For those of you who have received your cabinet already, How hard was the out of the box setup? Instructions came in the box I hope for the initial setup and testing?

Game #168 butter cabinet ordered spooky direct invoice paid today.

Shooter rods are all ready to rock all the games on the floor got them this week and they are gona starting shopping all the back ordered ones to customers as soon as they finish boxing up the big backlog of games that piled up waiting for pinotaurs!

I have to ask the basic question. Have you ever setup a pinball? If not please youtube it. There are a few really good videos on how to. Most notably Spooky has their own style of wrapping their games. Only remove enough plastic to put legs on. But also if you need more help then call Spooky.

Enjoy this masterpiece!!

Josh

SpookyLuke what do you use inside the pumpkin to get the flasher solid in place? Superglue/silicone/adhesive spray?
We had to swap the flasher out cause it broke loose from the bayonet socket.

Big code update coming around xmas / NYE!

#159 being delivered tomorrow around 2pm whoo hoo. Christmas is complete.

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Bit confused seeing some later numbers ship out I'm 141 and haven't heard nothing about mine shipping yet? Is it because my game is coming from a distributor and not directly from spooky.

I would imagine your distributor was contacted already.

Always just email [email protected] for stuff like that. 99% of the time she is either waiting on an answer from someone or its already sitting here done. Always good to touch base

Is everyone having the ball stuck on the house playfield (upper upper playfield) with a slow roll? It's totally killing me on location, any decent player thats starts house, gets the ball stuck on a slow roll or ricochets off the drop target. Back legs all the way up , tried leaning the machine slightly to the right, removed the rubber on the post, tried adjusting the ball guide, all to no avail.

6 times in one game the other night at league had to remove the glass to clear this stucky.

The playfield looks like it kinda leans to the left , is this the way it is designed?

Super sucks , because the casuals love this theme, but every time someone drops quarters I cringe that I will have to clear a stuck ball (there are lots of them).

#144 shipped today, so I am told

Yep, this is my first home machine. So it will be a first time experience. Just didn't know how complicated it was to setup for a first timer. I will YouTube some stuff, but if you have a specific video in mind, please share.
Thanks

Most of us here take setup for granted because we’ve done it a million times. Setting up a pin doesn’t have a very steep learning curve.

Watch a few videos, take your time and you’ll be flipping in no time.

Gonna have to do the same thing

One little thing I would recommend is getting some nylon washers for the leg bolts. The powder coating on the Spooky games is super nice. You wouldn’t want to scratch it as you are snugging down the leg bolts. Marco sells black and white ones on the cheap. You can also get some colorful ones from the Pinside market for a couple extra bucks.

Cool, mine has been paid for a month ago. I'm 1 number away from a buddy and he has had his for a month.. Seems rather nuts the lack of organization with bookkeeping/shipping/communication.......etc. I have called Morgan, left voice mail with no response, talked with distributor.... Just a major lack of follow through. Venting here. First spooky game I have bought they dropped the ball (pun intended) on me here as a repeat customer.

Talked with distributor again today, as well I email Morgan today.

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Got a game play question. If I shoot the center ramp it is very easy to make with both the right and left flippers when the diverter is set to the left ball path. When the diverter flips to the right (the house) the shot becomes far more difficult. I can only make that easily with the left flipper. Making that shot with the right flipper is almost impossible. Is this what the rest of you are experiencing?

We've been in touch with Spooky. As of today your game was not ready to ship.

Check that your drop targets are flush when dropped and that you have the plastics on the sides of the center ramp behind the back board where it loops up.
Next I would look into the alignment of the diverter. There was a post on that a few pages back

If anything it is the position of the diverter. Are you saying your game is playing differently than mine? Can you easily make the upstairs house shot from the right flipper? I don’t want to go changing things if my game is playing as designed.

I would say that I can regularly hit the middle ramp shot from the right flipper. Not super easy, but very repeatable.

I have to ask the basic question. Have you ever setup a pinball? If not please youtube it. There are a few really good videos on how to. Most notably Spooky has their own style of wrapping their games.

I can make all my shots with dexterity and pure big d energy!!

To be fair though I've been in the Marines for 22 years.

With your diverter pointing to house, have you noticed that the shot usually makes it when it stays to the left side of the center ramp vs rejecting when it rolls up the right side of it?

Just trying to be funny. I've only been buying for 2 years. So I'm really new as well.

I was missing the plastics on the side of the ramp. But now that I got them I can easily make the ramp from both flippers, no matter the direction of the diverter. Before. It was unmakable from the right flipper

Can u please post a pic of these plastics? I suspect i have the same issue since the ramp is unmakable.

Yes, that is what I am experiencing.

Can you snap a pic of yours? I still cant seem to adjust it correctly. Thanks

I am having a problem with my game occasionally. The far right drop target when the ball gets put behind it it sometimes gets stuck and does not shoot out another ball in the shooter lane. When you trap the ball behind the drop target the machine is supposed to spit out another ball into play. Has anyone Come across this issue? When this happens I have to turn on and off the game.

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As dnapac mentioned, that was a bug in earlier code, and was fixed in 1.04b. If you are on the latest code but still having this issue, you likely have a problem with the opto behind the lock, or maybe one of your trough switches. For some reason it doesn't know the ball is there (or thinks it is somewhere else).

But fingers crossed updating the code will fix you right up!

Can you post a picture when it sticks? I had an issue with it getting stuck behind the upper left spinner on a slow roll. I ended up putting some thin black weather stripping to stop the ball sticking there.

#161 has arrived with knife handle shooter

My biggest issue continues to be that the house mode puts the game at a dead stop. Even starting a mode during house attack keeps the house music going, making you feel like that’s all there is. There’s no timing out of it.

For future updates, I’d concentrate on how the game handles stacking and improving the on screen display instructions. The font is way too small, and callouts don’t offer instruction with some modes. It’s a little disjointed now.

Having said that, I love hedge multiball and the incidental modes. It’s a shooter’s game, definitely.

WOOT!

I do not mind house mode staying front and center since it's definitely a highlight (of the movie and the game), but I definitely agree that overall the stacking can use some polish. However, I'm ok with that being a back burner update down the road. To me it's modes and content first, then overall polish. I'm sure it will get there.

You're not kidding about it being a shooters game. I love how it uses all the shots...even the standups are all important. And trying to sniper the scoops during Hedge multiball is no joke! I heard a few people complain early on about how boring it will be having so many scoops. I couldn't disagree more. They each feel so different to hit and are not easy shots by any means. And it never feels like they take up space that would have been better used with something else. So many games would have just had a boring line of standup targets or an unsatisfying drop target bank there.

What a mess. I wish Spooky did a better job with cable management.

How does Halloween rank next to Wonka ?

What's the problem? It's nice to have some slack so you can pull the playfield out if needed. Cabling looks fine to me.

Wonka is on another level cannot compare.

Very, very different games. I have only played Wonka a handful of times and haven't really felt the urge to play it more. I get significantly more amusement from Halloween. Like everything though, opinions will vary!

Wonkas a fantastic shooter

With literally none of the magic from the movie. Or the music. Or really any significant assets.

I had a Wonka for awhile, never really felt any excitement for it. Couldn’t get lost in it. Pretty sure I prefer HWN even at early code.

Yes. A lower level that has zero appeal to me.