Orders open Thursday Sept 1st 10am CST (1am Friday morning for myself in Melbourne).

Once they start taking orders, you have to be in the Fang club to order. I'd assume if all 250 don't sell to Fang club members, then they would open it up to everyone else. I think that ordering exclusivity goes for two weeks.

I'M IN!

Not many units ever made it to Australia, and this has been on my to buy list for over 3 years!

So excited to have my name one one

This may be a silly question - but will the lighted side rails work fine with the 2.0 cabinet?

In terms of fit, I'm sure they would but I'm curious if the internals of the cabinet will have the same connection point to plug them in to for power.

Have you considered adding in something like the "challenge modes" on Stern games or even "Impossible play" (all settings at max difficulty). Having their own high score tables and offering a slight twist on the normal gameplay offers up variety without impacting the normal game.

I love stepping up to my Jurassic Park and having to decide if I'm playing the normal game, or playing the challenge mode (and if it's the challenge mode, am I in the mood for points, or trying to speed run since it offers score tables for both). Same with my Mando - the challenge and impossible play modes give a nice break from the regular game. It helps keep things fresh and adds variety to the single table.

That sounds like an excellent candidate for a Stern style challenge mode. Without requring players to go into the settings to enable, it would be great if it you're able to select it at the start of the game and have highest score & fastest time records. Giving that mode its own score / time tracking would encourage replay for single players at home and also work well as a way to build skills in boosting reactor value and/or destroying the reactor quickly.

How do the 1-2-3 targets (located at the top right of the reactor area) work in terms of rules?

From the videos I've watched, you have to hit them in order to advance and they reset on ball loss. But I'm not sure how they impact the game.

Thank you both for clarifying that!

Just watching more game play, I did now see the 1-2-3 target inserts turn off right after the "Reactor value max" call out. It looks like the player can continue to push the reactor value higher after that though, although only the CORE lanes and reactor slings count towards this. Is that correct? So the 1-2-3 targets can be used to quickly reach the reactor max, and from there the player can push it higher if they choose to?

A post from Scott on Facebook - Looks like a Jukebox mode (similar to what we now see on Stern games) being added to TNA?

I listen to this on Spotify a lot - would be a great addition to the game if so

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Please please please add this as a single player challenge mode with it's own high score table entry!

Awesome!

I only got to see the end of the stream, but it sounds like it all went well then

I'm curious if you've considered adding that 1 reactor challenge you mentioned a couple of pages back as its own mode (selectable at the start) in a future update with its own high score for people to grind away it? It requires a different approach to press points with just the 1 reactor to destory and with its own high score entry, would be appealing for players to challenge themselves with while working within the same ruleset as the full game.

Is it possible? or not something you feel is worth adding?

Got my email asking about butter/no butter, etc. I'm CE #100.

Still some wait before the game is made and arrives in Australia - but it's a step closer

Damn - I'm #100 haven't heard anything after payment a few weeks ago

CE #100 arrived safely in Melbourne today. All set up and running.

A couple of issues I need to look into though.

First is the display looking very washed out. Looking at the monitor settings, it has brightness and contrast set to 50 - is this what others have?

Second is holding the left flipper button in to trap up generates a coil hum (right flipper is fine).

The arrows refer to the flipper buttons.

You use the flipper buttons to cycle the lit inserts on the S.A.V.E lanes and also the C.O.R.E lanes at the top.

Yep, it's 4 screws (two each side) - so easy to remove.

Thanks for posting about this. I ordered the one from mouser that you linked.

How easy is it to remove the old heatsink and install the new one with the fan?

Also, where do you connect the small 2 pin fan connector to on the cpu board?

One of my favorite games to stream is the TNA CE I purchased late last year. I have a redemption on stream to play the "Single reactor challenge", with the highscore holder having their name on screen (each TNA stream) until it's beaten by another attempt.

The single reactor battle is an unoffcial mode that Scott came up with and posted on his blog about a few years ago: https://www.scottdanesi.com/?p=1777

This mode is a lot of fun and forces you to play the game differently, while working within the same rule set of the game. Over time, I've been slowly pushing my score higher and higher as I make attempts on stream for viewers. In a recent stream, I dedicated the whole stream to the challenge mode and managed to break 1.6M for the first time - which is now on YouTube:

If you've not yet given this "mode" a try - DO IT! Simply set the game to 1 reactor and score as many points as you can before taking out the reactor. Sounds simple, but higher scoring becomes more difficult as you really want to destory the reactor on ball 1, in multiball, while having a max reactor value and pressing points along the way.

I'd love to see this added as a "Challenge mode" in a future code update - it's worthy of being an officially recognised mode. Similar to what we see with new Sterns these days adding in challenge modes. Being able to select this from the attract mode (like you would for team / co-op modes) would make it easily accessible and having it's own highscore table entry would make it something for people to grind away at and get better.

For anyone that's interested, you can watch the full VOD here with all (good and bad) attempts from the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1831405933

It's a great challenge - give it a go!

The skillshots I know of are:

1) Before launching the ball, you can use the flipper buttons to change which of the C-O-R-E shots is lit (you can choose this). If you can plunge the ball into that shot, you get super skill shot.

2) After launching the ball, you can use the flipper buttons to cycle the lit C-O-R-E shot (away from your original selection), but this will just be a regular skill shot if you get the ball into the newly selected lit shot.

3) Secret Skillshot - Full plunge, let the ball bounce off the left flipper (do not use the left flipper at all) and then use the right flipper to get it into the drop targets (ball locks).

Managed to completed the game on stream tonight - Reactor 9 is no more!

A raw reaction from the moment: https://clips.twitch.tv/HeartlessTastyMeatloafRiPepperonis-MVv2aI5r6j_6hhKh

I managed to complete the game twice again on stream last night.

Best speed run time now under 1000 at 939 seconds

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My GC score just below 17M

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As much as I'd love to update the code, I don't want to lose my scores. Having the highscore table domainted with reactor 9 scores and a speed run time under 1000 - I don't want to lose those

I do like the sound of the new timer though for speedrun times for accuracy and precision. Does this mean the way individual reactor speed times are recorded will now be what the timer is at the point they are destroyed?

So incrementing like this:

Reactor 1 - 2:30.00
Reactor 2 - 3:30.00
Reactor 3 - 7:30.00

or is it similar to now where each time is just specific to the reactor (so using the time difference between the current reactor being destroyed and the previous reactor destroyed)?

Using the above timer for example:

Reactor 1 - 2:30.00
Reactor 2 - 1:00.00
Reactor 3 - 4:00.00

TheNoTrashCougar I caved in and updated to the latest beta code. It was hard to say bye to the scores and speed run times I'd set, but decided to use the opportunity as motivation to reclaim the scores.

Second stream with the new code tonight, I managed to complete the game 3 times during stream and set a new GC (17.6M).

Also had a 13M point game along the way and finished the night with a 10M.

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Here's the VOD for anyone that's interested: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1985821462 (with the 17.6M game set around the 50 minute mark).

Still more scores to claim back again, so can't stop yet

The bug fixes in the update are welcomed and the new speed run change is a good one too! I hope you're able to consider adding the single reactor challenge as a selectable mode from the start menu (like team/co op) play in a future update

I've found a small bug for you TheNoTrashCougar

I'm currently running the latest beta code (v1.5.1.b3) but this bug could exist in older versions too.

The issue is the shaker motor becomes locked on when it shouldn't (like it would during the reactor being overloaded, but becomes locked on from hitting something like the pop bumper).

I've hit a few times in the past but haven't had time to investigate. Found some time today to look into it and can now reproduce it 100%.

To reproduce:

1) Start a new game
2) Get reactor 1 overloaded to 100% and the shaker motor kicks in
3) Open coin door and enter service menu (this will cancel the current game and return you to the attract mode)
4) Start a new game
5) Hit the pop bumper

At this point the shaker motor stays locked on until you open and destroy the reactor. Once the reactor is destroyed, the shaker motor behaviour then returns to normal.

With the steps above, it doesn't have to be the pop bumper either - it could be from achieving a "quick lock", which has a short use of the shaker motor. This too will leave the shaker motor locked on.

So would seem like a variable somewhere not being cleared/reset when the game exits back to attract mode while the shaker motor is locked on during the reactor overload.

Are you running the latest beta code?

There was a feature added that fires the knocker when a player takes the lead on the final ball

From the patch notes:
- Added new feature called "Last Ball Overtake" that will fire the knocker when any player of a non-co-op multiplayer game passes the leader on the last ball of the game.

That's correct behaviour. Here's a post from Scott earlier in the thread talking about it. He mentions it fires twice.

I managed to complete TNA 3 times again tonight on stream, smashing my old GC of 17.6M with a new score of 29.2M

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This is the VOD for anyone interested: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2062431035