Really?

Uh ... let's see ... maybe because (as has been pointed out countless times in this thread) it's actually a really fun pinball game and if you're into PINBALL, you'd likely be doing yourself a favor by playing one. Regardless of whether you're into Mustangs or not.

LOL

When you call something a "turd", then "shitting" *IS* the most closely related word to describe the statement. Don't you think?

Calling a game a turd is an opinion, and isn't that what this forum is about? It's not only for positive opinions, and if you hate a game and voice that opinion, I don't see that as shitting on a thread. (For examples of that, search "Kaneda" and "Captain_Kirk". Although some folks would say add "Beelzeboob" to that, but I respect their right to be wrong.)

LOL.
Why buy an ACDC pin when you can listen to their music online for free?
Why buy a Whitewater pin when real rafting is actually more fun?
Why buy a Star Wars pin when you can watch the movie?

... same logic would apply to every pin released...

I buy pins because I play pinball.

I was just joking by the obvious relationship between "shitting" and "turd".

But... What you are failing to acknowledge is that there is a big difference in "How" something is said/expressed. For example....

- a) I really don't like game X, it's boring and the points are extremely imbalanced

- b) IMO game X is a piece of shit, a total turd, I wouldn't wipe my a** with that piece of crap!

Both are "opinions", but you can easily see how b) earns the tag: "shitting"

Meh. I take both as opinions. The first is the way a politician would say it. The second is the way I would probably say it, i.e.: like hitting you over the head with a baseball bat. Some people can handle it and are just as strongly opinionated, others think I'm a douche. C'est la vie.

BTW...I only quoted you because you were the last post in that discussion and I'm too lazy to go back and find the other stuff.

I think everybody should have a place to say they like or dislike a game, whatever the reason ( although I think stating the reason should be common courtesy)
The sticking point for me is the " this game sucks" or "it is a turd" without an " in my opinion" added. I'm sure it sounds petty but without the disclaimer it comes off like the person is stating fact ( yes I work part time for the grammar police) if I say "Mustang is a pinball machine" is that fact or opinion? It could be both but it can be proven objectively that it is a pinball machine by all the standard definitions.
What if I say "Mustang is fantastic" is that fact or opinion? Can I prove my statement objectively, maybe or maybe not, therefor I would add an "IMO" to clarify my statement to avoid needing to prove anything or sound like I'm trying to state fact.
What about "Mustang is a fantastic pinball machine"?
We have really dumped down our conversations to little useless or wasted sound bites and that is a shame.
I know it is just an Internet forum but it is where people go to find information to make decisions about purchases and "it sucks" isn't helping anybody. It also is more insulting to those who like a game, I sold my ST because I really couldn't get into the rules and didn't enjoy playing it but I never said it sucked.

All good points. But I really think *most* people on here are relatively intelligent, and as such, should be able to discern a fact from an opinion when reading a post. If they choose to create drama over something so petty, I just shrug and move on.

people that like this game should like the fact that it's not overly well received because it means you can guy one pretty reasonable.

I agree with your *most* comment, many can and do know the difference when they read it BUT it is the people that pass along the stuff verbatim:
"So dude I heard there is a (fill in the blank) pin, wanna check it out"
" no way man I saw on pinside it sucks"

As far as drama, that is really my point about the " it sucks " I think it is said intentionally to cause drama... why "hate" any pin that much. Try it ( ummm more than 2 or 3 balls ) and move on if it isn't your style or theme etc... no need to get pissed off

To the original question I have agree that, as silly as it seems to me, the theme is a big turn off for many and the main reason for weak price/ sales. It has now been tainted and people who turn their collections frequently don't want to risk a weak market when it is time to sell so in order to purchase they want in cheap.
A couple people said they don't like the game play/ rules but from my experience most players enjoy it a lot. I think of it as a more "traditional" or classic style (drops, spinner, etc but no " toy") but that is because I grew up with EMs if somebody started playing in the 90s then Mustang seems out of place in the current generation of pins. I'm not really concern about the lower values I think it will anchor my collection for a long time.

Can't speak for others on here who gave harsh opinions of Mustang, but I did so because I have strong feelings of dissapointment. It was a theme I was excited about. If it wasnt so bad (in my opinion) I would have bought NIB. I tried to give a few reasons for my dislike, such as a need for a second ramp, shallow ruleset, scoop that doesnt go deep enough which gives a feeling of cheapness, but sometimes its just hard to describe why you dont like a particular pin. People that call a game a turd after only a few plays, yeah that is annoying. But I feel, having played the game extensively and beaten the final wizard mode gives me the right to call the game a turd.

One ramp kills me as well

It is one cool ramp though! I don't know, I enjoyed mine quite a bit and just sold it this past weekend. Next game up!

Corvette, Getaway, and Indy500 come to mind.

Really? Most of the complaints I heard were about the layout. The narrow shots. The hidden Hulk Smash target. The saucer that should have been a scoop, leading to constant lip outs from the right flipper and Black Widow ramp diverter. (Earthshaker did it much better) The oddly-shaped BW ramp itself that sits too far forward leading to more incomplete shots than I've seen in any other game. The worst part, however, are the outlanes. The Thor targets and the Coulson and Hill targets jut out so far into the middle of the table that it leads to two of the biggest channels to the drains in pinball. When I first started playing it, I lost multiple balls when they went from the bumpers into the Iron Man loop, down to the peg below the stand-ups, clipped the right of the slingshot and out. It got to the point where I just said "Screw the skill shot or any Captain America progress, I just want to make a shot," and short plunged every time.

Just an FYI for the Mustang fans on this thread - I just updated my previously posted Mustang rules & info doc and a pdf link can be found at the start of this thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/draft-mustang-rules-set-check-em-out#post-2880353

Happy New Year!

Mustang is great! It's the first Stern pin in a while in which it has really big things you can do, without having to have all the stars align (burnout super jackpots, gear 6 supers, killer drift vs getting everything to work out perfectly on GOT, ACDC, TWD). It plays the most like a Williams game from the golden era of pinball than any other stern out there. Lights are amazing, and the music on the LE is sweet.

The only thing holding it back is that it doesn't have the code love that some of the more recent sterns are getting. With just a few tweaks to the software it could really be the best stern out there IMO

I looked and couldn't find what songs are on the Pro and what songs are on the LE?

Apparently these are the four "selectable" songs on the Pro:

 Ace of Spades – Motorhead
 Drag City - Jan & Dean
 Free Ride - Edgar Winter
 Go, Boy, Go - Jimmy D'Anda

This will be noted on the next updated doc.

I had some family over last night and mostly all of them were new to pinball. After a couple hours of playing I asked them what their favorite game was and 3 of the 4 said Mustang. None of them are car enthusiasts nor do they even own a Ford vehicle among them, but they found that game to be the "fastest" and "most multiball fun."

In a lineup I think this is a great game to have in your collection. With Tuna's expanded info sheet now in hand I'm learning even more about the rules and scoring depth that the game has.

I read the LE has 8 songs - although I couldn't find the list of songs.

All song info is listed in the Music section of my doc.

See link in yesterday's post if you need it.

That's especially meaningful considering how impressive your game lineup is!

Played it again. Increased my hight score a bit. Game still sucks.

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Congratulations on the new high score - that is impressive!

It's unfortunate that you apparently didn't enjoy the gameplay that achieved it, but no game will be loved by all that play it. Even those who may excel at it.

I'd say time to move on.

I've owned over 70 pins in my lifetime. From Big Bang Bar to Strange Science.

Mustang may not be a top 20 but if You own a Premium or LE and play it enough it's kinda contagious!

Since You don't own it and have just played it elsewhere You might get a surprise after owning it for a month and 100 plays.

It is Fast and Furious.

I wish someone would make a mod for turntable so You can see the pops. I would pay dearly to get that mod!!!

Here's a mod for you. First send me $20.00. Then wait...... wait...

Just take the large scale car off the turntable, leaving just the spinning disc. Blocking those pop bumper caps, which look great (BTW). By accident my pin doesn't have a car on the turntable. I replaced the M3 car last year with another car, using the supplied screws. The replacement Mustang didn't have enough plastic in the bottom for a good grip of one of the screws. When waxing the playfield last week I bumped the car and it half way popped off. So I just took it off.
An idea I had was to mount 7 smaller scale cars on the turntable. With them arranged in a spoke pattern with the front of the Mustangs facing the letters on the Turn Table. Keeping the cars the on the ramps and Turn Table same scale.
Air balls rarely hit that area of the game as that cross over ramp blocks that direction. Twaaannngggg.

This is an intriguing alternative. The 7 various Mustangs would fit right in with the Mustang multiball mode too. Perhaps something in the center (such as a trophy cup) might anchor the arrangement. Unfortunately, either way, the view of the pop bumpers will still be fairly obstructed though.

Boss Prem/LE has stacked ramps and diverter with additional cross over ramp.

I admit once it was released the code was not good. This is one Stern I did not preorder and I'm a car guy.

Once it was fleshed out and code matured it was fantastic. I got a Boss. It's a fast, fun addicting game with the ability to add your own music is a plus with pin browser.

I sold my HUO TSPP and LOTR a year ago and don't miss those.

Really ?!?!?!?!?!? What's missing ?
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V1.40 - October 2, 2014
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- New Burnout multiball. Spelling 1-8-0 lights Burnout multiball.
The sequence of shots in Burnout MB is:
1) Shoot 3 jackpots
2) Shoot bowl to spell BURNOUT -OR- Collect your super JP @ captive ball
3) If you spelled BURNOUT, shoot L.RAMP followed quickly by captive ball for 360 jackpot
4) Pop bumpers relight jackpots.
- New Mystery Ford rule.
- Mystery Ford is lit by completing a race (qualifying race for Silverball Stampede).
- Shoot the bowl to collect an award.
- Awards include: Upgrades, Gears, Multiball, Extra Ball, 3x scoring, progress towards drift
- New SHIFT skill shot.
- Shooting the lit GEARS letter, without making any other switches, gives an award.
- Shooting letter A while the white column is lit awards up to two gears (!).
- Shooting letters G or E while the red column is lit awards points.
- Shooting letters R or S while the blue column is lit awards points.
- New R-P-M Spinner rule.
- Spelling RPM lights RPM spinner scoring.
- Shoot RPM targets to extend RPM spinner scoring.
- Spinner score is based on #upgrades.
- New powershift rule for Boss and LE machines.
- Powershifts awarded from sneak in skill shot and caution targets.
- Hit the center button during a race for a race shot award.
- New Extra ball qualification.
- EB now lights after qualifying two races for drift.
- New speech.
- Score balancing.
- EB now will appear in Toolbox if not enough extra balls are being awarded.
- Fixed new car lamp not always turning on.

V1.30 - May 17, 2014
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- added ramp diverter logic to Mustang Multiball (PRO).
- added ramp diverter logic to races (PRO).
- fixed speech not being heard at start of Drag Race Multiball.
- Fixed Lamp Effect for gears multiball start (also for drag multiball start)
- Added Sound Effect to shift mode complete
- Added Sound Effect to rally race award.
- Added ball search delay for Drift Intro.
- fixed a problem with the race select screen becoming availble too soon after a scoop award.
- Added drag race multiball start lamp effect.
- Added logic to race shot lamp effects to follow the path of the ball on award shots.
- added logic so allow speech calls to be heard later if the speech track is busy.
- Police Pursuit will now reliably say "SE_VO_PP_708_GOT_EM" at the end of the race.
- Removed forced speech priority from Stunt race Speech Effects.
- Added grace period to super jackpot in gears multiball and drag race multiball.
- Changed drag race multiball background DE to say "Drag race multiball"
- Fixed speech conflict/timing in gears multiball start.
- mustang letters are now available at the scoop (Pro/LE/Boss) versions.
- Drag Race Multiball start speech now waits for the channel to be available before talking.
- BOSS only - added Police Pursuit End animation artwork.
- Removed profanity from the song "My Own Worst Enemy".
- added BOSS info to version number.
- Silverball Stampede MB
Leg 3C - all shots and the pop bumpers blink.
added Finale light show
- Silverball Stampede - added explosions.
- tool box now awards "more time" if upgrade scoring is running.
- Brought down scoring in rally race slightly.
- added BOSS dots to both drag race and road course modes
- added Silverball Stampede Intro dots
- addedBOSS assets -
police pursuit (stakeout and chase).
CAR WIPES
1969 BOSS 302 (Stunt)
1970 BOSS 429 (Road Course)
1971 BOSS 351 (Drag Race)
2011 BOSS 302 R (Police Pursuit)
2012 BOSS 302 (Rally)
2012 BOSS 302 S with spoiler (Drift)
2013 BOSS 302 (Silverball)
- added BOSS art to Mustang Multiball
- shots to the mid ramp now pause the roving shot during cruisin (LE/BOSS only).
- added Mustang Letter Lit speech/criteria. Mustang Letters are now
"lit/available" upon completing a race.
- Silverball Stampede
Leg 3B - Alien Invaders
Leg 3C - Destroy the Mothership
- Modified # caution drop target hits to get bowl bonus.
- Modified shots/scoring for Caution drop target rule (LE/BOSS only).
- Added new intro art to drift race.
- Show Upgrade choreo when Nitrous upgrades (says "Hit the Nitrous Boost")
- Say "Nitrous Boost" once per ball when Nitrous Boost is lit and hit.
- added upgraded speech
- added BOSS versions of police pursuit intro animations.
intro
police car hides behind billboard
police car hides behind billboard; light turns from green to yellow
police car hides behind billboard; light turns from yellow to red
- Car lamps now advance during Mustang Multiball.
- fixed Mustang Multiball Car name speech that didn't match car insert.
- added police pursuit BOSS art.
- changed Lamp names (BOSS only):
1969 BOSS 302 (TOP)
1969 BOSS 302 (BOT)
- added BOSS art to cruisin
- reordered BOSS speech in Mustang Multiball
- Added BOSS stunt driver animations.
- added caution lights to the attract mode (LE/BOSS only).
- added slingshot sounds
- added Mustang Letter speech
- added upgrade scoring speech.
- Spell Mustang display effect is now more CPU cycle friendly.
- added Upgrade Ready Speech.
- added Boss speech
- Modified caution target rule to new specifications (LE/BOSS only).
- Fixed bug "Aliens stole my match"
- Adjusted the left right orientation of the cars in the background for road course so they change direction
at better positions
- Added drag race multiball start speech call and display effect to drag race mode
- Fixed bug so that gears multiball bg music will start whether it's gears multiball or drag race multiball
- Got rid of the D. in daisy diesel's portrait
- Silverball Stampede
leg 3B - aliens are moving forward and back. jackpot value is higher when they are hit closer to the bottom.
road sprites added for mountains, corn fields, and desert
- Added drop target starburst lamp effect.
- added match speech & f/x
- Silverball Stampede Leg 3 version 1 -- 6 aliens that stay in their lanes
- Silverball Stampede Multiball
added rules and display effects for Leg 1 and Leg 2.
Collect balls at the end of the race and then kick out another ball.
Compute jackpots based on how well the player did in the races.
The default race jackpot value is computed by "race shared compute stampede race jackpot".
- fixed gear shift (drop target) sound f/x priorities
- added Shift Successful sound f/x
- added "Spell Mustang" sound f/x.
- added Tool Box lit/Award sound f/x.
- added new (louder) gear shift target sounds.
- left/right orbit control gate logic is now modular.
- Added a blinking mustang car to the bg effect for road course so it's easier to spot your place
in the race.
- increased racer speed around the road course track.
- Races:
Races no longer automatically qualify for Drift just by starting them. Each race must now
notify that the race is qualified for Drift.
- added logic to get the ramp diverters activated if they had timed out due to switch inactivity,
i.e. the player was cradling the ball. Now, once the ball is released from a cradle position,
the diverters are re-activated if necessary.
- 1.00 LE release Thursday, May 08, 2014
- added Mustang Multiball light shows.
- added Mustang Multiball sound effects.
- Mustang Multiball arrows are now Cyan (LE/BOSS).
- added sounds/light to turntable diagnostic test (LE/BOSS).
- Tools now awards add-a-ball for Mustang Multiball.
- Now Drag Race button color is White (LE/BOSS).
- removed unused adjustments.
- Added jackpot call and sound effect to Caution target jackpots in drag race
- Added stinger for gears multiball jackpot, also added code so it plays in different order(s) as well.
- Added stinger for super skill shot.
- Fixed text in mustang multiball ready Display Effect.
- Fixed drag race always marking as completed.
- Fixed plunge lamp effect priority conflict with drag race start lamp effect.
- Race Select - reset idle timer when left flipper (next song) is pressed so that the playfield lights
are suppressed longer (LE/BOSS).
- Play SSI_VO_708_I_HAVE_A_20_ON_VEHICLE_MATCHING_DESCRIPTION only once
- Fixed priority problem with Mustang multiball background DE.
- Do not auto resume a race if mustang multiball is ready.
- Removed a SFX from the caution award 1 list.
- Added Mustang multiball ready background display effect.
- Modified caution target rules to be only drop targets. Enabled sound fx to work properly in this state.
- Fixed an issue where top lane sweeping and roving event lamps were displaying during other events
where it was not allowing awards.
- Added playfield lamp effect for mustang multiball ready.
- Police Pursuit
added more sound fx to race awards.
Increased sound priority on award fx
- cleanup for captive ball lamp effect.
- Captive ball hurryup not available during upgrade modes, wizard modes, and Mustang multiball.
- Added lamp effect for ball launch. Runs when race first starts or when action button is pressed
to resume race after ball drain.
- added a race select lightshow.
- Added the continuation of the Caution target rules.
- Modified Caution light and sound effects.
- Added racer portrait art work that now has the racers name on it.
- fixed a problem where daisy diesel wasn't speaking in the background of Road Course.
- Fixed race select bug that occured depending on whether race select was started from ball start or from the scoop
- Got rid of road race start lamp effect
- fixed drag race lamp effect start to show pony/ford lanes, and mustang lamps
- added new drop target sounds to caution rule
- Fixed a race select issue where, upon selecting Police Pursuit, the ball would autolaunch
all the way around the orbit.
- Silverball Stampede Multiball
Change Leg 1 to be "all shots lit - hit once to pass".
- Modified sound effect for cruisin drop target.
- Added a sound effect for the drop target hit.
- added "PRESS ACTION BUTTON TO START" - instructions in Race Select (LE/BOSS) when a song is not selectable.
- Upgrade Hurryup and Multiball use the default arrow color (yellow) for full playfield award sweeps.
- weighted logic system is now used by races and Mustang Multiball and Mid Ramp diverter.
- added difficuly setting and logic for advancing letters towards Mustang Multiball
- Completing races now enables a letter to be collected (based upon difficult) for Mustang Multiball.
- removed unused switches that were appearing in tech alert.
- Fixed a bug where drag race was stay active if you drained all balls during drag race multiball
- Add caution target functionality to drag race multiball (BOSS/LE)
- Added/changed Daisy Diesel speech in game
- Added new art for road race background cars.
- RGB Action Button - blink the action button during race select (BOSS/LE).
- RGB Race Arrows - fixed color of race award rgb effects.
- Reset drop targets on start of stunt driver.
- Added sound effects to both pro and prem version for Police Pursuit radio chatter.
- Added radio chatter to police pursuit background.
- Fixed caution target lamps not flashing during races.
- Silverball Stampede Multiball - added new car art for the six main cars.
mothership loop
mothership destroyed
small explosion
large explosion
bullet hit
lane 1 laser loop
lane 2 laser loop
lane 3 laser loop
lane 4 laser loop
lane 5 laser loop
lane 6 laser loop
lane 1 laser loop v.2
lane 2 laser loop v.2
lane 3,4 laser loop v.2
lane 5 laser loop v.2
lane 6 laser loop v.2
lane 1 bullet
lane 2-5 bullet
lane 6 bullet
- MUSTANG; Silverball elements
mountain road loop
start
loop
end
rock left
rock right

Tanner's drift car (lane 6), movie van (lane 5)
straight
drifts left (3-4 loops)
straight
drifts right (8-9 loops)
returning to a straight position
movie van

roads
normal road loop
cow left loop
cow right loop
corn start
corn loop
end
cactus right
cactus left

lane 1- Cruisin, convertible
lane 2- Police Pursuit, cop car loop
lane 2- Police Pursuit, speeder
lane 3- Race Course, ufo loop
lane 3- Race Course, Daisy Diesel
loop
car only
lane 3- Race Course, professor
no exhaust
exhaust loop
lane 4- Race Course, computer car
lane 4- Race Course, old folks
lane 4- Race Course, millionaire
lane 5-Stunt, stunt car

- Removed Single Drop Targets from stunt (BOSS/LE).
- Added new DE's and SE's to police pursuit.
- added Gears multiball start choreo.
- Cleaned up Mustang spellout animations.
- addedPolice Pursuit dots
intro edit
BIGGER license plate
new cop for mode background
- Added shaker motor to rally/stunt/gears MB
- Added new Sound Effects to rally/stunt.
- Added 180 Hurryup to Tires upgrade.
- Added Single drop targets to end of rally race if you have taken both shortcuts.
- Fixed stunt driver take number not updating properly.
- Added 3-D Mustang spellout animation fly in.
- now instant info has a higher priority so it will show up over the Race Select foreground choreo.
- added/reworked left ramp diverter logic to make diverting decision based on weighted rules,
player override, and competition settings.
- changed the name of all unused lamps to NOT USED
- changed the wire color text of lamps 81 - 160 to ME_EMPTY/ME_EMPTY.
- changed name of unused lamps to "NOT USED" (BOSS/LE).
- changed wire color text to display nothing for lamps 81 thru 160, since they are not part of the physical lamp matrix.
- new Guitar licks stingers, Rally race shot award stinger:
- new Gattling gun Sound Effect.
- added Cartoony splat/squish noise for hitting road kill
- added Semi Truck horn (with a Doppler version preferably)
- adjusted all the speech adding more attenuation constants for individual characters.
- mustang letters now advance via the rotating mustang carousel (BOSS/LE only)
- instant info now uses letter ids (Pro/LE/BOSS)
- attract mode M-U-S-T-A-N-G lamps now use letter ids (Pro/LE/BOSS)
- Added LE drop targets and subsequent rules to drift
- removed problem speech calls.
- Added DoTs for Stunt Driver part II
- Single drop targets now raise if either the blinking or solid shot id is available.
- Added code for tying single drops to races.
- Added Mustang attract mode spellout
- Gears multiball now uses mid ramp instead of upper ramp for super jackpot
- Race Select Music -- if Race Select is active and the the interlock voltage
display effect or the volume display effect are active, play the Race Select
music OR the music of the currently selected race.
- Added 3 top lane rules for upgrade tier awards.
- Fixed super captive ball message args.
- Fixed drift race translations
- Added translations to game tables.
- Fixed issue with shift mode start DE.
- Added daisy diesel portrait to drag race background during her background speech
- Added light show for drag race start
- Added flasher lights to light show for drag race jackpot
- Added light show for road race start.
- Re-arranged the racer order for road race mode, so that racers with less to say
are at the back of the line and racers with more to say are towards the front.
- Added speech to the Road race intro display effect
- Added some extra speech calls intro, and background to the road race mode for racers:
Robot car, Alien, Mabel, Daisy Diesel, and millionaire
- Fixed drag race gear so that it each player has their own gear, i.e. previously players'
shared gears.
- Adjusted drag race start DE to fit german and italian text properly.
- Fixed tanner talking in shooter groove.
- attract mode light show is now more efficient and uses less processes
- Use ORANGE for Cruisin and MAGENTA for Drift (BOSS/LE).
- added COLOR_PINK, COLOR_TURQUOISE, COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE,
- added diagnostic for turntable.
- added turntable/carousel motor class logic.
- cleaned up warning message in gears_multiball
- removed old turntable (test fixture) logic.
- added test menu (BOSS/LE)
- added/reordered (BOSS/LE) adjustments.
- Fixed Dedicated switch # 7 display showing not used. Should be Fire button switch. (BOSS/LE)
- Fixed Turn table flasher display shows BROWN should be ORANGE. (BOSS/LE)
- Upgrade lamps - keep all upgrade lamps on while upgrade modes are ok to start.
- added COLOR_DARK_VIOLET for Cruisin
- Race Select
suppress other playfield lights (N2O, upgrades, RPM, GEARS), during Race Select
until race select is done talking and has been idle for 2 seconds.
when race select is started from the scoop, do not play race music for new race selected
until race select display effect is active.
- Race Arrow colors (BOSS/LE)
race arrows are default color during Bonus and white during Mustang Multiball.
- Added support to LE and BOSS for changing the color of the race arrows.
- added code to support RGB LED layers and RGB LED strings.
- Fixed bug - when starting Drag Race from the scoop, ball search would occur during the Drag Race
intro because it is very long. Fixed this by delaying ball search inside of the drag race start display effect.
- Music for LE and BOSS Models: Added "What I Like About You", "Frankenstein", "I Just Want To Celebrate", "My Own Worst Enemy".
- Music added - MUSTANG_MB_READY, DRIFTREADY, SILVERBALL_STAMPEDE_READY, plus Shooter Grooves.
- Music bug fixes - drift ready music was playing during races.
- HOOK_INTERLOCK_STATE_CHANGE - when coin door is opened and closed the music state is now updated correctly.
- Added new artwork and sound effects for drift.
- added drop target tests for both left and right drop targets. (BOSS/LE)
- added stinger to road race.
- Streamlined the race place DE for Road race, instead of two different screens
that transition it is now only one screen with the text and animation on it.
- Fixed a bug with the extended drag race start DE, it was cutting past the speech
follow-up even when it plays in the scoop.
- Added the same logic to demo race as drag race mode, made a proc to time when the bg speech should be called.
- Added moving cars to background dots on Road race. They also show the players race position.
- Added racer speech and racer portraits to road race background.
- Removed some unused speech.
- Cannot collect upgrades during drag race multiball.
- Can collect upgrades during drag race single ball play.
- added Music files Mustang Premium (BOSS) and LE.
- removed old/unused upgrades logic.
- Added shortcut DEs to rally race.
- Added new SEs to rally race. Navigation, ball drain, good/bad shooting, shortcut.
- Added new LEs to drag race and stunt driver for gears targets.
- Added police siren flashers to police pursuit chase.
- Added lamp effects to shared race award LE.
- N2O boost now awarded immediately before race awards if both are lit.
- Small change to LE gears multiball start
- Added lamp effect for stunt driver drop target shot and race select.

V1.20 - April 10, 2014
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- fixed mystery award.
- fixed top lanes display effect (text off screen).
- upgrade hurryup/multiball start not available if drift or stampede is ready.
- fixed orbit upost logic when races and upgrade hurryup are running at the same time.
- the "Upgrade Hurry-Up Start" presentation now precedes the "Gears Multiball Start" presentation.
- added logic to allow rally and stunt races to be paused.
- Added pause code logic for timer in road course, and also pause code for the light shows and daisy speech in drag race
so it pauses the timer when mustang multiball is running.
- removed the final two shots once you are in 2nd place in road course, just the scoop is lit to finish the mode.
- Races do not inhibit up-post if upgrade hurryup is running.
- Tweaked the "race is started but not completed" lamp blinking pattern.
- added upgrade hurryup as the first upgrade tier award.
- now top lanes can be moved with the flippers.
- top lanes reset between balls
- races are not allowed to start if an upgrade mode/multiball is ready to start.
- Added new drag race multiball dots to gears multiball start.
- Added new daisy diesel speech to drag race mode, and fixed the timer so you can hear the background speech.
- Added Mabel speech to road course jackpot display effect
- Added new dots to road course end to get rid of daisy holding trophy when you win.
- Tweaked scoring in rally race.
- Fixed rally race always putting user into Driving straight after they drain.
- Fixed rally race lights in race select.
- Fixed rally race not keeping track of #shots made after ball drain.
- Police Pursuit scoring
1. 6.5M if you make it to the chase.
2. 15.7M if you finish everything.
- Fixed lamp effect not being killed properly
- Added new lamp effects to: a) Gears multiball start b) Orbit shots in rally/stunt
- Added new gears target hit sounds
- Added translations to coil, lamp, message, switch tables.
- added a background display effect that shows the race name and all player scores (and ball/credits if there is space).
This display effect is used as the background display effect for races in the following case:
num players>1 && ball is in shooter groove. The reason for this is so that in a multiplayer game,
the players know which player is up.
- Race lights - if a race is "started" but not yet "completed", it will blink 28ms on, 4 ms off.
- added new race course speech.
- Added sound effects to hitting the gears drop targets.
- Added rally race turn callouts.
- Made shifting to higher gears easier. (gear 5 and 6 are now easier to achieve)
- Allow player to flipper blowoff gears multiball intro.
- cruisin now has 2 levels. The second level requires the player to make 4 roving shots.
- Crusin display now shows 2X awards, cruisin base scores are reset between sessions.
- spinner moves the top lanes.
- pause races during Mustang Multiball.
- Added new speech to drift.
- Added new dots to drift.
- Upgrades are awarded immediately rather than collected at the scoop.
- Upgrade Tier awards are awarded immediately upon completing all 7 upgrades.
- added Silverball Stampede Ready, Silverball Stampede music.
- Added background music for silverball stampede and drift ready/intro.
- Fixed the following music issues
1. Race Select restarts every time flipper button is pressed
2. Music turned off when resuming a race and entering test mode.
- Bonus music: kill bonus music when bonus display effect terminates.
- fixed demo race bug.

V1.13 - April 3, 2014
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- released 1.13 code for NY Auto Show, Empire State Building, and regional shows.
- This release is for Demo Race default ON.
- Fixed bugs with road course restarting/continuing.
- Fixed text in the drag race intro for the demo mode.
- Demo race multiball now 4 ball instead of 6 ball.
- added demo race requirements (No replay, no match, no high score, free play 1 ball game).
- Do not start Race Select if Mustang Multiball is ready.
- Do not blink "NEW CAR" when in Race Select.
- Fixed two sound effects whose names were reversed.
- Gears multiball recognizes when demo race is active and adjusts rules and scoring accordingly.
- Demo race adjustment now selectable.
- In demo race, no mustang letters can be collected, no upgrade multiball can be started, and no mustang multiball can be started.
- If AD_DEMO_RACE is YES, play DEMO RACE music and disable Race Select (it was starting from the scoop).
- added upgrade hurryup logic.
- Changed the shift lights so that they represent the drag race when in the drag race mode, the lights had been showing the current gears level
- Used drag race mode end dots, in road course mode end to let you know your place at the end of the race
- Revamped the road course part B, so that you have to get 1st place to complete the mode. Changed the way you earn bonus points for 1st place.
- Added light show for road course end with you in 1st
- Added other racers to road course start display effect
- new match effect artwork added (to allow blinking of matched numbers)
- changed match display effect timing.
- Fixed number of jackpots needed for super jackpot to light
- Bumped up gears drop target scores
- added/changed sounds in match effect
- added art to mystery, mystery lit display effects.
- fixed a right orbit bug caused by drift race, i.e. it caused balls to go into the pop bumpers even if drift race was not running.
- added toolbox art.
- added Tanner Speech.
- added cruisin award sounds.
- added return lane sounds.
- added tilt/warning sounds.
- Modified Drift race rules.
- Added game timer pauses (Drift).
- Added some additional movement to the cars in the drag race background to show them jockeying for position
- Changed the intro Display Effect on ball 2 and 3 for the drag race mode.
Now, if you drain on drag race before reaching MB, it will show daisy diesel instead of showing the cars taking off again. Added more drag speech.
- Changed the opening text from the “champ vs 1970 mach I” to “Daisy diesel vs 1970 mach I”
- Added confetti dots to road course end if you get 1st place, and also cheering sound effect.
- Fixed a bug when tilting in road course that gave a "congratulations 00" message for completing the race.
- Added rules to mode intros with a screen flip, only showed the first time you play.

V1.12 - March 26, 2014
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- Super jackpot scores increased for gears multiball.
- Added new sound effects to Drift awards.
- Fixed an issue where some Drift cheer sounds weren't being heard.
- Fixed an issue where Drift ready lights weren't displaying properly in all cases.
- Added new stunt driver animations and sounds.
- Added fixes to stunt driver rules (made less confusing)
- Added new bonus background music.
- match - slowed down the car animation by one tick
- Added new award artwork for Drift Race.
- Modified Drift background to include echelons.
- added slingshot, drift sound f/x.
- tweaked speech volume on some samples that were too low.

V1.11 - March 24, 2014
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- added/changed art work for robot car, alien, and millionaire
- Police Pursuit -- removed unused assets.
- removed some Police Pursuit speech.
- Police Pursuit -- removed some art and speech.

V1.10 - March 23, 2014
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- Stunt Driver - if race ends before hitting anything, race will resume automatically.
If a shot is hit and then race ends, race is marked as started.
- Race Select
1. show instructions at scoop if players <= 2.
2. pressing both flipper buttons does NOT launch ball if in shooter lane.
- Police Pursuit
1. ramp was coming down too fast, this has been fixed.
2. Voice Over - fixed a spot where the speech was repeating.
- Stunt Driver
1.always restart in Take 1.
- Reset bowl timer to 5 secs.
- changed road course total screen.
- Added checks to see if Drift is in bowl scoring mode.
This fixes an issue where you can keep shooting for jackpots after final shot.
- Fixed an issue where grace restart was restarting after final shot.
- Modified the last shot to bowl timer (Drift).
- changed road course intro
- Added new sound FX and speech to Drift race.
- Added grace period to Drift Race.
- Modified ball save timer to 25s from 35s.
- Modified award display to better resemble the background display.
- added new road course intro
- Race Select - shows instructions when in scoop
- removed unused lamp effects.
- added sound effects for upgrade awards, upgrade bonus awards.
- Police Pursuit - ramp comes down faster when shots change.
- Added left and right turn display effects to rally race.
- Added new insults to stunt driver.
- Added new Display Effect to 1st shot in stunt driver.
- Added DoT art for shortcut in rally race.
- reduced nodeboard led brightness to 66%.

V1.04 - March 23, 2014
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- Police Pursuit - added speech; - added dots for final shot.
- fixed garbage frame in match effect.
- changed speech calls during crusin' awards.
- added speech to crusin' intro
- added speech for Crusin’ jackpot award
- added dots for the millionaire in the road course mode.
- fixed Road Course start so it shows the millionaire instead of the hipster in the beginning.
- GRID lights are now on at full brightness. They used to be set at 31% brightness to handle
the current drawn when all lights were set to 100%.
- Race Select
1. bug fix - finish everything but Police Pursuit, start Police Pursuit, drain ball;
at ball start, drift is ready; launch ball; shoot the scoop;
race select comes up with Police Pursuit selected; Drift should have started.
2. only start Drift and Silverball Stampede from the scoop
3. After completing Silverball Stampede one time, all races must be started at scoop
4. If only one race is uncompleted and race select is started from the scoop, automatically start the race.
5. do not say speak again if race selection does not change
(this was happening when only one race was uncompleted; hitting flipper button would
not change the selection but would repeat the name)
- added drift sounds.
- Modified Drift Race rules.
- Added Drift Race background artwork.
- Modified Drift Race ready light effect to include the 2012 light.
- Added new Match Effect dots.
- Fixed an issue where the upper ramp diverter wasn't working correctly during Drift.
- added pop bumper sounds.
- added road course jackpot Display effects and put in jackpot speech for Daisy Diesel,
Alien, Professor and the robot car.
- added shortcut lamp logic.
- Added shortcut lamp to rally race shortcut shot
- Non-skill shot sneak in awards a Ford top lane
- added police dispatch speech
- Police Pursuit art - added 1 additional bg and end animation.
- added drift sounds
- Fix to speech priority
- Added "Your mother drives faster than you!"
- Added new sounds to stunt driver
- callouts cannot happen while playfield is invalid for drag and stunt
- Fixed stunt driver drain speech
- Added sound to skill shot
- Fixed bowl switch scoring after 5 spins
- added Surfer and French director speech.
- added mechanic speech.

V1.03 - March 19, 2014
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- Road Course
1. last portion of the race is timed.
2. chaged timer pause logic when shots are made.
3. mode now saves progress anywhere in the mode
- Slight bump in super jp for gear 4 (5->6M)
- drag race reset the gears targets at start
- Road Course
1. will not request an automatic race resume if the race ends by a timeout.
- Race Manager bugfix - if you timeout Road Course, the light for the Road Course
continued to blink after the race stopped.
- Adjusted default replay scores and default high scores.
- Added blanket settings for DIP switches to make sure the replay and HSTD override
values are applied for all DIP switch settings.
- Removed replay and HSTD overrides from the USA DIP switch override table.
- Decreased gears multiball super jackpots value significantly.
- road course rules are now more difficult.
- Added sound effects to Drift race.
-Modified Drift race scoring.
- Modified displayed text for Drift race.
- Modified flasher and light shows for Drift race.
- Fixed gears multiball displaying wrong message.
- new Gears multiball rule (Allow super jackpot to gain value from other jackpots scored)
- Fixed rally race rules.
- Removed "Nice shifting!" speech from shift awarded, it was repetitive.
- Police Pursuit - shortened the chase section of the race by 2 shots.
- fix to case of demo race.
- Drag race multiball no longer shows gears_multiball total. Only shows drag race
total screen with combine score of race + multiball.
- Fixed drag race scoring
- Fixed gears multiball DoT messages
- Fixed gears multiball drag scoring and text.
- Rebalance: Stunt driver max score is 10M, average should be right around 6, minimum is 4M
- Rebalance: Rally race max score is 11.5M (this is hard to do and involves 2 timedown combo shots).
Average will be less than 6M.
- Stop bowl f/x after 5 spins.
- Fixed stunt driver not properly resetting.
- Police Pursuit -- turn off traffic lights when in chase mode.
- Police Pursuit -- added "# shots left" message to background screen.
- Modified Drift scores.
- Added Drift intro instruction text.
- Modified Drift timers.
- Added code that allows for different play types/style.
- Added new award light shows.
- Fixed rally race bug
- Added Voice Over effect to gear shift completed
- Added tanner speech to rally turn shots
- added upgrade multiball music
- Gears Multiball scoring - Each jackpot award adds to super jackpot value.
regular jackpot values increase after each super jackpot.
Also, the first super jackpot on gear 6 is worth 50M.
- Added instant info to see which races have been qualified for: drift, silverball stampede.
- Added instant info to see current GEARS and MUSTANG progress.
- added Tanner Foust “helmet filtered” speech.
- Added new Drift music and sound fx.
- upgrades are not ok to qualify during Drag Race.
- added full playfield lamp sweeps to cruisin awards.
- Added 2 unique mystery features for drift.

V1.02 - March 10, 2014
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- Fixed rally turn award messages.
- Changed gears multiball start lamp update code.
- Reset gears target bank on gears multiball start
- Fixed rally race initial state.

- added new Race Select logic for Drag Race:
1. If Drag Race is the only qualifying race available, select it by default.
2. else if no multiball has been started and no multiball is ok_for_start,
select Drag Race by default.
3. else select a race randomly from pool of available races,
but do not include Drag Race in the pick if a multiball is ready for start.
4. if a multiball is ok_for_start, do not allow Drag Race to be started
(unless it is the only qualifying race available)
- Fixed drag race multiball super jackpot scoring
- Fixed drag race multiball to not have jackpots go dark
- Fixed drag race multiball lamp effects
- Fixed gears multiball starting after selecting drag race bug.
- Added code for a left to right turn lamp effect.
- Shift rules modified.
- Cleaned up gears multiball rules (v2)
- Added new gears multiball rules (v3)
- Shortened the intro for drag race if it is started from the shooter groove,
but it will play the whole animation if started from the scoop
- Removed the flipper blow off code for drag race intro (left over from demo code)
- Modified Mystery 200k to be 500k.
- Modified Drift scores.
- Modified Drift to disable the most recent shot hit.
- Added Drift light effects.
- Added adjustment 'MINIMUM GEAR TO LIGHT MULTIBALL'.
- Gears multiball rule v2. Shoot a number of jackpots to light super jackpot.
Gears targets count towards this number required. Can score jackpots while
super jackpot is lit.
- added dots for stunt driver: fixes tires outline on jump in city (background)
- New York Auto Show logo added to assets.
- New rules for rally race. Driving straight in between turns.
- New rules for stunt driver stop action.
- FIXED gears multiball jackpot exploit
- Gears multiball rule changes: To qualify super jackpot, player must collect
"X" regular jackpots.
Regular jackpots go dark when Super Jackpot is lit.
- Cleaned up shift mode code.
- Pony lanes no longer use the lamp matrix as a logical lamp
- Top lanes no longer use the lamp matrix as a logical lamp.
- added ball save adjustments to Upgrade Multiball, Mustang Multiball.
(default ball save is now 45 seconds)
- Upgrades are not qualified or awarded if upgrade multiball is ready or active
or grace.
- Completing tier 2 and 4 light upgrade multiball but do not give a
"tier completed" point award.
- The active upgrade tier is bumped (or reset to 1 if tier 4 is completed) when
the last upgrade in the tier is awarded (previously, the tier was incremented
when upgrade multiball started).
- Upgrades -
1. With the exception of N2O, each upgrade can be awarded only once per tier;
N2O can be awarded over and over.
2. When all upgrades and tier 1 and 3 are awarded, the tier is marked completed.
3. When all upgrades in tier 2 and 4 are awarded, upgrade multiball is lit.
4. When upgrade multiball is started, the tier is marked completed.
- added new Main Play music, new Race Select music.
- added new jackpot stingers
- Race Progress:
1. after you complete Silverball Stampede, Race Select can only be started
from the scoop.
2. moved the "races reset" logic earlier in "races start race select" so that
race select does not start upon completing silverball stampede in the scoop.
- BUGFIX - race select takes input while upgrades are being awarded. Fixed.
- Added Lamp Effect when gear letter is awarded
- Changed turn score calculation in rally race.
- Race song - continue to play a race's song when the race is paused on ball
drain so that the song will continue to play in race select.
- added RACE_SHOT_ID_EXPAND so that a ramp shot registers as an orbit shot
and vice versa so that a lit shot on the left will always register, even if
something else has control of the ramp. (or the ramp coils fail)
- added orbit up post to coil test.

V1.01 - March 10, 2014
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- tweaked pops scores during upgrade multiball.
- fixed sound test speech.
- fixed sereral lamp name(s).
- Release 1.01
- added dot matrix art to upgrade multiball award shots.
- changed upgrade multiball scoring.
- sped up the upgrade multiball intro display effect.
- tweaked upgrade multiball intro display effect.
- added unique stunt race messages.
- added code to the end of race start/award/total display effects to allow for
seamless transitions to other display effects waiting to run.
- added clapboard sound FX to race stunt driver intro display effect.
- removed drift race (bug) from the selection list.
- fixed rally race turn award display score.
- added award light shows to stunt driver, rally.
- added shaker f/x to police & silverball modes.
- added sound f/x to gears multiball aborted
- fixed sound test where music test #1 and music test #2 played the same tune.
- Added flasher effect to awards (Drift).
- Added sound effect to awards (Drift).
- Added speech call out on start (Drift).
- Fixed an issue where mid ramp wasn't always scoring style points.
- Fixed an issue where the bowl wasn't displaying the correct background.
- Fixed an issue where an incorrect level was being displayed during Drift.
- upgrades not available during mustang multiball.
- top lane lamps are not reset after each ball.
- Mustang Car Lights now blink slow for races that have been started.
- added shaker motor code to drag race award.
- added shaker motor code to road course award.
- fixed some problems with the road course.
1. The players position in the race and the number of seconds left in the race
are now unique variables for each player. This solves the problem in
a two player game where the 2nd person to start road course would start with
a different players position and time.
2. added code to adjust position depending on how much time you have remaining
when you restart the road course mode.
3. Added code to add more time if you drained with less then 10 seconds left in
the road course mode.
- changed replay level, high score tables.
- Modified Wizard ready lamps, they were strobing backwards.
- Added lamp and flasher effect for wizard mode ready
- Removed shaker effect for start of Drift Race.
- Added Road Course music, clapboard sound f/x, Gears Multiball Cancel sound f/x.
- Extra Ball is now awarded when a race is started instead of when a race is ended
so that it does not occur at end of ball.
- Added ball and credits to score display that is used in Race Select, Police Pursuit, and Cruisin.
- Fixed problem with gears multiball light lighting during upgrade multiball/wizard modes/wizard modes available/mustang multiball.
- Fixed grace period on awards during gears multiball.
- all background display effects now use a common priority scheme.
- Added shaker motor effects to Drift race start and award.
- Added shaker motor to stunt and rally race awards.
- added a function to display race totals for all races. if race ends in scoop,
race total is a choreo. if race ends at endball, total is a "total" process.
- added shaker code to cruisin award display effect.
- added sounds to upgrade multiball.
- Added sweeping light show code to road course.
- Fixed bonus score bug in road course. It is now based on what place you finished.
- Upped the priority on the road course background display effect so the pops do not interrupt it
- Changed drag race end Display Effect.
- made scoring changes to road course mode.
- Added new Upgrade Multiball Intro Art.
- Changed Cruisin scoring.
- Changed Mustang Multiball scoring.
- Silverball Stampede
1. if race is ended in the scoop, play the total screen as a choreo instead of as a "total".
2. added sounds and lamp effects to awards and total.
- added upgrade tier awards.
- upgrade multiball is now available as the 2nd tier award, all other tiers award points.
- Removed redundant call to light_extra_ball
- Silverball Stampede
1. added intro dots, cheer sound f/x at the end.
2. 30M to start, 200M total if you complete.
- Shift Mode
1. no longer kills background effects
- pop rule disabled during drift race and silverball stampede.
- fixed the priority of the shift mode background display effect. This was
causing the Display Effect to come up during game over.
- Modified Drift race award and background display priorities.
- new calculation of Gears Multiball JP and SJP scores.
- Fixed a bug where the display choreo sequence of selecting a race and starting
gears multiball was out of order.
- fixed gears jackpot, super jackpot audit problem.
- fixed a problem where gears multiball was raising the center drop targets incorrectly.

V1.0 - March 7, 2014
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- Initial release.

They need to fix the multiball tilt bug

Not a whole lot, but a few things. Besides the multiball tilt bug (to be included in next upgraded doc), see page 33 for others:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bI7gUksbVgeW8yT1BsZ3R5cW8/view?usp=sharing

Longest post ever

Cool but still would want another, I like stacked ramps or diverters like in games TOTAN and BSD but wish this game had more.

Well, I have a HUO Avatar for sale. I could have potentially traded it for a Mustang and probably would have done so based on what I've heard but distance was a deal-killer. So, anyone close to me feel free to make a trade offer...

I'll probably never own anything with the name Ford in it.

You don't even own a single movie that Harrison Ford has starred in? Wow.

I wish I never owned anything with the name BMW on it.

The Ford trucks I have owned have been terrific.

I have Witness on Beta Max, its a keeper for me. Ill be buried in it.

IN it? wow you are a tiny dude not what I expected based on your choice of avatar pics

Just ashes man, just ashes.

We now have both. Bought my wife a new BMW 535xi three years ago. No problems at all. Really nice car.

And I just picked up my new 2016 Ford Edge two weeks ago. Traded in my Acura MDX. This is my first Ford in about 35 years. And my first American car in 20 years. I am really digging it so far. Have to give them credit. Ford has come a long way. I think they got almost everything right on it.

I learned how to drive a manual transmission in 1965 on my best friend's older brother's new 3 speed - 289 Mustang. I used to window shop this same Ford dealership back then when they had real Shelby Mustangs in the showroom.

And now I'm drooling over the new Shelby Mustang they have in the showroom and I can afford it. Fortunately, my logical brain and driving history will stop me from buying it for now. But damn that 'stang IS sexy.

I'm bringing the love back! Anyone have some mods they want to sell?

Yeah man!

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Is there a nice topper available for this game anywhere?

How about:

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Just Kiddn'