I just got my pro the other day and it's my first spike 2 game. When it's in attract mode there's a periodic whirring/humming noise coming from what seems to be the power supply fan. Is this normal? I've never heard of this happening before.

Thanks for the info guys! I'll probably get the silent fan once I'm finally tired of hearing the stock one.

Yea, a lot of them are sorta just coincidental and you can get from normal play. Some seem somewhat challenging though. Getting all turtles to training level 4, collecting 4 consecutive weapon combos in a 4 player coop game, getting sub 100 seconds on half shell challenge, and of course reaching cowabunga! Also yea a few grindy ones like eating 1000 slices of pizza or defeating 250 foot. But those wouldn't take that many games.

Agreed. That's quite challenging. Also completing team up and final battle are pretty tough. I've been to team up many times and I don't think I've even been close to completing it. I'm assuming you need to save all 3 other turtles to complete it?

That's a nice tip, thanks! The episode completion perks definitely seem like they can make a large impact. Although playing Wrath of Krang before team up itself is a little tough since you need to play I Want a Body before too. Also as far as the pizza toppings, I'll admit I've never really paid attention to the toppings I'm locking in or attempted to get specific ones before, but I could see myself doing it for an achievement.

If I’m not mistaken, the timer at the end shows your remaining time left, not the time you completed it in.

I’d assume it wouldn’t make you unable to use the modded code, just not with the insider connected features also. I can understand why tho, it’s an achievement system and high score tracker and modded software which changed the game would obviously ruin those experiences. I know the 1987 code and other modded software doesn’t change the game rules or scoring at all but it makes sense to me that they wouldn’t allow mods to run with the service. Most video games with leaderboards or competitive aspect don’t allow mods of any kind either. But I agree either way it’s a bit unfortunate.

Pretty sure that shot flashes white when the ball lock is ready for ninja pizza multiball. The locks are ready at the start of the game and stay on until you play the multiball.

Pretty sure that’s signifying the same thing. It’s pretty common for pinball machines you have various purposes for a light. It used the ninja pizza parlor light along with the Michelangelo one to show locks are lit.

This happens to me quite often as well. Can be frustrating when I nailed the shot but it rattles and falls back.

I’m aware of this feature, thanks for the clarification. But what me and s000m are talking about is a non intended rattling that occurs just above the upper flipper when shooting the left orbit. The ball hits something and rattles/bounces around and loses all its momentum and falls back, not making the orbit shot at all. The post comes up intentionally on a successful orbit shot where you get credit for hitting the switch. What we’re talking about is just lots of rejects at the entrance to the orbit, just above the upper flipper, near where the balls exit for ninja pizza multiball. It’s probably just part of the game and hitting it too hard makes it rattle.

I've gotten all the requirements done except the April Hurry Ups. Those are definitely the hardest part to me. Closes I've been if everything completed except 2 April Hurry Ups. The team up multiball spotting one could be a pretty cool idea, but I find team up multiball to be pretty difficult to complete also so not sure how much on an impact that would make. And with my luck it would spot me 1, 2, 3 foot or weapon hurry up haha.

True, I would definitely try to complete wrath of krang before team up if this was implemented to help me out in getting to cowabunga. That's probably easier than getting 5 april hurry ups haha. Would also need to try to knock out the weapon combo and foot 1, 2, 3 combos before so you don't spot an easy task.

Whelp. After a month of owning the game I finally reached cowabunga!! I played it extremely lousily though so I didn’t even take down my GC score. I also ignored training since it’s not required and so I had fewer multipliers and scoring. I missed the left ramp to start it like 3 times on my last ball and I was so nervous haha!! Cowabunga dudes!!!!

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Thank you!

Just finished a nice high scoring game, and my new GC. Raphael definitely seems to be the best for scoring. His level 3 and 4 perks can make episodes worth 9x and triples mondo and super jackpots with the 3x scoring. I somehow didn’t get to cowabunga unfortunately because I somehow never collected a super jackpot in all 4 multiballs I played. Never had that happen before. All other requirements were filled. I had 3x playfield running on the final battle episode completion bonus and got almost 50M from that alone!! Feels so good to have a game like this after this game kicks my ass over and over!!!

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Yea, I wasn't entirely sure because I'd assume the scoring would be way higher than what I was getting, so I suppose you are likely correct at that. Kinda weird because multipliers usually do stack with one another. The playfield x multiplier seemed to stack with the 2x Krang bonus from Raph level 2.

I totally agree, all of Raphs perks are pretty useful for scoring big. Some of the other turtles perks are pretty underwhelming when compared. Especially the perk for 2x team up multiball. That one in particular seems very weak considering how little you play teamup, and the fact that you could easily reach that level after playing teamup the first time, and getting to it again isn’t easy at all. And 2x pizza eating contest is only an extra 2m points or so here or there since pizza eating doesn’t come up too often either. Also I kinda wish there was more incentive to level up at all. The flat 10% bonus scoring per level is nice, but even though cowabunga is hard enough as is, I feel like getting to level 3 or even 4 should be a requirement to motivate us to level up. The neutrino pizza party mode is pretty lackluster and I rarely try and play it.

I got quite the pizza lined up..

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If you have something worthwhile lit at the side loop or side ramp it can be worth going for. I originally always went for the plunge all the way to the upper flipper, but I think generally it's actually better to go into the pops because one of the pict-o-pops awards is an extra ball.