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Help from Hook owners please

JWG9999

JWG9999

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When I first had my Hook it seemed to always offer a 'bonus' skill shot (i.e. multi-ball or extra ball) on the last ball of the game.

Over time this has been offered less and less, I now get just the plain (middle hole) skill shot on every ball - unless I've had a truly trash game and a very low score, then I still get a multi-ball or extra ball offer on the skill shot for the last ball.

First my question is - is this how it's supposed to behave?

Second, if this isn't right, what could be causing it? I've reset audits, checked game adjustments etc. My only idea now is to replace the game ROM (which is the latest version).
 
This sounds like a similar bug with the getaway, at first you will get extra balls available during video mode but over time it gets less and less until it stops completely. I assume it can be reset to its original behaviour by resetting to factory defaults ( thus losing all your high scores ). You could try that if you don't mind the consequences.
 
Thanks for your help guys. I tried a factory restore this morning but unfortunately it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

I'll try putting a new ROM in: dunno why that should help but I can't think of anything else to try :hmm:
 
its something in the percentages? I fiddled with mine and now I have the same no2 skill shot for alot of the time but I do get the third skill shot with extraball etc.

will try and remember what I did...
 
deathrow said:
its something in the percentages? I fiddled with mine and now I have the same no2 skill shot for alot of the time but I do get the third skill shot with extraball etc.

will try and remember what I did...
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Thank you - I'll look again at the whole audit-game adjustments thing too, but I can't seem to get anywhere with it all.

Wish I'd bought your Hook instead of this one. Been one niggling thing after another with it and now the light rope isn't working.
 
It would not be surprising if there is a bug in the software. The guy who did the updated Star Wars ROM found a bug in the force award, that stopped giving extra balls after a while (which he corrected)
 
JWG9999 said:
Thank you - I'll look again at the whole audit-game adjustments thing too, but I can't seem to get anywhere with it all.

Wish I'd bought your Hook instead of this one. Been one niggling thing after another with it and now the light rope isn't working.
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If you need me to test anything before mine is collected then please get in touch mate.
If you were a little more local to me I would pop over and take a look for you. Devon is 5+ hrs :-o
 
deathrow said:
If you need me to test anything before mine is collected then please get in touch mate.
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Thanks again for all your help guys. Especially your offer to test on your machine deathrow, can't imagine what to test though.

Carl Spiby said:
Put it on 4 balls? :p
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Four balls seemed to fix it! But only for the first 2 games, then it was back to an offer of multi-ball/extra-ball only sometimes - and not very often. I think it should always be on the last ball of every game, because that's how it was when I first had the pin.

Sigh :(

Hey-ho, I've ordered a new ROM. Maybe that'll sort it.
 
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There are many games out there that have consolation awards. Many DE games give you a chance to get multiball on the last ball if you've not had multiball already during the game. It sounds to me like your play has improved sufficiently to get multiball during the game so that option is removed come the last ball. :cool:
 
Moonraker said:
There are many games out there that have consolation awards. Many DE games give you a chance to get multiball on the last ball if you've not had multiball already during the game. It sounds to me like your play has improved sufficiently to get multiball during the game so that option is removed come the last ball. :cool:
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That's a real possibility: I've experimented with the glass off just running game after game, some really good, some really bad. The bad games usually end with the skill option extra-ball/multiball, the good games hardly ever, but it has to be a truly bog-awful score (<10,000,000) to trigger the option, and even then it isn't always.

I don't remember it behaving like that when I first had the game 6 months ago. I think the option was always offered on last ball regardless of how good or bad the game was.
 
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