Me too (#82). I'm still going to get it a few weeks before the Mandalorian premium I ordered at launch back in May, which got pushed again to sometime in December.

The current Stern process is pre-order a game, wait months for it to be built, and then have to pay anywhere from 200 to 1000 more than the original pre-order price if you still want it.

I got the initial email for #82 today.

And #82

I just picked #82 up from spooky this morning. It think I saw the version (1.03) on one of the attract screens. I'll try to get a picture later.

The version is shown in the menu. Also noticed a bug that once it shows up the Laurie/Michael Health meter never goes away.

One decent game so far without really knowing what I'm doing. And a lot of movie clips in this version.

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And probably create a few new ones

Is there a preferred way to report bugs? On 1.03 I somehow got an almost never ending ball save on hedge multi-ball a couple times. It seemed like the save timer was constantly getting reset, like if I let a ball drain every few seconds I could have kept it going forever. If I see it happen again I'll try to nail down what might be happening.

The other issue I saw was the Laurie/Michael health meter sometimes staying on top even after a game has ended.

Here's my timeline for #82 (non-butter):

10/21 - Butter/No-Butter email
10/27 - Invoiced and paid
11/2 - Notified that the game was ready
11/4 - Picked it up at Spooky

If you got a butter cabinet maybe that factors in if you replied to the emails and paid the invoice right away.

Major bug if confirmed - After updating to 1.04 and getting the house multiball going, any balls that go into the pumpkin scoop just stay there, and ball search doesn't find them.

I also had a ball locked on the secret skillshot and it didn't release after I drained. Ball search doesn't drop the target.

And I had the game reboot once while I was shooting in the house. This is the first reboot I've seen since I got it a month ago and have been on 1.03 the entire time before today.

Thanks, I'll play a few games this afternoon and check. It seems to be working ok during both normal play and hedge/sanitarium multiballs though.

Decided to do some glass off testing first, and the issue is if 2 balls go into the scoop from the sanitarium in quick succession they get stuck in there. I'm not sure how I managed to do that 2 games in a row.

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I was at 6.5 until a couple days ago and I'm at 7.0 now.

I did some additional testing with the glass off. If you lock a ball at the gravestone, either through the secret skill shot or the normal way by hitting it 5 times, the ball will never release if you drain. It will only release if you hit that target again, which is a little difficult with the glass on and no active balls.

I tested the coils and they drop and release the target as they should, and the target switch in the back and opto switch are working properly.

The stuck switch test is reporting one stuck switch (I think it was "lower drop switch"), but as far as I know that area only has the 2 switches.

No, nothing in the subway. When it happens, the first ball goes in and its momentum takes it to the left side, then the 2nd ball immediately drops in and blocks it from going back to the middle by sitting on top of it.

One way or another I'll get it sorted out. I need to check if my left-right level got a little out of whack when I went from 6.5 to 7.

Wow, thanks. I'll try it out later. I know others have said it happens only some of the time, but for me it happens 100% of the time. Let me know if you need me to try anything to help you guys figure it out.

The only other code issue I've noticed is that it sometimes goes into Death in the Drivers Seat automatically for some reason. The last game I played it put me in it even though I already completed it. I think it happens when you are playing house mode and the ball goes into the scoop. I didn't see it do this on 1.03.

The added instructions help a lot, and the fixed health meter makes it a lot easier to see what's going on when playing the house mode.

Interesting, I haven't had it release a captured ball once after a drain, and I tested it with the glass off a bunch of times in addition to regular play. It will release it if I hit the target again or tilt.

Remember to turn adult mode back on after updating. I forgot to after updating the second time to 1.04a and was very disappointed.

Does it matter which of the drop targets is still up? I haven't seen this during regular play since the update, and tried to reproduce it with the glass off and couldn't either. Also, I did have one reboot shortly after updating the first time on Friday, but none since after many games.

Putting you in "Death in the Driver Seat" looks to be a feature rather than a bug since I think the intent is to put you in the lowest non-completed pumpkin mode if you enter the scoop while already in one of the main modes. Although I think it put me in that once even though I had already completed it.

Is there any way to save game settings, audits, scores, etc. between updates?

On 1.04b I saw a bug with house multiball running at the same time as Bob-Linda pumpkin mode. I cleared the targets, but shooting up the center ramp would not go into the house so I couldn't finish the mode. I think I may have cleared the last target after multiball ended and it was in stalker/restart which I didn't get.

Edit: It happened after hedge multiball, but house multiball was previously played on the same ball. Center ramp was lit, but diverter was in the wrong position and would send the ball to the left return instead of the house.

New bug (on 1.04b)? I went into the pumpkin scoop and it was quickly alternating between the blood drop store and wanting me to select a mode. I couldn't do either, and it eventually only showed the mode selection screen. I could cycle through the modes, but couldn't select one and had to power off. I had just been in the blood store a few seconds before going back into the scoop so maybe that had something to do with it.

I get the 2 ball jam in the lower mini playfield if the balls go in there in quick succession, which happens every few games, and it doesn't seem to matter if I'm at 6.5 or 7.0 since I've tried both. The upper mini playfield seems to play a little better at 6.5 for me, so that's what I'm at now. I was going to try to put something on the side of the hole to the subway to see if that helps. It is very easy to reproduce with the glass off, so that should make it easier to find something that fixes the issue.

The issue I was having is that if 2 balls go down this hole at almost the same time, the momentum of the first ball carries it towards the center of the table and then the second ball lands on top of it, blocking the first ball from going down the subway.

My hacky solution was to put a stick in there to help channel the ball down the subway. So far, so good. If I can get through a few games with no more stuck balls in there then I'll figure out something more permanent. I'm not sure what that little U shaped cutout in the lower playfield is there for. If something was attached to it, or if it wasn't there at all then that might prevent the issue too.

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I was able to get the ball across the balcony with the drop target still up somehow, and I really wish I could see a replay of it because I have no idea how. I was just trying to keep the ball alive up there. I've had the ball nail the glass plenty of times from the target going up and down, but this time it went completely over it.

That's probably what happened but it was so quick I have no idea. Should be a secret super escape jackpot

Virtual physics engines are getting better and better, and it looks really good in 4k, but yeah it will be a while before you can't tell the difference.

Saw a bug in 1.05 last night related to the new stalker mode. I was playing house multiball and it auto-started the Bob & Linda pumpkin mode. When I got down to 1 ball I was at the shoot it across the balcony shot, which I missed and it drained down to the Sanitarium and into the pumpkin scoop. Somehow that was lit blue for the stalker mode even though I was still in the middle of the 2nd pumpkin mode, and the ball got stuck there until the ball search kicked it out after a few seconds. And repeat 2 more times because I couldn't hit the balcony shot. I drained on the last shot of the mode, so I'm not sure what would have happened with the final pumpkin scoop shot, complete that mode and immediately start stalker?

Anyway the short version is somehow the stalker mode got enabled while the 2nd pumpkin mode was still active and it caused a few ball search waits.

I'm more interested in getting the new left ramp without the screws that I requested be sent along with the knife handle when those came in.

Didn't know about the house ramp. I've never had a ball get stuck there. My issue with getting balls stuck is coming down from the Sanitarium if 2 go in there at about the same time, but a makeshift fix I did a few days ago seems to have worked.

Thanks, but I'll just email spooky and see if they can include the left ramp, plus the other upgraded house ramp I didn't know about, along with the knife handle. Are there any other upgraded parts I should request? I think someone mentioned the springs on the 3 center drop targets were the wrong size. Hard hits on those don't drop them a lot of the time, and I was going to try to figure that out at some point. I did have the rubber break on the upper playfield next to the Michael spinner, but I replaced that with a spare.

Is your trick or treat shooter lane sticker blue or is that just a weird reflection?

I probably saw the original #79 sitting in a box when I picked up mine.

Just moving them around is a pretty good workout.

Thanks for this. I spent a lot of time adjusting the house when I first got the game, and after adjusting that post screw you pointed out which controls the left/right level it is almost perfect now. The only issue I have with it now is every once in a while the ball drops straight down depending on its speed going into the house before I can get a flipper on it.

I'm just glad the guy that designed the game has trouble consistently hitting that top hedge shot too I think I hit that shot by accident more that when I'm trying for it.

Yes, that's what SpookyBug said, not implemented yet.

What works for me is holding the left flipper up when the ball comes out of the left lifter and then hitting it off of the tip of the right flipper.

I've had Halloween since the beginning of November and have put a ton of games on it. It really is a unique layout and I'm enjoying it a lot. These are just some thoughts on the code and how I would implement things.

--Don't auto-select pumpkin modes
--If a pumpkin mode is active when multi-ball is started, pause it until multi ball is complete.

Hedge Multi-ball:

--Instead of "locking" a ball in each hedge to start, qualify each hedge independently with 3 shots each
--Any shots to a hedge after qualifying will increase that hedge's jackpot value when in multi-ball
--Multi-ball can be started when at least 1 hedge is qualified at the scoop
--1 hedge = 2 balls, 2 hedges = 3 balls, 3 hedges = 4 balls
--Multi-ball can be canceled at the scoop if you only have 1 or 2 hedges qualified and want to go for more
--While in multi-ball, you can complete each hedge by hitting its drop target first followed by the hedge shot.
--Once a hedge is complete you can complete it again for additional jackpots but only after completing other hedges that are active during that multi-ball.
--Completing all 3 hedges, either all at once or individually in 2 or 3 separate multi-balls randomly assigns Michael to one of the hedges for the Super Jackpot, and if hit qualifies hedge for the night he came home
--Scoring - Jackpots multiplied by how many hedges you go into multi-ball with.

Sanitarium Multi-ball:

--Asylum levels would be based on how many patients you collect by hitting the drop targets, 1=10, 2=20, 3=30
--Restartable, keeping track of how many patients you previously collected

House Multi-ball:

--Instead of just 3 center ramps to start, maybe a combo of hitting the tombstone and then the center ramp with a timeout?
--During multiball make Michael slowly come back to life so you might need to hit the spinners again before collecting the Super Jackpot

Well, it is limited to 1,000 (or 1,250 I guess because everyone could have ordered LEs)

I knew when I bought the game that it was very early code, and that it would probably take at least a year, if not longer, to get to something resembling the final code. And to me that kind of interesting, seeing the progression of the code and getting to play each version. I probably would have started at version 0.80 and worked up to a "we think we're done" version 1.00 instead of starting there but it's just a number.

They know about the Multi-ball/Stalker mode/ball search bug, Bug mentioned it on the stream. It happens anytime Stalker mode is qualified while in multi-ball and you go into the scoop.

Another Stalker related issue is that once you qualify for it and have a pending blood award going into the scoop lets you chose an award, then it kicks you out without activating stalker mode, and you have to go back into the scoop to start it.

Having the pumpkin modes and multi-balls going at the same time can be weird, so my preference would be to just pause them if one is active and not start any until you are done.

The mode where you need to hit a specific drop target is next to impossible if you have multi-ball going. And playing Bob & Linda while qualifying for the house can be weird. Having the drop target down means Laurie can't get hurt, and I'm not sure what happens if you hit the ball across the balcony to start the house multi-ball and progress the mode.

For those having issues with the center drop targets not always dropping, especially on hard hits, I can confirm that replacing their springs with Bally/Williams 10-364 springs has completely fixed that problem for me.

On mine, I can hit the scoop almost every time from the right flipper when cradled. It's harder from the left flipper, and I can make that one about 25% of the time. You can sometimes deflect it in too off the post next to the orbit. The top hedge and right orbit shots are the ones I can't hit with any consistency.

I'll try to get a picture of my scoop later to see why it might be playing easier. I haven't made any adjustments to it.

Here's some pictures of the scoop on mine which is not giving me any issues to help with adjustments that others might need to make.

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Noticed a little damage from the ball coming up out of the center ramp.

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Small chip on the playfield.

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Yes, actually a little on both sides. I'm not to concerned about those. SpookyLuke already contacted me about the chip. I've put a ton of games on it already, so I might be ahead of the curve for seeing any issues like this.

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Yes it has mylar already and the protector is starting to curl a bit on the sides after a bunch of plays, but it hasn't affected shots to it so far on mine.

I haven't seen that at all on 1.05, but did a few times on earlier versions. Not sure about 1.04 but definitely on the version before that.

I think it was triggered by losing a couple balls right on top of each other during multi-ball within the ball save grace period, and somehow the ball save timer got updated to a really long time.

Just wanted to say that SpookyLuke reached out and offered to send me a replacement upper playfield, and I got it yesterday. The new one has some mylar to protect that area. Can't say enough about their customer service.

That was mine, and Spooky offered a replacement upper playfield based only on my post here which is great. I've had it for about 3 months and put a lot of games on it, and the small chip is in a very high traffic area at the opening from the center ramp, so I wanted to see if anyone else had seen any issues like that yet. So far, I think I might be the only one that's seen it (probably because I was terrible at playing the house and had to keep hitting the center ramp to get back up there - better now). For others I'd probably put some mylar at the opening to the upper playfield just in case.

Yesterday I hit it like normal, and then accidently hit it again right away with the 2nd ball that launched. Somehow a ball save got triggered, so I was playing a 3 ball multi-ball right at the start.

When I accidently hit it early it was probably still within the initial ball save time because I cancelled the cut scene. I wonder if this is a reproduceable double-secret skill shot to get an immediate 3 ball multi-ball going?

Here's a new one for me (all on ball 1):

--Played Sanitarium multi-ball - got to last target, but drained to 1 ball.
--Played House - drained Michael's heath, hit it across ramp, but got the "Haddonfield is safe for now" callout?
--It started a 3 ball multi-ball, but it didn't seem like the house multi-ball fully activated, and hitting up the center ramp didn't go to the house for a try at the super jackpot and just returned down to the left flipper

You probably want to check if you have enough slack in that wire when raising the playfield, because something caused it to get loose in the first place and nicked the insulation.

If only all problems were this easy to fix.

Could you guys post a list of known bugs somewhere? I hit one I hadn't seen before yesterday: Bob/Linda started during house multi-ball, and when multi-ball ended it wouldn't let me back into the house to complete the balcony shot, so there was no way to complete that mode. No sense in nagging you guys about something you already know about and maybe already fixed.

I only have it on the top hedge so far, and it seems to reset on its own after a while. It's almost like he's taunting me because that's the shot that gives me the most trouble.

I used some 10-364 springs I had previously ordered from Marco for a different game to replace the stock Spooky springs and they completely fixed the issue.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/10-364

Right Flipper = extra point
Left Flipper = 50 yard field goal

That's exactly what I did when I replaced my springs. I'm not sure how you could replace them without moving the board, especially the middle one.

Great work on the new stuff. I played a lot today and have a couple bugs to report

--After successfully completing pumpkin mode 6, balls going into the scoop require a wait for a ball search. I think house mode was stacked both times I saw that.
--During sanitarium multiball, I snuck a ball into the sanitarium hole just after the other ball drained and before the drop target came up. I got the sanitarium startup again, and the targets were lit again, but it wouldn't start a second time and got stuck in that half way enabled state so I couldn't go onto either house or hedge.
--This probably isn't much help but the playfield lighting got somewhat messed up one time when I cancelled a video intro with the flippers. I can't remember which one it was now, but something you guys could probably check to see if that might cause issues in various places.

And just a couple observations: It seems like the lifter takes a little longer than before to feed the ball to the right flipper on the new code. And the Michaels seem a little jittery at times, like the code is trying to make sure they are in the correction position. My top Michael, who would previously peek out from the hedge when he wasn't supposed to, seemed to be behaving himself.

The mode timeouts are a good addition so things don't go on forever. For the next update can pauses be added to the countdown when the ball is out of the player's control? Or at least make the time configurable? For example in house mode when the ball is draining down from the house, through the sanitarium, and finally from the lifter to the right flipper probably takes about 10 seconds. On mine a lot of times it drains immediately when going to the house, so by the time I can safely get the ball back up there and cradled on the flipper it's already used up a good amount of time.

It's from the Michael/Laurie house mode health meter that's almost hidden.

Had 100k in sight...and tilted.

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That top flap is the most important part of making the pumpkin scoop shots more consistent. If it isn't angled down enough it will cause a lot of rejects. Just bend it down a little, test, and repeat if necessary.

To clarify, this thing (flap/deflector) is what we are talking about. I had to bend mine down farther than what is shown in this picture after I cleaned and waxed my playfield because it was playing really, really fast and shots to the scoop weren't easy anymore.

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Hard to say without actually testing it, but the stock one seems to be ok with a little adjustment.

I noticed that too. I think just about everybody goes for the secret skill shot, right? The only time I get points for a regular skill shot is by accident, so I never bother selecting one now.

When is Stalker Mode supposed to unlock now? I was somehow able to play it yesterday on ball 2 after only playing, and failing mode 1 on ball 1.

Is this what you get if you complete the final wizard mode?

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1503908659193069571

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There's a bug in 1.06b where Sanitarium can restart for a 2nd time if you've already played it, and once that happens it blocks you from hedge or house, and you can't actually get it going the 2nd time. The shots are lit, but the drop target just pops back up if you hit it. Kind of messed up a really good game where I could have completed house, sanitarium, and hedge on ball 1.

And there is a shortcut to stalker mode if you play pumpkin mode 1 first. I know if you fail it, stalker will be selectable the next time when you are supposed to need to visit 2 other modes.

Extra ball is supposed to light after 2 (or is it 3) successfully completed pumpkin modes? I think I got hosed yesterday. I had 4 modes successfully completed and didn't get one. It might have had something to do with playing stalker mode 2nd.

On the early code it was at the end of mode 2, but now I think there's still a couple targets, the ramp, and the scoop after. I'd rearrange things so that plays while the ball is held after going across the bridge.

Or maybe hit some combo of ramps/targets to light it and then you have 15 seconds to lock a ball? If I don't get it off the skill shot I don't even bother with it since the risk/reward is too high.

I haven't seen that endless multi ball in a long time and never could figure out exactly what triggered it when I did get it. My theory is that it happens when you start hedge multi ball when still within the initial ball save time and the timer gets confused, but I never tried to test it.

I did have a new one yesterday in hedge multi ball where I started it when I already had 2 balls going (1 from the tombstone lock that I hit on accident before starting hedge). I think through that and a combination of a couple quick drains at the start I had 5 balls going for a while.

Just a data point - here's mine which I've had since early November and is probably closing in on 1000 plays. It's not as bad as some, but noticeable.

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Another trick is to cut up some zip ties and wedge 4 or 5 approximately one inch pieces between the top of the plastic glass channel and the side rail on each side.

You just want to use the normal thin ones, not handcuff grade

Mine (#82) had this issue from the start and I replaced them with 10-364 springs from Marco and it completely fixed the issue. Well, they work 99.9% of the time. I guess the replacements were a little stiffer since I apparently replaced like for like and didn't tighten them at all.

I'll need to try that later. Going into stalker mode with the 2x blood perk and then unlocking the ball for 4x could lead to some big scores.

Was at around 6 million after ball 2, then I went on a roll. Got to the wizard mode, drained, and it went into ball search so that's how it ended. Didn't have enough blood for the 2x multiplier or extra ball so I blew it on points since I didn't think I'd last long enough to collect more. Can't wait for those wizard modes.

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And at its proper position to the right of Lebowski.

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That's not bad at all out of the gate. I'm not sure how many games I've played since November to finally crack 100k because the counter resets with each code update, but it's a lot. It's good to see more people getting and enjoying what a great game this is.

I somehow got house and sanitarium stacked on top of each other the other day along with the locked ball that got released.

I only played a couple games on the new code, and I like those new pumpkin mode completion hurry ups, but that's why my scores sucked tonight because I was taking too many risks trying to get those. I think the screen still says get to the pumpkin scoop during the hurry ups, even though you don't need to, or at least that's what I remember seeing.

Did the default shooter lane ball eject power get lowered? It failed to put the ball into the shooter lane a couple times and I've never seen that before. I'm going to bump it up some and see if it happens again.

This is what I did. Not pretty, but it works: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/halloween-owners-threadhes-coming-home/page/43#post-6672771

Got to the wizard mode earlier tonight but didn't get to the end of it. What's the timer for? I was adding time to it somehow, but I couldn't figure out what it was for. I guess I need to play it a couple times through the menu to figure it out.

I blew the fuse for the left flipper, left sling, trough, and shaker, and probably other stuff mid-game a few games back. The video and audio started glitching first, then the shaker locked on, then the fuse blew as I was reaching for the power switch to shut it off. I was playing house multi-ball at the time, but didn't notice anything unusual before that. I replaced the fuse with another 3 amp slow-blow and played a few games with no issues. Don't haven't any idea what would have caused it.

Maybe add a difficulty option where the lifter hold time is randomized to really mess with you?

I killed her once just to see what would happen

I've made a few adjustments to my upper playfield, but I'd say 1 of out 5 times the ball will take an odd bounce going in there and immediately drain to the sanitarium before I can even get a flipper on it.

I've gotten 2 over there a few times but it has always dumped them both just like a single ball without needing a ball search. I know I've had some weird issues hitting it across the balcony to start house multiball just as time expires, but that was on older code. On the new code I saw an issue where house multiball didn't start once, either due to Bob & Linda running at the same time or maybe I had a 2-ball Judith gravestone lock multiball going.

Definitely a bug with the house multiball when you have a ball locked at the gravestone. Last night I didn't have any modes running, hit it across the balcony to start house multiball which immediately ended, but I ended up with a 4 ball non-multiball multiball. I wanted to see what would happen if I could get the house going again with 3-4 balls in play, but failed at that.

My guess is the new Mini PCs might be more susceptible to file system corruption at power off. If so, that's probably something Spooky could test and then tweak a few settings to help prevent it.

I replaced all 3 of mine a couple months ago with these and they've been working good so far: amazon.com link »

I had 1 that was always flaky that I replaced early on with the spare servo Spooky included. Then all 3 started to get really jittery, especially at startup, so I replaced them all at once with the metal geared replacements.

The specs for the MG90S servos show 400mA stall current, so a 3 amp could possibly blow if all of them were operating plus some other stuff on the same circuit at exactly the same time.

In a year I've only had 1 fuse blow during a multi-ball and it never happened again after replacing it.

I never bothered to put in a claim to get mine replaced. I might just throw some blood red paint on there to cover up the spots where the powder coat rubbed off, something like that TWD armor.

You need to use FAT32 which is limited to 32GB by Windows. I'm guessing you could create a 32GB FAT32 partition on a larger USB drive if that's all you have.

Please add flipper power settings to the next release. The first game after turning the machine on I think I'm going to snap the drop targets off. And shots to the Sanitarium tend to fly right back out.

Did any of the releases increase the default flipper power from what it was originally?

It could drain the trapped ball at stalker mode start, keep track that a ball should be in there, then launch a ball if you hit the target after stalker ends.