So it seems X-Men LE 1.30 and X-Men Pro 1.30 have been taken down from Stern's website. The read me files and software for both models have been reverted back to there most recent official releases (1.24 LE and 1.05 Pro).

Any theories or wild speculations on why they would do this? It really makes me wonder why 1.23 (LE) was allowed to ride for months in it's sorry state and 1.30 was pulled.

My guess is Marvel didn't like Dazzler saying "Shoot Again" in a gravelly Wolverine sounding voice so they demanded the software be pulled.

Edit: Added "kidding" face to show I was kidding.

I don't know anything about those technical things, but I though X-Men being the only game effected seemed pretty fishy.

An example would really help here.

This game has already lost so many animations, callouts, music and a mode. I don't think they will sweat pulling more out.

The only content type things I can think of being integrated from 1.24 to 1.3 are:

Ball Save animation
Super Skill Shot animation
Combo graphics and callouts
Dazzler Shoot Again animation
Dark Phoenix content

At this point I don't really care if there is a Deadpool mode or not. They have already dropped the ball so many time on what this game could have been. I'm not going to hold them to something just because a menu setting / option is in there. ALL S.A.M. system games have settings that aren't implemented (ex: Team scoring...does nothing).

What will get this game out my door is a game that isn't finished. The words "Insert Wizard Mode Here" or what ever it says on the DMD at the final wizard mode means it is not finished and I just don't have room for partially finished games. I would prefer they pull that out (as they have many animations, callouts, music and a mode) and make the game finished and complete.

"Maybe one more update if we have time" doesn't sound too promising to me.

Same CRC on the bin file.

Well, you don't have to complete heroes before the villains to see Dark Phoenix mode. This issue popped up because you had collected the Mags super jackpot before completing all of the villains. The way I saw all 3 wizard modes with "glass off" testing was:

Complete all heroes = Danger Room
Complete all villains = Dark Phoenix
Collect Mags super jackpot = generic multiball Wizard mode

IN THAT ORDER

Hmmm. Maybe the generic multiball wizard mode for beating heroes, villains and getting a Mags super jackpot is going to just be a multiball version of Dark Phoenix?

BUT...it seems if that were the case they would have also had the Dark Phoenix animations and intro in place. It would also seem weird that they would let you do Dark Phoenix twice if you did it in the order I specified above.

It does seem strange that already having that Mags super qualified when you beat the last villain would override Dark Phoenix.

On a related note...I'm not sure if getting all heroes (Danger Room) is needed to start Dark Phoenix or not? When I had the glass pulled and was nosing around I always did all heroes first. This makes me wonder if you hit a Mags super jackpot, completed all villains and then all heroes (in that order) what would happen?

Are you even sure you can start Dark Phoenix if all heroes (Danger Room) haven't been done?