Perfect! You can roll it into King G and delay the start of the 2X until after your first wave. Yes, 1 bil easily with a heat ray on the second wave. Nice!

Very situational based. Tell me what your goal is and I could write a strategy for it.

Start at 32:00 minutes on this video. Ben uploaded them to YouTube. Let me know what specific questions you want answered.

The only two of these awards worth the danger of shooting this intentionally would be light DJ and light ally. I don’t know if there are rules that govern which award you get (I assume there are some) or if it is random. Hedorah is not worth a lot unless you are getting switches to build up the value. You should try to start that one but only in mb or single ball with a ball save.

How to get a billion without using the scoop… this will be tough because the power ups are tied to them. Assuming you can only start one tier 1, this would be my play on a premium:

Center spinner or left spinner to open the game up depending on where the tank is. You don’t want tank on the left spinner since it has bad shot difficulty to chance of drain if missed ratio (I’ll release my scale at some point haha). If the tank is there when you start, then use the ball save to collect that tank. It will also probably collect the first attack bridge with a successful shot because it hits the magna post.

Now you want to go right ramp/left ramp but don’t start a kaiju battle. You will want to start jets first. Once you start jets, then follow my tutorial by shooting the right ramp. Hold the right flipper up as it comes down and nudge the machine towards the backglass/translite to hop the ball over to your left flipper. Five jets lights your first ally… do NOT go for the sixth jet. Go ahead and get your mecha going now. The mecha spinner is a safe dead bounce to the right flipper from the left on a return. Do that until the turntable spins around. During this you should be hitting the attack bridge magna post when it is lit to work your way to bridge mb.

Get the ball trapped on the left and make sure Rodan is selected. Use the right flipper to change what ally you get. Here you will have to hit the scoop. You’ll probably be close to the first power up as well.

Take Rodan with Megalon. Your GZ mb should almost be ready to go with all that jet work. You should need just one shot to the building to light the lock. Shoot the building to light your lock. Lock a ball. Now you should be able to use the ball save from the skill shot to see where megalon is. Your goal is to at least get 5 in a row as that is the multiplier at which he maxes out at. If he is on a shot you don’t like (i.e., left spinner), lock another ball and use your ball save to setup the shot. Lock a third ball to start mb if he is on another undesirable shot. During GZ mb focus only on him. It will be hard because yellow arrows denote a level jackpot in GZ mb. I believe the megalon will blink faster though.

After the fourth shot, you will light another ally. We are going to take add a ball here, but you will not use it in GZ mb. If you can finish megalon with 2X, you’re looking at 250+ million depending on switches in the mb. Overall score should be about 325-350 at this point. Out of the mb, collect the destruction jackpot and see which mb you are closer on, bridge or tank. Use your ball to get both ready to go (even if you lose a ball doing so). You should have a heat ray around this time. Since you don’t like the scoop, let’s take bridge mb first.

If you can get to the first super without using your heat ray, then that would be ideal. If so, then do what I am about to describe during the second round of bridge mb If you usually don’t get the super, then do as follows:

When bridge starts, use your heat ray to take all the single jackpots away. Skill drain till you get a ball on the right flipper and hit the magna post twice. You’ll probably still have a ball save going after doing this. Check out the tutorial for the ideal super timing on having a ball trapped on both flippers. Now right ramp for the super. Let’s the balls drain with the ball save so you can keep hitting right ramps. It will max out at 24 mil. Coming out of bridge, take your destruction jackpot. Your bridge should be at least 50 or 100 if you hit 3-4 supers or got through the next wave with supers. DO NOT use the add a ball yet. Now you need to hit the scoop for tank mb. Sucks if you drain… so don’t haha. If you miss the shot, remember if you are early or late and make the adjustment.

During tank mb, four tanks lights an untimed super at the maser cannon. Try to collect one super which will give you about 40 million. Now instead of going for the second super, focus on getting Tesla targets. Use your ball save here to complete the set and hit the strobing target five times. Hopefully you light the center Tesla spinner and pick off some targets. When out of the mb, you should have some Tesla shots to complete. I would NOT risk the DJ here because hopefully you are still running bridge as well. Here’s where we want to start mecha. One shot to each target… you’ll have to survive this to get your bil. Once in the mb, the jackpots are the same shots as some of the Tesla shots. Focus on completing Tesla first. If you can get a mecha super then great, but the key is to focus on completing Tesla. I like to use my second heat ray on that left spinner shot for Tesla. You’ll be about 500-600 million at this point. If you didn’t drain after bridge, then you’ll be running 3x annihilation. See my tutorial on how that scoring works.

You’ll probably have about 150 mil waiting at the scoop for your carnage bonus (depending on if you beat the kaiju on the same ball). Here’s where you make the choice, collect at the scoop for an overall score around 750 or make a push to raise the carnage value. If you can hit those ramps, then skip the scoop and go for another GZ mb. Watch the tutorial to see how to handle a rejected left ramp shot. This time it will take at least two shots to the center to light the building after maxing out the ramp shots. Start GZ mb and just focus on lighting the attack bridge for your 3x annihilation bonus. Bridge will be the highest value if you just have an average tank and Tesla. The bridge collect should be at least 10 million with the 3X. Don’t forget the add a ball in GZ mb. You can probably pick up the super in the mb as well. Coming out of it, you’ll be at around 900 mil. Shoot the scoop to collect probably a 300-400 mil carnage bonus.

If you drain while trying it to collect, then don’t worry about it. You’ll still get a 2X carnage collect (instead of 3-5X) because you played all the inserts before moving on. That should be worth 100 million and now you got your billion… with only three scoop shots. Would have been much easier to explain this in a video. Hope this helps. Go get it!

I’ve only put about 10 games in on Rush at a friend’s house. One of the things you want to do is collect records of the same color before shooting the time machine to start a mode. The record color changes every time you hit a RUSH target on the far right. Try to get at least three of the some color, and use your mb’s to play the modes out.

I posted this 24 hours ago in response to avoiding the scoop for a billion. I’m calling copyright infringement haha.

One of the best thing about the Elwin games is the lack of a manageable exploit. JP has one built way deep in, IMDN had the Icarus bug… don’t recall if he fixed that one. While GZ doesn’t have a big one, there are some things I would adjust:

1. Light all ally’s is too strong in late game to be a level 9 award. You can get 1+ billion DJ collects running Rodan. I would like to see him trade this off with the level 5 or 7 award.

2. Loops are pretty worthless at a current fixed value. Would be nice if he made them worth increasing value as you shot loops. Would make the 2X loop value worth taking.

3. A bonus beyond the standard combo 2X for completing gigan perfectly (7 straight combo shots). Maybe 40 mil in addition. Make me want to try and pull this off and reward me for doing so.

4. Put some logic in the magna post. If I clip it and it doesn’t grab the ball, I only score the points and lose the chance at the imposter. Give me the points but turn the magna grab back on to grab the ball on the next hit.

4a. Let me blow off all animations when the magna post actually grabs the ball. It will only swing reliably for a few seconds. Lost many opportunities because the bridge animation was playing or the titanosaurus finisher shot was lit.

5. Monster zero left spinner should be worth a greater jackpot value than the other shots that are safe and repeatable. Two to three times more value. Same goes for the last shots in rampage. 2X value for left spinner. Right now most people will shoot another shot and time it out.

6. For Ebriah, a bonus for “shatzing” the right inlane to finishing the mode (like the double saucer award). Having Neal make a call out accusing you of stealing his technique would be an especially nice touch!

7. If I already have all three ally’s collecting a fourth should add 60 seconds to my Rodan time.

8. Briefly show me what ally is lit if I make the super secret skill shot. When I miss, you can just remove the light.

These adjustment requests are like someone saying to clean the protective glass on the Mona Lisa. The game is already one of the best ever. These are some tweaks to balance the game out more.

I own the LE so the bridge drops the ball on the playfield after the super. Always seems to go anywhere but the left flipper haha.

Did it last night.

J E T S…. Jets, jets, jets!

As promised, my full jets strategy.

Background: Jets are more lucrative on the premium/LE than the pro because of the way you need to light them after the second cycle. When you start the game, you will see both inlanes lit for jets under the triangular jet inserts. You need three of each inlane to start jets. You can tell how many jets you have by the plastic jet inserts at the bottom of each inlane. Once jets is started, three shots will cycle back and forth on the playfield on a points hurry up. You need to hit a shot before the points are gone (there is a small grace period on the timer). Each shot scores the displayed value and increases the value of the next shot. The safest way to get most of the jets is by shooting the right ramp and hoping the ball over from the right flipper to the left flipper with a nudge (see tutorial video for demonstration). After collecting five jets in a cycle, a sixth jet will light at the left spinner to collect all previous values. Do NOT shoot this dangerous shot! After collecting your fifth total jet, you will light an ally.

On the second cycle of jets, only one of the two inlanes will be lit. If the right inlane is lit, and the building is not in the lock position, then shoot the right ramp to collect all three jets. The insert will now switch to the other side. Instead of trying to shoot the left ramp three times, shoot the white arrow(s) to get the building into the lock position. Now the right ramp will feed the left inlane. Shoot the right ramp three more times to start jets again. During the second cycle, focus on the right ramp to get five more jets. Your 10th total jet awards extra ball!

For every cycle after this, you need to light one of the jet insets by going down the mecha side lane. This is easy on the premium/LE when the mecha spinner is available. You need to light/collect six times to start the third cycle of jets. Your 15th total jet collected increase your DJ by 1x.

Strategy: The first three awards are in sets of 5. Therefore, you don’t need the sixth jet in any cycle. The left spinner shot is very dangerous, especially after going down the right inlane. Another reason to always shoot the right ramp is that your hurry up points go back to max value each time you go down an inlane during jets.

Jets are unique in that they continue to run even when a ball is sitting in the shooter lane after a lock. You’ll notice that the mecha side lane is lit red for a skill shot after a lock. You can wait for the jets to cycle to the side lane before plunging the mecha side lane to collect the skill shot and another jet!

Anytime the mecha spinner is open, I am usually going to shoot it for progress on mecha and to light my next jet. You cannot light more than one jet a time. You need to collect the lit jet before lighting the next one. Despite the insert being lit, jets are not inlane collectible in multiballs, rampage, MZ, TOM or super trains. Before starting a mb, see where your jets are. If you are only one of two away, then it may be a good idea to start that jet cycle before getting into the mb. You will almost certainly collect 5 jets in mb. This also makes the sixth jet worth going for (with the ball save).

Pay attention to whether a jet is lit prior to launching a ball. If it is not, then consider taking the mecha lane skill shot. This will give you points and light your next jet. For advanced players (and you Maverick’s out there), your 21st , 33rd, and 45th jet lights an ally. Collecting Rodan in late game can make destruction jackpots worth a ridiculous value. Of note, 5% of your jets value is added to the temporary DJ. More about DJ value later.

That is all… aha, ha, ha, ha!

Mid to late game. The later in the game, the higher your DJ multiplier should be. If I had a really good rampage, GZ mb, or Mecha mb, then I may activate it earlier.

This is one of the reasons this game is so epic. He gives you these pinball moments.

Just played a pro. The mecha spinner feeds the jet relight so I have updated the latest post. Guess the building and the dropping bridge is your justification for premium. That and this will probably be the best game ever after 1.0 code.

Each city gives you a perk when you complete it. Similar to JP. London increase your base DJP value. New York boosts your saucer value and Paris increases your loop value. Both worthless compared to London. You can argue whether Paris or NY is the third city, but London should always be the second. Plus one of the combos (right ramp, left ramp, scoop) is something you are trying to do anyway.

Pulled this off yesterday with a tweak to my upper flipper power. Entered me in the “exclusive” one billion club. Let’s see some of those scores from you all!

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You’re getting close though! How did you set it up?

Have you thought about using your heat ray and the very start of bridge? This will collect all single jackpots and light the magna post for the two double jackpots. When the balls exits the trough, pull your plunger all the way back to collect the first double. You should get the second double with a ball save. Then shoot the right ramp to collect a few supers. Should come out of it with 50 mil. I try to play Tesla in a mb or stacked with jets. You’re getting close!

Glad to hear this! Next step is to collect the super in mecha and qualify terror. Easy 200 million even if not played well. Congratulations.

Yes. You can also resurrect bridge and tank mb even when you get down to one ball. You just have to make sure you do so before it shows you the total score with animation. About a 1-2 second grace period.

Mine was slightly different. The game actually recognizes you only have one ball left but still gives you one ball back. If you do it as soon as the ball hits the trough, then the game credits you for two in play and you get two back. Either way we are both playing some more mb!