Could easily be true.
But why not just tell everyone that once the issue got so huge?
They have known forever now that it was a big point of contention.
Why they let everyone bash them over something they can fix in two seconds is beyond me.

If you made each city enable a perk, kind of like Ghostbusters, that would work fine. You could choose your perk at the beginning of the ball.

Hi gang ... I put together a gameplay vid for my AeroPro. It doesn't cover everything (as I am still learning the game) but in case you're bored:

That's a complete crock. So stern says more is coming. But once everyone knows more is not coming all of the sudden it was supposed to be like that from day one? I like Gomez, but that is nothing more then protecting the company bs.

Let's keep this thread on track...the animation for double super JP is hilarious

Mine did the same thing. I could reset the scores either. Message and scores wouldn't save, but volume and other settings saved no problem.

I don't think it is. I think the cities are how they were designed to be.

Anyway, that's for the KISS thread.

Back to KISS PART TWO errrr Aerosmith.

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Amazingly well done as always.
Keep these coming.

This proves Kiss and Aerosmith can get along nicely. The concert I saw Kiss opened.

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Bingo! That was the trick. Thanks SilverballNut!

Still getting used to the game, but I got a super jackpot the other night and on the animations it had the same type of doll as the movie 9 come out and rapid fire punch Jakey 100 times and knock him out?! Pretty funny.

Premium arrived today! Looking forward to getting this one set up, and start playing. Big thanks to JJ @ Game Xchange for a smooth transaction.

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Other already covered the time extension from Crank It Up and also from a Mystery award.
The other way you extend time that isn't obvious, is that the timer briefly pauses on a successful mode shot. I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but the most glaring instance of this is on WTW. If you keep hitting the next ramp in combo without missing, the timer doesn't seem to decrease at all until you finally miss a shot. Massive scores for Ramp This Way ensue.

You can increase times of each mode in settings. They are set from factory for 30 seconds

whats a typical street price on a pro?

If you set the mode times to 5 seconds, can you get to the wizard mode in 45 secs?

There's actually some truth to that.

AS Prem in the house, 2 weeks old, 98 plays, and lost node 8. Got a bit flaky with flippers and lights going dead and back on for the last few games, and now no feature lights or coils (Node 8 and all the downstream 8a, 8b, etc).

Have folks had node 8 board failures still going bad frequently? I saw problems posted on GoT LE about a year ago with node 8 failing quite often, but that seemed to have died down. I have a Got LE with 500 plays and never had a problem.

Node 8 seem to get flaky after turning down the throwing coil from 220 to 210. Not sure how that would even matter - but there it is.

I will call Stern Monday, but it sucks going into a party for the weekend to have it fail Friday at 6pm.

I have a premium with 600 plays. No issues.

I'm a regular Nostradamus.

Try reseating the GI cables. Stern told me that Spike game flippers are affected by GI.

Anyone noticed you can turn Elevator Multiball into a 5 or 6 ball multiball like Toy box multiball? If you've got 4 or 5 balls already locked in the toy box, then start Elevator multiball, the game has no choice but to dump out all 4/5 balls so it can start (because there are is only 1 or 0 balls left in the trough). So including the ball you shot Elevator, youll end up with a 5 or 6 ball multiball.

And then toy box multiball will still be available for 4 or 5 ball multiball because it will just use the trough balls instead of the locked toy box ones.

I know this is going to come across as being a crybaby, but I find my AS pro to be infuriating. I don't think I have ever owned a game that gets me as irritated.

I like AS a lot, and prefer fast difficult games. Not really sure why this one in particular gets to me?

I have a very hard time comboing anything with any consistency.

Brick, brick, hit (Jacky laugh), brick, brick.

If it bugs you that much, I'll happily come down to FL and remove it from your home.

I won't even charge you

Elevator, toy launch and right ramp are all tight shots, though the ramp seems easier than it was on KISS. You have to be more accurate on the right-side shots, for sure. I'd rather play KISS (and do) with the better rules and a similar layout. The LCD and toybox launch aren't enough to make it "fun" for me, but I have to say the Elevator Multiball start is great. I never skip it. Best part of the whole game, IMO.

Thanks for passing along the GI connector- The only set of connectors I didn't reseat - b/c all the GI worked, even in the lower PF where the node 8 and downstream 8a-8e were flaky. Spike must allow GI to work, while still creating an error in the bus chain.

Here's all the other diagnosis steps I tried, so others might avoid these trail/error attempts.
I switched node 8 and 9 (same boards) and didn't change behavior, reseated all the connectors on the nodes and feature lights board. Still nothing.

Then... it suddenly started working again, but seems to be a bit intermittent and slings/flippers /feature lights die, sometimes for 1 sec sometimes for 5.

The feature lights and flashers in the lower section kind of ghosted/pulsed, so I knew the Node 8 5v was ok, the chain was connected among the 8's, and the node 8 was getting network communication (the node 8 board has solid red at the power connector for v, and a flashing yellow on any node board indicates read/write with the CPU.) I hate diagnosing "almost" working - I'd rather have the LED's completely out, rather than "sort of" out.

Yea, when you take one of the flowiest games ever made in Star Trek, and put its rules in another game it sometimes doesn't work out great. I've always been suspect of the song mode rules in AS, 30 secs can pass by in an instant with only 1 or 2 shot attempts on this layout. Still a fun game and it's cool to work up the super modes and cash them in, but I wonder what the modes could have been with a little more originality

All the hype in this thread is tempting me to pull the trigger on an AS LE. I'm currently searching for a MET MOPLE, but AS would definitely look good next to it and Luci. Plus I want to make Joe and Steven proud Music pins rock!

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Metallica with a color LCD is a much better choice than Aerosmith. Much. Aerosmith is not a great game. Flashy? Yeah. Great? No. And there's no guarantee it will ever BE a great game given its pedigree. Metallica Prem/LE is a GREAT game NOW. I've spent a lot of time on Metallica Prem, KISS LE, and Aerosmith Prem, and of those three, AS would be my last recommendation. Once people get past the new toy honeymoon and the LCD/Jacky aren't so novel anymore, I think you'll start to see more realistic assessments of its flaws.

I think people are blown away by how good the game is...I think it's safe to say that everyone was expecting a turd with Lonnie on code and the layout basically being a rehash of KISS.

I'm shocked that I took such a strong liking to the game. I swore off all Lonnie games after Star Trek & KISS, but I have to admit, he did step it up on this one.

It's a awesome that you're blown away by it, but that's not a universal opinion. The song modes play out more or less like KISS, but they have that crappy 30 second time limit, which is RETARDED for a music game. KISS you get the song you choose until you finish the song (or the bug pops up that lets you pick a new song when you're not supposed to). Also, the song selection is even more meh than KISS. I'm not a fan of KISS, but I ended up liking all but two of the songs. I KNOW all the AS songs, but I don't like most of the ones they chose (and no, I'm not changing the firmware to songs I like because the integration with the video is even tighter than KISS).

Are you saying the ruleset is same as star trek? Just curious and probably good to know.

Don't know if that's a bug or not. You can only change the song of you have completed x amount of it. Seems to be pretty consistant across all songs, so I would think it is by design.

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It always seemed like a bug, but the way you explain it (complete x amount of song) makes it make more sense. I'll have to pay closer attention to see if I can narrow down the rules for when that happens.

My guestimate would be if you have completed half the mode (or more), then drain, you can choose a new song. Of course, if you do choose a new song, you don't complete the current song and you don't get any progress towards the 2x playfield scoring etc etc.

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But it saves your progress, so if you pick that song again, you have less to do to finish it the second time.

The song modes in Aerosmith are closer to Tron. If you start all songs, you get to Medley, which is like sea of simulation. Once you complete all the modes, you get to World Tour (I think that's the title of it), which is like portal.

All the songs have different difficulty to complete. Some require only a few shots to complete, others you need all shots in the pie, but progress is saved, so you can just restart it at the scoop. Only Sweet Emotion requires you to complete all shots in the pie in one go, and doesn't save progress. So you need to get crank it up and realky need to stack it with a multiball.

Actually, it IS much more of a universal opinion that Aerosmith is super fun. You're definitely in the minority Vic

No questiin AS is fun. Regardless of rules, it's fun just playing it because it looks so good - art, fantastic use of colored LED's and great animations. And the music works for pinball (and I really don't like Aerosmith).

But rulewise, AS is as deep or as shallow as you want to play it. You can just go for toy box multiball all day, which is one of the best toys and multiball starts in pinball, or you can concentrate on completing modes or you can concentrate scoring by building up supers, stacking with shot multipliers, playfield multipliers (premium/Le) and 6 ball multiball.

Regarding Supers, once you finish a song and its' Super is qualified, it doesn't last for the rest of the game, but does seem to carry over to new balls. Anyone know what's going on? Are they timed?

The Making of Aerosmith ...

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You get a specific number of hits.

This is the main thing keeping me from buying AS. Jacky is a little too close to Gilbert Gottfried, if you remember him. Having said that, every time I play AS I'm transported back to this awesome ride from the 70's:

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Owning AS makes me want to get MET also.

Funny.
Owning Metallica, made me want to get Aerosmith.
Hey, two great pins that go great together.

I didn't say I wasn't. You're quoting an "alternative fact." I SAID "but that's not a universal opinion."

There's no such thing as "more" of "universal." It's universal or it's not. I simply said that the fawning adulation for Aerosmith is not a universal opinion. I'm not a huge fan of it, and others have stated similar opinions. I'm not saying people can't like it, if they do, great.

Yes, the song modes aRe very familiar to the level 1 missions. Basically the mode starts off by going for the main shots, make one and you can shoot CIU (aka away team) which boosts the mode shot scoring and makes the objective for the mode shots change. What AS does good is take it to the next level and adds in a super mode for each song mode. So basically each song mode has 3 tiers; first is basic, second is CIU with increased time and scoring; and third is a super mode which can carry over to the next song or multiball. The other thing that AS does better is double scoring and multipliers actually stack for a specific shot whereas in Star Trek, whether it's a combo with a multiplier or a combo without a multiplier it will not stack that shot.

Other rules for AS; Toys MB = Mustang MB. Elevator mb = megatron or Optimus prime (forgot which one) multiball.

It's just rehashed rules, a 'Lonnie's greatest hits' so to speak. It works very well for AS even though I'm still a little cautious and suspect of the song modes - but I think the super mode stacking beyond each song mode is its saving grace.