ok Mr. Soren I'm curious what would you modify ?

I have to say, I’ve read several times your post and I’m still not sure I’ve understood your point.
The need of enhancement was for the jewel as it was requested and not the harem. Anyway, the harem is a 2 ball multiball really optional in the game and really hard to get.
Most of the player have never played it since it’s hard to start.

Regarding the issue, i don’t know which version you’re refering to. Regarding the 1.4, yes there is a bug where acheiving all the letters will led to no HM and some frustration.
I don’t know’what issue you’re refering to with thr WM mode, since I’ve never ever reproduced it and the WM mode is a higher priority mode above anything else.

The harem progression is already also working is parallel of modes so I don’t understand this either.

Now... there are still 2 ways to launch the harem, reaching the harem tunnel 3 times on top or 4 times the left loop. Player need to deal with the tiger loop to close/open the diverter, and for me this is the best rule we have on Totan.

Those rules are fine by me because starting the HM is the biggest reward of this really easy pin but the bug never corrected was the one which prevent the harem to start.

No Fear, need to remove the little catch ramp that missed upper loop shots land in. Need some risk to that upper loop otherwise the game is loop all day.

teach me ... most I can do is 5 in a row!
would mine seeing a loop champ in the DMD ....

It doesn't matter how many in a row you can do... when you eventually do fail, you always get the ball back on the right flipper for another shot at the (easy) left ramp to go up and do more loops. Failure should result in loss of control, not an automatic retry at the ramp. Just MHO.

A very brief ball save after either upright target on the left ramp is hit. Get a lot of air balls over the flippers off of them. (Like the ball save on INPA for the center drop targets)

Replace your targets with stern reenforced targets. No more air balls.

there is an bug with hotel multi ball draining one right at the end of ball save
also 255 hits to open Battlefield can happen??

other bugs listed at
http://tiltforums.com/t/shadow-bug/5776/13

Just go for something else instead

Indy could really do with sone tweaks! One of the best games ever but it does have its issues

https://www.micsaund.com/games/IJ/IJ_Software/ij_software.php

This has always been a bug bear for me and the fact ark is spelled arc!!

“The Path of Adventure modes interact badly with Multi-Ball. If you start Three Challenges or Steal the Stones and then Multi-Ball, the ramps will still rotate the modes lights. When Multi-Ball ends and the previously started mode finishes, whatever mode was flashing at the end of Multi-Ball will be marked as "finished" but the mode you actually played will still be unplayed.”

If you get around to a Creature 5.1 ROM, please make the LED support feature optional via the Utilities menu. That way, those of us with the MikeD hologram mod would be able use this great update. I and others would be forever thankful!!

Changing the order of the LED refresh breaks the mod?? That's odd. Doesn't it trigger off whatever lamp it's looking for?

+1

I already did that…

"The need of enhancement was for the jewel " this is the major, rise the dificult on the modes, and to reach the final wizard

Final try…

Just as an FYI it's pretty easy to look at what's been mentioned about TAF by searching the thread for "TAF" (it's the Find button at the top of the page) and you can also search if Soren has mentioned TAF - turns out he has https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-williams-and-bally-software-upgrades/page/5#post-5978461

Hope this helps

Just a heads up for those looking to order new Demo Man ROMs...

I placed an order with Matt's Basement Arcade, but was refunded a few days later and was told he is no longer in the business of burning ROMs. Very strange...

I tried to place an order with Planetary Pinball and was told via email that if the part is not listed on the website then they don't have it, my support ticket was closed out with no resolution or follow up. Great. (FYI: their search engine doesn't work and they list no part number... There's no phone number listed on their website so I did not receive any assistance with my order.)

Called Class Arcades and they picked up the phone right away, took my information, and said they would get ROMs out to me TODAY! Now that's customer service!

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up if you're looking for to actually buy these new ROM's.

I just saw this message on Matt's website under the 'Online Store' link.

Gord

MBA_Message.pdf

I hope everything is ok. Matt’s a good doobie.

Mike

soren or someone with the appropriate privileges - I saw the Demo Man release has been marked a key post, might be good to also mark this one as well

Cheers

Just order from pinballrom.com. Dave Astill. He has been doing Roms forever. Got through the website or just message him.

It would be nice if one of the rom retailers would offer a timed download link. I'd gladly pay the same amount for a limited time download link to grab the rom and burn it myself.

PPS has ROM downloads on their website:

http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/tech/sys11roms.html

Sorry, I was specifically talking about the roms sorenz is developing

soren

If you do Who Dunnit, would it be possible/feasible to have the reel stepper motors not be powered/held in idle position during attract mode?

+2, would like this very much. I can’t use the screech rom I ordered. LED “fixes” break the MikeD mod.

Hi,
I have these Demo man and all other Soren ROMS programmed and ready to ship. I am a licensed supplier and your ROMS will come with the gold or blue holograms.I have been providing ROMS, gals, pals, pics etc for 25 years. I am in the process of setting up a Pinside store (It's set up but not fully done),but in the meantime contact me through Pinside.

outstanding customer service .... quick to ship ... never a issue.

buy with confidence

x100000000 Mr. Astill been in this forever and its been fast to ship every time.

pls make a rom for Ron that just gives him unlimited balls and multiball all the time. im not great at pinball, but this was painful.

Hi do you have the H6 version? Only shows LX4 in the store Thanks

Also a fix for the scoring display error over 9,999,999,999

From a play guide I found online

Doesn't display 10B+ when in play:

If you score more than 9,999,999 the display does not change the font so that you can see the "1" for 10 billion. The default font for the score cannot display that digit. Once the game is over you will get the proper credit for scoring the 10 billion.

7th floor labeled wrong on DMD:

When the ball exits on the 7th floor for Elevator Madness the DMD actually says 8th floor. I don't know if that's a bug or part of the Elevator Madness, meaning the "elevator" is "malfunctioning".

Upon powering up the game it doesn't check for the 3-bank target being up:

When a game ends and the 3-bank target is up and you turn the machine off you run into a problem the next time you turn the machine on. It does all its initial checks but doesn't notice if the 3-bank target it up! So when you go to play it's always up and it doesn't register when you hit it! Only way to "fix it" is to trigger a mode that would make the machine cycle the 3-bank target up.

there are other bugs with 3-bank targets

Thanks @Soren, here are my thoughts for consideration for an update to Shadow:

Bug fixes:

-Cap the left orbit inner orbit shot combo 40 Million (@soren, I read your previous posts about being 10 Million + a multiple of 3 Million so I'm guessing 40M would work?).

-French Language on volume control glitch on latest official ROM

-Stuck in single ball Hotel Monolith when double draining the end of ball save

-Multiplayer Tilt while ball is in the saucer during multiball
1. Start Khan or Sanctum multiball.
2. Shoot a ball into the khan saucer or mode start saucer.
3. Tilt the game with the ball in the saucer. Ball stays in and isn't released for other players.

Minor Features adjustment (Any feature changes would be settings that could be toggled on or off)....

-An add a ball for the multiballs - potentially qualified by completing 4 ring shots, then maybe hitting the the center mongol shot to trigger.

-Benefit for the Final Battle based on the number of successfully completed modes: For every mode completed, it would add 15 seconds (adjustable) to the final battle ball save period.

-Currently the Khan multiball jackpot increases by just 100K with each Khan rollover during multiball (which is kind of pointless) - setting to adjust the increase amount to higher numbers (500K, 1 Million, etc.)

-Some way to increase the increase Shadow multiball jackpots.... Maybe hitting Mongul letters?

-I'd love a Midnight Madness! An idea I had a while ago... Multiball, The Shadow is invisible, and you soon can't see. All GI lights start dimming slowly, ONLY inserts lit are Lock 1, Lock 2, Lock 3, And red arrow strobe toward the Sanctum, Only the GI under the red brick plastic stays lit. Sanctum opens, Goal is to continually enter the Sanctum area, each Sanctum Shot is 1MM increasing by 1MM each time. Audio reverts to old time radio mode, all switches active and boost lights a few lumens for a few seconds before they dim again. Hit any switches to keep light - The pin will eventually go dark... The player's mind is clouded, and the player is eventually playing in complete darkness (maybe some very very slight light). Mode ends when one ball remains. How fun would this be?! Probably too much work to code, and audio complexities, etc. Just thought I'd share as a fun idea.

Thank you for considering!

Great ideas in there ! Congrats.

Thank you! I thought about it for a bit, and tried to come up with suggestions that...

1. Added nuance to the pin and strategy,
2. Without altering the core game design, and
3. Are likely realistically possible to implement.

Since Mirco announced TOTAN 2.0, does that mean that we will not see anything done with the original TOTAN software? Was wanting to see some changes in the ability to adjust the difficulty of the modes, and possibly add a super jackpot by hitting the hidden gems target. Thanks Mike

Getting the Shadow bug fixes alone would be fantastic. It's such a good game, it deserves to have that final polish.

If I had a software magic wand, the one feature I would like to add is a Hotel Monolith "second chance." If you lose a ball, you have a few seconds to make a shot to get it back. Say, light any ring or shoot Mode Start. If you lose a ball again, the second chance shot gets harder... maybe 2 rings, or the Khan saucer. Probably, you'd only get 1-2 such chances, you shouldn't extend the mode forever.

I cannot imagine how hard it is to modify this old code, wow. Thanks to Soren for whatever we can get. It's all awesome.

Love this idea! Even if it only happens once it would be a nice feature.

does any other game with multi ball restart that get's harder from that time?

Nervermind.