Looks like a good thorough update. Nice!

How can Lyman do all this in 2 weeks & we are still waiting for Xmen code that is in testing?

Wow, pretty awesome update!

Has anyone confirmed that there really are going to be band memeber modes or are we just assuming base on the story boards? How does one collect a band member now anyhow?

i will post in a few, mine is updating now

Incredible update and a nice thorough explanation. Well done sir!

I really hope so. I think that the 'insiders' seem to think so (Akuma, Mnpinball, etc.) Would love for one of them to confirm their thoughts. Of course, that's assuming they're not feeling too battered for schmucks giving them grief over being 'wrong' about when the Xmen code was hitting, as if it was under their control.

Is this now downloadable on Sterns' website.

Installing this HUGE update now!

YEEEEESSSSS

One of these kids is doing his own thing. Come on can you tell which one?....Now it's time to play our game...it's time to play our game.

Quite the list of changes! Looks like Crank It Up still has not been implemented. Unfortunately we are running a TOPS tournament on our Metallica until June 28th so I can't update until after that.

There are callouts that reference starting a mode for the band members, like "Hey, did my mode just start!?". There are also options in the menu that seem to be mode related.

Wow, nice update... couple more updates and MM will be falling to number 2 again!

Band member modes are coming along with EOL wizard mode.
For now we have a new mode - Seek and Destroy to play with.
And combo jackpot like tron at the dead end!
And and and new animations and callouts.

It's like christmas in june!!!

Excellent question.

teekee will be rich with all this updating!

Have you watched this guy play pinball?

He is obviously a master of both pinball playing and pinball coding.
Perhaps the best ever.

My game update is half way done...then I will disappear to play and report back soon after

Installing now as well.. 30% damn this is slow...

Props to Lyman for leaving out Lars, he should have made him wait longer

- The "lars" guitar pick animation was not being requested when lars
was collected. This has been corrected.

I'll have to check the LE and see how much of that was already there in the LE v1.1 it shipped with a week ago. I'm pretty sure much of this was already in the works, which is how it got done.

Is there going to be a BATTERY mode?

no band member modes yet, lighting 2 band members lights special but thats all i see, there is animated pics for each member when completed but no modes

Always fun to read ya Adam!
I feel your excitement,Please tell us all about the new code soon!

And here is what just happened to Xmen owners!

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There will be an LE update on site as well late today or early tomorrow at latest.

Hearing anything about Xmen mnpinball?

Nice update Lyman. Good notes. Can someone explain combo jackpot award. Do you mean like Tron end of line into scoop?!

Lyman is not on xmen. Hope you guys get what you want.

Hear anything on band member modes?

Mine wont verify after update..any suggestions?

Yes but not into scoop. Collected at the dead end on extreme left.

So how's the game with the new software??
Other thing my distributor told me it's suposed to have the LE this week or next monday
Good news

Yes,Your Distributor told me the same thing

I c'ant wait to **RIDE THE LIGHTNING**

And here is what just happened to Xmen owners!

Here is where the XMEN code update is:

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First game after update, 102.5MM GC. Good game for me anyway.

I keep hearing "ball lock" or something along those lines from the audio of the game but I'm not sure what its referring too? Hits on sparky?

Some nice improvements. The only thing I am not sure is right is that the coffin multiball is now too easy to start. Since it's now the only multiball you can stack with other multiballs, you can just keep shooting for the captive ball almost the entire game. Once coffin multiball starts, more big points are scored off of the captive ball. It's almost a given you will start another multiball without even trying which will extend your coffin multiball even further. I'm not saying there aren't other shots worth points, but that's a LOT of captive ball action, unless I'm missing something...

Yes but not into scoop. Collected at the dead end on extreme left.

Nice. That is one of the reasons I like Tron. The combos and secondary scoring opportunity.

So bust out a 3 way combo and collect at Fuel shot, right?

What are the 3 inserts in front of the Fuel shot? See attached pic, Top left.

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I think they might have to do with building pop bumper value?

Not sure what they mean entirely but wen you hit a pop bumper it counts down. When a pop bumper reaches 0 it lights the corresponding lit in that area. Hit each pop bumper 10 times to lite each lite.

First impressions:

The main addition is the new seek and destroy mode.
The main change is coffin multiball is qualified by the captive ball, 5-10-10.

Complete all five hurry ups to start Seek and Destroy.
Once you have completed a lane, the red arrow will strobe.
Seek and Destroy progress continues from ball to ball.

Collect them all and you get a sweet mode start animation.
Timer counts down with band jamming on stage.
Hit jackpots for new animation and add time.
I started it during coffin multiball so I'm not sure if it is a single or multiball mode.
When the hammer comes down for jackpot animation it has 'Metal Up Your Ass' carved into it.

I dunno, the first 3 games I played I got coffin multiball. In the third game I got it on ball one. Prior to this I had only got coffin multiball maybe 5 times since I got the game. You can just keep shooting the captive ball, including during other multiballs, to start the coffin, collect hurry ups, jackpots, etc. hmmm...

I don't mind coffin multiball being easy to get, but you definitely shouldn't be able to progress towards it with other multiballs running, and when it is running, I would disallow any other multiballs from starting. ie - you can stack in coffin MB from another MB, but not use coffin MB to stack into something else - kinda like Frank in MB. Once it's running, you can't start anything else, but you can bring modes into it.

Course I haven't played Met yet so its all just conjecture

WTF!! Does the USB need to be fat format? And after you download does it need to be put through Winrar or just dumped onto stick?

Some BSD rules would be cool I think! Make each multiball harder to get but have a reward for stacking.

Yes you need to extract the contents using winrar, winzip..etc..to a usb stick with at least 128mb

OK. Does it matter if it is Fat or NTFS?

Yes to winrar. It is compressed. Then drag and drop to USB. Fat I think.

LE code is out now.

V1.13 - June 10, 2013
=====================

- The coffin was not releasing balls to satisfy requests for other
multiballs. For example, if two balls were locked in the coffin and
sparky multiball was started, only the balls from the trough (2)
would be put into play. (Sparky multiball is a 3-ball multiball
and this is wrong.) This has been corrected.
- Fixed AUX board wire colors.
- Snake shot (eject) was awarding a snake letter when the snake was not
lit to score a letter. This has been corrected.
- Added a flasher lamp effect for Seek & Destroy (destroy) at the coffin.
- Fixed a problem with the initialization of the "seek" shots for Seek &
Destroy (shots were not being lit in the order in which the hurry-ups
were started/collected.
- Fixed up issues with holding/releasing balls from the snake.
- Added new hurry-up art (the background art had problems).
- Implemented a new set of adjustments for coffin hits to light lock.
(Instead of 10-10-10, it is 5-10-10 and the increment isn't as brutal.)

V1.11 - June 6, 2013
====================

- Added a delay before kicking the ball out of the snake eject. This
allows more time for the jaw to open before the ball is kicked out
(necessary on some games).
- Added switch sounds to snake jaw up/down latch test.
- Added switch sounds to drop target test.
- Added coffin hurry-up to the list of criteria that leaves the loop
post down so the ball can loop back to the flippers.
- Fixed a bug with the music. If the music ended, then it would not
always be restarted immediately. The song would also sometimes be
restarted in the middle instead of from the beginning. This has
been corrected.