****************************************************************************** * * STERN PINBALL, INC. * (C) COPYRIGHT 2019 STERN PINBALL, INC. * ****************************************************************************** * * THE MUNSTERS * ****************************************************************************** HELP US, HELP YOU! If you have any suggestions, questions, need technical advice, find errors or have comments, contact us through our website: http://www.sternpinball.com/contact.shtml or call 1-800-542-5377. You can also email bug.report@sternpinball.com to report any software problems. This text file and all other documents relating to this product, playfield components, features, rules, programming and operation are subject to change without notice (Service Bulletins, if applicable, will be available through our website). Installation notice: This code release is in zip format. The zip file downloaded will need to be unzipped before installing on a USB stick. Update instructions: 1 - Download the zip file 2 - Unzip the file, this will create a folder that contains SPK file(s). 3 - Open folder, copy only the file(s) to the root level of a USB stick. Do not copy the folder. 4 - Power game off 5 - Insert USB stick 6 - Turn on game 7 - After game boots up it will give the option for software update 8 - Volume buttons change options for full or quick update. Enter selects the option and starts the update. 9 - Once update is completed game will prompt user to power game off and remove USB stick. PRO V0.91 - January 28, 2019 ============================ Fixed: - Fixed issue where the playfield multipliers would not reset if they were bumped during the grace period. - Enlarging Ray from mystery will now complete Grandpa. - Adjustment to disable SPOT was spelled wrong - Fixed an issue while entering initials with 10 characters turned on New: - Added Secret Mania - You need a code. The first clue of the code is findable - Each of the 5 family members has an area: - Lily: the LILY bank - Eddie: Either Orbit - Herman: Herman toy - Grandpa: Left ramp - Marilyn: Right ramp - Shoot each area to collect them. Collect all 5 for a bonus. - Added Midnight Madness - Set your clock and start playing just before midnight. - Added Midnight Madness Champion - Added Adjustments for Midnight Madness. - MIDNIGHT MADNESS MULTIBALL - YES = The mode will run. - MANDNESS CHAMP ATTRACT SOUNDS - YES = The game will chime on the hour - The Mystery Feature now always lights MYSTERY SUPER JACKPOT in addition to a random feature - Spot Toy pops up at game start for a few seconds or when the ball is plunged Tweaked: - Raven Restart background lamp effect was hiding too many lamps. - Tightened up the orbit timers to allow for awards even if balls are kicking from the Dragula or the ball shooter. - Removed the white shots from SPOT. They don't mean anything anymore. - Changed default replay to 30M - Adjusted the weights for Mystery and made Mystery more intelligent - Removed redundant audits - Improved the timing of some speech calls - Grandpa can no longer be advanced during Spot PRO V0.90 - January 7, 2019 =========================== Fixed: - Fixed various speech issues - Fixed an issue in instant info where some jackpots left till super were using an incorrect count. - Fixed an issue where the instant info extra ball page was displaying the incorrect info. - Fixed where Grandpa High Scores come from - Fixed mystery page turning logic, wasn't waiting for page animations to finish New: - Added Sound for Start of Spot - Added Spot background lamp effect - Added Marilyn, Eddie, and Zap info to instant info screen. - Added various speech calls - Added Lily Level 2 award choreography - Added Grandpa Lit Trap door animation to the background - Added Raven Boosted Jackpot animation - Added Munster Madness Jackpot and Hurry-Up award clips to display effect - Added switches left count until super jackpot to lily background text - Added Lily mode alternate starts that are shorter - Pops / Super Pops scoring displayed at living room fireplace - Spot background now changes between stairs down and stairs up version of loop - Added buzzer and phone sounds to Herman Hurry up 3 background Tweaked: - Tweaked many instant info pages - Mystery will now light Super Jackpot in tournament settings - Made SPOT stay up until you light super-jackpot for the first time. - Adjusted the timing for various speech calls - Modified Super Jackpot High Score to be based off of the player's single highest super jackpot, rather than the summation of all super jackpot received during the game. - Cat added to background of skill shot living room scene - Tweaked Cat in background - Kitty text scaled down to fit - improved the Mystery animation PRO V0.83 - December 19, 2018 ============================= Fixed: - Fixed an issue where super jackpot champion wasn't showing in attract mode properly. - Fixed exiting end of ball bonus and the text not lining up correctly - Fixed missing Grandpa high score during attract mode. - Fixed an issue where attract mode movies were lagging when loading up. Easter eggs will be more responsive - Grandpa I in the UI will no longer flash when its not running - Removed Upper flipper switches from the PRO - Sound test had the wrong text for the sounds - Gradnpa's Enlarging Ray now says the correct text for its total - Mystery will be smarter about selecting awards - Fixed a problem where Herman Multiball would start too soon - Fixed an issue where kitty multiplier speech always occurred, even when multipliers were not increased. - Fixed an issue where grandpa high scores in attract mode was using lily scores. - Fixed an issue where credits were not displayed correctly - Sometimes the DARN DARN DARN script would not work correctly - Added Mode titles in the TVs - Fixed occasional crash when Lily mode background is killed - Messages are now correctly pluralized New: - Added speech in many areas: SJP lit, new boost, outlane drain, raven multiball, Munster Madness, and Munster Madness hurry up - Added Munster Madness - - Starts as a 4-ball multiball. There are three parts: Part One - Complete an area In the first part you are completing any of the seven areas. Each area buffs the multiball in some-way: 1 - GRANDPA - LIGHTS ADD TIME - until part three 2 - LILY - ALL SWITCHES SCORE - until part three 3 - HERMAN - STARTS BALL SAVE - once per cycle 4 - SPOT - START BOOST ALL - until part three 5 - RAVEN - LIGHT KITTY - once per cycle 6 - EDDIE - DOUBLE JACKPOTS - until part three 7 - MARILYN - LIGHT SUPER JACKPOTS - until part three The area will stay complete until the end of the 3rd part. Part Two - Shoot Jackpots After each area is complete Jackpots will light for a short time. Each time you collect a jackpot the timer resets. Part Three - Cascading Hurry-ups After all 7 areas are complete and you have had a chance to collect jackpots a series of Hurry-Ups begin. The Hurry ups are worth more the more jackpots that were collected. After Part Three the whole thing resets and continues for the length of the multiball. - Like all the other multiballs completing DRAGULA will light Add-A-Ball. - Like all other jackpots if your Zap Meter is charged collecting them will light Zap Jackpots - Added an adjustment to disable the Spot Toy. - While SPOT is up for any reason you can now hit him to progress his rule or mode. - Added WHITE shots to Enlarging Ray. WHITE shots will light jackpots in addition to the mini-targets. - Added new special/replay/token/ticket/bumpnwin scene and sound. - Added Raven Start video to display effect - Added Raven background display effect - Added sounds to the start of Lily and Area Complete - Added Ball save adjustment for the eject - Added a Lamp effect when the ball is release from the eject - Added a end of ball bonus lamp effect - Added placeholder display effects - Added Spot display effects Tweaked: - Reduced Bonus Multipliers from Kitty from 3 to 2 - Increased the starting shots needed to start Grandpa from 1 to 3 - Modified the frequencies of several speech calls. - Mainplay background changed from static image to looping video clip - Skill Shot award zoom in animations now play at 2x speed - Ball search will now be smarter about two balls on the magnet - Improved many sounds and speech calls - Adjusted Attract mode pages - Skill Shot Text now show up when the camera is in the room - Skill Shot Backgrounds now at higher living room angle - Main play Background now at higher living room angle - Tweaked the order of the attract mode pages - Improved the Marilyn award sound - Balanced some of the scores - Stopped ball search from happening when it should not. - Added Pig sounds to the pig in enlarging ray - Adjusted all the default scores to beat for entering your intials - updated Raven clock and text PRO V0.82 - December 10, 2018 ============================= Fixed: - Munster Madness Ready was not starting after a failed Raven Restart - Fixed an issue where speech calls count-downs would not always work New: - Added new default high score initials. Tweaked: - Added Herman Flasher to GI lamp strings - Updated the house interior art - Skill shot awards text now zooms in in sync with the camera - Skill shot idle animations updated - Improved Speech timing - Changed the way Munster Madness allows the player to progress. They can only progress one at a time. This only affects the ramps. PRO V0.81 - December 7, 2018 ============================ - Initial release.