash card. It seems to be best to have the 3 files be the only thing on the card.

I haven't installed it yet as I like to do all my pinbrowser edits and haven't gotten to it yet. Also it's mostly a fix for spamming Shame which isn't something I do anyway.

I just tell new people to "choose the cowboy(s)" when they get into the minor villain screen. The main multiball is a little difficult for novice players to get to but I still tell them how to get there at least.

Edit:posted this from the previous page, I see it's been covered now.

Not actually a bug but it is super annoying, I've been there a few times. I covered this rule in the rulesheet, the gist being that you can only qualify each villain once during batphone hurry up. So in order to re qualify penguin you would have to time out the hurry up and hit the scoop again.

I did test this out and updated the wiki, Mr. Freeze DOES freeze the bat-phone. So it's impossible to re-qualify a MV if his power is active.

Definitely do not remove it unless you want to put new ball in your game every few plays. What a lot of people do is move the blue foam to the inside of the cat ramp in order to give a little more clearance to the left orbit.

Personally I think the rattling/bricked shots to the orbit is connected to what position the turntable is in, in the default "villain vision" position I seem to make clean shots as the ball lock area has smooth sides, in the other positions the rubber posts seem to snag it on the way up causing it to rattle then fall out.

I'll try to take some video of it at some point soon, but yeah, it gets about halfway up the height of the turntable (a bit past the cat ramp cables) and bounces back and forth in the lane and loses all of its momentum.

I reached x5 tut once, but of course I had messed up on bookworm and freeze earlier in the game so the score was only ~6 billion.

Everything we collectively know about gadgets and rules in general can be found on the tiltforums wiki.

http://tiltforums.com/t/batman-66-rulesheet/2463

A fun new to me rule with gadgets is that they can add shots for certain egghead modes. Another interesting use is that they can open the ball lock diverter for locking the ball.

Turns out there are good points in late game egghead stacked with villain escape.

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I've been meaning to get a magnetic digital angle finder for my woodshop, I imagine they would work really well for setting game pitch as well.

I've had mine for 10 months now and still love it, although there were new and exciting code updates coming out quite often during that time. It still keeps me entertained though and it'll very likely always be in my collection. It was my first NIB pin and although pricey, I don't regret it.

Edit:Why isn't this game in the top 20 (at least) yet?!

Yeah, I know why it is so lowly rated, I just hoped it would have gained ground faster after the code was somewhat complete. Those early reviews were totally right though, hopefully some of them will give it another shot.

Ah okay, that makes sense. It's not easy to pull off but you can stack villain escape with a minor villain wizard mode.

You need to bring in or have running the final minor villain needed for a wizard mode into villain escape, then complete that minor villain during the first phase of villain escape, then shoot the saucer to get the wizard mode select screen. Oh and you need Mr Freeze's power running to stop the phase 1 villain escape timer to make it worth it.

I've only done it once but it REALLY built up my villain escape value to the point where I made 8B+ without even getting the super, assumably the super would have been around 8B as well.

I'd say that depends on which shot multipliers you have going, if you have a big one on the turntable I'd go with gas attack, (center shot over and over with roving SJP) if you don't have much going on I'd do Batusi, (no shot multiplier for SJP as it's at the saucer) if you have general shot multipliers go for holy multiball. (SJP is at the center but there are many more normal JPs all around)

Read the wiki at tiltforums if you want to go deeper.

I've had the turntable error like that before, you either need to time out the hurry up or make that really tight shot to the phone stand ups, I've never found a cause for the error, but I think it's tied to the animations.

As mentioned above but also when a wizard mode is lit or as Batusi or Villain Escape SJPs are lit.

Mine sometimes doesn't register a atomic pile switch hit every now and then but not too often. Bat turn is ready when the insert is blue and playfield multipliers are ready when the atomic pile is pulsing red, if you're not starting either when you hit the target then there is a problem.

A member of my local league has an early production table and he says that his upper saucer isn't tapered around the edges and rejects a lot. Do you or anyone else on here have a straight sided saucer?

From what I understand it was the famous cameos that were the licencing problem. So many estates to licence through, sounds like a headache.

Some of the higher ranked players in pinball popping out would be fun too, maybe Bowen, Kieth, Raymond, Eric, and the Sharpe's could all have little words of encouragement for you as you play. That could be fun.

Me too!

I didn't notice too many differences in the code (1.02.11) while watching the Stern Pro Circuit Finals, I did notice that Shame is now grayed out after failing him. In 1.02 when they made subsequent Shames single ball timed modes and it wouldn't gray him out after a failed attempt.

I didn't really notice if any of the lighting was changed, but I thought I saw new video clips in stage 2 of "enter Batgirl, exit Penguin".

One advantage to surfs up joker is that the second stage has unlimited shot potential, (like the final stage of almost every other villain) while in any multiball the sjp is disabled and all shots except the last one hit will be a jp. So that is a way to build up a huge surfin joker sjp. Funny enough though, the first and last stage of the regular joker mission has the same qualities. The points can be there in surfing joker but my use for it is to reach the extra ball quicker.

Mad Hatter is interesting IF you beat both of them, he then let's you play any minor tv mode even if you've completed it.

I've had the King Tut power be useful but it was after playing all 3 1st season MVs, (this makes them playable again even without Mad Hatter) I had failed bookworm with one shot left and was able to pick up where I left off.

Personally I still mainly go for BW-Freeze-Tut, but to mix it up a bit I sometimes go for 3 Tuts for the first wizard mode and then the usual BW-Freeze-Tut.

I think it's related to the lit spinner jackpot(s), but I can't check atm as I'm at TPF.

I very likely wrote that section of the rules, it's collected when you see a point amount pop up in the bottom center of the LCD after hitting the lit spinner. Hopefully it'll be labeled better one day.

I was waiting in line to play it for a few minutes and saw all sorts of new to me animations during Penguin and thought for a second I had missed a code drop. As I started checking on my phone the player hit the minor villain select screen and I noticed most of them were grayed out.... Oh boy that was old code. I wish I had brought my custom sound rom on a stick and called up the exhibitor to see if they wanted to update it.

Ring around the Riddler is also only 2 stages long, I'll sometimes do that with surfs up joker to get the extra ball sooner.

Looks like I have some rule sheet wiki updating to do.

No gameplay differences, just that SLE owners have custom call outs that were recorded by Adam West.