I've been happy with https://mattsbasementarcade.com/

But TBH, I resisted buying a programmer for the longest time.. but finally caved... given that a decent one now runs in the $100 range, I think it saves a lot of back and forth to just have it.. and opens the door to troubleshooting if you suspect a rom issue and so forth.. just nice to finally have one.

This is amazing! Can't believe I missed out for 86 days already.. serves me right for not following slochar more closely. .

awesome work, thanks for sharing!

Was wondering about the feasibility / what the forum thinks about a sequential drop bonus award? Have not given it too much thought.. but some random ideas.. as this one has a really great ruleset, it's a stretch to think of what actually adds value.

Skill shot could be just the short plunge, so the first switch being the right most drop from the upper right flipper?
and/or perhaps there is a timed plunge on the top loop rollover, animating blue inserts?

Enjoying the rom for sure.. nice to have free play, and balance the loop a bit.. of course, it will always be a drop game, but it is fun to watch the spinner count as a little alternate game.

Interesting. Yeah, I recall on my Vector times when I hit the defenders in what seemed like sequence, but two go down near the same time, sometimes it counts, sometimes not. Not the end of the world.

That would be a cool skill shot for sure. Guess that spinner switch would need to be adjusted tight.

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An alternate idea on the drops, could be an bank completion award rotation on a one second timer. Not sure if this has any merit or not. Just trying to think of ways to award the player for more intentional drop shots.

I found that if you drain while or close to the spinner switch activating, sometimes you can get a unexpected hiss noise. Game functions fine otherwise.. Just thought I'd mention it, if it is repeatable for anyone else?

I was able to recreate it with a short plunge that drains right away. This is with v08 of the custom rom.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gJoU4HSVPnB1gk4z6

Hmm could be my machine. Just odd that it is after the spinner.. It doesn't happen much in regular gameplay.. Basically need to drain while the spinner is going which is fairly rare.

Sorry.. didn't see this reply- It happens on the second ball drain in the video.

You can hear the sound lock up for a second, until as you say, the spinner timeout happens. sometimes, (rarely), it happens on a sound where it is more jarring and it really needs a quick drain from the last spin for it to be noticable.. but whatever, I've been running the rom for a while.. it's not a big deal.. just something I noticed..

Curious if anyone had an opinion on being able to keep a maxed bonus multiplier ball to ball?

Still would need to work the bonus back up... I'm always leery of rules where it seems like a certain progression has the potential to harm... So yeah maybe like you say a config to reset each ball.. Or decrease 2x each ball regardless?

I'd be curious to see an easy playing seawitch.. I feel like mine is really mean. Need to have some top local players over to give me some perspective maybe...one should be over soon.

My wife's top spinner score.. It's the GC she plays for... So thanks for that.. It's great... Funny how some can just have certain shots dialed in.. I always have trouble with the spinners in seawitch. Quite tight and when you brick it you're lost.

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Wondering what the potential might be for a viking kind of deal on the spinner? i.e., Opportunity to use the spinners to advance bonus maybe 1 advance every 10 spins. After 10 spins, 2x riptide until the timer is up, and so on.

I find the spinner quite fun to shoot.. for sure, the sound effect for it is incredible... the biggest issue is it is just not worth much? but perhaps if it is an opportunity to advance bonus.. then maybe it becomes a real objective once the multiplier is brought up.

Looking forward to this!

Kind of think the top star rollover is the natural skill shot if it had a reward, since it is hard to plunge.. but the first bank strafe is its own reward just by immediately beginning the progression.

Kind of wondering about spinners advancing bonus as a possible strat?

That sounds pretty good. Interesting, I was thinking of the skill shot within the skill shot, but the idea of it based on the number of drops hit on that initial strafe is pretty great!

Agreed. Looking at the numbers, I guess the spinner becomes enough reward when lit up as a viable alternate shot.

Never seen anyone collect that star on launch on the machine.. but ours shoots really straight.... then again, looking at it, I see that ours is probably not set as sensitive as it needs to be, as sometimes making that shot and missing the star can be very frustrating also.

Was thinking about the rules about while playing, and was wondering what people thought about adjusted flipper scoring for special?

The current game rules allow for 100k special, which is decent, however, this would presumably include outlanes which is kind of lame.

I was wondering if the code might allow for isolating a 100k special payout for the under the slipper special shot? already lights up and everything. Typically I can't think of this shot being useful.. but this might be kind of cool?

Oh wow, thanks, this is amazing.

I'll try to get the rom in soon, and set up a stream in the next few days... getting over a cough still.. sigh.

I'm pretty excited about this, Normally, there is really no incentive with the Special, but this is a great extra goal to hit in the game now, and 100k makes it worth going for.

Thank you!

Thank you. Finally got around to getting it on the machine. Having some Win11 driver issues with my GQ-4x4 Really odd.. it was a tank, but recently sometimes it doesn't detect the device with the software... need to disconnect internet, and then mess with the drivers and it works again for a while.. sigh.

Anyway, seems to work in the machine. I adjusted my regular special collect replay (didn't realize I had 100k set, which is lame for an outlane special..).

There is another dip setting which can allow the special to cycle between the runway special, and the two outlanes.. that is kind of neat.. but I agree, esp on mine, even with practice, I'd be lucky to hit it 1 in 10, so a couple of collects on it after you have 7x bonus is a really cool addition to the code IMHO. It is great that this only collects on the runway, so if someone had a machine where the runway were perhaps too easy, they could use this other setting to cycle the award if they chose.

I intend to set up a livestream of gameplay for Saturday @ 10:30AM PST

https://www.twitch.tv/pinbruh/schedule

After this, I'll move the video to youtube for posterity.

Thanks again, I quite like this adjustment, as it provides a great rule for after the bonus is maxed out.

Oh cool.. lol. How does the >100 spin work? Too bad not alpha displays to go hex. lol, or can it scroll?

Here is a clip on YouTube of it being collected.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEqqCvk-dAv63t5v9hXyGAwLzXzguJn1x

Hopefully HD will be rendered soon.

Here is the full video:

Thanks!

Oh yeah, that's awesome! forgot it shows in the P4 display... I had some crazy rips on stream tho.. pretty sure a nice 60 count on one shot.. if I were going for it, I might have been able to rip it again to exceed that crazy 99. lol

Cool! thank you. I'll try to get it in for next week, and shoot for spinners! should be fun