Fourth is nothing
Fifth is another Chaos mb.

didn't get to Sixth

You don't need T-Rex and Spino, only the Spino to play KotI.

Currently Escape Nublar isn't coded at all.
Once you get to, and play, Visitor Centre there are no more dinosaurs to capture and that portion of the game is effectively a dead end.
It still leaves the control room modes to play, which leads to Secure Control Room mini wizard.
As well as the T-rex/Truck modes, which leads to Museum Mayhem (The BEST mode ever). After Museum Mayhem, EVERY T-Rex mode will be the multiball and you can't play the other modes again.
There's still Pteradon attack, from the right ramp, and DNA combos to go for.

Once latest code is released, which can't be far away seeing as it has gone to a couple of locations to be Beta tested, Escape Nublar will be playable either by getting passed Visitor Centre, or by using the flipper code at the start of the game.

IMHO JP has got to be the greatest game ever released from a playfield layout perspective, integration of theming, graphics, sound and coding. I thought IMdn was good, but JP is just different level awesome.

There will almost certainly be a setting to disable - it's also been quoted by KME himself that the scoring will be slightly different. Getting there the 'normal way' the route back through Nublar will be based on the paddocks you visited, dinosaurs captured and workers rescued. Making it easier if you achieved a lot on the way.
Obviously if you just start at the Visitor Centre those other factors, such as route through paddocks, will have to be made up.

Stern have already done something similar with God Mode on GB (but this can only be activated from the operator menus, not flipper codes).
My local site has a GB set on God mode constantly, and it takes SIGNIFICANTLY more money than any of the other 25 games, including all of the latest Sterns and JJPs.

Has anyone else noticed that DNA combos have disappeared in 0.98 code?

Played the Escape Nublar challenge yesterday - the opening call out, and callouts throughout, as well as graphics substituted "worker/s" with "goat/s"

I've gone with the Papo Raptor and Pteranodon - and Colonel Pickles Trex, just haven't got round to fitting them yet.

Plan is to use piano wire to fix the pteranodon horizontally from the bracket holding the bulbs on the right ramp.
Raptor will be superglued to a clear 'plastic protector', cut to size behind the raptor pen, although she'll need a dunk in boiling water so I can turn her head to face over the pen - instead of looking to the side.
Trex may need to have her tail trimmed a little with her legs astride the left ramp, boiling water to move her head as well probably.

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And lose Nublar?

If you backtrack to 0.97 you'll lose Nublar if you get to the end, not just from flipper code.

How pissed would you be if you got to where it should be on 0.97 code?

PS. I've got there genuinely, once - not only do you need to get to Visitor Centre, but you also need all 4 Trex modes to get to and play Museum Mayhem, as well as completing 3 control room modes to get to Secure Control room. Then you can attempt to play Escape Nublar.
I'd already played it from the flipper codes, and was confident I knew what I was doing when I got there.
The fact that it's not something I'm going to be getting to every other game I want it there and coded when I do get there.

The Smart missile is ONLY available when truck is narrowing the shot, when it's facing the other way super spinner is available.

my main reasons to abort:

In MB and don't have control of other balls flying around so likely to miss the shot.
Not in a paddock, or about to move to a dangerous dino paddock and want to save the smart missile for 'clear paddock' award. I'll try and have it set up with smart missile ready to activate and start paddock at the same time. Hit left ramp - choose clear paddock - hit the award BOOM
You have Chaos MB ready to start, but don't want to start it at that point.
Waiting for 'Invalid Frenzy' to come up as a choice.

Many reasons - and it's a nice choice to have if you accidentally trigger the smart missile.

No, there is enough room to make the shot to the target - the truck being turned doesn't have much of an effect.
If the shot is true it'll hit the target whether the truck is turned or not.

It's the same thought about hitting a shot through the pop bumpers, it doesn't narrow the shot

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Rather than use a ziptie to stop the ball coming back out of the pops through the 'one way gate', which think looks a little ugly.
I cut the end off a leaf switch, and with a slight bend, attached under the screw holding the gate.
Works perfectly.

Has anybody else noticed the significant difference in scoring between the Pro and Premium? Not just based on scores registered here on Pinside, but also experience I've had in playing both versions.

Are there really that many problems with the ball being caught by the Trex?
I would have thought that the raptor gate would actually increase scores on the Prem as it's easier to get to Raptor MB, even the helicopter blades (the only other physical difference) increases the scores in the paddock.

Which just leaves the Trex as the culprit.

Not my overall best game, but did include a Trex MB Super Jackpot of nearly 200mil, plus Visitor Centre.

Best watched on tablet or phone, there's some other videos including IMdn, GotG & AS on my channel.

You build the base jackpot for the MB by hitting all/some of the lit shots. I've had the base up to 7mil.
Then when mb starts, hitting the jackpots in order (lit red and starting from the left) doubles the base. So first up 7, then 14, 28, 56 & 112. The Super is the sum of all of the jackpots you lit - in this case that would be 217. (Mine was 191mil).
If you hit a shot out of order, you lose the chance of dou ling up the shots until you have collected the super, then it all starts again.
I did think that the next super would be the sum of ALL the jps you'd hit (which is why my commentary got a little excitable as I hit my second super) but that's not the case.

A friends son has had a Trex MB over 800mil.

There are lots of good scoring opportunities throughout the game.

All of the Control Room modes can produce over 100mil.
The Trex modes can as well, but Rampage can be massive as the mode doesn't stop once you've earned the fossil. My best is 660mil, and I drained before time ran out.
Collecting all of the rescues from a paddock also gives you a perfect paddock bonus which increases as you go along.
I've had a pteranodon attack over 350mil.

Visitors Centre and Museum Mayhem are easier to get to than Secure Control Room, and all 3 have great potential.

Add in Invalid Frenzy, Loop awards, Tower awards, DNA combos, 2x playfield, Escape Nublar and When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth and it is far and away the best game released in 2019 (if not ever) and worthy of all of the Twipy award it received

I don't worry about Chaos, other than making sure I hit the C early, the other letters happen on their own. I'd focus on the TRex modes to increase your score, and try and keep away from the centre dinos. Make sure you clear the paddocks before moving on to the next. Not only do you get the perfect paddock bonus, but the more rescues you get, the more smart missiles you get. Don't be afraid to abort them, and save for further along when you can clear a tough paddock with a single shot.

Practice shooting the amber target as often as possible. It's needed for the smart missiles, but also getting the letter jackpots in chaos, it also feeds to the pops which increases amber, switch hits in pteranodon attack, as well as giving a nice controlled feed to the upper flipper.

Basically exactly what you said, avoid the right ramp as the value and multiplier grows.
There's also a +10× pteranodon bonus for one of the fossil sets, first one I think.

Mine wasnt sticking open, but closing so slowly that a ball would often bounce straight back out and stdm.

I cut the end off an old leaf switch and attached as in the photo, never had a problem since, and it's virtually undetectable during normal play.

I do have an issue with the one way gate at the centre lane/spinner sticking up, but it doesn't seem to cause much of a problem, and I may even remove it completely

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Try this fix, posted in the LE/Prem thread.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/welcome-to-the-jurassic-park-le-club/page/53#post-5300605

Could also be a switch registering on the playfield, thus validating it, making the machine think a ball is in play.

The biggest issue I have on the Pro with the left ramp is the ball gaining air and not only not registering the optos, but also rattling and often jumping the ramp.

I believe it to be that the ramp flap is longer and more flexible than most others I have seen on other machines, or even the right ramp on JP. The fix is to try and stop that flap flexing and creating a sharper ramp which gives the ball air.
My friend has a Prem and also seeing similar issues until he lifted the ramp and placed a pillar rubber (cut in 2 lengthways) under the flap. This means no flexing of the flap, no air balls and thus no missed shots.

I just haven't got round to doing it on mine yet, as I'm waiting for a few other bits and bobs and will fit everything at once.

Look at post #4084, where I've posted my fix for this.

post #4084

You can time out a paddock. Once all of the workers have been eaten/trampled by the dino, the dino then 'escapes' and you get to start a new paddock (by spelling MAP).

During this time you can work on TRex (truck modes), progressing towards either CHAOS or Raptor MB, loops, tower shots, Secure room modes.

There is more to the game than paddocks, even the paddocks don't have to follow the same route each game, you can change your route by hitting the Truck.

I would say even for a mediocre player there is plenty to do - for a poor player maybe less so

Each to their own I suppose, but there's a reason that the majority of people think the code is awesome.

But the streak only awards points. Good, but nowhere near enough to warrant missing out on points available elsewhere. Getting the max streak of 53 rescues only awards 31.7 mil for the last capture.

The control room modes, can be played in any order you choose.
The 3 are:
Virus Attack
Alternate between lit shot and control room
System Boot (my favourite)
Make 3 x 2 combos, before finishing off at control room
Restore Power
Spinner to start then hit all shots.

All worth well over 100mil for completing before double playfield is taken in to account - also award you fossils.

853.3 mil

Rescue as many workers as possible. Rescues get you smart missiles. Abort smart missiles until you're at the harder dinos, then use clear paddock. You should be able to set up the start of a paddock with a smart missile shot with minimal effort.

Don't collect pterandon until it's at a very high level (the multiplier holds over until you collect) but try to start it as often as possible.

Feed TRex can be worth very good points if you make sure you hit the jackpots in order (left to right) before collecting super you can even hit the left shot again to boost it higher.

You can also get the same effect with the 'Clear paddock' award.

Rescues awarded pushes you over the next threshold.

I had this exact same problem on my IMdn with the bottom left spinner. It wasn't resting in a vertical position meaning you couldn't get a decent shot on it.

Despite what has been said before by others, it has absolutely nothing to do with the bracket, or it binding, or anything else similar. It is because the axle the spinner sits on is bent. once it becomes bent and the spinner starts to sit not vertical (lower edge closer to you) every single hit to the spinner will actually bend the axle a little more making the problem worse.

To fix this you need to hold the spinner between finger and thumb and pull towards you (front of playfield)and bend the axle back to perfectly straight. This will fix the problem.

Do this little by little so as not to over stress the wire and potentially weaken it and cause it to break at a later date.

I was going to swap them out, due to previous issues, and bought replacements. However, I haven't had the need to and they've lasted far better than previous