I posted this on RGP but I figured I'd post it here too since I know there are a few DE SW owners on the forum.
I've noticed that my DE SW has stopped offering the extra ball shot. I don't mean it is auto adjusting to require more ramp shots before offering an extra ball. It no longer offers it any more, period.
The extra ball percentage is set in the menu for 25% (factory), but when you look in the audits, the percentage of extra balls offered has dropped to 13% and is falling. In other words, the game started to adjust the frequency of extra balls offered to keep it at the 25% level, but never started offering it again so that the percentage can rise and stay near the 25% level.
I tried manually adjusting the extra ball percentage down to 24% and up to 26% to see if it would force a recalculation and start offering extra balls again. No luck.
I found this thread discussing this:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...c90a7e7fa9ef97
In it RonKZ650 states:
I found that the no extra balls behavior started after my New Year's party when the total number of plays since an audit reset went over 400. Seems to back up what Ron stated. Has anyone else seen this behavior?
I guess my options are to 1) live with no extra balls being offered 2) reset the audits when the game tries to auto adjust the percentage.
Also, I am running the latest ROMs, CPU version 1.03.
I've noticed that my DE SW has stopped offering the extra ball shot. I don't mean it is auto adjusting to require more ramp shots before offering an extra ball. It no longer offers it any more, period.
The extra ball percentage is set in the menu for 25% (factory), but when you look in the audits, the percentage of extra balls offered has dropped to 13% and is falling. In other words, the game started to adjust the frequency of extra balls offered to keep it at the 25% level, but never started offering it again so that the percentage can rise and stay near the 25% level.
I tried manually adjusting the extra ball percentage down to 24% and up to 26% to see if it would force a recalculation and start offering extra balls again. No luck.
I found this thread discussing this:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...c90a7e7fa9ef97
In it RonKZ650 states:
I had a similar problem on a Data East "Hook" game and never could figure it out. After a while (about 400 games) the machine would lose track of how much percentage of extra balls it had given out and think is was still at 20% when in reality it was much lower. In the Audits you could read games played and extra balls given and it didn't matter what the numbers were, the machine would indicate 20% and would not light the extra ball shot during gameplay. I had to reset the audits every 400 games to get normal play. Frustrating.
I found that the no extra balls behavior started after my New Year's party when the total number of plays since an audit reset went over 400. Seems to back up what Ron stated. Has anyone else seen this behavior?
I guess my options are to 1) live with no extra balls being offered 2) reset the audits when the game tries to auto adjust the percentage.
Also, I am running the latest ROMs, CPU version 1.03.
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