Update: Hey, I managed to get the michael servo switched out, I however didnt do all 3 kinda wish I had, however they are all currently working. It is a slight pain, you have to remove the wire ramp and plastic from left side and across the middle the wires feed threw the left plastic piece, so they are actually on top of the playfield but under plastic, Im still newbie at attempting my own repairs but I got it done...

So if you hit the dirty pool it gives you 100% multiplier, but if you knock down a 2nd drop it should start house?

Have to go back up middle ramp after dropping left or right target once dirty pool shot has been made. Makes no sense to me but . That’s what he said

So being, I’m a relatively new owner to this game

I’m hearing a lot of little Easter eggs, hidden in the code of gameplay and buying things with blood from a store, and these dirty pool trick shot sequences

I have found some basic rules set online

But is there more in-depth one that explains all of this, so I could enjoy the max of the playability

I still don’t understand why the knives on the left side of the field, handle changes, color or what that signifies

If it is in this thread, can someone tag me the link

Really enjoy this game. I have a newfound respect for spooky games as this is the first one I’ve ever seen in person and owned.

I look forward to meeting the spooky team, this spring at the Allentown Pinball show to express my gratitude for the creativity behind it

Hey everyone, yeah it’s been a super-crazy last few weeks, was really great to meet so many of you at TPF, the positivity and support from everyone still blows my mind.

RE: dirty pool shot, I think that’s all cleared up now? Super lucrative if you can get a few of them in a row - my record is 5, when the vanity awards go in, that’ll be one for sure, can’t wait to see how many more you guys are gonna get. Even setting it up by just having the middle target down gets the adrenaline going. So yeah, go for it as many times as you can, if you get one of the side targets down, then next shot up the center will start and divert into House (we didn’t want to start it earlier or Laurie’s health would be running down while you were looping dirty pools).

We ran the latest beta code all show at TPF and it was great, we still want to test just a few more things that we added in recently to make sure it’s rock solid, then we’ll get this next version out to you all.

Thanks again!

You start Hedge Multiball by virtual locking a ball in each scoop, green means lock. If you hit the Tombstone target on the lower right it will light a couple of knife shots for you to collect for some good points. And then there’s “Drive The Evil Back” that pops up every now and then when you hit the pumpkin scoop - it starts a hurry up at the top Hedge scoop first, if you don’t get it, he gets closer next time, then closer again. He does steal some blood if you don’t get the hurryup, but the points if you let him get closer are totally worth it.

There’s a lot going on rules-wise these days, we’ll get the rules documented up along with points etc soon - just gotta get it into the schedule!

Those pumpkin mode points

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Is the dying Monkey sound going away….Please…!

Couldn’t agree more!

Makes monkey cry noises in response

I’m still dealing with multiple balls getting put into the shooter lane. All trough switches fire correctly, additionally I was able to trigger the trough jam sensor. Is there anything I missed?

When i was going to test the machine by playing a game, the coil towards the back left of the playfield started smoking! Is this a known issue? I hadn’t touched anything near that area.

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Does this coil lock on as soon as you turn the game on?

If yes, then the drive transistor is probably shorted to ground.

Turn the game back off and de-solder the ground wire marked in green.

That will let you play but the coil will be nonfunctional; that's the coil that drops the magnet bridge, yes?

Call AJ at Spooky and they will have you test the drive transistor.

May have to send the Pinotaur board back to them for repair.

RussM

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I wonder when we will see the new code? I always love to see what they are doing for us next!

Had a big session on this last night and I'm still in love with this game it really is something special - outside of a couple of bug fixes I think if the scoring is given a good overhaul (like in the last Scooby update), there's maybe one more quick pass at the sound mix (it's basically ok now but still a few things are too loud or quiet) and maybe just one or two more things added outside of all the the modes (I dunno just a quick hurry up and/or a frenzy mode maybe), I'd pretty much consider it as above and beyond what was promised, and well and truly complete.

If none of those happen, well, heck it's still an amazing machine. I've said it before, but really excellent work all around - as both a huge pinball and Halloween fan I consider this game a masterpiece, it's brilliant.

The code went from a C- in the beginning to an A- now. This next update might take it to an A. More animations would be nice.

Hey there, I played some Halloween. The first half of the video is in english.
The upper playfields during multiball are very challanging However I still don't like the nasty inlane feeds

Slasher frenzy would be awesome. Like something simple that triggers by hitting certain combo sequence and a specific shot. Thinking like Tales From the Crypt which has very simple frenzy scoring modes in it that trigger easy during regular play, doesn't take over the game either but a fun thing to trigger. It's a slasher game, a frenzy mode would be great. Slash frenzy! Think it would be fun addition to have trigger for a few seconds, play the pursuit music, slicing and stabbing sounds going off with each switch hit.

Thank you for posting. Good gameplay explanation in English.

I am also getting multiple pinballs in the shooter lane. I emailed AJ and this is his reply

“ IF you can watch the trough while you eject a ball in the coil test, that should give us a good idea as to what we may be encountering. As well double cehck that no light taps around the playfield cause them to register a switch as well. may even be an outlane switch getting triggered on you, unless you are never seeing the ball save animation? ”

I haven’t had a chance to test and look yet. As far as your coil something caused it to lock up. Need to see if the switches are touching y
That activates it. They may not be gapped enough or if there’s a microswitch that’s stuck closed.

Amazing playing, make it look easy! Great vid.

Really shows the disparity in scoring, when your getting over 30+ mil on MB modes, but beating a hard mode like Let Me In gave you 2 mil only. The basic playfield MB score more than anything right now, even more than the Boogeyman wizard mode! The other day playing through 5 of the pumpkin modes I had counted less than 10 mil points earned. While one round of stalker mode gave me 34 mil, and and easy 25 mil from a house MB. Hedge and Judith combo blew up over 30 mil without even hitting the super.

Also check one ball hasn’t become magnetised.

The new balls seem to get magnetised sooooo easily these days.

One bad ball will screw up the others rolling down the ball trough and then you’re screwed.

rd

I’m committing my spare time to help Matt with this over the next month or two. Just got to get back home to NZ and get some work done, then we can get into it.

Modes need to be worth doing … completed modes should bring good rewards!!

rd

Sounds rad, the game has little incidental scoring and is so focused on modes, but the score balance is all out of whack and the basic pumpkin modes really are not worth the time outside of beating two for an extra ball, after that it's basically MB focused. The modes are fun though, I should want to play them, and the harder the mode the more rewarding. I look forward to what you guys do

I don’t think I’ve seen a pic of this anywhere before, so while I was in Benton a few weeks ago, me and Spooky Tam desoldered a nano off a light board to see what the secret message looks like!

Here ya go!

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If only I still had the game…

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I like these. I have one of Freddy and Michael. Not sure where you would be able to fit them in the game but cool to display.

Great news!

Yea scoring updates would really bring the game together. The more I play it the more the scoring really stands out. I would love to want to do some other modes rather than just stick to a scoring formula.

That and bug polish would really finish up this game finally to me.

Though any ideas of new scoring features or gameplay are always welcome if there is any plans... please proceed

Wishlist of course is more callouts!

Unfortunately, yesterday, during a very good game, my board got up in smoke. Guess i have to get in touch with the customer support now as well...

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“Probably just a fuse!”

Boooom she’s gone alright!

Check for a dead short where that coil is. Something has detonated that mosfet!

rd

I think that’s the shaker motor if it’s sol 23, Spookys manual says knocker is sol 23 and shaker is sol 22 but it’s the other way around.
I also had another one go for the scoop, this one was found while testing on a bench. We then traced all the wiring and I checked with an ultraman owner and his shaker is sol 23 as well. Check the wiring, make sure wires are punched in the connectors all the way!

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Thanks man, That´ll help. I need a new Board though first but i´ll check the Shaker-Wiring.

Good luck, I’m putting the board and a new coil back in today. Been broke a month now so hope it goes well and can play again.

*Also* Make sure you check each connector when you take them out of the board to make sure they correspond, example - opto 3 goes into opto 3 because I had two connectors that were wrong. Opto 7 was in opto 5 and opto 5 was in opto 7, factory wired those opto’s wrong so switched them around on the board connectors!! Luckily I checked otherwise there would have been some weird shit going on.

I mean, the Game worked well for over 600 Games since i got it NIB, so i asume, the connections are correctly on the board. Maybe a connection from the shaker got loose or whatever. so that hint of yours is appreciated. I´ll take a very close look, once i eventually recieved a replacement board.

Same with mine, had from new. Connections were not labelled correctly from the factory because someone put the opto’s in the wrong location and the quick fix was to just swop 2 connections on the board. My pumpkin scoop would not have detected a ball and triggered something else and somewhere else would have thought the ball had gone in the pumpkin scoop if I had not checked when taking them off the board.

Did anyone see the 1.15 test code that was on the show machines recently? Anything stand out? Know the beta files were just some bug fixes but wondering if anything new coming?

What show machine? Waiting for an update. Scooby-Doo is sitting beside Halloween unplugged.

At TPF they said they had test code running on the Halloween that was at the show. Imagine same machine was at the one they had at midwest recently also. 1.15 was in beta a while ago, so wondering if anything new has come from it since it never released.

Can we download 1.15?

Its not released yet

They said it was coming soon so we will see.

Hold my beer while we wait please.

If your waiting, you may need that beer

I'm broke from buying Scooby-Doo and Halloween plus my wife just had to have Funhouse Easter Weekend. Any chance you will buy me beer

I was there. I live in Frisco. I didn’t play Halloween though.

* Sad crying Laurie monkey noises *

They must have had problems with the new code.

Yep.

Oh oh

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Michael needs to help with the code update