For some reason pinside isn't letting me quote or use emoticons anymore. So let me be clear and say I meant my post "Awe man. It sucks to be artificial" in a light hearted joking knock on my high score. Based on Pinballdads response I get the feeling he took it wrong. Anyway, basically the cross multi-ball should be 5 hits to start (3 drops and 2 stand-up hits). If one of the drops is down to begin with then the software should compensate for it (2 drops 3 stand-up hits to start multi-ball). I wasn't paying attention but in this early stage of programing I bet this is not the case and therefore scores could be artificially inflated. It was fun playing Metallica while it lasted especially with Molly and her friend Rob on Sunday. 99% of the time I play alone so it was a nice change of pace playing multi-player games.