I agree - this sound bite is perfect. Yes it's annoying but that's the way it's supposed to be - a reflection of the scene in the movie. Please don't change this.

Thanks for the link. I have a similar problem on my JP, mainly occurs during CHAOS when the last few balls drain quickly together. The game loses track and still thinks there is a ball in play. After ball search starts a new ball is kicked out. Will check out the switch identified in the post you linked to.

Wow - lots of stuff in there I wasn't aware of. Great to get such an insight into the programming

I have never lit Special via an Egg shot - what determines this happening?

The symptoms I see on System Failure seem to occur when a bunch of balls have drained together at which point they seem to take an eternity to get kicked back into play. On the surface the delay seems to be software driven, i.e. every time the trough VUK solenoid activates a ball IS fed to the shooter lane which then fires it into play - so no misfires as far as I know on my machine. This often means that I'll be playing with only 2 or 3 balls in System Failure and losing a whole load of points waiting for the balls to be launched back into play.

I'm going to replace the trough switch mentioned in the thread ChadH linked to and will report back if it has made a difference. Going to be a few weeks at least though before the switch is delivered.

I often experience a long delay (1 to 2 secs) between the shooter lane loading solenoid firing and the lockout coil releasing the ball - even during normal game play. I have always assumed that this was a software issue.

Is there an existing way to have a dual boot machine, e.g. a socketed game rom with two roms on a daughterboard and a switch to select which is active?

That's a great idea. My wife loves the game as it is and is resistant to change. Conversely, I would love to play the new rom as well as the old and my wife would want a quick conversion back to the old if I had been playing the new. So, a ZIF would likely suit the bill perfectly. I'll look into it.

Personally, I find any clarification of the current "rules" very useful. Thanks for the raising the question.

I can hear "extra ball" fine on my machine and like the whispered approach. That said, I have Flipper Fidelity speakers in my JP and found after installation that the improvement meant more subtle sound, voice and music effects all became much clearer.

Three loops is about my best as well. If I'm in Tri-Ball and a ball comes to the upper flipper I certainly try for the high jackpot loop shot - however I also invariably miss.

It happens. Mine does the same occasionally and it is frustrating when it does happen. Sometimes the ball doesn't even make it into the pop bumbers but hits one of the targets close to the pop bumpers entrance and the ball falls back losing the opportunity for millions from Super Pops. This is the random (and fun) nature of pinball I suppose.

If yours is consistently draining directly from the pop bumpers then perhaps you need to make some adjustments, e.g. pop bumper sensitivity, playfield angle and/or flipper position.

Here's something I came across the other day that I hadn't noticed before. If the Boat Dock is lit and then shot, and that happens to collect the Spitters, AND this is prior to the first Tri-Ball, then only ONE of the Spitters lights turns off. This makes no sense prior to the first Tri-Ball when physically hitting any ONE of the Spitter targets collects them ALL. So, shouldn't collecting Spitters via the Boat Dock (before the first Tri-Ball) also collect them ALL?

It is the case when hitting the spitter targets for the first tri-ball but NOT when collecting spitters via the boat dock.

I've never adjusted my pops (other than cleaning and setting the switch gap) and have managed to complete electric fences on many occasions (and also failing many times). Not bragging, just saying that on my machine it is hit and miss but can and is achieved fairly regularly.

Congrats :thumbsup:

I tend to go to the pops through the bottom via the left flipper and once it's in there do a lot of nudging. It does generally come back out early but getting it back in there is the key. And don't forget that each time it hits the slingshots that also counts towards the 20 hits required.

They do indeed - I assume this was an attempt to make the challenge not quite so hard.

This works well for me : http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=1518

Chad - could you comment on my observation above. This isn't a feature request, rather something that I believe is inconsistent behaviour. I'm hoping with this being a "correction" that it doesn't need any additional space.

Well Chad all I can say is a huge thank you for trying. If you do manage to implement it then that is great and removes a daft inconsistency from the original code - if not, then c'est la vie

Chad - you're a star - thank you

Man am I excited to try this out when you release it.

Just had a horrible thought - this change does only apply to the build-up to the first tri-ball. For the second tri-ball the Boat Dock should only spot a single dinosaur at a time. But then again I'm sure you knew that being a genius and all

I knew you knew that