That’s still odd. You should be able to flip the flippers without killing the skill shot. Sometimes you hit the ball and it doesn’t trip any scoring switch, giving you another chance at the skill shot.

Just watching some Avalanche v Oilers and waiting for new code to drop.

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Yes sir. Started 3 years ago. Progress hit a few snags with lack of availability of the Pascal board, and finishing playfields and backglass. Should be picking it back up in the next few weeks to finish though.

Here’s the thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/halloween-jc-retheme-this-is-gonna-be-killer

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Joined the club today! Was trying to hold off grabbing one of these until my homebrew game was totally done, but too good of a deal came up a half hour away.

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Yeah man, I followed your build. Your game came out awesome. It had to go in that spot… for now.

So I’ve been through all the menus five or six times. Where the hell do you reset the high scores in this thing? (The single malt probably isn’t helping)

Wait…are you saying he should’ve inspected it?

I usually get this guy to inspect everything for me that gets delivered.

And he’s great to have around for when you drop a screw or nut down inside the cabinet.
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I wish I had my game two months ago. Met James Jude Courtney and could’ve had him sign something.

We chatted for about 20 minutes and I showed him my homebrew. He loved it. Very cool guy, and very down to earth.

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No orbit shots? Put the glass back in and see how you do

It’s not supposed to do that. I would check the switch first. Hopefully that is just sticking. The return lane lifts were a little problematic with some of the games early on.

I thought I did see a switch before, but none. Four optos on the left lift, and one opto on the right lift.

Mro, make sure your optos are aligned, and the green and white wires all have good solder joints.

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Threw some orange Titan flip rubbers on while I had the glass off. Looks good with the leaf theme they have going on down there.

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This film is silly? Then clearly you don’t understand it. Killer Clowns from Outer Space is silly. Halloween was spectacular.

As a huge Halloween fan having built a homebrew game myself, it was groundbreaking in several dimensions and creepy as hell. And unlike movies today, what happened in Halloween and the way it played out was actually something possible in real life.

And it was the first real slasher movie showing a stalker that could not be killed, which was in itself immensely horrifying at the time. Carpenter worked with what he could in the late 70’s to make this film creepy, especially considering the limited tech and effects he had available to him at the time.

Suffice it to say he also composed the soundtrack and recorded it himself because the musician they had hired backed out. And it became one of the most iconic and recognizable soundtracks ever.

I’m no Roger Sharpe like you, and getting a high score on this game is still challenging at this point. But it makes me hit the start button at least 8 to 10 times every time I fire it up. And I haven’t played a game in a while that made me do that.

Sure the sounds get a little redundant, but it’s nothing I hate. And it may get better as code updates come.

Almost definitely. When you spend the greater part of two decades counseling a 6 year old kid that stabbed his sister to death and is dark to the core, it would certainly change you. Counseling psychiatric patients in general may make the doctor a little nuts also in any context.

I guess Michael could’ve done the callouts. Then you would just hear breathing the whole time you played.

You need to play Class of 1812. Best callouts and audio ever. Including the 1812 overture sung by chickens.

So you downvoted me first there Mr. (self-proclaimed) Aficionado. Then you whine when someone else downvotes you?

And “I’m sure has never seen”? How do you know what movies I’ve seen?

I don’t need the back-and-forth banter with you though. Let’s keep this thread about the game we all enjoy. At least most of us enjoy.

For most people, driving a car or figuring out how to is relatively quite simple. I think it took me all of two minutes to learn how to drive…when I was 15.

Now that made me laugh.

I was just in the middle of playing a game, smoke started coming out of the left flipper under the glass. Wasn’t even holding or using the flipper at the time.

Turned off game immediately, left flipper coil is burnt up, and plunger is seized up in the sleeve. And now the trough won’t kick any balls out either?

Sadly, it looks like no more Halloween for the long weekend and party. That sucks.

Certainly does. I’ve reached out to Spooky, hopefully get a response Tuesday after the long weekend.

You’ll need 86 inches of clearance with topper. Backbox sits a smidge shorter than a Stern.

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This happened to me and I replaced the bulb board on the bottom of the sanitarium playfield where the lower LED strip jumps to. It’s a little difficult to get to, but you just have to unscrew one screw. Fixed the issue.

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Yeah, I wouldn’t even leave the game on with something like that going on. You can cause much more extensive damage. As others said, you have to find the root cause of what’s causing the issue.

This is another time that a manual or schematic for the Pinotaur would be extremely helpful. Without that, you’ll have to trace the wires by color coding.

The target light being lit in conjunction with the quad insert is the next shot you have to hit in Sanitarium progression…after you’ve hit the two standups and then the scoop shot behind the drop target.

Once you complete the first three shots you get the video of Michael slapping/breaking the window from on top of the car. Then the quad and right stand up are lit for next shot, which is up the trail to the right of the standup.

Congrats man. I know your wait has been long and anxious.

I did my undergrad at Pitt, lived off Boulevard of the Allies on Cato Street. If I’m ever at the old stomping grounds, I’ll hit you up and set the high score.

Haven’t been back to the steel city (for more than a day) since the Pens went back to back. That was a three day party.

How the hell did you get a quad in your house? Haha.

And awesome that you have an original Off-Road arcade. I used to whack the nitro button until I hit the wall every time. Fun game.

Hopefully your Halloween gets there soon.

Got my spare metal gear servos… and a new T-shirt.

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That it should. I have a little technique where I can turn the shooter rod as I plunge at full strength, and it bounces from the left to the right flipper, and up into Annie’s tombstone for the instant lock.

I can hit it at least 6 out of 10 times, and it gives you 1 million right out of the gate. Only a slight compromise vs. choosing the initial 1.5 million skill shot.

Those do look pretty sick. Especially with your darker armor. The metallic flipper buttons are definitely a nice finishing touch.

This is for all the people who list their pins acting like it’s some accomplishment to be selling a game with 25 plays on it.

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I have flipper fade on my game as well. Usually happens if it’s on for more than 45 minutes, and after five or so games are played. Center ramp becomes very hard to make, especially off the left flipper.

I usually just bang it from the right flipper if the game has been on for a while. But I do notice a substantial difference.

I feel like I might want to powdercoat the extra set I just received in the same color as the car in your garage.

Almost done with my game, and there will be no stacking.

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I think that’s the point for most people. 98% of casual players aren’t IFPA-registered and don’t use a power stance while they’re playing.

So being amateurs, they want to at least score some points while monkey flipping. They don’t want scoring to be some arduous task.

Personally, I love how difficult Halloween is. I tend to gravitate to games that are either very difficult or very fast. Like BSD.

My sanitarium drop target isn’t resetting at all, and doesn’t pop up on initial game start up now.

I can reset it in the coil test and then start a game. But once it’s knocked down it never comes back up. No switch is showing as stuck in the switch test. Can it be disabled or enabled from some other menu?

Any suggestions?
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Damn it. And my bottom light strip is now a solid white and doesn’t strobe or scroll along with the house strip.

Looks like I’ll have to “scroll” back through the thread.

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Agreed. It was working intermittently, but now goes out totally sometimes, and when it is on it’s just white.

I did replace the Yopsicle that’s connected to it with one of the spares in the coin box because it crapped out. Maybe it’s a different Yop for the color and chasing feature?

Yes, you can usually just loosen the nut on the top of the slingshot, then re-tighten.

As to the other issue, my ball has randomly jumped from the house playfield down to the Sanitarium, but it never got held up anywhere after making the airball journey.

Got my second set of metal back from the powder guy. Grainy brown with orange speckle, and still textured. Breccia Design. Came out pretty sweet.

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Thanks. That’s what I thought. A darker color seems to make the rest of the game pop. The original gold-ish color just seems to blend with everything, even looking from the apron to the playfield.

And like everything, it looks even better in person.
I was initially going to go with Illusion Cherry, but I didn’t want it to resemble my home build at all.

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I might have something I can send you. Let me take a look this weekend.

I do use somebody local. Bonehead Performance in Feasterville PA.

That pic looks familiar.

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