"+ Crystal Ball backhand exploit penalty." This one caught my eye, very curious to hear details on this.

Never mind.

Don't forget the reversed flippers - talk about f**king with your head! And it's a pretty difficult mode to get to so, unless you are really good, or you play WOZ a lot you can't really practice it. Great game and great code support!

I think they just added that option (kill pops with flippers at any time during the game) in 5.05, but I may be mistaken.

I watched a good chunk of it and went back and tried to a lot of the same moves and had some of the worst games I've ever had (my high score is just south of 1M and I've never made it to SWOTR). I wonder how much of that has to do with the superbands it looks like he has installed on that game, I've never tried them on WOZ but have used them on some other games and they are definitely less bouncy than the black stock ones. The simple explanation though is probably that I'm just not nearly as good as he is.

You just couldn't let me have my excuse, could ya'?!?

The monkey captures Dorothy but doesn't really issue has been around for a long time, certainly not new in 5.5 and I believe it's actually an adjustment of / or a correction to the ball proximity sensor registering when it shouldn't. I've adjusted / moved mine several times and after a while it reverts back to the same problem - the sensor tells the game the ball has been captured by the PF magnet when in fact it hasn't. They address this in code by just having the game proceed as if the ball was captured, the difference being that you still have a live ball instead of a captured one, and when Rescue MB starts it must launch a ball to take the place of the one that should be captured. You also don't immediately have two balls on the upper PF but that's not as big a deal, unless you plan on trying to cradle one up there right away. There is a detailed explanation of this along with a video tutorial on how to "fix" it here:

http://www.pinplay.com/20/winged_monkey_misbehaving_wont_pick_up_the_ball_or_picks_up_nothing.html

Sweet! Now if it would just download faster!

Just played a few games on it, things I'm really liking:

Faster startup time, and not just a little faster! The new display information when the ball is on the castle mini PF is great, tells you if you still have to capture Dorothy, how many balls are locked and how many hits to the castle doors are left before they open. New Glinda animations are pretty sweet, although some may complain about all the pink lights. I didn't read through to see if it's a setting but I was also awarded a Rescue lock from the Throne Room before I restored all my settings, that was a cool surprise. Audio clipping sounds to be greatly reduced from 5.05 as well.

Thanks to the JJP for the continued awesome support of this game!

Have you tried a different browser and / or clearing your browser cache? Also make sure you delete the failed downloads before starting another one.

It's not really a new mode, just better graphics and information presented when the ball is on that mini PF. It does have a little animation of an ax striking the door which is kinda cool. I really like that the movie clip and "RESCUE" with the castle in the background animation that starts the first time you put the ball up there is significantly shorter or faster than before too, makes for better flow IMO.

Encountered the first problem yet since upgrading to 6.06 - crystal ball display was stuck on the hardware information screen. Tried going into diagnostics, playing games, etc. had to power cycle the game to get it to work. Other than that everything has been awesome on this build so far!

That's a good question / suggestion John. The connector on mine was hitting the wireform but I moved it the first week I had the game so it's clear now.