@Soren: is Mousin' Around on the release roadmap?

I am running your original modded ROM and will buy a copy once released thru PPS. I do have one fix request: I am running with the new option to raise the gate once CHEESE is spelled. However, on my machine the ball is getting around the ramp and back to the flipper before the gate is fully raised, allowing the player to shoot the raising gate and eventually knock it off track.

Would it be possible to keep the modified rules, but leave the gate down until the mousehole shot is made? Have the ramp behave the same as the raised gate would in terms of (low) scoring and callouts to shoot the mousehole. This would eliminate the timing issue. Otherwise, I'm going to have to revert to original rules.

Your work on these old programs is greatly appreciated... thanks!

Bug, really just something they didn't account for in programming.

Even better when you strike the mist ball squarely and knock it into the video mode hole while the original ball takes its place on the magnet.

Think it'd be better to keep the spinner scoring as-is and just take it out of the bonus award. Or fix the multiplication carryover issue.

AFM: if a ballsearch occurs during the post-winning-RTU ball drain sequence, the ball handling logic gets hosed and upon resuming the game will stop recognizing any ball in any hole or trough. Impossible to end the game at that point.

It's an underrun so the ballsave becomes 255 seconds. If you don't want to abort the game in progress, trap up (hell, just hold up the flippers til all three balls are cradled) and time out the ballsaver.

Is this a bug, or a "use it or lose it" situation where you have to cash in on that ball?

Can you begin progress to the next RLM on the next ball if you drain with it lit?

You might be in luck, if the profanity sound ROMS replaced the original callout sound data, they should play with a newer revision. If the profanity callouts are additional data in the sound ROM and not replacement, you'd have to edit the new ROM to call the profanity sound effects. I remember the potty-mouth version would say both "be well" and "be f*cked" so it may be the letter setup...

I think that's T2? DM had more profanity added than that.

Depends on the DW machine... some like to kick the ball out of the left pop exit instead of the hole, those exits tend to head straight to the left outlane.

...quick jackpot feature is completely broken... bomb sound can get stuck on after gofer attack... it's possible to skip the wizard mode if you start multiball on hole 9... scoring is imbalanced: multiball, pop a gofer and cart attack are the only worthwhile features... it's just a mess.

No, there's a sound after the final bonus bong and before the main music loop restarts, usually right before the ball is ejected to the shooter lane. Doesn't happen every ball but at least once a game, usually ball 3 gets it. It's a very quick pop, no bass just the crackle.

Just ordered a MA set, thanks for making them official!

It already does say that; there's a ballsaver if you drain the plunge.

This is not true for Funhouse, it has a ball save specifically programmed for this machine:

Start a game, plunge the ball all the way around and let it drain. The ball will trigger the left orbit switch and you'll even hear its sound effect, but no points will be scored and it WILL return the ball if it drains ("Hey buddy you can have it back!") You can repeat this indefinitely, the playfield will not validate until something other than the orbit switches are hit.

I think an immediate left drain (plunge -> just the upper lane and left outlane switches) will also return the ball at least once.

This is in addition to the usual no-switch save.

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.

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.

There are plenty of risky bounces, ejects, kickouts, etc on all machines that folks have to learn either by pre-playing the game (practice time or earlier matches), watching other players play or figuring it out themselves. Do you also want a ballsave on the right eject in case someone tries a dead bounce and it fails? No reason to carve out a code exception for the UL flipper. Shoot the swamp or risk the left outlane, up to you.

I had a CV for years and never exploited this. The feed from the right habitrail on a real game is quite random and not very trappable at all. Not sure rule changes should be proposed based on virtual pinball exploits...

"Once" would be even more of a PITA to program, and is pointless anyway because the player can look at the machine, see if the divider is low or high and choose whether or not to flip away. This simply isn't an issue worth fixing.

Have you ever played a real CV? I owned one, and despite jpop's supposed reputation, it's a pretty clunky game. Rt. orbit is a PITA to hit, oftentimes lacks momentum to even make it up to the habitrail, and if it does the habitrail dumps to the playfield randomly and not very catchable. It's difficult to trap much of anything here because WPC95 flippers don't go very high. Again, this isn't an issue on real hardware.

This is much more legit due to (as you say) Premier's trap-o-matic flippers. CV flippers are much different if they're rebuilt properly.