Just dual boot a windows OS or use a friends computer for a second. Its just flashing a USB drive once in a while, you are acting like you have to do this every day or something. Take a breath, mac is a tiny portion of the home desktop market.

Anyone know what number we are on? I am #212 and excited to join in.

Watching now, super stoked for the progress guys this looks great.

Anyone know the ration of Halloween:Ultraman pins being built?

212 is so close now... MY DAY SHALL COME

Godzilla is an incredible game but I was very letdown by the art. Its not bad but one of his weaker art packages overall especially the pro. I still cant believe Ultraman was not the winner.

Love your review and the one you did about getting your JP. Thanks for the writeup

I am planning on having both GZ and Ultraman together eventually. Make a nice monsterish line up with JP/GZ/UM.

I will 'hopefully' be picking my game up in a couple days from a shipment center and was wondering, has anyone moved the game in box laying down? I know they are shipped upright and have the tilt indicator to make sure it stayed upright but am worried about moving it standing up in a small enclosed trailer with straps. Also, anyone know which side of the box is the 'top' of the game? I would imagine if i did lie it down it should be lying with the glass facing up.

Anyone know how to fix one of the inlane lifters not sitting flat? The right one is flat and the ball flows fine but the left sticks up a bit and is a bit ridged and makes the ball get stuck

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That did it! Thanks for the help. Otherwise game is playing flawless zero issues besides that small one that I had a feeling was just something a little too tight as it is a thin piece of metal. Everything shoots amazing and works well, once I have more games I could probably do a full review but first impressions are great I just may need to do some adjustments to the center ramp as I see what some others are saying about some rejects when trying to hit it backhand or if its not directly on. Also would love like others have suggested to keep progress between balls as an option. Without a doubt the best looking game I have seen and with the code progressing like it is this can easily be top 10.

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Do you have a hitch on the SUV? Could just rent a small enclosed trailer and ratchet strap it down.

Absolutely love the new UI, especially the kaiju alert screen on the left and the seismograph or whatever its called on the right. Also good call on changing around jirahs and having it carry over between balls. Game is really coming together, cant wait to see it continue

I am overall impressed and satisfied with the callouts and the style (more is always good of course) but the repeating 'no more clones' as I keep missing the correct scoop shot I would agree would be the first to expand on. Even as simple as just randomizing between 2-3 responses would be great nothing too crazy.

Finally remembering to make this post for the second Ultraman CE I have received with review, yep my second. SO about 4 months back I picked up my Ultraman game from a shipping terminal, inspected the box and peeked inside etc, saw no issues. Drove it home and started the unload and noticed the art looked amazing, but not as shiny as I would expect for a butter cabinet (you probably see where this is going). So unfortunately because of some miscommunication or kaiju shenanigans my butter cabinet was not on the game I received unfortunately.

This was a pretty big bummer as I think Ultraman has the best damn art package on a pinball machine, you can fault some things surely but art is not one of them on this game. So I gave a call to Kingpin my distro and they started doing some research, confirmed it was a non-butter with spooky and said he would research options. At this point I cant imagine any option besides just refunding my 1k and frankly how could I complain. It would make it so I was not out any extra cost, paid for what I received and all parties would be balanced. What exactly other option do I have, its not like they are going to go pick up a huge pinball game from across the country, pay to ship it back, pay for a new one, eat the cost of reselling my game as a show game or similar and pay to ship a butter cabinet when mine is working perfectly fine. But that's exactly what they did.

Morgan and Kingpin worked together to let me use my first ultraman for a bit as the butters were taking awhile, helped me pack up mine on the pallet I thankfully kept, had UPS come and grab my old one and shipped a brand new buttery Ultraman to my door at no cost. So I can now say I am 2/2 for games delivered that play great, shipped well and had a insanely good customer service experience on both. Shout out Kingpin for going the extra mile to help and Morgan at Spooky for keeping me updated and getting me a brand new butter cab game. Only issue across both games I have seen is my new one the start button light seems to not work but I havent looked at it too closely at it yet and may just be a jostled wire from shipping. Gameplay wise everything is great and damn does that butter shine now that I have had them both in the same spot and lighting to compare.

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As a huge fan of TWD and how amazingly deep the 3 drop targets were coded in that game I agree, please do not take this out. The drop targets having the ability to be lit differently opens up SO much in ways of code depth.

Me reading the HWN thread:

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It's literally the same exact game besides theme currently... How can you own one and say the other sucks. It's like saying you love Shrek pinball but hate Family Guy pinball when its the exact same game, it just sounds dumb. If you don't like the theme that's fine, I dont care about Halloween at all, but it doesn't change they are essentially the same game.

Yep same here, I have been trying to spread the gospel of Ultraman to any who listen. I personally believe the game(and HWN of course) both shoot amazing, satisfying ramps, well done upper playfields and upper playfield strategies that incentivize stashing balls into the scoops for the servo delay. It turns from slowing down the game to being strategy plays for the big upper playfield jackpots that can be highlighted even more with code. That and the art is stunning all around, top 3 art period. All it needs is code and it seems like we are in good hands now for that so I am hype for the future of this one.

Feel free to send more dev info drops its very interesting for all the tech field people we seem to have in these threads.

Video looks great, these are some of the kind of fundamental changes that I think can really bring the game into its own. New modes and wizard modes are great don't get me wrong, but adding in ways to use other playfields, adding balls, combining multi balls with modes, the shots to add members on the playfield etc. those can really transform the game and I am really excited to try it out. The science patrol assist especially seems like it has a ton of potential for future updates when you collect them. Happy to see the progress.

These look amazing I will have to message him.

The ability to stash a ball in the middle playfield during multiball is absolutely genius. I finally had time for a few games yesterday and it adds so much depth to the multiballs with trying to balance the timing of the ball coming back out to try and restash it vs the other ones you are looking to score with. Science patrol shot is great, I think the flow and stacking is great for the shot but maybe too easy to get with the super skill shot? Or maybe too difficult to get without the super skill shot? I am not sure which way I go on it, I just know most of my games I either will plunge correctly so it dead bounces into the shot itself without flipping, or i just ignore it till the next ball since it does take a lot of shots to qualify. Maybe its worth more if its done manually? Again not sure on the best way but the pay off is great once you get to it and how it stacks.

Only bugs I have seen is if I have a long game going sometimes the start button no longer will work for selecting a mode or spacium store selection so I will have to double flip instead. Not game breaking at all but otherwise really solid. Great update and very impressed