I have a few random ideas.

* There should be a target that qualifies a letter. I suggest the two upper targets in the bumper area. It's very frustrating trying to "aim" for an inlane. It could also be the center stand-up in the 1-5 bank.
* Spinners need more scoring. The right bank is super hard on mine to knock down to progress the value. There should be a "something" that qualifies a flashing inlane, when the inlane is flashing, it will light the corresponding spinner max value for a few seconds. This of course needs to be balanced with the right bank etc. I'm thinking dropping the bank adds a multiplier or something. Bottom line, get those spinners valuable!
* We should figure out how to have more fun with the lock traversal. Having either "blast" or "off" should qualify a 2-ball multiball or something.
* 3x and 2x scoring for the the amount of balls in play during multiball?
* Bonus built beyond 9k? Flashing bonus means double bonus?

I'll be back with more ideas...

Wasn't like TAF the first machine with MPU controlled flippers? How will you register flips for the lane change?

Educate me here a little bit, wasn't lane changes (and high score initials) done by having switch sandwiches prior to TAF?

I have an Alltek board in my F2K at the moment but I have a spare Weebly I can use for this. I can also get a ROM burner when the time comes to with test and feedback. Please advise on what burner and ROM sets to acquire.

Something that is bothering me more than it should is how frenetically difficult it is to adjust rubbers and switches on the slingshots on these Sterns (my meteor was just the same) to prevent "hammering". Is there anything that can be done to deal with that?

Thank you for your hard work, this is just too awesome all around!

Awesome work! Can't wait to get this in my game. I have an idea about the bonus ladder. Why not max it out at 55k?

10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 ... etc?

This would make the bonus VERY lucrative to shoot for and everyone likes a good multiplier. This game have the digits for it.

Edit: It will also make the game look LIT when you have bonus and multipliers all lit up, signifying that you've done something good. Similar to Meteor with all rockets lit, high pitch and bonus column all lit up.

Just ordered the minipro and some eeproms. Shipping on the eeproms is 4 weeks.

I have a really noobish unrelated question. I have a weebly board with a meteor PROM in it that has been burned by someone else. How do you know if these PROMs are erasable?

This is what I have: https://www.digchip.com/datasheets/parts/datasheet/161/NMC27C64Q.php So I just expose UV light into the window of the chip to re-program it?

Edit: I got a UV eraser off AMZN.

I finally got my chips and minipro. I got the .512 image in U1 on a Weebly 2017 board and I lost speech. I've now realized I don't have S5 on my Weebly board and I have an empty U2. This board used to be in a Meteor.

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Thank you for the offer and elaborate explanation! I think I'll manage to fix this myself. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thank you for providing these instructions. She's speaks! I also used the RAM clearing ROMs from your website. Very useful, thank you!

I will be streaming the latest bits from slochar this coming Sunday at 8PM PT on https://twitch.tv/dri374. I will do a glass off tutorial to explore all the new features and play a bunch of games for a few hours. Might be interesting for the folks following this thread.

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If anyone is interested in checking out the new features, I took out a clip from yesterday's stream. Intro and 2 games.

Full broadcast: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/597175709

Would you mind sharing the link for the specific sound eeproms to get the new sound package?

I ordered these blindly, they say 2816 and failed to program.

Chip and errors from xgpro https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ymeewm5kpeje9lw/AABq7iXLS4c2GlVIunWBv_zna?dl=0

The docs in the .zip say 2716 chips for sound but you all link 2816's. What is the difference? I ordered 2716's yesterday.

Thanks for that explanation. I also find traces that the USB burner I have struggles with voltage on some chips that causes issues.

Finally got my v47 sound ROMs programmed and I learned that I was subject to first ball resting on the walker switch issue. Once that was resolved it played solid. I managed to put up one good ball today.

One issue I'm seeing though is that the game does not say "commence countdown" at all times when all letters are qualified and balls locked, so far my theory is that the game will only say it if you start the game without any balls in the walker. Would that make sense?