For my own knowledge, why wouldn't a checksum do the trick?

I'm 291, I hear you! The good news is that we'll get a very polished machine

I haven't had a chance to play a RZ yet, but I'm number 292. My opinion here is less than useless given that I haven't played it, but from watching streams it almost feels like living dead girl can slow you down from making progress in the game. Good points, I love the easy add a ball on a tough game, but you can't lock for house of a thousand corpses and it doesn't work with modes. It would be nice if there was another objective in the game to qualify for wizard mode, something that you could progress while in living dead girl, something like the killer cards, but it reaches deeper. Am I out to lunch?

Edit: I was thinking a bit about what the long term objective could be and a few things jumped out. First and foremost, loops seem like an obvious thing that could lead to something in the game. Many many pins have had loop rewards and counted your loops, but given the flow that this table has I think it would be really satisfying to get to something for 100 loops or whatever or to introduce a combo strategy. Could there be a 3-4 way combo that exploited the ramp? Could there be a combo that drops the house of 1000 corpses drop target for the last shot? Just some ideas.

Second would be like a robot boss battle or something based on pop hits. You rack up a lot of pops going to for living dead girl, this could be a nice thing to make you feel progression after bringing her back to life.

For sure, I'm just thinking it'll often go off when getting 1000 corpses and it would be nice to throw some additionally depth on the mode.

Exciting stuff! I thought it would be Q3 before I had a chance of taking delivery on 291, but maybe it'll be sooner!

I love this mod, I think it fits beautifully with the art style of the game! Any chance shipping to Canada could be less than the part?

Have we hit the 270's yet? 290's are so close I can taste it!

Number 291 is home safe!

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Some early thoughts with 20 games or so:

-I get ball searched A LOT. Ball search kicks in when I'm trying to get a clean transfer to the right flipper, the code should only ball search when the flippers aren't being used.
-Shots are not as tough as I was expecting. I watched streams, but this is my first hands on with the game and the right orbit is not as tight as I was expecting.
-Why does the knocker go off twice for an extra ball, but once for a replay?
-Iiving dead girl is tons of fun. I love that it's easy to get an exciting multiball and new players will definitely dig it.

Can't wait for v20!

The 'O' in chop is giving me problems and I need to replace the LED. I think these are the Ablaze Premium Ghost Buster LEDs, but if someone can confirm, that would be great. Also, are there any recommendations on where to buy as a Canadian?

I went with the upgraded LEDs, but the CHOP LEDs have a single emitter under a frosted dome on mine. Maybe there were some changes as the run went?

Any tips for getting a game to post pass better? I really want my RZ to have a crisp post pass given how much you can be punched for missing shots and right now mine does this goofy lob it up and then bounce it over thing. Flipper strength? Rubbers?

I totally agree, but I saw the Pinball Undesirables stream and their machine did nothing but clean passes. Idk, I'm going to play with it this weekend and see if I can't get a better solution than what I have now.

I think I just heard a Ben Heck call out while I was bashing our favorite clown...

Congrats dude! We're just on time for a big code release!

Just ordered a Pin Stadium kit with UV flashers! I'll post some pictures when I get it installed!

I really like the infected mode as it is. I know that this isn't for everyone, but at some point score will be important for competitive play. If a person could repeatedly play What! over and over and over again without penalty, then you need to make one right orbit shot to play a risk free mode. I would also be fine if there was something like Mustang, where completed modes are not available to play again and mode pick up where you left off if they weren't completed. The other option would be to not be able to play a mode after completion and make it worthless until you do complete it, but honestly, I think the infected idea fits perfectly with how brutal this game is. It's more dramatic! Imagine PAPA finals and elimination rests on completion of an infected mode!

Ran into a weird error when I restarted mid game by holding the start button. The new game started without music and the display as shown in the attached.

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v20, infected mode is off.

I bet it's the bottom left tab on the Rob Zombie plastic on top of the ramp! Mine broke off in the first week.

Ball 1/2 I think you need to avoid playing H1KC because it's dangerous and you would likely leave corpses for another player to collect. You really have two options, go modes (almost certainly What! first because it's safe) or go Living Dead Girl and try to get one or two H1KC locks to set up for the option on ball 3 if you need to cash in some serious points. If you feel confident about the right orbit, red hot is relatively safe, but stepping up to a machine and planning on a right orbit may be a long shot.

I have started having the switch issue too, are we sure it isnt related to v20? It seems like it manifested a bunch all of a sudden. That said it could just be the batch of switches we have in our machines.

Sounds good! Keep us posted, I'll probably replace all of mine too if this is the issue.

I have adjusted all of the switches on the slings to make them fire more easily, but solenoids are pretty much all stock power. I don't have a big airball problem and a 3x skill shot is possible. For the upper playfield, I don't find I've got a ton of ball speed when I complete the mode, so I wouldn't be able to reduce the power without causing problems.

I'm in Vancouver for Flipout and some great person has brought their RZ out! Hopefully the operator can update the code so I don't have to wait until I'm home to try v21

I'm really struggling with DCR since V20, it's sooooo easy to reset progress when you hit the 2 target because you have to be out of control at that point. Am I alone in thinking there should be something else going on with this mode given it requires you to get out of control twice before completion and it punishes random switch hits?

Running v22 and I caught a small issue where I drained just as dragula multiball was starting. I got the call out for multiball, a ball plunged and then I was in single ball multiball for maybe 2 seconds before normal play resumed.

Also, it might be in my head, but I feel like I'm not getting enough balls back if I have a could of quick drains with ball save on. Tends to feel that way in h1kc, but it's hard to keep track with all the chaos.

I can totally get behind this, right now you don't even realize you hit it!