There's a bunch of low bass from the building destruction at multiball intro, turn the bass down on the backbox EQ to help minimize distortion.

..and here I am hopping cities ASAP because I really like the music in the bottom Tier II battle

Stern has a special breed of blind moles installing tilt hardware in current games...

Yeah any wrinkle will reflect and show up as extra white spots and mess up the code.

You can choose either as long as you've scored that multiball's super jackpot before collecting powerup 4. GZ multiball SJ for monster zero, mechaGZ multiball SJ for terror. If you have neither, powerup 4 defers til you do I believe.

GZ is Elwin's 4th game. They recently just re-ran Iron Maiden, his first game. No worry, GZ will be produced for a while.

I think terror is supposed to be "harder" than zero to qualify, but it's cool the player has the option to try qualifying both for the L4 powerup.

Get a heat ray stored and use that to score the super. Mecha has a nice long ballsaver, use it to get quick jackpots in the beginning. Don't be afraid to skill-drain to keep the playfield clear of balls to make shooting jackpots easier while ballsave is active. Shoot the center spinner loop and hold the UL flipper up and the ball will often rebound into the mecha targets for those jackpot phases. You'll get it soon enough, no need for progress save IMHO.

Place in shooter lane, no power means it won't launch til the coindoor closes.

Also, turn on coindoor ballsaver in options, also enable coindoor open disables tilt.. this all helps you retrieve stuck balls with no issues.

Yes shaker needs to sit on the braid so it's grounded. You won't break it poking it with a screwdriver.

Small protip: when playing the 3rd tier 2 (I think GZ and Angurius vs KG and Gigan), when the magnet grabs the ball for "Fight or Flee," wait a bit before choosing... allow the ball time to settle its swing on the magnet to reduce the chance of a let-go that heads SDTM.

Also applies to the occasional non-DJP or MG grab ("GZ Multiball Ready" on pro) .. don't blow off the animations, let them play so the ball has time to settle. No need to flirt with disaster on a bad drop. Now, if MG was lit, blow 'em off so you have a chance to get an imposter.

Yeah that's a pain, hopefully code will be tweaked so that a lit magnagrab will allow any queued videos to be blown off...

You mean the verbiage:

"If you are the impatient type, like to flip though your games quickly or need these by a certain time.....it would be best for you to wait until their status is changed to "IN STOCK".

"When wondering about your order completion status....please don't ask. I will not be ripping you off, you will get your order and, as I said, maybe it would be best that you not order until the IN STOCK status is showing."

Maybe you should have waited and not preordered Can't say you weren't warned.

Yep, it's about the setup. I squeezed 300M+ out of Megalon the other day. 5x teir1 time bonus + rodan + multiball = fun!

Which mode?

edit: or is that 1.5M on a game with only one mode played?

Yeah I remember you mentioning sticking around in the city to build carnage. I always bail from Tokyo as soon as the raid is complete coz I like playing the T2 monsters. Except the T2 multiball though, my mode high there is like 38M haha.. I just like to play the others. I'll try to complete city 2's monitors before moving on and hitting the strobing shots during multiballs, but I need to work on carnage multipliers and not F'ing up the tanks and bridge (and getting crappy annihilation awards)

Might be shaker on/off is in standard adjustments whereas shaker level (min/max) is in game adjustments.

Anytime I've gotten that far in MZ I've had a heat ray to collect the SJP, have never actually collected with the wallop yet.

I use my knee, it's possible to fire off a heat ray while still actually playing the game/making saves, no trap needed.

5'8" but flexible

I have all stock rubbers and no issues with airballs or jumping.

Those that use the metric system, and those that crash Mars landers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

One nice side effect of the super tight glass on recent GZs: less need for anti-rattling measures when you upgrade the sound.

The flakes are because Stern's cheap stops break apart and wear prematurely. Replace them with aftermarket stops and they'll be fine for years of home play. Adding rubber will shorten the flipper stroke and mess up gameplay, and isn't necessary.

The trick is to rattle each shot just enough to keep the speed under control, the little ramp helps slow down as well. I got 9 once and can see how someone better than me could keep it going longer by finessing the shots and not letting them get too fast.

The sweet spot is "make the shot but poorly."

Right ramp all day every day!

More like the pros strip out finicky mechs that can break down on location and aren't really necessary to enjoy the game.

And yes, switch it back. You completely screwed up the Gigan mode at a minimum.

Yes, this is why the bus bar is installed in the first place.

Try re-seating or replacing the SD card used by IC (the bottom card slot).

Maiden is way better than AIQ even disregarding the theme.

there is a lot of low bass in the bonus collect screen, it is likely clipping the signal due to the 4 ohm setting and/or boosts in the EQ and voice/SFX bias in the settings.

I've replaced the speakers and added an amp, so my game's volume output is set low and flat; the amp sets the EQ curve. I've never had distortion issues. The factory board can output good sound if you don't push it too hard.

I've used both of these from parts express, the Dayton Audio one sounds a bit better but they're both good enough

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This is very true. Just replacing the 3 stock speakers makes the game sound a whole lot better, and is easy to do. Stern audio mastering is very good.. you will hear stuff you hadn't heard before with better speakers.

To give it a little punch at normal volume and make it still sound great even with the volume cranked. The Stern amp lacks power to really reproduce the full dynamic range of the games' soundtracks. Many games are still fine with a simple speaker upgrade, but music pins and booming violent games like GZ are fun to blast like a movie at times, especially with the shaker and an external sub as well. It's definitely not for everyone but I like it.

Sounds like it only lasts the first city, then gets harder. If it keeps increasing difficulty, what does that do for cities 3 and 4? Do you have one ramp at a time lit?

GZ team been totally spoiling us with quality code. Wish Spooky would get some of their mojo, need some good HWN code!

If one goes out it'll confuse the player who will think it's the old rule: must shoot both ramps to qualify, and they'll avoid the now unlit ramp even though it's still active.

Maybe have both lamps blink after one is made?

"Nooo.. not my favorite power line!" always cracks me up.

How many of these are there anyway? I think I've heard 5-6 different....

That's happened to me in the past, just takes lucky timing.

Now you need to confirm the spinner will still rip properly when hit hard and not just keep the switch closed most of the rip.

Yeah, the right tesla target, upper loop, tailwhip and mecha targets are the shot range for GZ UL flipper.

Mecha has tons of bass, might be jostling something loose during the mode. Also does pinwoofer have a ground wire for their amps? I've found I have to ground the amp chassis to the braid to eliminate a minor background hum in Spike2 games. My own setups, not PW but similar.

It's supposed to be there and not supposed to come out, on impact it hits the target behind it to register the magnagrab shots.

Had a couple 180M games yesterday then a 2.6B game today which should have triggered Anguirus and Mothra, but nothing showing up?

Edit: I checked elsewhere in the site and it did give me the badges, there's just no indication here.

Right now, if I qualify planet X by the second jump, I'll take it just to bank the quick and easy progress towards that 25B

Yep I'm going to play on for the 25B but if I start to get sick of the game it's not gonna happen.

Got 2B but walked away pissed about the almost 1B left on the table:

- 3 missed DJs at ~150M ea
- Drained before I could cash in a perfect city, 5x80M became 2x80M
- Heatray'd too early finishing up Tier 2 battle and missed ~200M addtl points

Arghh.

Is there a list of the secret combos someone could point me to?

Not really a bug. During GZ MB the mech rotates back to the spinner after you complete its target bank for the add a ball, so it's deterministic. Basically, if you do stack them, complete the bank ASAP to restore the spinner.

You got the badge, that particular screen doesn't give any indication but you'll find it in your badge list.

You have to shoot the two ramps to relight the Kaiju, whether it's the tier1 again (if you failed to get past 50%) or the tier 2 if you did get past 50% of tier 1.

Fight the tier 2 to the point you can cash out, then shoot its cash out shot and choose Flee, that will enable Select City.

The top tier 2 battle needs (at minimum) you to complete any lit shot 3 times, then the scoop to cash out. The bottom tier 2 requires switch hits to light the shots, then make at least one shot then the building to cash out. I forget the middle tier 2, it's a multiball I rarely play.

If you're trapped on the right, try a tiny quick flip to get a small roll up the flipper, then another tiny quick flip to backhand it into the scoop. Anytime you get a little roll up but not off the right flipper, you got a good chance at a scoop backhand. Easier than you think once you find the timing, and the misses aren't as deadly (unless you lob it into the right outlane).

Wonder if the wifi is dropping mid-game, causing the sign out? Never happened to me yet.

The premium has the same ballsaver rules as the pro, it goes away if used. Only difference is prem gives a fresh ballsaver with each plunge after a building lock, while pro locks are virtual with no plunge or ballsave.

There are a number of times on both models where you get a purely time based ballsave that doesn't go away if used: monster zero, monster rampage and the entirety of terror of mechagodzilla.

This put a nice dent in the 25B chore. Finally didn't get greedy-drainy in the tier 2s. Managed to snag the EB and PK the rest of Rampage without draining. Actually won KOTM for the first time.

Kinda done with this game but still 2.8B to go before Monday...

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Oh it's fun but I'm eyeballing that 10-games-in-a-day Titanosaurus badge... I'll play 'em out til I get the 25B but there might be a few plunged off while I watch football haha

The ball isn't magnetized to the other side of the exit, it's being repulsed by the magna-grab because it's on the wrong side of the magnet.

What's happening is the ball is taking too long to come out of the wallop lane and is too far from the magnet pole when the magnagrab kicks in, so instead of being swung around to the bottom-left, it's getting pushed to the top-right.

Figure out why the balls are slow to exit the wallop lane on a building shot. They may be magnetized themselves and sticking to the metal walls or something may not be aligned back there.

I got the 25B within 12 games thanks to that one 9B game. Wound up playing 7 additional games yesterday to close out the Titanosaurus requirement, spent them practicing combos. Which leads me to...

I think the Tokyo city combo "center spinner to pop bumper" is bugged. This is the prem/LE only combo. I can shoot this thing a dozen times without it scoring... it'll eventually work, but no idea what is triggering success. I'm fairly certain no other switches are activating, and the secret combo "center spinner to scoop" scores the first time time I hit it. I understand these only score once per game, it's a matter of spinner->scoop works 1st time every time, while spinner->pop takes multiple tries before working in any given game. The other Tokyo combos seem to work OK.

Can anyone with a prem/LE shoot for that spinner->pop tokyo combo and see if it works reliably?