Been giving Pink Gorilla most of my love lately, so tonight the hubby and I are going to head down to ACME for ITG. Maybe we will see some of you there!

There was a nice group of 8~9 of us at Acme last night.
Tony and I spent several $ each playing the basketball pop-a-shot game.
Bill, those basketball cabinets are the best of their kind I've played on! They keep track with that sensor on how many you make, and was the right height too.
The only thing is we couldn't figure out what the scores were to get to each level/bonus round. ~45 for the first round, and had to be above 170 to move from 2nd round to the 3rd...
Anyway, it's fun.

Unfortunately, we also played the Fireball. I was open and willing to give it a try. Even played it twice with Tony to see if we could figure it out.
As a pro at foosball and air hockey, I did not like Fireball. The speed at which the ball travels makes it impossible to block, and you almost need to be spinning the stick to stop any fast attack.
I wonder what it would have been like had they gave flippers instead of a turning paddle... 2 play verses pinball?! now THAT would be really interesting.
So new basketball games = good.
Fireball = sadly, bad.

Thanks for the reviews!  Yes, we like those basketballs for the reason you stated, they track the shot accuracy.  So far, so good with those, and we have placed 8 units of them so far without any major repair issues.
Fireball, well, you said it!  The good fussball and air hockey players are not pleased with it's game play.  I guess it is more for dad and the kids to play.  Win some, lose some.  But if we do not try things, we will not discover good things.

I am betting that the new terminator shooter that should be arriving in a week or two is going to be a hit, but really, who knows.

Coming today, Washington's first cabinet of Terminator Salvation.  Please post your thoughts after trying this game out.

Any news on the repair of GFDM? I miss those...

GF is now at Pink Gorilla

Okay, much news.
Terminator gun game, well, what can I say.  Like most of the new games that come in lately, it does not work!  Trying to get a replacement I/O board.  But for now, it is in trouble.

Better news, looks like we may have a replacement DM V3 board heading our way, so I am thinking that DM will be returning shortly.  :-) 

GF, we did not feel it was worth buying a board for with it's 20.00 weekly collection.  The cabinet has been sold.  Could it be the PG cabinet that showed up there?

Will keep you all abreast once I know more.  :-)

Good knews for DM! thanks bill!
and yeah bobby told me the GF that is now at PG was yours. He put the GF V3 banner so it looks super shnazzy now.

I'm assuming the SN2's double premium is off? And anyone know the status of the unlocks? I'm gonna be wandering down to Acme on the 10th, and I can bring any necessary unlock code(s) with me if they haven't been applied to the machine yet.

As far as I know thunderbird. None of the unlock codes have been put in yet on the acme machine so go right ahead! That would be fantastic if someone could enter those soon.

I won't be down there until the 10th, but I wrote down unlock code 6 into my cell phone (I'd save the unlock code picture, but my laptop's SD card slot is not working). Is this the only code that I'll need to unlock everything so far? Or will I need to bring the other 5 as well? Just checking, since I've never actually unlocked a SN2 machine before and (surprisingly) GameFAQs and DDRFreak have zero information on these unlocks.

I would take all six with you just in case, because I'm not sure if unlock 6 will get everything.
I'm pretty sure you need to enter all of them, but who knows right? I never unlocked a machine past extreme so I don't know......

You need all of them. And have to enter them in order.

I'll be there this Saturday at about 3, meeting a Beatspace player from Portland. I'll try to remember to put these in when I'm there (if they aren't installed already).

Any update on the whole unlock thing? Or do I need to haul the whole batch of codes down tomorrow?

There's a 7th unlock code.

weird. The website doesn't have that one.

I've downloaded pictures for all of the unlock codes to my SD card, and will input any that are needed tomorrow.

Update:

The SN2 machine had a weird screen problem, it looked like it was massively zoomed in. It was still playable as the arrows were partially still in view, but other in-game interface elements (lifebar, score) were not. Also, I could not get any unlock codes to take.

I guess the fact that the codes still haven't been entered means that not many people have been to Acme lately? I know it's been a few weeks for me, but that's because I live nearly an hour away.

Regarding unlock codes:

example image

IIRC, the number in the top left is the current level of unlock codes applied to the machine. I believe you can start putting in codes for the level you want immediately after the number shown. Example: If it shows unlock code lvl 4, start with lvl 5 and go from there.

This could all be bassackwards wrong. So if it doesn't work, my bad.

I was at Acme yesterday with Hollie and James.  I only played ITG2, but I saw the big screen problem happen.  (James did it.  )

If someone wants to post all the unlocks here or link me to them, I'd be happy to enter them the next time I head down there, which will probably be soon.

All 7 can be found linked from here: http://www.ddronlinecommunity.com/forums/2/forum_topics/887

Currently the machine has no unlocks available. Apparently you have to be rather quick at putting them in (judging from some posts on bemanistyle). I wasn't fast enough (trying to read pictures off of a phone and put them in slows things down considerably ).

Like I mentioned earlier:
1) You have to do the codes in order, 1, 2, 3,...
2) You can't step on arrows before you start the code. Put coins in, put code in.
3) It worked when each note was on a beat, because in the code they're on each line, so it always worked when I hit each arrow as if it was a quarter beat note.
4) Once it goes back to attract mode, you're done. You'll only have time to get one in.
5) If you screw up, you're stuck until next credit due to the time, and that I don't think it resets...

People say that you can enter them all in one credit.  You just have to wait until the attract mode loops back to the title screen again. 

Yes indeed, the monitor on SN2 was messed up.  The tech's got it squared away today.  Please let us know how it holds up.

Hmm, I didn't try that... It took several minutes before returning to the attract for me so I gave up and reset it (since I had access to PG's op menu when I did it).