I'm glad to hear this multiball bug happens rarely... because it really sucks.

So I guess the only solution to all these ROM bugs would be to install a P-ROC board and re-code the game from scratch.... quite a task!

Well, that's at least my experience. Others will need to chime in. I think the second most popular is L5 which I don't think has that particular bug, but others and you lose features.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/getaway-club-dispatch-run-a-make-on-license-plate-kingpin#post-1407040

Joined the club! Pinsound is awesome on this game. Does anyone recommend one particular mix highly? Do you simply save the file from the Pinsound website to a USB? Thanks!

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Welcome, and the answers to all your PinSound questions are here: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tantrums-guide-to-pinsound

If you like fast paced DnB, I put up a mix based on the music of Pendulum. Give it a try!

http://pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/295-hs2-the-getaway-coyohtays-dnb-mix/

Also, all orchestrations for Getaway are located here for free download (currently 30 custom orchestrations): http://pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?/files/category/22-getaway

If you can't find at lease one orchestration you like from these selections, there's probably not much hope for you (I refuse to do a country music or opera theme).

I've been revisiting my 80's music recently, and I think this song would be great for the main theme - nice beat and catchy (the opening riff on loop while in the shooter lane would be good too)! However, I don't really want to do a full Robert Palmer / The Power Station mix (only about 4 or 5 songs that I recall being popular, but need 15-16 for a Getaway mix).

Love that version of Bang a Gong! If you make an upbeat 80's mix, I'll be the first to install it!

I was going to make another one and pull some pieces out of this long version of Two Tribes - never got around to it.

I'm joining the club very soon (hopefully, anyway.. I agreed to a trade) and just figured I'd see what kind of opinions there would be on how to best hide this? I was thinking maybe a slightly oversized barcode, laminated, to cover the majority of it at least? Really it is what it is, but I'd prefer to hide it as best I can. Can't wait to officially be in the club!

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First thought is "What the heck?!" Personally, I would design some sort of vinyl graphic (you mentioned barcode, but maybe something else). Overlay that with a clear gloss vinyl layer for durability and you're good to go.

I'd probably also ditch what appears to be a very poor attempt at DIY mirror blades. Looks like chrome vinyl stuck on top of a giant orange peel.

Hahahaha yeah I was thinking along those lines for sure. Nothing I do will ever undo the sheer "WTF?!" that was done to it but if I can make that spot look nicer I will. And I'll definitely be changing a few things on this when I get it home. I hadn't even noticed the sides to be honest, that's pretty amusing.

Hard to tell from your pics, but overall it looks pretty nice.

Whenever you're ready to mod it out hit me up: http://thezumwaltfamily.com/pinball

Yeah, looks pretty decent from what I can tell. Fingers crossed that the trade goes through as planned and that by next weekend I have this sitting next to my high speed. I'll check out the list of mods, thanks for the link!

I see a credit dot on the DMD. Be sure to figure out the cause of that before you finalize your transaction.

I would take a high res picture of the damaged area and get someone who is good with Photoshop to print a cleaned up vinyl from the picture to overlay. I have done this on several damaged areas on Funhouse which has single balloons everywhere on the playfield I just had vinyl's made from pictures of the same balloons and stuck them over the damaged areas you cannot tell the difference.

Good catch, I'll reach out. I know on my friend's, it was throwing errors because no balls had been locked in forever and his hideout switch needed resoldered. It complained loudly on boot, but I never even checked for the dot--i assume it was there.

I'm not afraid of a little repair work as needed but I'm definitely not looking for some kind of project.

Good suggestion. I'll have to see what I can line up

I get the dot cause I never shift down , merp

Lol!

He said the top lock was showing error, but also mentioned the rare ball search while he's trying to hit targets (hitting posts instead) so.... I'm gonna guess it's probably not a big deal, could certainly be from no one locking a ball for a bit..

I can fix anything minor, that's no big deal. I had to fix a disconnected hideout switch and research that same top lock on my friend's when I fixed it up a few weeks ago, easy peasy. I'm trading a demo man + $100 for it so I feel pretty good about it even if it does have a few small things to address. Just don't want nightmarish projects obviously.

Test the supercharger for sure.

Absolutely!

inspired lego set

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Clear super rings - awesome on this machine...

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No errors before we moved it, diverter error now? Diverter works fine. Supercharger works when it's supposed to.

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If that traslite destruction occurred on the move the divertor might not be only only thing that suffered... A few people have this without experiencing any actual problem.

Just a reflection on the translite lol, no damage!

I can't figure out why the error is coming up for the life of me. Everything seems fine.

I ended up pulling the batteries and setting it back up again. Immediately gave a shifter error after I set the date, but once I played a game that too was gone. No errors now...?

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Nevermind, it's back already. Bleh.

Well, I just dropped my 14th Getaway orchestration on the PinSound Community Forum site, and it is awaiting approval. I call this one '80s MTV, as it features songs from the period that had fairly popular music videos (at least once I liked). The main song is Power Station's "Get It On", but features all of these artists/songs:

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Greg Kihn - Jeopardy
Huey Lewis & The News - Heart and Soul
J Geils Band - Centerfold
Joan Jett - I Love Rock N' Roll
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
Modern English - I Melt With You
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Power Station - Get It On
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Be on the lookout, and I'll try to post when I see that it is available.

Ive had a shifter error on and off for over 15 years of owning the machine, it always works though

Seems every time the ramp raises/lowers it throws an error. When the supercharger activates it clears. No idea.

Almost ready to get it into the row..

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Why you take the head off?

Basement stairs from hell.

That was touch and go for a bit. She's up and running again though.

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You have a High Speed too, my first favourite pinball in the 80`s. I bought the Getaway 2 by mistake thought is was the original however never going to sell. Im always on the lookout for the first edition in the UK.

I hardtopped my high speed. By far the most aggressive pinball project I've taken on. It's awesome (IMO) in the way it made it play but it needs some additional adjustments.

I think the two look awesome next to each other.. But I have to say, HS2 feels like a way better game. Both are great though!

I'm not sure which is worse: having games in the basement like you, or having games on the second floor like me. I guess it depends on if you are adding to or taking away from the collection more often (i.e. I've found that going down the stairs is much easier than going up them).

Huh? How does this happen?

I don't own HS, but have played it several times. The Getaway is definitely an evolved version of the theme, and the supercharger takes it over the top.

BTW, all High Speed and Getaway owners need to get rid of the checkered flag flipper toppers. This is not a racing/speedway themed pin! Sure it is car themed (not a race car, mind you), but you are on highways running away from the police that are chasing you, and not doing a set number of loops around a track racing against other cars.

Among other choices out there, I offer 2 options for flipper toppers to go with the themes:

Getaway: https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/ad/74086
Getaway/High Speed: https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/ad/94888

Huh? How does this happen?

....... Mr_Tantrum I was 16 - 18 when I played the High Speed and I was 35 when I bought the Getaway so I sort of forgot what is was called 100% just remember the theme and the Mars Lamp, bought my Getaway on Ebay for £600.00 very cheap compared to now.

Stairs suck, but if I had a straight shot it wouldn't be so bad. It's that damn hard 90 turn at the bottom with a too-small landing that makes it a nightmare.

I'm not terribly in love with the checkered nonsense so that'll definitely be going at some point. I already trashed the..errr.."custom" gameblades, about as quickly as I could.

I don't like the green pop caps but I didn't have a full set of new red caps OR three red 555 bulbs, and it looked much more..... orange. I'll probably buy another set of faceted Data East caps in red/green/yellow along with color-matching Evo BriteCaps. Or maybe I'll steal them from my Taxi and do something different there, idk. I'm not really planning on doing a whole lot of customizing with Getaway, at least right now. Other than powdercoating rails/lockbar/legs and possibly Cliffys at some point, I just plan on playing it and hopefully eventually clearing off the stupid diverter error.

Not sure if High Speed is a forever keeper now that I have Getaway, either. It seems kind of redundant given the similar layouts. But for right now, it's not going anywhere. They do look awesome next to each other.

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There are other options out there for flipper toppers also!! It's cool and ok to self advertise, i've done the same myself but sometimes dude it's cool to just kick back and chill also

I'd say that was quite the bargain!

Definitely my style of caps for this game too. I've had the R/Y/G but now I have more of a blue thing going with my Getaway, so I've gone with the DE blue faceted caps (I do have blue brightcaps on my game now, just not in this pic).
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Sorry, didn't mean to come off that way (just pointing out there are options for these games besides checkered flags). Certainly if you are into flipper toppers there are many other options out there someone might like better than my ideas. Even so, my main point is still valid. Long before I ever started making flipper toppers or put them on my own pin, I just didn't get why people put racing themed decals anywhere on Getaway since the game has nothing to do with racing.

Here are a few others I found, but not sure who else makes them for these games.

- Tilt Graphics (checkered flags): https://www.tiltgraphicsinc.com/product-page/checkered-flipper-topper
- Mezel Mods (checkered flags): https://mezelmods.com/collections/flipper-bat-toppers/products/checkered-flag-flipper-bats-set-of-two-or-three?variant=12676975876
- Laseriffic (Words + Gauges): https://laseriffic.com/collections/flipper-toppers/products/hs-hs2-flipper-toppers

Swapped the green caps to my taxi for now. As much as I love the BriteCaps, I don't like the fact that the bottom LED array is cool white. It doesn't look good set against my otherwise warm white Taxi, IMO.

Sadly it appears I got a bum red BriteCap also, because I can't get it to respond intermittently in the middle. It's either solid on or solid off. So I set all three to full-time on.

Sucks also that PBL, the only place who sells BriteCaps, doesn't have any more of the yellow faceted lenses. Tons of other places do, but they don't have the BriteCaps.. And I hate making a bunch of orders to multiple places.. lol. First world problems.

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You know you can control the intensity on the white light on the underside of the brightcaps, right? Might just be the photo, but looks like you have them full blast (maybe that's what you like). Also, are you sure that the underside light on the red is not just turned off?

In both cases, I had to order my brightcap LEDs from a different supplier than my caps (hated paying the extra shipping, but had to in order to get what I wanted).

Top and bottom intensity are controlled with one pot, so in order to get much on the bottom the top has to be pretty bright, at least from my experience. The bottom array works on all of these, it's just that I can't get the intermittent center light (triggered by impact) to work on this one BriteCap. The others, as well as all others I've owned, all worked fine on that function. Just got a dud, it happens. My phone takes crappy pictures and always struggles to make these look good. They look great in person.

I'd kill for independent top/bottom as well as options for the bottom array (warm/cool/sunlight would be sufficient) but I don't expect that to ever become available. I don't think there's enough demand to support such options. But I put these in almost everything I can (World Cup Soccer, Black Knight 2000, High Speed, Getaway, Taxi, Terminator 2, F-14, eventually Space Shuttle) -- I'm doing my part to increase demand! Lol

So they are called DE faceted caps I did wonder where to get them. Can you get those in clear or frosted ? My bumpers change colour to the same as the traffic light.

.... found them

https://pu-parts.com/data-east-sega-stern-pop-bumper-caps_5

so they fit the Getaway ok ?

Yes, these are the Data East style caps. They only come in translucent (clear, red, yellow, green, blue). Yes, they fit perfectly on Williams games.

You're right. I forgot that the one POT controls the outer LEDs (top & bottom), and the other controls the center LED sensitivity. I usually set mine at about half brightness, and I do always color match to my caps which I have found looks best.

I have these installed on my Getaway and red ones on my AFMr LE - I really like how they look and react.