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Re: Stern announces new KISS pinball
« Reply #855 on: April 22, 2016, 08:36:25 AM »
The code has dropped...

V1.28 - Apr. 20, 2016
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- Added sounds for KISS hurry-up and ARMY hurry-up awards.
- Added a ball lock rule during Demon Multiball:
  - Shooting both lock targets lights the Demon lock.
  - Shooting the Demon when lock is lit (first time) starts 2X playfield
    scoring (adjustable, default=20 seconds).
  - Lighting the lock again and locking a second ball (before the timer
    expires) starts 3X playfield scoring (adjustable, default=20 seconds).
- Added sounds for:
  - Slingshots
  - Return lanes (lit and not lit)
  - Outlanes (lit and not lit)
- Added a wizard mode for completing the GRID (Heaven's On Fire):
  - Qualify by completing the GRID a number of times; currently 2
    (adjustable).
  - Shoot the scoop eject (BACKSTAGE PASS) to start.
  - 4 ball multiball.
  - Complete the GRID to light SUPER JACKPOT at the Scoop Eject:
    - ROW #1 (KISS) - shoot all KISS targets
    - ROW #2 (ARMY) - shoot all ARMY targets
    - ROW #3 (POPS) - shoot right orbit to light the pops; hit each pop at
      least once
    - ROW #4 (INSTRUMENTS) - shoot instruments.  The right ramp (if lit)
      will spot one of the instruments.
    - The STAR targets may be completed for add-a-ball, once per super
      jackpot.
- Music that was playing prior to starting Grid Multiball is restarted at
  the beginning instead of picking up where it left off upon exiting Grid Multiball.
- Fixed a problem where mode select music was starting too early.
- Fixed a mystery award presentation order problem when awarding
  extra ball lit or special lit.
- Changed the criteria for mode start.  Modes are allowed to start when
  Grid, Kiss Army or Rock City Multiball are ready to start. 
- If balls were locked in the Demon and the game was turned off, the Demon
  ball save would be activated during game-over (with a display effect) when
  the balls were kicked out of the Demon lockup after the game was turned
  on again.  This has been corrected.
- Finishing a song (adjustable) lights all shots for one of them to be
  collected for 2X scoring on that shot for the rest of the ball.  These
  are multiplied with the combo multipliers.
- Added an adjustment to enable/disable the multiplier shot arrow lamps.
- Finishing a song (adjustable) lights 2X, 3X, 5X (2X+3X), Colossal (10X)
  playfield multiplier for the rest of the ball.
- Max playfield multipler is set at 15X.
- Playfield multiplers can be combined and are advanced via:
  - double scoring (2X)
  - demon multiball lock timer (2X, 3X)
  - completing song(s) (2X, 3X, 5X, 10X)
- 2X, 3X, Colossal inserts are now used as playfield multipliers instead
  of Bonus X multipliers.
- KISS hurry-up award and ARMY hurry-up award display their multiplied scored.
- The ticket notch switch was specifying the wrong attributes such that the
  switch would eventually be marked bad in the TECH. ALERT.  This has been
  corrected.
- Added a setting that allows the grid to keep its state from ball to ball
  (thereby making it easier to complete the grid).
- Added an adjustment that allows song select with and without the
  multipliers lit (default is YES).
- Added lamp effects for disabled return lanes and outlanes.
- Fixed a problem where the last player in a 4 person game could not select
  a city.
- Fixed a bug in demon multiball.  If at least one jackpot shot was collected
  and the multiball was resurrected by collecting the add-a-ball award via
  backstage pass when the multiball was in the grace period, then eventually
  there would not be any shots left to shoot during the multiball (they would
  eventually be depleted).  This has been corrected.
- Reworked the instrument award display effect so it looks better when extra
  ball is lit.
- Fixed the instrument power-on display effect so it can deal with lighting
  multiple instruments at once.
- Added an adjustment to not reset the lit instruments at the beginning of
  each ball.
- Changed the adjustment for the instrument rule difficulty.  The three
  settings (for shooting the POWER-ON ramp shot) are:
  1) LIGHT ALL INSTRUMENTS
  2) LIGHT ONE INSTRUMENT, BUT LEAVE THE POWER-ON LIT TO LIGHT MORE
     INSTRUMENTS
  3) LIGHT ONE INSTRUMENT, AND TURN OFF THE POWER-ON UNTIL THE INSTRUMENT
     IS COLLECTED.
  The previous behavior was 3).  The new behavior is 2).
- Reordered some calls so mystery is given out before the multiballs are
  started.
- Fixed the settings for the instrument rule extra ball.  The way the settings
  were being specified, it was not possible for the first extra ball to ever
  be set to AUTO.
- Fixed pop bumpers not scoring during multiball.
- Added attract mode flipper button sounds.
- Knocker sound/coil for REPLAY and SPECIAL now synced with the display
  effect.
- Fixed bugs in the modes that was causing the work of all players to affect
  the scoring for all other players.
- Improved sound processing to minimize audio glitches.
- Fixed a bug in the wizard mode that would occasionally cause some game
  data to occasionally become corrupt.
- Improved Auto Replay Thresholds.