Awesome stuff

Really helpful stuff. Thank you for putting this together.

Thanks for making this.

It looks great!!!

This will be great as the game develops! Thanks!

Bump - thanks for posting this!!

Will it have rules for both pro & Prem/LE ?

Looks awesome so far!! I should have mine this weekend and will pop the glass off and test lots of stuff out for the thread.

A few minor notes: default is to auto-adjust the number of ghosts for an Extra Ball as people either collect or don't collect it in games. It dropped as low as 36 on the table I was on when we were all doing horrendously and not cashing it in lol.

Spinner
The spinner can have its value increased by Tobin and Pop Bumper awards. The spinner can also have its level increased by a left orbit skill shot or a Pop Bumper award. I currently have no understanding of how this benefits you during play beyond scoring… I assume it will (if it doesn’t already) have something to do with how much you increase your super jackpot base value.

When you get to max level spinner it all goes to Super Jackpot value. It happened to me a few times and was not just a random Super Spinner pop award that I am aware of, I think it was level 4? You will see it on the DMD though as it switches over from regular points to spinning up the Super amount (rapidly!)

Wizard Mode part is not quite correct. "We're Ready To Believe You" is ALL 9 scenes. "We Came, We Saw..." is either 150 or 200 Ghosts by default? (might also auto-adjust like Extra Ball does by default?) "Are You A God?" is both of the previous + all of the gear + all of the hurry-ups? (not sure about the last part.)

I am wondering if WCWS is from getting a certain number of Jackpots or getting a Super during Mass Hysteria.

Either way I will be pulling the glass and checking out all the Wizard modes if someone doesn't post it before then (primarily because I know I will never ever get there in a million years from play and I am curious.)

We came, we saw... is awarded by completing all modes in one specific mode ladder, not all 9 modes (the instruction card is incorrect). For example, both Spooky Librarian and Back Off Man or We Got One, He Slimed Me and The Ballroom. Final mode in a specific mode ladder is always multistage and is a lot tougher to get through. We came, we saw starts as a 2 ball multiball. We you get to it and suck in it, Winston quotes, "We came, we saw...we got our asses kicked!"

Very good stuff, thanks for putting it together

Very cool, thanks for all the effort you put onto this.

I thought that in Tobin’s Spirit Guide you had to double flip yourself to choose your award. So look at the book carefully, remember the order in which the items are listed and than double flip when the item that you want flashes by?

If not flipped, the game awards you one of the awards yourself?

I am not ready for this game yet but, damn man, that is some nice work there. This should be done by the company, IMHO, so I propose that you are now hired.

What are the various ways to light the scenes? So far I have noticed:

Pick one scene stack from skill shot
Completing Slimer
Completing an active scene

Are there more ways?

I guess the most direct question is how do you light scenes again if none are lit and the last one timed out? Slimer and that's it?

I'm getting to the point where I have no idea how I want to plunge. Let's say I'm not touching the buttons and the scene start is on the right orbit. The spring is hard enough that short plunging is not a simple task. If I full plunge, I can often one-time it to the desired shot, but that's not very controlled. Dead bouncing puts it in the right outlane a lot of times, then you get a full autoplunge and are back to square one but without the ball save. Live catching is a little rough with the flippers angled down a decent amount from the factory, which I'm not changing because all of the others are like that. Holding the flipper up from a full plunge (like what we can from the cellar kickout on Whirlwind) gives a pretty big bounce.

I want to get up that 4-scene ladder, and it starts with a safe-ish strategy to getting things started on the plunge. Any thoughts?

Also, I've finished the second scene on the right side and all 3 scene shots are blinking. I can hit that right side shot 2-3 times and it doesn't start the scene. Does that 3rd scene have a different requirement to start? I haven't noticed a pattern, but have only done it a few times.

Hmm, maybe I hadn't finished yet. I thought I had, but either way, shouldn't the scene re-start when I hit that right orbit? I hit it 3 times almost in a row and never reacted.

Having to get to PKE to start a mode would make sense. I like to backhand the right loop, but it doesn't go far enough to start things.

I like the document and the updates, but have to bust you a little on something. John Tredeau was the playfield designer. Dwight crushed it on the code side of things.

Interesting. It hasn't been sitting idle enough to show the credits, so I haven't seen that bit yet.

Not there yet, so I don't want to ruin that eventual moment. Thanks for having it here though.

I found out why I was having issues starting a lit mode, specifically the right side scenes. In "OK, who brought the dog?" I would do the left two shots first. That way, completing the mode on the right loop started the next mode. Now, If I'm on the right flipper, I can backhand the shot to get credit, but won't start the next scene. You have to make the full loop shot to start the scene. Just something to consider for everyone. Post passing on this game is super easy, so when I have that right shot left I'll just hit it from the left side and get the next mode rolling.

True. I save the right side shot so it will roll into the next scene on that stack. But, If I was working on a different stack, backhanding that right shot and not have it go around as the last shot would let me go into a different stack. I love that it's programed that way, now that I understand it. Several ways to play this game, which is great.

I am sure the patch notes will be more informative once they exist but some 1.05 observations:

• Storage Facility locks are lit at 10, 30 and 50 ghosts. Makes it a lot easier to start multiball.

• There is a River of Slime award that can be built up via the right orbit(?) and is collected at the SF saucer when the arrow flashes slime purple. Pretty cool subway animation for it.

• Some new Ernie callout lines being used around scoring supers and specifically doubles and triples.

• There is an option to disable "R-rated dialogue"

Please don't let this cause a GB v. GB2 debate...

Please don't let this cause a family mode debate...

Can you still light storage facility from the Newton balls or is only by collecting ghosts?
I actually find the Newton balls work well, my plan always on the first ball is to focus on knocking the Newton balls and activate slimmer, while the ball save is still active (factory set ball save time). I would say with this strategy I'm starting Storeage facility multiball 95% of games, usually first or second ball. I can see how ghost starting Storeage would help with people not knowing that the Newton balls are linked to multiball.

LOL! It wont.

Yeah that way is way easier than to start MB than collecting ghosts....well the first time at least.

Does one overlap the other and cancel it out? for example you are about to light storage by collecting ghosts but then light it with the newton balls, then pass the ghost threshold but storage is already lit?

Lit storage facility locks stack. For example, you get one lit from the pops as an award and then hit 30 ghosts, you can now hit the ramp twice to get two locks. Newton balls work the same and their stacking doesn't really apply since when you light the SF lock from there it stays lit until you start the multiball (Just like it always worked. Makes it worth your investment going for the captives.)

Can confirm River of Slime is the same as the Gear basically but for the right orbit. You hit the right orbit over and over to build up River Of Slime value and collect it at the SF saucer before the pink arrow times out.

Thanks, so your saying locks can be symmetrically stacked?

Glad to see the river of slyme incorporated really liked that part of the movie

1.05 is up: http://www.sternpinball.com/game-code/game-code-ghostbusters-pro

New:
- Added a River of Slime Feature. Each time you shoot the right orbit you will
build the value and start a timer on the right eject. Shooting the right
eject will collect the built value.
- Storage Facility will now light for one lock on 10, 30, and 50 ghost caught.
- Collecting ghost will show how many needed to light Storage Facility.
- Added an adjustment to allow speech to be censored.
- Added Speech to super jackpot
- Added Speech to We came we saw start

Fixes:
- Bonus Held would give extra bonus if on ball 3 and the player had an extra
ball.
- Changed the name of SPEECH and MUSIC VOLUME adjustments to SPEECH and MUSIC
ATTENUATION
- Removed Backbox and Cabinet volume adjustments
- 0X bonus multiplier will no longer be awarded from the pop bumpers.
- Removed two switches reporting false errors.

Tweaks:
- Flippers are turned off during Negative Reinforcement
- When Negative Reinforcement stops doubling the message reflects this.

Can anyone do a glass off test to determine the following? When in tournament mode, what is the value of the extra ball? Thanks!

Thanks for the rule sheet. This is very helpful!

So does the SJP value reset between balls? Or does it carry/build throughout your entire game?

25Million

Thanks Todd! Might come in handy this weekend at SFGE.