There’s another variation of this. During normal multiball, if you shoot one ball into the piano and then quickly jam another one into the slot machine, you will get “JACKPOT DOUBLED BY POWERBALL”. When the game sees a ball at the piano and then one at the slot without triggering the prox in between, it assumes you used the powerball. Saw this happen at Pinburgh finals a couple years ago.
Deep cuts of semi-useful pinball knowledge
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Acdc. No one goes for the triple MB, but if you do, there’s a cool feature I didn’t know about.
There’s a triple MB jackpot that lights at the bell after you collect one of each type of JP. Seems to be the value of the three jackpots combined and then some. You can definitely increase it. Maybe more JPs before hitting the bell. I was getting over 3mm for these before multipliers. Pretty good if you ask me.
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Well, there’s one important thing: You have to hit the opto at the top (preferably without the ball going in) for any of those to register as Powerfield Jackpots.
There’s another case that scores, too. Balls ejected from the Gumball machine.
There is/was a situation that would cause a ball to get ejected early at the start of LITZ. I don’t remember what did it, but if it happens, get that ball up the right ramp immediately and trigger that top opto because every ball out of the Gumball will be JACKPOT… JACKPOT… JACKPOT.
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These are on 1.4 ROMs with stacking enabled (not the home ROMs).
If Strike an Arc is one shot away, then it won’t start because Join the Cirqus cuts it off. Instead, the next ramp shot made after Join the Cirqus ends will start Strike an Arc.
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I love this thread
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No Good Gofers:
- Even if the Gofers just went into their holes, you can make a shot towards either ramp shortly after and either Bud or Buzz will taunt you. If you hit them during this time, the other Gofer will comment on the situation (ie. if you manage to hit Bud, Buzz will pop up and tell you about how he’s the only one who can hit him). You can hit the other Gofer during this period and quickly lower your total strokes by 2 instead of 1.
- If you manage to score a Hole in One off of the golf cart, and the cart shot is the one that will start Cart Attack (ie. every 3, 18, etc. hits), all scoring during Cart Attack will be doubled! This is a quick way to earn lots of points early on but considering how rare a rebound off of the golf cart into Hole in One is, don’t count on it…
- Speed Golf is the only cart award that can’t be stacked with anything else, likely because of how lucrative it is. If you make the final cart hit required to start Speed Golf during Multiball, it’ll simply be skipped with no compensation, so try and avoid hitting the cart until you’re back in single ball play.
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Balls in the normal multiball lock always get released about 10 seconds before the gumball machine is emptied (about halfway through the intro display effect). You basically get one shot at it.
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Some interesting rules with the “Wheel Values” in Safecracker that most people wouldn’t realize unless they used the awards in very specific circumstances:
- “Light Lock” typically spots all of the drop targets required to light the Lock at the ramp. However, if Lock is already lit when the award has been collected, it’ll virtually lock a ball for you. If you’ve already locked 2 balls and then collected “Light Lock” again, it will allow you instantly enter the board game through the main entrance. This can be helpful later on when you have to make shots to the dangerous left drop targets to light additional entrances.
- “Call Guard” either allows you to enter the board game through the main entrance or awards $100k. The chances of entering the board game are weighted severely higher at the start of the game compared to later. Along with this, if you collect “Call Guard” while the Alarm hurry-up is active, it’ll always award $100k. Don’t waste it!
- “Light Deposit Window” is a random award, equivalent to making the lit Teller shot. TNT Multiball can be awarded from the Deposit Window, and if it’s awarded to you during an Alarm hurry-up, the hurry-up will temporarily end and restart once TNT Multiball has ended. You could potentially get two TNT Multiballs in a row if this happens! Also, “Blender” is worth $50k, not nothing like you think it would be.
- “Disable Computer” supposedly affects only the timer until Sudden Death and nothing else, but this is false; activating this award during any timed mode (ie. Alarm hurry-up, Explosives, etc.) will freeze the timer for the mode ALONG with the ball save timer. Along with this, if you happen to collect this award WHILE the computer is disabled, 20 seconds will be added to the frozen timer.
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Two things I’ve found out about in Bowen’s World Cup Soccer tutorial: an exclamation point bonus in Big Goal Round (getting all three goals in 3 seconds, which gives a fourth shot worth 60M) and a Striker’s Revenge TV mode. No idea both existed, but haven’t gotten both yet.
Three goals in three seconds? That doesn’t seem physically possible.
Shadow, WCS and Corvette have joined the ring…
#swedendreamlineupforpresident
Sounds like video mode in GoT 
doesn’t the timer pause once the ball is in the net?
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It is possible to get 3 goals in 3 seconds. I’ve done it and my son’s done it (with 19 still on the clock!)
Must be some serious timer pausing at work. I’d expect the timer to pause while the ball is held in the VUK, but the remaining ball travel— scoop -> flipper, 3x flipper-> net + VUK -> flipper— is hard to imagine happening in three seconds of actual time.
On Star Trek The Next Generation, if you select a Mission through Command Decision and you’ve already collected all of the available Artifacts in six of the seven Missions, you will be forced to play the one mission you haven’t played yet instead of being able to choose one yourself. If you’ve collected all of the Artifacts, then you will be forced into choosing Final Frontier if Command Decision is shot.
Just tried this (successfully) for the first time this past weekend. So cool. thanks for sharing it!
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Interesting rules about the Multiball in Creature from the Black Lagoon and how it affects single ball play. Some of these are relatively well known, some aren’t.
- If Multiball is activated during any timed mode (ie. Unlimited Millions, Mega Menu, Snack Attack), the mode won’t run during Multiball; instead, the mode will pause, and then after Multiball has ended, it will resume with a restart on the timer and all scoring. Unlike in Judge Dredd, where the mode points are scored in Bonus, you collect the points from modes here during the course of the ball, so you can potentially chain together two valuable Unlimited Millions rounds in a row. There was a bug in older ROMs where Snack Attack would start at 10 billion if Multiball interrupted it, but this was thankfully fixed.
- If a Jackpot hasn’t been made during Multiball, the Snackbar is much easier to light, as you can simply shoot the Snackbar directly to get credit for hits to the menu targets, which tend to be really dangerous on some games.
- If you activate Multiball for the first time in a game and then activate it again on the same ball, the playfield multiplier progress will carry over between Multiballs. This means it might be preferable to focus on getting 4x Playfield during your first Multiball, then spend your second Multiball going for the Jackpot & Super Jackpot.
- Although the Creature Feature at the left ramp is disabled during the Multiball Restart period, you can still collect Movie Madness (or Monster Madness, if applicable) at the right ramp. Why? Because I dunno. Just ignore it.
Multiball-end is restarting the modes was-running at multiball-start. Fresh timer, fresh mode state. Move your car phase 2 is the only one that “resumes”. But that is because it by design inherit states from Move your car phase one. Which caused it to be broken after a multiball interruption.
The playfield multiplier is not inherit from a previous multiball. It is a Creature cup completions account that is incorrecly not reset. The playfield multiplier is set equal this account on increment. If post-inc is less/equal 4.
Example. You finish a multiball at 2x. Next multiball, same ball-in-play, will start off at 1x. By first Creature cup completion you are now at 3x.
All these issues are fixed in the latest mod ROM release. Snack attack too, as you mention.
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“fixed”
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