Well, even at $7,700 I had zero takers so I guess I’m riding this Ultraman train a bit longer. Game still has a lot of potential, I just wish the improvements weren’t so unbelievably slow to roll out.

This is crazy! I have one on order and I have been nervous after reading posts, but this post is really frightening. Have you reached out to spooky about the defects? I would think after all the bad press and the fact you are only building 500 machines your attention to detail would be on point.

Maybe we can get some positive comments from people playing the game at TPF. Lots of good comments from the HWN folks playing it at TPF.

Yea, lots of people should be getting their first plays on UM. How many of them are set up at TPF?

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I played it. Interesting game. It's going to be real nice having it next to Godzilla. It feels like a decent mix of stop and go and flow (mainly cycling ramps and on the upper playfield) and as stated before...some shots are real easy and some are not (lowest left scoop, right orbit, the super skill shot drop/lock.

If I had one visual complaint, its that there is some extremely noticeable 'screen tearing' on a fewof the clips. Not all and not the majority from what I personally saw, but there seems to be one specific mode where the framerate of the video doesn't match the refresh of the screen or something like that.

I did get boned in multiballs a few times forgetting that balls were just going to suddenly show up. I don't really give a crap what anyone else thinks....it's going to be an awesome compliment to the million shots per hour Godzilla.

I preordered a BSE. Finally played the game at TPF. At this point my biggest complaint is that I am going to have to wait until they finish the CEs before I can get mine.

Light show (which I am a sucker for) is great. Shot geometry is a little claustrophobic feeling, but really fresh. It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for to fill a spot in my collection.

I guess my second biggest complaint is that the upper playfield is really cool, but very few of my pinball casual friends will probably ever play on it.

Mixed emotions so far for me on the game. I hope the next code update cleans the game up.

Just for the record #144 played fine out of the box as opposed to my standard edition R&M (maybe one of the last games built) which required a week of tweaking. So I guess ask for yours to be built on Wednesday?

Can anyone explain the right drop target logic? That one is still a bit confusing. And also the Pigmon lights. No idea.

Also. I just set the GC on the one on the right.

Hit it in right off the plunge and you’ll lock a ball behind the target. You can then bring it back out for multiball or it acts as a ball save when you drain.

I’ll also throw it out there that I have had zero issues with my game out of the box as well. There were some ball search occurrences that were code related but I’ve never even had to take the glass off because something went wrong. Only potential big opportunity I’m thinking of tackling is the leveling of my 3rd playfield as I think it maybe a bit out of sync with my main playfield and that’s maybe what’s been causing some annoyances there. I’m not sure there is something wrong there but I’m going to check it out one night this week to see if it makes gameplay better.

Did you push the metal ball guild next to the post near the flipper forward a hair on the upper playfield ? Makes a big difference. Also the spinners on the upper playfield need to be adjusted to bring them to life. Small adjustments big outcome.

I'm tempted on buying yours....just can't quite pull the trigger. I know it's not my style of gameplay, but would like to be along for the code-update-ride, and also try something completely different. Hoping someone buys it soon to take the option away from me.

Ha I actually pulled the ad. I still know I’ll sell it at some point in the future but I actually had some fun with it the other night and my son still loves it. Absolutely a lot of work to be done but certain moments, like when you beat the Jirahs mode, are pretty awesome. If the code get a bit better and you decide you want one, just shoot me a message. I’ll be at an overflow of one game anyway haha.

There really isn't much point in contacting them. I'd have to send the entire game back for the drop target fix. I just decided to do it myself to actually save time and headaches. The rest wasn't as time consuming. Just a little shocking and annoying. Hopefully they up their QC as it was pretty bad on mine.

Anyone go to TPF? Wonder if anything of interest happened there in regards to this game?

I had absolutely no quality issues with my game from a quality issue aside from a piece of foam core that seemed to
come off of something and cause a minor play obstruction.

At this point Code is my only pet peeve. Hopefully that gets sorted out by the Summer and people will be clamoring to
get onboard again.

There was some weirdness with the games when I first tried to play them friday night. Got stuck saying 'calibrating switches' whatever that means. Reboot fixed it.

Where are they on the line right now? I'm in the mid/high 300's I think.

Any updates on what number they are up to? Also any feedback from people that played UM this weekend?

They are in the 150's right now, I believe.

My only complaint so far is the subways that shoot the balls up into the inlane. It's fine outside of multiball but typically when I play multiball I'm looking farther up the playfield than the flippers so I missed a lot of balls coming that just drained instantly before I could react.

I only played a handful of games (spooky was the 2nd most packed lines aside from Weird Al). Hopefully it's something I can just get used to.

Nothing like trying to keep one eye on the upper playfields and another on the lifters. I have a feeling if you watch me play I look a lot like crazy eyes from Mr Deeds.

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That is what makes it fun. Geez. Everyone want easy return to flipper stuff. Pinball is random chaos.

low 150s pending parts for awhile now afaik. I imagine once the parts come in, there will be a fast burst forward.

Finally played it at TPF for the first time and both machines are certainly lookers. Good news is they both held up great most of the show and got confirm more changes to overlay screen coming soon.
You do get used to the scoop returns as I did throughout the show, but I’d call it more frustrating than fun at this point. Spooky commented an artwork mod could definitely help line of sight a bit. Look forward to getting more time on it again soon.

I bought the game BECAUSE of the weird layout and funky inlanes. Everything is so cookie-cutter now and I love weird shit.

I have no issues with them during multiball. Part of the challenge.

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#168

Just got the options email from Spooky.

#164 also got email options. Woo-hoo!

I noticed the screentearing on the video clips. I wonder whether it's the small CPU (not a full PC) that runs the video just doesn't have the video processing needed? No clue otherwise.

There's going to be a LOT of new owners next month.

It just takes time. The next update will include the first wizard mode.

I got my email too

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Hi , you are so lucky guys !!!

Can' t wait for mine in France HOpe it will be in 2022 (SE no #)

Enjoy your game

Who's got #166?

What are the options? butter cab or something else? I am 204 and counting down the days.

I got to play an ultraman for the first time this past weekend. I like where spooky is going with it, but I can also see room for improvement. things that really stood out to me were:

- the lifters to in-lanes (yes, you have the visual cue but it would be nice to have an audio cue as well (something like a vuk solenoid firing sound, especially during multi-balls)

- the shots to the upper playfields (maybe it's just me and not know the rule set but there doesn't seem to be any indication when a shot takes you to either of the mini playfields. something with a flashing light for both the shot and the playfield that it's going to would definitely help

- kaiju death scenes. why isn't the ball held so that you can enjoy the video clip of the kaiju death? I defeated a monster and was watching the clip only to notice (too late I may add) that a ball was transported to a lifter and rolling down past my flipper.

the last thing is just an observation. the whole alien baltons behind the buildings / michael myers behind the shrubs looked great in the teaser videos and stills but loses something when are standing at the machine. no longer are the baltons "hiding" behind the buildings because of your angle and you can see them sitting out in the open as you're looking down on the playfield. maybe if the tops of the buildings/shrubs were a bit deeper to keep them out of sight, it would have made the effect much cooler than it actually is.

I’ve made the skillshot to the drop target at least a dozen times now and it never holds the ball. Is this a hardware or software issue?

For the CE version the only option is butter or regular cabinet. I went with the regular cabinet. I think the butter cabinet is a $1K upgrade.

Sounds like your opto isn’t working. Test it with the glass off and just roll your ball up there and the drop target should pop up and capture the ball. It’ not software as that’s been coded from the beginning

There’s a big bass-filled “brrrrrraaaamp” and an “electronic hatch opening” sound every time the ball comes from a lifter. Were you playing old code or with the sound off?

The middle playfield entrance is to the left of the scoop. You can access it any time.

If you shoot the middle ramp 3 times, announce says “Get to Headquarters” and all the inserts on the top playfield light up. Shooting the middle ramp will now divert to that playfield.

In tournament yesterday , player was in upper playfield. They tilted, player is yelling that game tilted on its own..he didn't do anything, I didn't see the tilt, so I'm not sure if he did anything or not. So tilt is flashing.. ball drops into mid playfield , then into scoop. Then it goes into the option to exchange spacium for your millions , tilt still flashing..he hits flipper button..and his score raises million, tournament director comes over, game still in tilt doing nothing, another player hits his flipper buttons and collects another spacium million. It was ball 3 and he was player 4, so tournament director put in his score as it was when tilt occured and did not award the extra few million, which would have been enough to win. Anyway, is this any known code bug, or just a total glitch?

No idea but TD made the right call....glitch...bug....same thing. You don't get credit for "Accidentally winning due to a glitch" lol

Tilt is not coded well in the game. Sometimes if I get a warning, I'll get a second one 20 seconds later. Then I know it will tilt in another 20 seconds. Sometimes I can still collect points after tilt, sometimes not. Sometimes I'll get another warning next ball too.

Sucks because the game requires quite a bit of nudging.

Ear plug mod will make the tilt much better. Spooky games need it especially. The tilt swings forever in those games.

Here is a link for those like me have not heard of the earplug mod. Thanks Chuck!

My wife and I have been playing a bunch of UM, really having a nice time with it the past couple of weeks. Funny enough, the topper is really giving us a kick with the lighting effect. I wish we had a taller ceiling to get the full effect but it’s cool seeing the guys head zoom across the wall. Great work on the topper Spooky!

It's great to hear about positive developments--waiting on #307

#178 Options email came in last Thursday. Yippie!

Just unboxed #87.

Does anybody else have this problem…

During Baltan multiball, the balls load in the shooter lane but don’t launch right away.

When the multiball starts, the trough kicks the ball into the shooter lane but doesn’t launch. Then it kicks another ball into the shooter lane until there’s about 4 balls in there then the auto launch tries to launch all 4 balls into play. Of course this doesn’t work so they just sit in the trough and get launched half way over and over.

Trough switch works and auto launch works.

Any ideas?