Disclaimer, I haven't watched any gameplay except a little bit of the animator's stream, which didn't show much.

Would it be possible to show very quick clips (2-3 sec) or even just stills of associated footage when mode shots are successfully made? At the end, show a little longer clip to signify failure or success? I don't want the whole movie in the game, but use it to drive the story through the modes. That way a person doesn't have to win a mode to see actual Halloween imagery.

Add me to the list of people who weren't impressed with the current custom animations... hoping for improvements and changes here as well.

If the GI is individually controlled like on R&M, they can flash the lamp under the sling to draw attention to the eject. Regardless, it can't be any worse than R&M's portal shot eject... that one blows by newbs every f'n time. At least ops can setup a ballsaver for it.

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Also, perhaps they can create a sound effect that only plays when an inlane eject occurs. Think of the scoop and saucer eject sounds we always hear in Funhouse, Whirlwind, etc. If the eject sound has top priority (always playing over other sounds when neeed), it won't take long to associate it with inlane feeds.

(My mind just thought of Keefer getting completely hosed by a soundless Tron scoop eject in a tourney... sounds are important!)

Sounds good, guess the other person didn't notice the warnings.

But they're not: both NF and STTNG stage a ball at the kickout to speed things up. Who Dunnit may as well, been a while since I owned that one. Nothing wrong with requesting ball staging as it's nothing new, but also nothing wrong with Spooky not prioritizing it right now considering the early state of code.

Is this running a PC connected to the Pinotaur board? If so, try re-seating the RAM on the PC. If you have compatible RAM, swap in yours and test. Memtest the RAM if possible. Re-seat any SATA connectors. Clone the SSD to a new drive and swap that in and test.

Seems that around 1% of PC hardware tends to crap out early... could be a component in there lasted long enough to pass Spooky tests but is failing now.

Distributor allotments were interleaved. Pinballstar got earlier games, the 955 game is in a later batch. Check that owner google spreadsheet to see the groupings.

Naw, looks like Star actually got the first non-Spooky batch starting at #100. Spooky cycles through their distributors multiple times throughout the run.

Chimp flip cost me a 100M game... had 90-something, wound up in this dimension and drained when I needed to make a left-right slapsave and they chimped instead. Tied with the swamp as the most difficult dimension to play through.

There's a bug where the right side won't lift and needs to ballsearch, this may be what you're seeing.

Yeah I noticed it took a lot of shots to get the targets back up. I just figured you were Battletoading the pumpkin difficulty til the wizard mode was ready...

To make the target/mode relight more interesting, maybe have the player shoot either orbit to light a hurryup on an upper playfield, counting down (quickly) from the prior mode total score. Make the hurryup and the drops reset. Fail and orbits relight for the same, except hurryup starts half the mode total, and the targets reset whether the hurryup is made or not. This also makes the modes potentially more valuable for skillful players.