That looks great! Nice choice.

Thats a great color choice for Halloween

Agreed. I really like that color on Halloween.

This looks amazing

Any news on the next code update? Weeks? Month?

Taps the vein. Give me

The reason I ask …

I don’t get noticeable flipper fade on any of my games.

Last big tournament I held, there was over 100 games put on each of 13 System 11s over 10 hours. 1500 individual 3 ball games in total. No big fade. Same goes for the “modern” tournaments I run with Sterns and Spookies.

Mind you - all my games are factory settings, no adjustments (except ACNC upper flipper up two notches)

I can’t see how you guys are getting flipper fade. Unless the adjustments are being upped too much, or the playfields are way too steep.

(Exception: LOTR LE - even with updated coils - but that game is famous for that. Which is why I no longer have it …)

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I stopped cradling after my LOTR LE nearly caught on fire when it fried a flipper coil and transistor lol
Long gone too!

Man …. My games on LOTR used to go so long, I used to stop after 30-40 mins and go do something for an hour and let the coils cool down. Still couldn’t hit the ring after all that. Dooooooh

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Honestly I’ve never experienced flipper fade either mind you I prob put an hour on a machine and either go to another or do something else. Even having people over and playing for hours when I had Club at my house nobody was complaining so idk. Obviously the coils get hot but not seeing much of a performance loss. If you can’t cradle what’s the point ?? Lol!

I've never experienced flipper fade either.

Never had it, but I don't maybe play as long or leave on my machines as long as some folks?

Just having a game on will do nothing to the flipper coils. No power to them unless you’re playing.

I remember a post a while back - can’t remember what thread it was in - and some guy said after 5 minutes he couldn’t make the ramps on his Stern Iron Maiden.

Turned out he had the back legs cranked all the way out - the playfield was probably around 10 degrees high.

A lot of people don’t know that the newer games are around 6.5 ish playfield angle with the back legs screwed IN (aka not all the way out like we used to do) — totally different to older pins from the 90s and before.

Always pays to check playfield angle - it’s so easy with PinGuy. Always make sure it’s on the playfield setting and do the playfield. The glass is not attached to the playfield!

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I'm not talking about flipper fade. I'm just talking about somewhat weak flippers due to the coil moving around.

oh okay, got it!

Just received the game today NIB from Spooky. Dumb question, but confused on how the bolt attaches from the head to the body of the pin?

See my attached pic. If that’s where it goes, does it screw in? Nothing is catching, so want to be sure.

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They forgot to install the blind nut, I had one like that. Hit them up and they will send it out

Or it fell out when he pushed the nut in …

Have a look down in the bottom of the cabinet … may well be down there.

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Mine was missing as well. You can get a tnut from the hardware store. I contacted spooky and they sent me them anyway.

Reached out and they are getting me one. Glad to know I wasn’t crazy. I knew there had to be missing hardware haha.

Now I don't remember if I bolted mine.... lol oops

Michael Myers may never truly die but the code for this game seems to have. Code updates for a year but it is already mid April and I think we have seen one update?

I would agree the code needs an update but I have not seen any communication on when that will happen. Scooby-Doo seems to be the main focus.

We got code at end of Feb, so it's not been that long (heck there was more than 6 month gap last year). Scooby is no doubt taking up lot of their time with testing too since they seem to have some major stuff going on with that they need addressing ASAP.

I feel it's always going to take a bit between updates for Halloween since they got to do both Ultraman and Halloween updates at same time so it's double work almost and twice the testing needed also.

I played Halloween last night. I'm no pro at pinball but I never seem to complete 2 modes or get hedge maltiball or Jack O maltiball. I wished the code was not so difficult

Well the New Code for Scooby-Doo just posted......

Any game that challenges you should make you a better player in the long run. You can always just set it to 5 ball play also.

Yes I think it’s one of the hardest games I have owned and had some tuff ones!

Supermaltiball lol

Drinking this might help.

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I might just do that if I can get my wife to agree to it.....

You don't have to complete modes to get to Jack-o multiball, just play 3 modes. It is worth the work to get there.

I did not know that....Thanks

Don't Play ACNC

I heard that has some tight shots, I need to buy one
I had TWD for a few years and don’t know what all the fuss was about lol

Im not a pro either, and I still haven't seen Boogeyman mode, but the more I play I eventually hit something new milestone wise so I enjoy the difficulty that keeps me coming back to reach further. The more they add the better to as it just gives me more longevity with the game.

It is a tight shooter, and I went and installed standard post sleeve rubbers, up from the slim that it shipped with. I had only done that because the far left slim post rubber blew out rather quickly. I do need to put slim rubbers back on though to 'open it up' a bit. The other thing with ACNC is that it is almost all posts, so a lot of brick shots. Many other pins have stand-up targets to shoot for. That would have been nice but I love the pin and give it the attention that it deserves, I do play it frequently. Another fun pin IMO.

Must mean we are next.... right?

I would hope we are. I know ultra man needs some love too....

Yes you do need to buy one and yes the shots are tight, but its worth the fight! Love mine. It's one of pinballs best kept secrets and the price still reflects it (for now)

There are different teams working on Scooby and Halloween / UM. This has been discussed ad nauseam.

Just downloaded the current code, not sure which it is but a pin I really liked before I’m loving now. Def the coolest game in my room

I've started to experience the same problem, did you get a recommendation on a fix?

Spooky hired one guy to finish the Halloween ultraman code, Scooby-Doo or there future games has nothing do with how long it takes for Halloween code.

Spooky still is involved in game decisions, they have to determine what the coder actually can and can't do. The game design is still with the spooky crew so all decisions pertaining to modes, scoring, how things are supposed to work will fall to the folks at Spooky and not be up to the programmer. Also the spooky team is going to be the ones testing everything, approving, dealing with licensors and any asset approvals. The spooky crew is not hands off, the coder can only do so much on his own. The new modes, changes to modes, the creation of the final wizard mode, etc, all these would be with the designers and team as a whole. Any game changes, modifications, etc, again they require a team effort.

Programmers are not designers nor have full control or say on a game. They do a ton of the heavy lifting for sure, but having one guy take charge on it does not mean resources aren't divided cause one person does not make a pinball machine.

Unless you work for spooky I’m not really sure you can speak with any authority on how they operate. Many coders in pinball are involved in the design of the the game.

Double post.

I put the lighted flipper buttons on it as I have those on all my games. I’ve found that CGC and Spooky stock buttons are kinda cheap. I played Scooby at TPF and the action button on the lock down bar was sticking like this also. You have to spin it to get it to let go. Sucks mid game when you are having a good one. I could have asked for another set and I’m sure they would have sent them. I expect they would send another set of the same. The Britemods brand have a premium feel to them and looks cool in the amber/orange. CGC are even crappyer quality.

I tend to agree - mainly because the last update left us with multiple issues that to me arent small. Sounds are off and the main one being the ball getting stuck on magnet not releasing until ball search. In these cases I’d hope for a MUCH quicker release.

Although the last update was a big improvement overall the issues like you mention have stopped me from playing it, I’m holding out for the end game.
It’s a game I will be keeping so hoping they finish it soon as at the moment I’m playing it for shooting practice.

I just played for more than an hour and never experienced an issue with the magnet. What exactly is the issue ?