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Update instructions - Games connected to Stern Insider Connected: 1 - Open the coin door and press the black/enter button to enter Test Mode. 2 - Using the 4 buttons on the coin door, navigate to the Stern Insider Connected Setup menu. 3 - Using the 4 buttons on the coin door, navigate down to the Software Update menu. 4 - If a software update is available, this page will give you the option to download and install it manually. From this menu you can also select to install these updates automatically. Update instructions - All Games: 1 - Download the zip file 2 - Unzip the file, this will create a folder that contains SPK file(s). 3 - Open the folder, copy the file(s) to the root level of a FAT32 formatted 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. Online PDF of adjustments and installs: https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Munsters-Installs-and-Adjustments.pdf PRO V1.22 - AUGUST 1, 2022 ========================== **** FIXED **** - When selected, IMPOSSIBLE PLAY wasn't active for players 2 thru 4. **** TWEAKED **** - Increased the Couch Potato's Bonus Potatoes scores. - Lowered how frequent Secret Mania is awarded from Mystery. **** STERN INSIDER CONNECTED **** - Home Team The Home Team features allows Insider Connected players to log in and play without scanning their QR code. When the game is registered to a home location and set to Free Play, Home Team can be enabled via Standard Adjust #51 or from Guided Setup. Up to 8 players can be added to the Home Team from the Stern Insider Connected Setup menu. The Home Team can be shared across all games registered at the game's location by enabling the Home Team Standard Adjustment on each game. Players need only be added once to the Home Team. Players can be later removed from the Home Team, and guests can be temporarily added to the Home Team. Find out more about Home Team at http://insider.sternpinball.com. **** MOVED TO SYSTEM 3.20 **** Updated to nodeboard firmware/protocol v1.00.0 Correct the replay score boost when Standard Adjustment REPLAY TYPE is set to DYNAMIC. All REPLAY LEVELS for all players are potentially immediately incremented instead of only replay level 1. Correct Standard Adjustment FREE PLAY LIMIT. Previously this adjustment would not be honored in all circumstances. FREE PLAY LIMIT sets the maximum number of free games which a player can win during a game. Once the FREE PLAY LIMIT is reached, a player will not receive a free game from: a REPLAY level (if REPLAY AWARD is set to CREDIT) a SPECIAL (if SPECIAL AWARD is set to CREDIT) Grand Champion/High Score (if HIGH SCORE AWARD is set to CREDIT a match (if MATCH AWARD is set to CREDIT) The default setting for FREE PLAY LIMIT is 5 games (per player per game played). NOTE setting the FREE PLAY LIMIT to a value less than the number of REPLAY LEVELS will decrease the number of REPLAY levels available. Fix redundant sound effect when scanning into Insider Connected in some instances. Added Standard Audit "Total Power On Time". This is a lifetime audit of the hours, minutes, seconds the machine has been powered on. This lifetime audit will start accumulating with this update. Added the ability to unregister a machine via the Stern Insider Connected menu. A machine must be unregister from an Insider Connected account prior to being added to a new account. Hilighting and selecting "Yes, unregister this game." will unregister the game from your account. Stern Insider Connect Setup Screens: IP, network name, and WiFi signal strength displayed in top corners of display. Added Net->About->Events page This page will display: The current date and time The date and time the game was recently powered on The play count since powered on The coin count since powered on The paid credit count since powered on The service credit count since powered on The coin door open count since powered on The tilt count since powered on The date and time the game was previous powered on The date and time the game was previous powered off The lifetime power on count Update the factory default value of "ALLOW LEFT+START TO END GAME" to "FREE PLAY ONLY". Update Install Competition: set "ALLOW LEFT+START TO END GAME" to "NEVER". Added new Standard Adjustment "COIN ACCEPTOR" whose value can be "MECHANICAL" or "ELECTRONIC", and default value is "MECHANICAL". This adjustment is only available when the Country is set to Italy and Free Play is set to No. The coin door for Italy with a MECHANICAL acceptor is configured: left coin switch: EUR 0.50 center coin switch: EUR 0.10 right coin switch: EUR 0.50 4th coin switch: EUR 0.10 5th coin switch: EUR 0 6th coin switch: EUR 0 The coin door for Italy with a Electronic acceptor is configured: left coin switch: EUR 0.50 center coin switch: EUR 1.00 right coin switch: EUR 2.00 4th coin switch: EUR 0.20 5th coin switch: EUR 0 6th coin switch: EUR 0 Guided Setup Added "Coin Acceptor" setting, only available when Country is set to Italy and "Free Play" is No. Hide "Game Pricing" when "Free Play" is set to Yes. Add translation strings for some top level selections. Fix game reboot issue at power on with coindoor interlock switch in the open position. Insider Connected attract mode screen updated to display the location name and green check mark with Verified Location if the machine is registered to a pro account. PRO V1.21 - FEBRUARY 3, 2022 ============================ **** FIXED **** - Registering Insider Connected was not working correctly. PRO V1.20 - FEBRUARY 3, 2022 ============================ **** FIXED **** - Playing ENLARGING RAY from MYSTERY was not marking GRANDPA complete. - (PRO ONLY) When a mini target was flashing, the GRANDPA light was sometimes prevented from being lit. - (PRE/LE ONLY) During ENLARGING RAY, when the lower playfield is disabled we now light GRANDPA SUPER JACKPOT, which emulates the PRO rules. - INSTANT INFO was not hiding high scores and champions when the ALLOW HIGH SCORES adjustment was OFF. - Sometimes speech was stepping on SPOT's START display effect. - The MINI TARGETs timers were being started when hit during COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE. - (PRO) The ALL THE SUPER JACKPOTS ARE LIT speech was not being triggered correctly. - (PRE/LE ONLY) The details on the GRANDPA INSTANT INFO page were not correct if the lower playfield was disabled. - SECRET MANIA LIT wasn't being awarded from MYSTERY when it could. - Fixed misspelling of "ENLARGING RAY" on CHATTERING TEETH award. - (PRE/LE ONLY) MYSTERY was flashing when the lower playfield ball wasn't active. - Corrected the DRAGULA target light effects during COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE. 5X and ADD A BALL were being included incorrectly. - ZAP page in INSTANT INFO was not using the correct graphics. **** NEW **** - Removed the "START COMPETITION MODE" option on the LEFT FLIPPER during attract mode. COMPETITION MODE is now located in the GAME MENU by pressing both flipper buttons during attract. - Speech: ENLARGING RAY is lit and when starting. LILY mode start. ENLARGING RAY jackpots. SECRET MANIA LIT. Show speech added to various events. - Added MARILYN CHAMPION, EDDIE CHAMPION and COUCH POTATO CHAMPION to INSTANT INFO. - Added sound effects to INSTANT INFO. - New 5X DRAGULA rule. Now, you can only light 5X DRAGULA by completing D-R-A-G-U-L-A letters. Shoot DRAGULA to collect. - Added DRAGULA CHAMPION. - (PRE/LE ONLY) Updated DOUBLE SUPER SKILL SHOT rule. When active, no modes will start at GRANDPA'S LABORATORY SCOOP. You must now shoot the SCOOP again - (PRE/LE ONLY) Added LOWER PF TROUGH POWER adjustment. - (PRE/LE ONLY) Added LOWER PF POPPER POWER adjustment. IMPOSSIBLE GAME-PLAY MODE - Added Impossible Game-Play mode and Monster Game-Play mode to the GAME PLAY MENU. - Before starting the game, you can access the GAME PLAY MENU by holding in both flippers. - Impossible Game-Play Mode will temporarily set all the difficulty adjustments set to VERY HARD. - You can not earn an extra ball while playing Impossible Mode. - MONSTER GAME-PLAY MODE is Impossible mode but only for the first player only. - There are 6 items to choose from the menu: - STANDARD - NORMAL PLAY - IMPOSSIBLE - NO TRAPPING AND VERY HARD FOR ALL - MONSTER - 1ST PLAYER NO TRAPPING AND VERY HARD - COMPETITION - ALL RANDOMNESS REMOVED - DJ MIXER - PLAY TUNES FROM THE GAME - CHALLENGE - COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE MODE CONNECTIVITY - Added Connectivity Ready - - The game can have a connectivity kit installed and be connected to STERN INSIDER CONNECTED. - Once connected you can login and start tracking your scores. - To login, hold your QR code over the scanner. When you see you are logged in just push start. - Added Achievements - - Once connected you can log in and start earning Achievements. - There are 74 achievements you can now earn if you are logged in. - Achievements will pop up after you have received them as soon as they can. Also, they are seen at the start of end of ball bonus if you received any that ball. - You can see all the achievements and how they are earned in instant info or on the web site insider.sternpinball.com - Your name will displace PLAYER # in the main score frame. - Adjusted High Score entry so that if you are logged-in the game will default to your initials. You will still be able to change them. **** TWEAKED **** - Adjusted speech timing on HSTD displays. - (PRE/LE) Adjusted speech timing for GRANDPA JACKPOT. - COUCH POTATO WINS audit was updated to show percentage of wins vs attempts. - Adjusted the EQ of many speech calls - Updated the GRANDPA EJECT ball saver to not clobber any existing ball saver. - KITTY will award PLAYFIELD MULTIPLIERS for 30 seconds during COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE instead of 60. - Playing DRAGULA now always awards +1X BONUS MULTIPLIERS when in COMPETITION MODE. - (PRE/LE ONLY) Tweaked the lamp effect during DOUBLE SUPER SKILL SHOT. **** MOVED TO SYSTEM 3.06 **** Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.83.0 Insider Connected attract mode screen updated to display the location name and green check mark with Verified Location if the machine is registered to a pro account. Added adjustments for Login and Play Again display timers: AD_NET_LOGIN_TIMER - "INSIDER LOGIN TIMER" default 30 sec AD_NET_PLAY_AGAIN_TIMER - "INSIDER PLAY AGAIN TIMER" default 20 sec GAME RESTART (hold start button) behavior change: Holding the start button on ball 2 or greater will follow the logic of the AD_START_BUTTON_BEHAVIOR adjustment. If (AD_GAME_RESTART == YES) and (AD_START_BUTTON_BEHAVIOR == ADV_START_BUTTON_BEHAVIOR_ALL_LOGGED_IN) holding the start button on ball 2 or greater will restart the game for as many players as is necessary to accommodate the users that are logged in. If there are not enough credits to restart the game for the necessary number of players, the game will not be restarted. Addressed Insider Connected game registration corner cases. Upon entering the Service Menu for the first time after a software update, a screen will display the game and system version numbers. This screen will be displayed for a minimum of 1 second, and is dismissed by the enter button. This replaces the dots display previous shown at power on after an update. Login changes: * When a user logs in during a game in progress and the player up slot is occupied, assign the user in the first open slot from lowest player to the highest player. * When a user joins a game in progress, award achievements that were earned up to that point. * When user authorization failure, remove the user from the session. Added audits for connectivity games and scanner use Added Connectivity support for Spike 2 games. PRO V1.11 - JANUARY 18, 2022 ============================ **** FIXED **** - You can no longer start more than one player when playing a Challenge mode. - Removed a small flash of the score display after COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE TOTAL was displayed. - (PRE/LE) - When disabled the MINI PLAYFIELD no longer kicks out balls during MUNSTER MADNESS. Fixed all other issues if the lower playfield is disabled. - Fixed an issue where KITTY would sometimes award RAVEN LIT when it shouldn't. **** NEW **** - Changed how the 4 teeth mini-targets work. They now only give chattering teeth. When a target is not lit it will award 1 Chattering Teeth and begin timing out. While its timing out the light will blink faster and faster. If it times out the light will go out. If you hit it while its timing out you will get 2 teeth and the light will stop timing out and go out. - Changed how Chattering Teeth work and what lights Grandpa's Laboratory on the PREM/LE - Chattering Teeth now works from a fixed schedule awarding various items - Added Super Teeth to Chattering Teeth. When you run out of awards you will receive Super Teeth (points) every 100 teeth collected. - Here is the schedule: - 12 - BONUS MULTIPLIER (PRO) - GRANDPAS LABORATORY (PREM/LE) - 24 - LIGHT SUPER JACKPOT - 36 - BONUS MULTIPLER - 48 - LIGHT ENLARGEMENT RAY - 60 - BONUS MULTIPLER - 75 - ADVANCE PLAYFIELD MULTIPLIER - 90 - LIGHT MYSTERY - 110 - LIGHT EXTRA BALL - 130 - LIGHT SECRET MANIA - 160 - LIGHT CHATTERING TEETH SUPER JACKPOT - 200 - BONUS MULTIPLIER (PRO) - GRANDPAS LABORATORY (PREM/LE) - 250 - AWARD SUPER TEETH (points) - 300 - AWARD SUPER TEETH (points) - 400+ AWARD SUPER TEETH (points) - Each time you start Munster Madness you will restart the list from the beginning. - The GAME OVER display after MATCH now has an animated background. - Added speech: Eddie champion Marilyn champion SJP champion Midnight Madness champion Munster Madness Level 2 completed All super jackpots are lit Munster Madness Level 2 Ready Secret Mania introduction Couch Potato Challenge win/lose MYSTERY is lit RAVEN lit, starting and complete LILY JACKPOT - Added light effect and speech when KITTY is lit. - Added lamp effects to MULTIPLIER inserts when starting or adding time. - Audits added for SECRET MANIA and COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE. - (PRE/LE) - Added light show to THE MACHINE shots. - Added SUPER SPINNER sound effects. - Added sound effects when hitting SPOT in SPOT mode. **** TWEAKED **** - Removed the adjustment STARTING GRANDPA TARGETS NEEDED since its not needed with the new rules. - Increased the Super Jackpot multipliers as you stack more and more. Also increased the base and increment levels of Super Jackpot. - Stopped Enlarging Ray while any multiball is running. If you light it, it will be lit after the multiball is over. - CHATTERING TEETH are not awarded during a Madness or COUCH POTATO. - (PRE/LE) - When MYSTERY is LIT and the lower playfield is disabled, GRANDPA's LABORATORY lamp insert on the upper playfield will blink. - Secret Mania will no longer start during a multiball. - ENLARGING RAY can no longer stack with any other mode or Multiball - Music, sound and speech volume levels adjusted. - Tweaked the timing of the Super Jackpot blinking to help show how many you have lit. - Adjusted SHOOT AGAIN speech timing. - Added sound effects to MYSTERY. **** MOVED TO SYSTEM 3.03 **** Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.83.0 PRO V1.10 - DECEMBER 25, 2021 ============================= **** FIXED **** - (PRO) - When BOOST GRANDPA was awarded from MYSTERY, it wasn't boosting ENLARGING RAY scores properly. - (PRE/LE) - When BOOST GRANDPA was awarded from MYSTERY, it wasn't boosting THE MACHINE scores properly. - MYSTERY's state was not resetting across multiple players. - PRO - Advancing to start ENLARGING RAY was not being maintained across players correctly. - (PREM/LE) - Advancing to start GRANDPA's LABORATORY was not being maintained across players correctly **** NEW **** - Added boot logo - MARILYN now awards SUPER SPINNER and SUPER LOOPS in addition to SUPER POPS. - Each SUPER feature is timed and increases scoring while active. - SUPER SPINNER - SPINNER is lit for an additional 20K/spin for 30 seconds. - SUPER LOOPS - EDDIE LOOPS are lit for 100K for 40 seconds. - Added speech to many many places all throughout the game. - Added flasher effect for hitting LILY BANK. - Added sound effects while lighting GRANDPA. - Added lamp effect to EDDIE LOOPS when EDDIE inlanes are shot. - Added lamp effect to MARILYN RAMP when MARILYN inlanes are shot. - Added EDDIE CHAMPION. - Added MARILYN CHAMPION. GAME PLAY MENU - Added a game play menu. - To use the menu, between games, hold in both flipper buttons. - There are 4 items to choose from the menu: - STANDARD - NORMAL PLAY - COMPETITION - ALL RANDOMNESS REMOVED - DJ MIXER - PLAY TUNES FROM THE GAME - CHALLENGE - COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE MODE - Added DJ Mixer with several Playlist - Added COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE MODE COUCH POTATO CHALLENGE MODE - Added a Challenge mode to the game play menu. - Starts as a two ball multiball but it is also a timed mode. - It ends if the time runs out or if you drain down to zero balls. - Mode has two STAGES and starts in STAGE ONE - STAGE ONE - All shots are lit on the main playfield. On the PREM/LE the lower playfield is not used. - After 3 shots the game will play a clip from the show and add a ball into play. - You have 10 seconds to make the shot. - Shoot any shot to move to STAGE TWO. - STAGE TWO - Only the targets are lit. - Hitting any target returns the player to STAGE ONE and puts 10 seconds on the clock. - Completing 20 shots completes and ends the mode. - Kitty is always available to advance playfield multiplier - Added COUCH POTATO CHAMPION - Added Chattering Teeth Feature. Each time the player hits a target or goes into the Grandpa Scoop the player will receive one or more Chattering Teeth. At thresholds of Chattering Teeth the player will receive awards: - Award End of ball bonus Multipliers - Advance Playfield multipliers - Light Enlargement Ray - Light CHATTERING TEETH SUPER JACKPOT. There are now 11 ways to stack SUPER JACKPOTS - Light EXTRA BAll - Changed how Enlarging Ray is started. Its no longer tied to completing the four fang targets on the PRO. On both the PRO and PREMIUM now its part of Chattering Teeth. - Changed how Secret Mania will start. It no longer has an easter egg code. Now it starts randomly from Mystery. TWEAKED: - Shooter lane speech plays less frequently. - Spinner flasher effects pulse in time with spins better. - ZAP JACKPOT display effect now shows how many more for SUPER JACKPOT. - Speech callout for 5X DRAGULA timing tweaked. - Lowered minimum TROUGH EJECT POWER adjustment to 64. - Reduced the SUPER JACKPOT score multiplier curve for stacked supers. also Reduced the starting score base for Supers. - ATTRACT SHOW INTRO SOUND removed from Directors Cut. - (PRE/LE) - The VUK on the lower playfield was sometimes playing sound effects during game over. - KITTY now shows the new playfield multiplier. - Tweaked the EQ of many of the speech calls. - Improved many of the sounds - If you are holding the Action button when the super jackpot display begins it will be canceled. You no longer have to press and hold the button after the display begins. MOVED TO SYSTEM 3.01: Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.81.0 Added Standard Adjustment "LCD DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS" to allow dimming of LCD display. Added Standard Audit "Total Power Ons" which will display the number of time the machine has been power cycled (Spike2 only). This audit was added in system 2.45 and is not included for display. When starting a game ramp the backbox GI from "ATTRACT MODE B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" to "GAME PLAY B.BOX BRIGHTNESS". When ending a game ramp the backbox GI from "GAME PLAY B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" to "ATTRACT MODE B.BOX BRIGHTNESS". New Standard Adjustment "START BUTTON ATTRACT MODE ILLUM." This adjustment, which is only available and active when the game is in FREE PLAY mode, controls the behavior of the Start Button Light. Values are: "ALWAYS OFF" - Start Button Light is always off when in attract mode. "BLINKING" - Start Button Light will blink when in attract mode. This is the DEFAULT and previous behavior. "ALWAYS ON" - Start Button Light is always on when in attract mode. Update TARGET_GAME_TIME adjustment to ensure a minimal ball saver even after the target game time is met. Do not display LOCATING NODE BOARD at boot when coin door interlock switch has disabled node board power. Improve backbox and cabinet audio synchronization. Update the HSTD reset counter when the Standard Adjustment is changed. Added TARGET_GAME_TIME adjustment, accessible when the BALL_SAVE_TIME adjustment is enabled. TARGET_GAME_TIME enables a multi-use ball saver, whose duration is dynamically calculated for each ball to help ensure the player has a guaranteed amount of play time per game. TARGET_GAME_TIME has a range of 1m 30s to 3m 00s and defaults to NO_TARGET_TIME (disabled). When disabled a traditional single-use BALL_SAVE_TIME ball saver will be used for each ball in play. When enabled the first ball of play will have a multi-use ball saver of BALL_SAVE_TIME sec. The second ball will have a multi-use ball saver which is 25% of (TARGET_GAME_TIME - player_game_time). The third and beyond will have a multi-use ball saver which is 50% of (TARGET_GAME_TIME - player_game_time). PRO V1.03 - March 9, 2020 ========================= Tweaked: - Removed Backbox GI from lamp effects. Moved to SYS 2.44: Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.57.5 Added UTIL->VOL Adjustment "SELECT AUDIO FILTER". Values are: "NONE", "HIGH/LOW SHELF", and "10 BAND EQ". Default value is "HIGH/LOW SHELF". "NONE": No filtering will be performed on the audio output. Useful when using the Line Out as input for an external device. "HIGH/LOW SHELF": A High/Low Shelf Filter is applied to the audio output. The Bass Frequency can be set to: 125Hz, 250Hz, or Disabled. The Treble Frequency can be set to: 4KHz, 8KHz, or Disabled. The Gain can be set to -12dB .. +12dB On Spike 2 the Shelf Frequency and Gain can be set independently for the BackBox and Cabinet speakers. "10 BAND EQ": A full 10 Band EQ is applied to the audio output. Sliders are used to adjust the Gain of a specific range of frequencies. The Frequencies are: 31Hz, 62Hz, 125Hz, 250Hz, 500Hz, 1KHz, 2KHz, 4KHz, 8KHz, 16KHz. The Gain curve has a 60dB dynamic range across the -120 .. +120 Slider settings. On Spike2 the Gain can be set independently for the BackBox and Cabinet speakers. Allow the knocker sound effect to play completely when a replay is awarded during the last ball bonus and ensure the normal game volume is restored. Added Standard Adjustment "MAX PLAYERS PER GAME". Values are 1 to 4, with a default setting of 4. This can be used to limit the number of players that can be added to a game. PRO V1.02 - September 30, 2019 ============================== No Changes PRO V1.01 - September 15, 2019 ============================== New: - Added a Topper test in the diagnostics. - The plus (+) button will move the hand to the next hour first going around a couple times and then stop. - The ENTER button will make the raven come out for a couple seconds and say the current hour. Tweaked: - Improved the Toppper clock. The hand will spin around a couple times before coming to a stop on the desired hour. Moved to SYS 2.34: Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.51.0 Using LEFT+START to end a game during bonus count could leave game graphics on screen while in attract mode. This has been corrected. Added Service Menu selection UTIL->ENDGAME. This selection is only available when there is an active game. When selected the operator will be prompted to confirm that they wish to end the current game. Once confirmed and upon exiting the Service Menu, the game will be in attract mode. Added Standard Adjustment "ALLOW LEFT+START TO END GAME". Values are: "NEVER", "FREE PLAY ONLY", and "ALWAYS". Default value is "NEVER". During an active game, if the the LEFT FLIPPER+START BUTTONs are held for two seconds, the game will be ended. Added Standard Audit "TOTAL PLAYS ENDED", which will track the number of times a game is ended via the Service Menu or FLIPPER+START BUTTONs. Added Standard Adjustment "CREDIT FORMAT". Values are: "ACTUAL FRACTION" and "REDUCED FRACTION". Default value is "REDUCED FRACTION". For a USA coindoor when inserting three quarters: "REDUCED FRACTION" would display "1/4", "1/2", "3/4" "ACTUAL FRACTION" would display "1/4", "2/4", "3/4" Update Italian translation of "ENTER INITIALS" to "INSERISCI LE TUE INIZIALI" Coin door interlock switch support for Spike2. PRO V1.00 - May 15, 2019 ======================== Fixed: - The HOW-TO attract videos will now not play if turned off from the standard adjustments. - Fixed some speech timings. - Fixed Munster Madness level II timer issues. New: - Added Topper lamp effects - Added Team Credits Easter egg: 1 2 3. To see it you Hold in Both flippers, then you enter numbers with the left flipper and enter on with the right. Finally, when you are done you have to enter one last time with the right flipper. So 1 2 3 would be B LR LLR LLLR R - Added Topper clock effect to Raven Multiball Jackpots Tweaked: - Changed the Marilyn award to LIGHT MARILYN SUPER JACKPOT and START SUPER POPS at 2 and then every 2 thereafter. - Added a guaranteed ball save time to Raven Multiball. - Pressing the top button to start a game when there are no credits will no longer make a sound as the button is released. - Starting a game with zero credits will now only make a sound 3 times before the game will wait an hour before it will make sounds again. Moved to SYS 2.27: - Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.40.0 - Updated instructions for RESTORE SETTINGS. - Reordered items in UTIL->VOL, moved CABINET SPEAKER TYPE to be after BACKBOX SPEAKER TYPE. - Added UTIL->RESET->VOL which will reset all audio settings to their default values. PRO V0.99 - April 10, 2019 ========================== Fixed: - Canceling Super Jackpot after the cancel message goes away will no longer leave the super jackpot light lit. If you cancel too late you will recieve the points for all your stacked Super Jackpots and the light will go out. Tweaked: - Changed the diagnostic menu colors to have more contrast. Moved to System 2.26: Correct Euro Coin Door/Electronic Coin Mech configuration. Standard Euro Coin Door now configured as: "10 units per pulse, Left 5, Center 10, Right 20, 4th 2, 5th 0, 6th 0" Italian Euro Coin Door now configured as: "10 units per pulse, Left 5, Center 1, Right 5, 4th 1, 5th 0, 6th 0" Updated Custom Pricing Editor to display Pricing Format description in the title area when it is being edited. PRO V0.98 - April 1, 2019 ========================= Fixed: - Fixed ALLOW SPOT ATTRACT adjustment. If off it will stop the toy from raising in the attract mode. - Fixed an issue where tilt would go on too long after all the balls where drained. - Fixed sounds being called during test mode - Fixed the timing of the Zap Jackpot background lamp effect. Zap Jackpot will no longer show through when they should not. New: - Added Herman Multiball Jackpot lamp effect. - Added Munster Madness Multiball Jackpot lamp effect. Tweaked: - Tweaked Shaker motor effect during Super Jackpot award sequence. It's now less intense and it's more fun. - Added more intelligence to Mystery. It will start something when the player has less going on. - Made the skill shot timer not pause for inactive balls. - Removed the feature adjustment - START GAME ON CREDIT. This functionality is now handled by the system. - Improved the volume and priority of the GRANDPA LABORATORY kick-out sounds - Reduced how many areas are needed for the first set of areas in MUNSTER MADNESS LEVEL I from 5 areas to 3. Better than average players that can trap-up the balls and shoot the lower playfield will have less of what is easy for them and be more challenging overall. After the 3 sets of areas the player is forced to play the whole game and put the ball at risk more. Moved to the new system V2.25: Added Standard Adjustment #57 "PRICING FORMAT". Values are: "STANDARD", "MINIMAL", "STD W/ MONETARY SYMBOL", and "MIN W/MONETARY SYMBOL" "MINIMAL" will replace consecutive identical coin/credit increments with ".." "MONETARY SYMBOL" will add the leading or trail monetary symbol appropriate for the currency is use. For CUSTOM PRICING this can be TOKEN, COIN, SWIPE, or TAP. USA 13 (as opposed to the current active GAME PRICING) is used to demonstrate the effects of the different options in the Service Menu as there is a difference between STANDARD and MINIMAL formatting. (and there may not be in the current active pricing). STANDARD - USA 13 would be formatted as: 1/1.00 2/2.00 3/3.00 4/4.00 7/5.00 - USA 7 would be formatted as: 1/0.50 2/1.00 4/1.50 6/2.00 MINIMAL - USA 13 would be formatted as: 1/1.00 .. 7/5.00 - USA 7 would be formatted as: 1/0.50 .. 4/1.50 6/2.00 STD W/MONETARY SYMBOL - USA 13 would be formatted as: 1/$1.00 2/$2.00 3/$3.00 4/$4.00 7/$5.00 - USA 7 would be formatted as: 1/$0.50 2/$1.00 4/$1.50 $6/2.00 MIN W/MONETARY SYMBOL - USA 13 would be formatted as: 1/$1.00 .. 7/$5.00 - USA 7 would be formatted as: 1/$0.50 .. 4/$1.50 $6/2.00 Updated Custom Pricing Editor to display using Pricing Format. Use to select the pricing and EDIT to change the Pricing Format. The Pricing Format adjustment will also be updated upon EXIT. Moved to the new system V2.24: Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.38.0 Updated TechAlert switch numbering to be consistent with the game manuals. Updated Custom Pricing Editor - Uses button navigation to select and edit fields. Use to select the "CREDIT" or "AT:" field and EDIT to change their value. RESET has the options of setting the custom price to the FACTORY default or CURRENT pricing as a starting point for creating the custom price. RESET can also CLEAR the custom price to create one from scratch. Use EXIT to save and install the custom price. Added support to specify money format descriptions for: country monetary symbol ("$", "EUR", etc), "TOKEN", "COIN", and "SWIPE". Updated Custom Coin Door Editor - RESET has the options of setting the custom coin door to the FACTORY default or CURRENT settings as a starting point for creating the custom coin door. RESET can also CLEAR the custom coin door to create one from scratch. Added error message when attempting to EXIT when the custom coin door is not valid (UNITS PER PULSE is zero or all coin switches have zero PULSES set). Updated Pricing Table: Updated Euro Coin Door from: "10 units per pulse, Left 5, Center 10, Right 20, 4th 2, 5th 0, 6th 0" to: "10 units per pulse, Left 5, Center 10, Right 5, 4th 0, 5th 0, 6th 0" Updated Australia 5 from "1/$2.00, 2/$5.00, 5/$10.00 AU" to "1/$2.00 AU, 2/$3.00 AU" Removed Australia 7 "1/$2.00, 3/$4.00, 4/$5.00 AU" Removed Italy 1 "1/EUR 0.50" Removed Italy 2 "1/EUR 1.00, 3/EUR 2.00" Added New Zealand 3 "1/$2 NZ, 2/$3 NZ" Updated Switzerland 2 from "1/1 SwF, 3/2 SwF, 5/3 SwF, 7/4 SwF, 9/5 SwF" to "1/2 SwF, 2/4 SwF, 3/5 SwF" Removed Switzerland 3 "1/2 SwF, 3/5 SwF" Updated UK 1 from "3/1.00 GBP, 7/2.00 GBP" to "1/2.00 GBP" Updated UK 2 from "4/1.00 GBP" to "1/1.00 GBP" Removed UK 6 "3/2.00 GBP" Removed Portugal "1/EUR 0.50" Removed Germany 1 "1/EUR 0.50" Removed Germany 2 "1/EUR 0.50, 2/EUR 1.00, 3/EUR 1.50, 5/EUR 2.00" Removed Germany 3 "1/EUR 0.50, 2/EUR 1.00, 3/EUR 1.50, 6/EUR 2.00" Removed Euro 4 "1/EUR 0.50, 2/EUR 1.00, 3/EUR 1.50, 6/EUR 2.00" Removed Euro 5 "1/EUR 0.50, 3/EUR 1.00, 4/EUR 1.50, 7/EUR 2.00" Removed Euro 6 "2/EUR 0.50" Renamed Euro 7 to Euro 4 "1/EUR 1.00, 2/EUR 2.00, 3/EUR 3.00, 5/EUR 4.00" Renamed Euro 8 to Euro 5 "1/EUR 1.00, 3/EUR 2.00" Renamed Euro 9 to Euro 6 "1/EUR 1.00, 2/EUR 1.50, 3/EUR 2.00" Renamed Euro 10 to Euro 7 "1/EUR 1.00, 3/EUR 2.00, 7/EUR 3.00" Renamed Euro 11 to Euro 8 "1/EUR 1.00, 4/EUR 2.00" Renamed Euro 12 to Euro 9 "2/EUR 1.00, 4/EUR 2.00, 6/EUR 3.00, 9/EUR 4.00" Removed USA 4 "1/$0.50" "25 units per pulse, Left 1, Center 1, Right 1, 4th 1, 5th 0, 6th 0" Removed USA 6 "1/$0.50" "25 units per pulse, Left 1, Center 6, Right 1, 4th 1, 5th 0, 6th 0" NOTE: USA 3 "1/$0.50" "25 units per pulse, Left 1, Center 4, Right 1, 4th 1, 5th 0, 6th 0" remains unchanged Updated Austria default pricing to Euro 5 Updated Belgium default pricing to Euro 5 Updated Finland default pricing to Euro 5 Updated France default pricing to Euro 7 Updated Germany default pricing to Euro 2 and Euro Coin Door Updated Greece default pricing to Euro 5 Updated Italy default pricing to Euro 5 and Euro Coin Door Updated Netherlands default pricing to Euro 5 Updated Portugal default pricing to Euro 1 and Euro Coin Door Updated Spain default pricing to Euro 5 Updated Switzerland default pricing to Switzerland 1 Added UTIL->SAVE and UTIL->LOAD which save and restore all game settings to / from a USB thumbdrive. When restoring the settings to the SAME MACHINE, you can choose to restore: "RESTORE ALL SETTINGS" "RESTORE ALL ADJUSTMENTS" "RESTORE ONLY STD ADJUSTMENTS" "RESTORE ONLY HIGH SCORES" "RESTORE ONLY AUDITS" When using the saved settings with another machine of the SAME TITLE and MODEL (for example settings file created on a DeadPool Pro and restoring to a different DeadPool Pro) you can choose to restore: "RESTORE ALL ADJUSTMENTS" "RESTORE ONLY STD ADJUSTMENTS" When using the saved settings with another machine of a DIFFERENT TITLE or MODEL (for example settings file created on a DeadPool Pro and restoring to a Munsters Pro) you can only choose to restore: "RESTORE ONLY STD ADJUSTMENTS" "RESTORE ALL ADJUSTMENTS" will restore the Standard Adjustments listed below and all Feature Adjustments. "RESTORE ONLY STD ADJUSTMENTS" will restore the following Standard Adjustments: Custom Message Custom Pricing Custom Coin Door "REPLAY TYPE" "REPLAY PERCENTAGE" "REPLAY AWARD" "REPLAY LEVELS" "REPLAY BOOST" "SPECIAL LIMIT" "SPECIAL AWARD" "SPECIAL PERCENTAGE" "FREE GAME LIMIT" "EXTRA BALL LIMIT" "EXTRA BALL PERCENTAGE" "GAME PRICING" "MATCH AWARD" "MATCH PERCENTAGE" "BALLS PER GAME" "TILT WARNINGS" "TILT DEBOUNCE" "CREDIT LIMIT" "FREE PLAY" "KNOCKER VOLUME" "START GAME ON CREDIT" "GAME RESTART" "TIMED PLUNGER" "FLIPPER BALL LAUNCH" "COINDOOR BALL SAVER" "COMPETITION MODE" "CONSOLATION BALL" "PLAYER COMPETITION" "TEAM SCORES" "ALLOW HIGH SCORES" "HIGH SCORE AWARD" "GRAND CHAMPION AWARDS" "HIGH SCORE #1 AWARDS" "HIGH SCORE #2 AWARDS" "HIGH SCORE #3 AWARDS" "HIGH SCORE #4 AWARDS" "HSTD INITIALS" "HSTD RESET COUNT" "COIN INPUT DELAY" "LOST BALL RECOVERY" "COIN DOOR DISABLE TILT" "TIME FORMAT" "FAST BOOT" "LANGUAGE" "PLAYER LANGUAGE SELECT" "PLAY ATTRACT TUTORIAL VIDEOS" "ATTRACT MODE B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" "GAME PLAY B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" "SERVICE MENU B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" Games will now persist ALL SETTINGS after a software update. This functionality will be available in the game release AFTER the release which uses system 2.24. PRO V0.96 - March 11, 2019 ========================== Fixed: - Secret Mania was not tracking progress correctly - Fixed Lily II was not showing the correct instruction messages - SPOT flasher was not being used during SPOT mode - Fixed the scoring on Munster Madness. Stage Three was using the wrong values - Shortened the Midnight Madness Ball Save adjustment name to fit the screen - Fixed Drain audits. If ball save was turned on the audits for left, right, and center were not calculated correctly. - Feature adjustment ALLOW SPOT ATTRACT now works correctly. - Fixed a case where ball search would start too soon at the start Midnight Madness. - Fixed a crash during Midnight Madness. - Raven Multiball would stay boosted after the multiball ended. - Fixed a case where the lower timer was not initialized correctly. New: - Added utilizing the SPOT flasher every time Spot is in the up position - Added an adjustment to Allow Raven to be lit on Level II like Level I. Meaning all the other areas will light Raven as they are completed. This will default to YES, Raven Level II will be lit from other areas. If set to NO, Raven level II will only be lit from hitting a lit Kitty. - Added HOW-TO play rule videos to the attract mode - Added Speech and chime sounds to the clock advancement in Raven Multiball - Added Munster Madness II - - Added adjustment to allow the owner to change the strength of the auto-plunger. It will default to 200. It was kicking at 255. - Added flipper cancel for all total animations. Hold both flippers to end the currently running total animation. - Added the ability to end the replay/Special display effects early by holding in both flipper buttons. - Added Midnight Madness champion. - Added a few shaker motor effects - New Munster Madness level - This is a four ball multiball - Moved the old Munster Madness to level II and increased the scoring. - Created a new Munster Madness level I that is similar but simpler. - There are 5 areas: Herman, Raven, Lily, Spot, and Grandpa - There are two stages: - STAGE ONE - Shoot Each Area three times - Starting with Herman, you will want to shoot each area up to 3 times before the time runs out. - You have 10 seconds per area - When the timer run out or you complete the area, you will move to the next area - When all 5 area are complete or timed out you will move to the next stage. - STAGE TWO - Shoot a hurry up at the Electric Chair - In this stage, all the shots you made in stage one contribute to the value of a hurry-up that starts to count down. - Shoot the electric Chair to collect it. - If you collect it or if it times out you will move back to stage one. - There are no zap Jackpots during this Multiball. - Added Topper adjustment to allow the owner to turn off sounds during the attract mode. - Added STARTING HERMAN SHOTS NEEDED adjustment. Set to the number of shots you want players to have to shoot before lighting their first Herman Hurry-Up. - Added STARTING GRANDPA TARGETS NEEDED adjustment. Set to the number of targets you want players to have to shoot before lighting their first Grandpa Laboratory. - Added several adjustments to many of the installs. - The difficulty installs change these 11 adjustments: BALL SAVE TIME, STARTING HERMAN SHOTS NEEDED, STARTING GRANDPA TARGETS NEEDED, STARTING SPOT LETTERS, 1ST SPOT LETTERS NEED TWO RAMPS, RAVEN LIGHT LEVEL II AS I, AREA LEVELS EXTRA BALL, BALL SAVE TIMER: HERMAN MBALL, BALL SAVE TIMER: RAVEN MBALL, BALL SAVE TIMER: MUNSTER MBALL, and BALL SAVE TIMER: MIDNIGHT MBALL - The HOME install sets FREE PLAY to yes, High Score initials to 10 letters, and turns the Attract show intro sounds to YES (on). - HOME and DIRCETOR installs have the same results - INSTALL 3 BALL and INSTALL 5 BALL are the same as INSTALL MEDIUM. Tweaked: - Changed Raven. One spin of the spinner moves the minute hand slower. This makes it harder to advance the hour hand and therefore slower to increase the jackpot values. - Changed Raven II. Each time the hour changes, from spinning the spinner, all the jackpots will be relit making it harder to complete all four upgrading them to the next color. - Ending Munster Madness will now clear any lit Raven shots on the left ramp. - Improved the Enlarging Ray Background lamp effects - Changed Enlarging Ray II: - The four mini-targets do not all blink together. - One is lit at a time and it moves back and forth. - Hitting the moving target will lite all remaining jackpots. - Removed the audit for Mystery lighting Super jackpot since mystery always lights super jackpot in addition to giving you something randomly. - Tweaked the default power strength for kicking balls out of the trough from 255 to 240. - Added the current value of super jackpot to the instant info page. It shows what you would get if you collected your super jackpots right then. - Improved the start lamp effects for Munster Madness - Improved the flavor of speech on some occasions - Improved the accuracy of extra ball auto percentage ability - Increased the value of stacks of 5 or Super Jackpots. - Reduced the base value of the Super Jackpot from 500K to 350K. - Improved many of the sounds for the Munster Madness scenes and jackpots. - Tweaked the volume of a few tunes. - Improved the EQ balance of Marilyn speech calls. 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 - Changed the order of events in Munster Madness. It begins now with PART II - Collect Jackpots. And now Part III - Cascading Hurry-ups always follows part II. 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.