Perpetual Freeride Getaway

[TUF-427]

Hi Guys,

anyone else ever had a perpetual freeride on the Getaway?

I think ive narrowed it down to when its in Multiball mode and 4 players ,

and all 3 balls are drained quickly in the inital 8 seconds or so when freeride flashing,

the Freeride goes out as it should but will forever return the ball till turned off and reset!

Its only ever done it to me once but seems to happen a lot when I have friends kids playing the machine for long periods.

anyone?

Software revision is L2 maybe I will have to go back to L5?

[ajlaird]

Happened to me once, eventually it just stopped.

I think the circumstances were a multiball where the ball stopper did not return fast enough and let all three balls onto the right flipper simultaneously, and possibly the early three-ball drain. I can't remember what ROM I am using, though.

[TUF-427]

Yeah tried to recreate it with the glass off but no joy,

I have previously repaired the multiball shute ballpost with the flipper bushing support mod and new sleeve etc,

it works flawlessly now dispensing one ball at a time ,

so even letting all 3 drain it pretty well returns 3 balls twice then ball over..

Possibly it only happens when a random Multiball is awarded from the burn rubber hole?

[ajlaird]

 That rings a bell - I think if there was a ball lock already in place plus the random multiball it could cause some confusion, especially if it can't find the third ball because the post has let two balls through.

[TUF-427]

heres some stuff from RGP that seems to show all the bugs and Features of the software revisions for Getaway.

Ive been using L5 over L2 lately and find it reasonably solid....thanks Ken for pointing out this info on Rgp

ROM REVISION                    L1              L2              L5       


Supercharger driver can blow
when more than 1 ball in
supercharger                      YES      -     NO       -     NO     


2 state flippers                    NO      -      NO      -     YES     


Run The REDLIGHT
 display mode                    YES     -      YES     -       NO     


Secret mania bug with
forgotten ball-locks            YES     -       YES     -      NO     


Endless multiball
(FREE RIDE BUG)                 ?     -       YES      -      NO     


Redlight mania to normal
multiball shift bug                 ?    -         ?       -       YES     


Multiple balls released from
lock multi player)                  ?     -      NO      -       YES     


Extra ball in video mode       NO    -      YES     -      YES     


Display Flicker
Supercharge Mode                YES     -     YES     -      NO   


Supercharger raise and
enable 1-2-3                        NO      -     YES    -      YES     


Supercharger enabled   
with 3loops                          YES     -    NO      -       NO     


Standard generous
 freeride time                       NO      -    YES     -       YES     

[PinPal]

Very interesting,,, thanks for posting  
My Getaway is Rev L2 But I have never seen an Xtra ball in video mode in the three years I have owned it   

[ajlaird]

Very interesting,,, thanks for posting  
My Getaway is Rev L2 But I have never seen an Xtra ball in video mode in the three years I have owned it   

Haven't checked, but think I am on L2 and pretty sure I have got an extra ball from video mode on a number of occasions - and have had the endless multiball bug happen twice from memory.

[ktm450]

I have L5 and have never seen the EB in video mode, I have it set to factory setting though, maybe it is an option, or if you extend the length of the video mode in the settings???

[TUF-427]

Ktm I have seen EB come up in video mode in both L2 and L5,

generally on the Right side when I am normally scooting down the left in fifth....

I run mine in factory defaults which is Medium across the board I think....

[ajlaird]

Oops, I have never seen Extra Ball in video mode, I was thinking of Burn Rubber.