Still ahead of me......and believe me I was lined up the second the word Ultraman came across my screen. I'm just paying a "poor tax" lol

What?

I've owned Iron Man for about 2 months, bro.

I never intended to keep it long term, I bought it because I missed playing Iron Man, and I wanted to try to get to DOD MB (pfft lol). I'm doing some fixes to it that honestly needed to have been done by prior owner before I sell it though....replacing hammered magnet cores, adding magnet protectors, putting in the shooter lane protector (arguable if it matters at this point but it'll stop it from degrading further), and plan to sell it for what I have in it, zero profit for me. Loss if you consider my time to fix this stuff.

Plus, I found out a location near me has one that I can effectively play for free anyways, long as I want to drive 20 minutes to get over there.

I mean...I've played a TON of Iron Man...I practically might as well have owned it. We had a IMVE on location for one of our local leagues for a VERY long time before we lost that location. Hell, at the new location that has it, I got 2 shots off finishing Jericho the other day.

You mean the show where monsters rip each others' arms off and are FREQUENTLY decapitated?

Enjoy my 90 bucks, ya lucky bastard. Congrats. I'll be over here planning out my budget for the next year. Sigh.

It's hardly just him.

I haven't heard of anyone getting a number from Pinball Classics at all (who I used). Not paranoid about it or anything, but I'm willing to bet he's probably the smallest distro out of the bunch, so might be getting numbers last...who knows. It's not worth bugging out over at this point.

Yeah, apparently I should just start flipping preorders. Everyone treats me like I'm an asshole anyways. Might as well get some money off it. Seems easy enough, with people buying preorders before distros are even sold out.

You're right. I'm too much of a decent human being for my own good.

Hey, fellow PC customers! Doesn't seem to be a ton of us, but I'm happy to support Rob.

High five for that one lol..

Shrek and Family Guy.

'Nuff said.

I'm just saying if anyone needs me to be the player for a video at TPF, just ask. I'll be more than happy to provide that service.

Funny, I thought that was me. You mean this guy singlehandedly dethroned me as the most reviled person on pinside in one video? Damn!

Lots of lost balls, that's how.

Use the app.

*edit* Roost wasn't wrong either, I'm just saying if you're using a phone to cast, the app works.

Part of the issue here is that Jack is not a true flow player. Very few people truly are, especially at the high end, because it's generally considered to be a harder style of playing than trapping up and taking controlled shots. Get someone like Robert Gagno on these games and it's going to look very different, I think...not that most people are able to play flow at that level, but if you want to see the true flow potential of a game....

I generally consider myself more of a flow player for most games, and I don't anticipate having any issues with that. I'll probably trap up to make the far right and left bottom shots but other than that...looks like I'm going to be able to flip this thing willy nilly as I see fit without a lot of trapping up.

Should be interesting to see how they handle the ball staging once they get it implemented with no way to automatically populate the lifters.

One thing I'm curious about is why that center ramp feed to the left wireform return seems to be a little slow, and as Law said, rejects. I'm not sure if the diverter up there is slowing it down in some way.

I agree with the overall sentiment that it's stupid to turn this into another dick waving thing, but this is just not historically correct.

Just look at Family Guy vs. Shrek. One is substantially more desirable than the other. Thank god that neither of these games compared to the other is the turd of art and sound that Shrek is to Family Guy. They look to be at different completion of code and integration of assets, but that's about all anyone can say at this point.

Some of us like both themes just fine, despite only having the money to buy one game or the other. I think it's bonkers how different these games feel already, atmospherically, with the same layout.

Exactly that. Honestly, if I was picking a game for a tournament between the two, I'd pick Halloween easy choice. Let's get some extra pressure and tension provided by the game going.

I took it the same way. Like future added modes will have more chances to open up the 2nd playfield.

Hm, that's an interesting take. It didn't really occur to me that's what they could've been going for. Usually fast action in stuff like that isn't really parsed out to quick moving frames like that (at least in my experience) so it kind of eluded me. But now that you mention it........yeah. If that's what they're going for in the animation style, then that car scene makes a lot more sense if it isn't a placeholder. It may have just seemed out of place without seeing more stuff like that in the game. I need to go back and re-watch that half of the stream again.

To be honest, I haven't seen any video on ACNC at *all*. I was at TPF when it was there, but the line to play it was so ridiculously long I just went and did other things.

Just don't be Weapon X.

Clench up your buttholes, if Kaneda is right Godzilla LE is going to be 10k....or more.

Do recent Stern LE's not come with that? I was at a local guy's house this other week that had like the last 5 LE's and they all had really nice lit speakers. I thought they had to be factory, but maybe I was wrong?

Good to know. I'm gonna have to ask that guy what kit he's using then. They were *SUPER* nice looking. Very smooth.

LMFAO...

I got one thing to say to every downvote this post gets:

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The real question is why do all three of the CE Halloween for sale on Market right now have almost the *exact same text*, but yet is from 3 different users. The BSE that's for sale is different, so I'm pretty sure it's not a "Pinside thing"....but it does make me wonder. I'm sure it's just a total coincidence that all of these three accounts have under 20 posts, as well......right?
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If that's the case then why be arsed to change literally one character? From and 8 to a 6? Or vice versa? You're really going to bother for 20 dollars when you couldn't even CHANGE THE NUMBER OF THE GAME??? THE FIRST TWO BOTH SAY THE SAME GAME NUMBER.

I wish I had it on my phone's built in keyboard. I'd use it all...the...time.

Zaccaria: "Hold my beer."

That's a lie. We know you're made of money, Dave. You flew over here and bought a hearse and a bunch of games and shipped it all back.

Honest question, because I'm not really familiar with Spooky's prior games...

What is the point of all of those twisted cables? Seems like a pain in the butt to work with or replace when it will eventually be needed. Is that due to the RGB lighting...and I'm assuming they're twisted to reduce the chance of signal interference? Some RGB specs use 3 wires, some use 4 (ARGB). I might have to design a sleeving kit for those. It appears to be ARGB, looks like 4 wires on the LED boards.

Also, knowing these are prototypes/sample type games, is this typically how wiring looks on the Spooky games? The top half (bottom half of the playfield technically) looks passable, but WOW that's a mega rat's nest down by the board. I'm not going to lie....it looks kinda like the back side of my Lian Li PC case where it's all hidden. I'm terrible with cable management, but the idea of that many wires all over the place has me wondering if we can't come up with a better solution. Maybe some kind of 3d printed wire routing bracket. Looks like there's more than enough space to mount something down there. I'm sure they've got things routed in such a way it's unlikely to snag in mechs or be an issue, this is just my visual OCD.

Also...someone's gotta say it...nice chin diapers.

Right, yeah. The PC's I built for my wife and myself last year have ARGB fans.... 4 wires for LEDs and 3 wires for the fan power. It's pretty insane what the hidden part of my case looks like. The O11 Dynamic XL's we're using have *9* RGB fans when you include the ones on the AIO water cooling, so it's a mess of connectors and daisy chains in the back of our cases. It's a lot of bloody wires.

Probably, that's why I specifically pointed that out. I'm more curious than anything. As long as nothing gets snagged up on mechs, anything is "fixable" in my book. Whether that's aftermarket or not doesn't make a whit of difference to me.

That's what I was asking above. I think it's just to keep them orderly without having to sleeve them based on what someone else said in response. That way you don't have 4 separate loose wires going to every connection point for the LEDs.

6 balls for play, 1 for staging in left side lifter.

Sorry, I'm an idiot then. I thought it was 6. I'll take 7 though.

At this time. Bug said they were working on trying to code it so that it will stage one in the left lifter.

Yes, that's what I was meaning on that.

*shrug*

If you get hard by saying I'm incorrect, then sure, I'm incorrect. It's a shade of grey, not black or white.

It's not feasible to stage balls during a multiball...the code would be WAY too complicated, and not worth the effort.

Yes, by all means, please continue your dick waving (which you proved is the only thing you're actually interested in by posting that pic) on technicalities. I'm sure this will age about as well as all the "everything is FINE" Predator/Alien/Heighway/Zidware/Lebowski/Deeproot posts.

Probably one of the "friends and family" deals, or won one of the charity lottery drawings. I can't be arsed to go look it up, and I'm sure he'll be happy to brag about it either way.

Maybe someone can do a Farfalla re-theme....

What in the hell is Skooter Pinball?

Ya'll are some weird mother......I swear to god.

How did we end up here?

I gotta admit I'm jealous that Ultraman isn't getting these videos yet lol. I know it'll be coming, but really enjoying these vids in the meanwhile.

.......don't ever let me play your game if you ever want to set a GC ever again without having to do an audits reset. I think my record is 4 DTRs in one game.

It was only one time, but I do frequently see 2 DTRs. Unfortunately, until you're ready for Valinor, DTR is just an obstacle wasting your time. Points are bad, blocks all other progress. I like it for what it is, but as a mode or mini-wizard...it just sucks that it blocks all progress. I guess the same could be said for TABA, but TABA is so unique in how chill it is and the music.

I think JJP recognized that small shortcoming in LOTR (not that there are many!), which is why in Hobbit you can use the button to delay ball locks for Smaug Multiball.

I'm honestly considering driving out there to get my Ultraman when it's time. The gas (even at 3.25/gallon) would cost less than I expect shipping to. It's only 1800 miles round trip, probably need 3-4 days to get er done. Never been to Iowa or Illinois, so could check those off the list.

Ah yes, the foundation of every successful marriage.

Lies.

I already wanted to work for you guys. Now I want it more. Sigh. We tried to get our employer to do that years ago, got within razor thin margins of it.....didn't get it.

Feel free to wait on your game until next JULY like me.....

What, the ONE F'ING GUY? You're just throwing fuel on their fire with shit like this... there has been so few posts similar to what you're describing that I can't even easily remember them to quote them...

Counter.....or agree...?

Seriously, most of the HW v. UM posts that went one way or the other got stepped on pretty quick. I'm not mad that ya'll are getting more news and updates, there's going to be nearly 2.5x as many of your games as mine. I think it's really a pity that the threads are separated between the games because you know a lot of these updates are going to be somewhat similar between games minus the actual loaded assets and color of lightshows. All the stuff posted over here more or less gets reposted on the UM thread.... and aside from that.....it's pretty quiet on there for now!

Question...why is everyone assuming this is going to be a code update of that scale? Where was that said? I'm just asking in case I'm missing obvious sources of information. Do I need to follow Spooky's facebook page?

Oh, believe me, it's been brought up many times, along with suggestions on other things to do or ways to improve it. I think the fact that there's less of us Ultraman owners, along with it just seeming to be a more "chill" group of buyers for whatever reason, stuff that's said over there just isn't getting a lot of attention (from Pinside, not Spooky!).

Wow, you totally couldn't have POSSIBLY fit that in on one post!

So why are YOU here?

Certainly more relevant than the two shitposts you made that I quoted.

If they coded staging balls in, how would that be "unintended".....it's literally the ONLY intention. There's no other reason to do it.

Wonder what the fix is.....if they have to change routing of the hole, presumably that's going to change Ultraman PFs as well... maybe they're resizing the words on Halloween to make it fit for future printing? I've tried to stay silent on the issue as I'm getting UM, not HW, but seems like an art adjustment is the only viable way to fix it........not that it's that big of a deal in the first place.

Can guarantee you if I was looking for a HW down the road and someone was asking even 50 bucks less due to "early insert" I'd keep the money over the insert!

Yes, those THIR-TEE-MEEEEEELIOOOONN callouts are.

I've never gotten it.

Also, I've played less than 25 games on BSD, ever. Got the 20's...never the 30's. Haven't laid hands on a BSD in about 6 years...talk about depressing.

It won't. At all. Why in gods' name would you think that extending an insert by a quarter of an inch or whatever, that's only like 1/4" wide anyways, would have any kind of meaningful effect there? Playfields are full of holes. If one wanted to be concerned about long term integrity/warping issues, the massive cutout for the mini playfields (and the edge along the outside being as thin as it is relative to the rest) is far more damning than expanding this tiny bit of insert.

Man, I tell you what...

I saw Star Wars Episode 1 the week it came out in what looked and seemed like the crappiest theatre in all of Austin suburbs. Like man it was 4 screens total in there, musty. But they had the BEST and loudest sound system I think I've ever experienced at the movies. The pod racing scene was completely unreal, audio-wise. Looks can be deceiving. These places that have survived for decades in the face of the huge chains are doing something right!

Even Kaneda wouldn't say something that ridiculous.

Well, let me know when you find it.

/facepalm

You guys are so easy to troll it's comical.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/spooky-halloween-babysitters-welcome/page/71#post-6543649

For real though, the Turbo Tunnel music is sick.

Always on the playfield itself.