Are you sure you collected the Extra Ball? Did you hear the call out "Extrrra Balll"!?

Actually it doesn't matter if you collected the EB or not. If you were on ball 2, obviously the game should not have been over.

Has it done it again?

No Ball 3?? Seems a little weird.

I'd still run a test report.

No that doesn't sound right at all...if your on ball 2 and for what ever reason you drain ofcoarse ball3 should load up??

I know on my BSD sometimes when on mist multiball after i lose just one ball it ends play as if both had drained..very annoying,im told its something to do with the magnet opto's no registering??

It could be the Dracula Curse, There are long tales from other owners of strange and bizarre
things happening on other boards.

My game, on occasions, the DMD only showed dripping blood, no scores!!
It has also started a game, when no one is even in the room!

Mike, here in Florida, has fog-mist coming from the bottom of the game when mist ball is lit.
But he added this Mod, mine really happened!

Does it repeat this Problem?

Art

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Funniest post ever, thanks for the laugh. I have also heard of BSDs doing some weird software things. You could also have some flaky optos or switches as well...

mine goofs up sometimes like that also.......I will be on multiball and have 2 balls left.....I lose one ball and the game ends........it does not do it very often,but it has done it

LOL. That sounds like the old Game Cube game, Eternal Darkness, with the build in insanity factor defects. Not sure if any pinheads would have played that survival horror game from the turn of the century...but one of the "built in bugs" made you think the game shut down and deleted your progress...

The OP has an odd problem, that's for sure. The machine does seem to do random stuff sometimes. Watch to see if it comes back and note the exact circumstances. Tracking a problem that involves mist on this machine can be a real bear.

As for dangermouse's one-ball-drain mist problem, I feel your pain. Something similar was happening to mine and it made us pull our hair out for a couple months before we got it working right. For a time, whenever I'd get mist rolling on my third ball, the game would end as soon as I drained one of the two on the playfield. The game would die and the remaining ball would tumble down the drain. Extremely frustrating. It would occasionally happen on a first or second ball, as well.

I fixed 99 percent of the problem when I pulled the 24" opto board, which controls the long-throw optos that detect the ball on the magnet path, and noticed a broken inductor. Our theory was that with this malfunctioning, the machine would think there was a ball in the left or right gate when in fact the machine hadn't reloaded the right gate yet (so both gates were empty). Therefore, the machine thinks a ball is in that gate when it's not, counts the phantom ball, and determines that all balls must have drained and ends the game. We checked the long-throw optos in test mode and, sure enough, it was flaky enough to work most of the time, but when it didn’t, it could stick either open or closed.

I was going to send the board off for repair (still will at some point) but instead picked up a reengineered one from homepin.com. Working very slick now.

Another thing to check is your castle optos. If one of those has gone bad and the machine thinks there’s a ball locked when one isn’t you could get the same effect.

Yeah, it’s ironic. Sometimes, Bram Stoker’s Dracula just can’t count