Spent a full day with the game today and having a great time. My top wishlist items for the code have already been mentioned:

As for the physical aspects of the game I've been dialing it in, tweaking the pitch and coil strengths and the number of air balls / stuck balls has gone down dramatically. Hopefully, I can get that number down a little further. The VUK is touchy, wish I knew anything about 3D printing so I could make the piece that keeps it from shooting the ball through the wire-form on higher power levels. Leaf switches on the slingshots need tweaking too.

All that said, I think this is a stellar game. It's a dream theme for me with art and sound that do it justice. The game's modes are inventive and the layout is completely strange but it works.

Here's mine setup. I've got the Pinball Refinery art blades and lighting kit on order.

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v17 also adds in half steps for some of the coils - for example the VUK can be set to 4.5.

When the lane switch error occurs - I'm fine with the game stopping, I just wish that if eject is manually corrected the game would try resume play. Two scenarios I can think of that would be the things that should trick a resume:;

1) Door opened
2) A lane switch hit
3) The remaining balls in trough on the corrected switches
4) Door closed

1a) Any playfield switch is hit, when not in multiball

Either of these would be a big improvement over the current lock down.

Just flashed to v18 and looked at the release notes - seems like this just got taken care of.

Is it normal to always have to hold the button under the spooky ghost on main board when doing an update?

Mine won't boot if I do the update as described on the website, but works fine if I hold the button on the board when I turn it on. The only annoying part about this is it does a factory reset so I lose high scores and have to turn adult mode back on. Not sure if anybody else has this problem.

I've through from v15, v16, v17, to v18. Each time I had to hold the button on the board down. Each time I've e-mailed Charlie to let him know and he's gotten back to me very quickly.

"We think we know why but it's more on the board engineering side. Possible adding a pull up resistor to future boards"

Couldn't agree more with this. I couldn't be more pleased with every interaction I've had with Charlie.

Couple of features I'd like to see added to the software:

Reply Award Setting: Sets the award given for reaching the Reply Score. Choices are "Credit" (default), "Extra Ball", "Extra Ball Lit", and None.

Ball Save on Door Open: Yes/No Option, when Yes if the coin door is open ball saver is active. When the coin door is shut, ball saver will time out as if the ball was just plunged for the first time.

Tilt Disabled on Door Open: Yes/No Option. If the door is open, the game will not tilt.

The two door options are useful in tournament play to deal with a ball getting stuck with minimal interruption to play. The reply award is an option I use on my Williams/Stern games at home to give reply some 'value' since they're on free play and thus a credit is meaningless.

I streamed some games on my Rob Zombie last night:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/125709682

Check it out, like, follow, blatant shilling, etc...

The super skill shot has a lot of luck in it, but I hit it a couple of times in the stream - twice in one game. So it's do-able, it's just easily repeatable.

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Left orbit isn't bad, it's right orbit that's hard, with the targets to the right of the right orbit being damn near impossible. It pretty much takes a lucky bounce to hit them.

I *think* when the game goes dead if a flipper is powered it remains powered - which is a real problem because that's how you blow a fuse. In my stream, this happens a couple of times, and the flipper stays up when the game locks so you know it powered. The question is, is it at "hold" power or "flip" power. When I open the door the flipper falls since opening the door depowers the high voltage lines.

Got my custom shooter rod installed - looks amazing.

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It feels perfect. It's slightly larger than a standard plunger knob but it's the same shape. It was a special order from Modelvisionary @ https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1057-super-skill-shot-shop - Not sure if he'll do more of them.

Had some friends over and streamed Rob Zombie - I'm not sure if this is a pinball video with drinking or a drinking video with pinball...

Glad to see Modelvisionary got to make another. It was too pretty for my machine to be the only machine to have one.

Great! I was already planning on playing mine for my Sunday stream and now I get to do it with new code.

I've had a lot of trouble keeping the center ramp switch from snapping. The ball slams into the thing pretty hard so it seems inevitable that it would, but given my game is HUO and I don't play it constantly, it seems like they should last a bit longer. When I first got the game and each time I've replaced the switch I always find I have to bend it to get it more in the path of the ball and to get it to fit through the slot in the ramp and move freely. I suspect that bending it is what's causing it to take so much abuse, but if I don't it's really hard to get it to register hits.

Does anybody else have this problem? Any recommendations?