Ghostbusters Club - We Got One!!!

The best "mod" i've done to my Pro so far was putting black bands back on the flippers. I bought my machine used, and someone had glow in the dark Superbands on it. They were ridiculously bouncy, and made it very hard to ever trap a ball or post save it. Since the switch, the left ramp is much easier to backhand off the left flipper, and ball control is far better.

Between the big 3d ghost on the left and Ecto 1 over the firehouse shot, aren't those two shots harder to see now?

Shoot, I'm lucky to get 2 billion with the center post in.

"Are you a god" mode has its own audit screen. Bullshit it wasn't meant to be in there. As for being able to select the ladder...you should be able to select the lowest rung not completed in a ladder, from any given ladder. That way you don't jump right to the highest scoring ladder first. Make the shortest ladders harder than the "Who Brought the Dog" ladder. Move the "add 10% to your score" skill shot over to the right ramp so that the reward better matches the skill needed to make the shot.

#NoMoreDwight games for me.

In a HUO environment, Cliffy's are probably not necessary. Make sure the drop targets are adjusted flush with the tops of the Cliffy's as well.

I like the Scoleri targets during normal gameplay, but find them annoying during multiball.

And that's why I'm done buying Dwight coded games. Stern checks in on this thread from what I understand, and they still have zero concern for losing sales going forward. I guess they feel they are too big to fail.

They just did a run at the very end of 2018.

I have contacted them many times, and they don't care. Most i've gotten is "its on the schedule".

So I measured the flipper gap in my Ghostbusters and GOTG machines. GB is about 2.625" and GOTG is about 2.062". I think I am going to 3d print a new flipper bat that is
.281" longer and then fab up a mount like the old 2 piece Gottlieb System 80b and System 3 flippers and give it a try.

I heard an update was coming "real soon" year ago. Right after Star Wars hit 1.0.

Stern hasn't officially sundowned GB yet. They usually post on FB when they are doing the last run of something. Metallica was a few months ago, and Star Trek was this week. I know there was a batch of GB pros going through in the last month or so, according to someone who went on a factory tour. If code does finally come, you can bet there will be a few new sales at least. So it would behoove Stern to keep that item number open for production until at least that time.

It's been archived for the better part of a year, and I know for a fact GB has has several batches run through late last year. The batch this year is not fact, but I strongly believe the person who reported it isn't BSing.

What about blocking the outlanes all together? I could draw up a clip-on 3D printed piece that would snap over the inside wireforms on the outlanes and then make it so the ball can't drain on the outlanes. No permanent damage to the machine, and they would snap on and off easily. An even more quick and dirty fix would be to zip tie between the wire form and the adjustable outlane post.

Try the zip tie out and see if you like it...I can 3d model that piece up pretty easily, and you can just buy it printed from shapeways at your leisure after I prove it out.

For the kids man! Haha

I bought a 1 year old GOTG with $14k on it when I bought it. I think it was in Sunshine.

Stern is just trolling us.
Although Stern of the Union is this week, right?

Daydreaming here, but if Stern one day decided to adapt the machine into the Spike2 format with LCD and made the new run of playfields with proper flipper gap/sling angles, this game would probably their best game ever. One can dream!

Did you watch the Dwight interview? He pretty much thinks GB is in good shape.

Don't bet on it.

I'd be happy to be able to see my score and ball number for more than 3.7 seconds of a 5 minute game

Reminds me of how I was going to 3D pint out a more accurate master and make some resin copies off a mold, but never got around to finishing it. Maybe one day!

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We all saw the Dwight interview...he wanted to fix GOT way more than GB. He thought GB was in decent shape.

http://www.head2headpinball.com/2019/01/14/episode-76-dwight-sullivan/