Anybody in US/Canada in on a Pro and have any insight on when they'll start shipping here? As of March 15, the distributor I am buying from said the 1st or 2nd week of April (which seemed ambitious), but I've heard chatter of late April as well. Anybody heard anything concrete?

Bummer. I was looking forward to some Ghostbuster action sooner than that. Wonder what the holdup is? Would they hold back worldwide rollout to catch up on inventory due to popularity? or is there a production problem?

Yeah, my dealer/distributor was saying early April, and to me that just felt too ambitious to be true. I was trying not to get my hopes up too much and set myself up for disappointment. This sorta stuff makes me feel like a kid on Christmas morning!

I like the video mode, because it brings out your greedy side. Cash out now or keep going and maybe double my points! Like lets trade what you've got now for whats behind Door #3!! The suspense!

Anybody watch the Stern live stream on Facebook a few minutes ago?, latest code (version 1.0) on the Pro being test played. Notice any big changes?

Have pros started leaving the factory yet? Sounds like they're pretty close now!

I have a Pro ordered that my distributor says should arrive on or around April 25/26.

Stern just broadcast a short live stream of the mag slings. I think some of you are going to be disappointed....

i was thinking more about them saying it was early code, and maybe it could mean some delay for the LEs that everybody was getting excited about being shipped in the near future.

you know that they posted that video, then rushed back to their computer to refresh this thread to see what we're saying...

HI DWIGHT and JOHN!!!

Heres the Jr version

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April 25/26 for my Pro in Canada-land. At least in my neck of the woods.

nothing a jigsaw, some duct tape, and some WD40 wont solve!

mine too, got the notice on Monday. Should have it by this time next week i hope (or sooner).

I did see a video of mass hysteria multi ball a while back, but it wasn't on YouTube and can't seem to find it now.

Nice, thats the one! looks like 6 ball multi ball with the flippers reversed

Wow. So whos insurance pays for this? or are you out of luck?

So what happened? Busted somewhere along the way?? Dropped off the truck at the end of its trip??

Shaker Motor adds a nice effect. Do you need it? no. Would you want one after you played a game that has it, I think Yes! I got a Shaker upgrade for free on my GB Pro and its awesome!

Shaker fires when Slimer registers a hit, and when you hit either of the captive ball targets. The game shakes quite a bit when the buzzer and animation sequence is going off for storage facility multi ball. It pretty much goes nuts during multi ball cause you're hitting everything. it shakes every once in a while for other random things which I haven't picked up the pattern on yet. You can change the shaker settings to be less, or off. the default is maximum shaking.

I am releasing a unboxing, review, and gameplay video in the next day or so for our youtube channel. about 1 hour 50'ish minutes long total, with almost 90 minutes of gameplay.

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I have to watch the video once its rendered to make sure theres no issues, but I'm thinking tomorrow or Friday it should be available. Our channel is mostly arcade stuff, but we are slowly breaking into pinball a little more.

I start preparing myself to move the outlane posts down the the bottom settings on mine, and then I give my head a shake, cause if I do that, THE MACHINE WINS! I will keep at it and dominate that game.

We just released a long review video for Ghostbusters Pro. Enjoy!

The right ramp doesn't matter, cause you'll almost never hit it anyway, and when you do, it'll be by accident.

Yes, I've hit it too when I tried. But the reaction is always, 'Holy shit I did it!' So yes, it is very rewarding feeling when you do manage to pull it off. The right ramp and the left orbit are probably the toughest shots. The terror Dog target is also pretty tough.

The Big Lebowski is a great game, much slower pace compared to GB. I played it for about an hour and a bit at the YEGPIN Expo a couple weeks ago, i just love the theme. Dutch Pinball did a reprogramming and display upgrade for Bride of Pinbot. Some people are still weary of them as they've only shipped a dozen or so TBLs to date. I believe they had close to 200 preorders, and they need to fill those first before they gain everybody's trust and move onto their next title.

It gets better! I sucked so bad at GB the first week or two i had it, so bad that i had almost regretted getting the game because it was so brutal with the airballs and cheap drains and I just wasnt enjoying it. i can report that it is much better now after having broken the game in more (i've had it for a month now). I can get Mass Hysteria nearly every time now when I play, and my typical game lasts 10+ minutes. with scores of 500-900 million. the outlane drains don't seem cheap anymore, and i got a good feel for when to give it a little nudge to reduce the middle drains.

you will always have to start with Spooked Librarian, Who brought the Dog, and We got one. Personally i've gotten to Back off Man, The Ballroom, and Gozer the Gozerian on each opf the ladders. I havent beaten Back off man or Ball room yet, but close! I rack up all my points from shooting super jackpots, or collecting gear awards from hitting the left ramp over and over. I'm getting better at Gozer Hurry Up, Terror Dogs, and collecting the Scolari Brothers jackpots. hit Left captive balls to light multi ball and just catch a lot of ghosts, and try to do 10% skill shots when you can if you've already got a high score going, or work on those bonus multipliers. Start scenes from skillshots or light them from pop bumper awards instead of chasing slimer away. There are plenty of points to be had without clearing the ladders. Shooting at Slimer alone is not very rewarding, and when i do hit him, i just go for the slimed shots right away to light up the super jackpots. Also, if you can setup playfield multipliers x6 before going into Multi ball, you'll score huge! Also, if you start a scene and dont quite finish it, i believe it lets you pick up where you left off if you happen to start it again later in the game.

i dont think there are any patterns. the game has already decided if it wants to let you get big points or not when the mode starts. When i can get a string going i usually drop out at 32 million. Ive had it up to 89 million (it didnt actually double after 64 million), and then i guess the game figured i was being greedy and I lost it.

i've had my pro since April 25, i ordered it around March 15. I talked to someone in the US who also ordered the pro around the same time as me and they are expecting it to be maybe July before they get it now.

I am going to post a video shortly of the new code in action. Had a nutty game. Got Storage Facility going and just as that was ending, my midnight madness went off, and then i got mass hysteria. Extra ball thing was going nuts , through hitting some replay awards and getting extra ball lit a couple times in all the craziness. went from under 100 Million to over 700 million in a couple minutes.

The right orbit starts River Award and grows for each right orbit before the timer runs out, pop the ball in the right saucer to cash it in. There is a short train animation and sound effect when you cash in the River Award. Storage Facility Multi ball is easier to get going now, as I can just smack at ghost shots and light the left ramp shot at 10, 30, and 50 ghosts. Flippers are turned off now during Negative Reinforcement on ESP Ability, Callouts from Ernie on Jackpots are kinda ok. They changed the count down alarm to a different sound.

Here's a game from earlier tonight with the 1.05 code. Things get a little crazy at ball 3 once Storage Facilty kicks off.

No bug there with the extra balls. I set replay award to be extra ball instead of credit and at 100 million increments just for the purpose of this video, so I could drag the game out a little longer incase we got to see more stuff for 1.05. I didn't really expect what happened. The crazy part is how quickly your score can jump 100 million points during a multi ball mode like mass hysteria or midnight madness.

Not sure which sound you mean? But they changed the timer sound from what it was before for a few things, so maybe that's it?

I think a ghost trap topper that projects light or an image of a ghost getting trapped on the ceiling would be cool. Maybe it opens/lights up during a jackpot mode or something. Saw this cool topper for a Batman Dark Knight at the YEGPIN Expo a few weeks bat that had the bat signal projected on the ceiling, same idea.

i've put up 1+ billion in just under 15 minutes. the biggest climb in score came during mass hysteria multi ball with my score going from 100 million to 700 million within a minute or so. if you are good at multi ball, this is where you'll really rack up the points. Also, really pay attention to the top lanes and maximizing those bonus multipliers. I find the pop bumpers award bonuses multipliers more often now with the new code updates (1.05), where I've often had 15x multiplers

Is the tournament button not usually Standard? Mine had it.

I am actually making use of that feature at home. My wife and I have a weekly tournament. Whoever puts up the better score at the end of the week gets out of bedtime duty for our kids. She's been whooping me this week!

You can setup a tournament that the machine manages. You can set start and end date for the entries, you can set how much of the money coming in from coin drop on tournament play games is offered as a prize (the prize amount is shown during attract mode and grows as more tournament entries happen), if you get a high score, you can put your name in and protect your entry with a pin number, which i suspect you use later on to claim your prize, since a tournament can happen over time. I believe you can set a different price for tournament games, vs regular game. I haven't fully explored all the tournament settings.

If you use Pinball browser to change music, I understand that the new track you import in needs to be the same duration as the one you're replacing? If its not, it will still cut it off and loop with the duration of the original? I have not mucked with this, but wondering if anybody else has done it?

I haven't made any major changes to my game, other than lowering the outlane posts and put up 1.2 billion on a regular game the other night. 3 ball and earned 2 extra balls. got most of my score from Loopin Supers, and racked up a quarter billion+ on just a bonus by getting the multiplier up to 15 or so. But I also have a lot of shitty games were I struggle to get over 50 million sometimes. If I'm not in the zone or in a bad mood, I just shouldn't play this game because you've really gotta be on your toes to not drain.

Pro review and gameplay video here

On my Pro I have one slightly ghosted insert, the green Storage Facility in front of the left ramp. it started about 2-3 weeks after i had gotten it (got it April 25). Went back to my original pictures of the playfield from day one and didnt see it there, so it suddenly developed at some point in the first few weeks. it did not progress any further since then, and is only slightly visible on the black outer edges of the insert. no new ghosting on anything since then.

Now you just need to track down the guy who has a set of rails like yours and work out a trade deal

exactly, some of my best games i didnt focus on scenes at all. 1.4 billion and i dont think i did any scenes, maybe one. the rest was just capturing ghosts, working on super jackpots, PKE frenzy, playfield multipliers during multi ball, or stacking those with loopin supers or whatever. lots of points to be had without ever touching the scenes.

i'm still getting my head around it, but collect 80 ghosts to start it. left orbits seem to score a lot of points with the spinner, as well as hitting a nice right ramp shot where it flows across all three switches. I need to experiment a little more with that mode.

- Added TIME OUT MODES Adjustment; When a mode times out it will not require
the player to restart it. It will not relight modes.

Does this mean if I don't finish Gozer the Gozerian in time, it'll just let me move on to Staypuft Marshmallow man the next time I get to start a scene ?

Has anyone noticed if catching ghosts in the video mode counts towards your ghosts captured in the main part of the game? I played a bunch last night, but the thought just crossed my mind now... that'd be a nice little touch if so.

I have not witnessed this scare feature yet. Is it totally random, or do you need to do something to set it up to happen?

mine too. played probably a dozen games before we saw the behavior. I had heard about this bug in another thread, and had held off on updating for about a week or so before I took the plunge. lots of other folks said they have had no problems with the flipper in 1.11... but i think if you play it enough you'll eventually have the issue. Since its code related, theres probably a certain combination of things that have to happen first for the flipper to drop out, hence it not happening to everybody right away.

Mine is the Pro model