I hope everyone removes their center posts, carrot flippers, and outlane rubberbands now and plays some real pinball.

Ok, there's a definite bug. If you have a mode running, hitting the video mode start skill shot doesn't start the mode, it just awards you the 10% of your points and ejects the ball. Hitting the skill shot with no mode running will bring you to the prompt to select which video mode you want to play.

Don't Cross the Streams is worth a good chunk of points.

Played Don't Cross the Streams twice now.
Still a bit confused on which direction the streams will move when I hit the flipper buttons.

It's a little weird, yeah. From what I could tell, left flipper moved the left stream in, right flipper moved the right in. Couldn't see how to reverse the direction, maybe pressing both buttons moves them both out. I'll need to see. Of course it could always move them both in and cause an instant crossing. Haha.

Yes. That is what I am talking about.
How do they reverse direction?
I'm sure someone will figure it out soon.

Ok, so streams automatically reset back to their starting point after a capture. It's a little clumsy, but you just wait and it will go back. You can only move inward, so you have to be careful that you don't go too far or else you'll miss a ghost. The time it takes to capture a ghost is long though, and often two ghosts will come in behind that one and you're kind of screwed.

Interesting video mode. You will have to get used to the slow pace of it though. First try I caught one ghost, then two. Now I'm getting around 9-10 per try.

Edit: Another bug (sort of the same as the video mode bug...Tobin's sometimes doesn't award on the skill shot. I had a mode running and extra ball lit. I hit the skill shot, and it didn't give me the Tobin Award, just the 10% score and the extra ball. Hit it again next ball to test and again, no Tobin awarded. I had a mode running, so I think that's the issue, just like it is with the video mode not starting.

This really makes the game more enjoyable, my wife noticed it right away when she got to Gozer on her first game with the new code.
It's way better for the casual player and those that want it impossible can change the setting. Happy campers all around!

Yes for sure. You can get through the modes much easier. I suspect TaylorVA will change it to hard quickly.

How do I get the update?

Kind of wish they'd leave it the old way by default and allow you to make it easier via adjustments. Especially since I don't have control of the settings when I play on route. Now it will likely be a matter of timing out modes and looping left ramp shots continually until you make a lucrative mode like Stay Puff. I really didn't think it was that difficult before.

Do they have the older versions of the code archived somewhere?

http://sternpinball.com/game-code

Route games are usually for casual players anyway, this makes it more approachable for the casual player. You don't have to let the mode time out

Customer service also said it could be a shorted LED in the GI's. One bad one can bring the whole system down, since the GI's are now DC instead of AC.

Sign of crazy. I'm quoting myself. lol
Anyway. I put the game into switch test mode and found out that Slimer will only register a hit from behind him.
I can bend him all the way back and nothing. All the way left and right and nothing.
But if I bend him forward it will register a hit.
Maybe it is just coincidence and has nothing to do with the new code. But very strange that he was working great just prior to update.

Still no way to backup high scores yet before you update right?

Hopefully they build in a good incentive for finishing modes. Maybe have it cash in a large bonus or start you out with multipliers in WCWS. Otherwise it takes the fun out of completing them.

Are there more callouts / audio clips from the movie?

I haven't found any added audio, just easier to hear voices.

Here is my initial impression of the update: They have addressed the bitching points of the code from a few vocal pinsiders (mainly in New York) Mission accomplished. But in all seriousness it is much less frustrating and the update is much better than I initially thought. No Jeff, this isn't a disappointment.

damn I was hoping a lot of the clips found in the current code would have been put to use.

They might. I could just have not noticed to this point.

That would be meaningless because of the changes in the rules.

This may have been addressed before but what does everyone think of their choice of music in the game?

Seems to me that there was heavy reliance on stock music. Can't tell me that licensing for the Film score could have been that high?

At least that was something I noticed with the Pro I played earlier tonight.

Uh, almost all the music is original. There's very little licensed music in the game.

Only dicks play games like that. Almost zero mode based games have ever required completion. You could time out ever mode on LOTR and get to Destroy the Ring...but why would you want to? You could time out every mode in STTNG and get to the wiz mode...but why would you want to. That's not fun, and it's not a valid complaint ...especially about a game that is so physically difficult. This balances that out.

If you plan on timing out modes, there's an adjustment you need to make so that it doesn't pause the timer on trapped balls. When instant info comes on, it pauses the mode timer by default. There's an adjustment to keep it ticking.

Ok- so loaded on the new code. Love the fact that the mode progress is saved.

Has anyone ever had a 5 second long visual of a 'screaming face' with a piercing screeching sound- it occurred off the left ramp when we started the 2nd ladder. After which the screen went blank for a few seconds before starting the mode. We have never seen this prior to the code update. Was very cool but also unexpected.

That's the new scare feature.

Pretty interesting 'scare feature' in the new code; gave my kids a pretty good scare lol.

Another quick observation with the new code: I was unable to find the adjustment for the strength of the magna-slings? Has anyone seen where this is now located in the adjustments? I may have just missed it.

Learn STTNG better.. you play the modes through in STTNG to get artifacts.. which impact the scoring in FF *significantly*... and you time out the crappy features that are more risk than they are worth (like Romulans)

And DTR in LOTR is from multiball, not modes.

Knowing what to play and what to skip/avoid is part of mastering games.

HRC requires completion to lock in a mode
Tron requires completion to get Portal
MB requires completion to get to Monsters of Rock
LOTR requires completion to get to Valinor

The list goes on... many many games require completion to get the full objectives. You are only every stuck in a single mode in GB if you put yourself in that position.

What ghost busters does that not many recent games do is if you miss your prime objectives, there may not be a whole lot lit for you to just bash around on. You have to qualify stuff... get those ghosts, advance that captive ball, advance ghost/slimer.

Ghosts are a very valid strategy along with the pop bumpers to keep advancing if your mode isn't ready. Getting to loopin' supers, and PKE are big points in their own right. Or working on advancing the super jackpot and bonus X.

Ok, so this update broke my Slimer!! He worked much better with 1.05, now he registers like shit. Seems to register mostly from behind instead of direct front shots.

Mag slings work a lot better, more tricks and a bit more powerful with default settings

During storage facility MB, only one scoleri bros. target pops up at a time instead of both! Much better.

I did that too, except I have mine sitting on an arcade game next to the pin, pointing at the ceiling above the game.

Well. Thats at least two of us.
I was beginning to think it was just me.

Yeah, I suspect a pretty quick fix to be released because of this, maybe 1.11 - my slimer used to work perfect, now he's essentially broken.

Buuuut..these give you SOS, and DTR & TABA if you don't complete. GB was only giving the complete or nothing option. So, they just have to put in some big wizard mode that equates to Portal or Valinor, and then we are on the same page as these.

My pros not working as good now either.

The complaint wasn't that there wasn't payoffs along the way... But that you need completion to see the next thing. That still holds true. You don't get those features without earning them.... With completion

connections were all reseated, no change.

whenever storage facility multiball starts it's animation, everything will work again. all of the lights, the pop bumpers, everything. but as soon as the multiball animation ends, it stops working and starts flickering again.

same thing happens with the extra ball animation.

only those two modes will trigger it to happen.

also we've noticed the game make the same sound when you enter in to the service menu, the "DUMM" sound it makes. it will happen constantly at times while the game is in play and after targets are hit. it can also just happen on it's own without hitting any targets.

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B025qXGF1pWtsi;B1387308-AB1D-4090-BED7-AA661E6E684B

we have another video on another video, waiting for them to upload it.

My gb is kicking ass slimmer is working perfectly on my pro

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I've crashed it. Replicated with glass off. Hit scoop when lit for video as the skillshot, hit right flipper before your menu choice of which mode you want comes up, it jumps straight to ESP and hangs here...

I'm not even joking, the update added more bugs than features.

I definitely agree.

Playing through a bunch of games tonight, weird things were happening all over the place. Love the way the modes work now though.

I had a very irritating bug, where the E on the PKE upper lanes kept flickering and flashing at weird times. Never happened in prior software.

The Slimer registering problem is bad enough for me to need to downgrade back to 1.05 it seems

The don't cross the streams video mode is very weak, IMO.

Lol

So an advice is backup before you install, so you can get back to the 1.05 version.
Or just wait a while. Seems the best advice imho with the complete Ghostbusters pinball. Just wait a year.....

I'm not seeing any difference with my slimer registering. That one seems inconsistent. Maybe to do with different solutions people have implemented for the dragging? Dunno, just an idea, wondering why it's inconsistent.
I am seeing the flickering E, though. Seems that's everywhere.

Having the software with don't cross the streams on a test location for a while...

Winning it gives you about 29M (in my case). Really cool mode, a bit like dracula video mode but with a touch!

Yes, Timebandit you're correct, winning was indeed 59M instead of 29M.