Bug Right flippers freeze

[canuck]

I was just playing a good game, almost made it to the final frontier mode, then something strange happened. The ball launchers went haywire, making a grinding sound, swerving up and down for no reason. Sounded like a ball jam. Eventually that stopped, but then the right flippers were frozen. I could launch the ball, but couldn't use the bottom or top right flipper for the rest of the game. I called attendant, but that did nothing. Three ball drains later, game over.

The game finished pretty quickly with only the left flipper working.

Weird bug, someone else must have encountered this.

 

[pezpunk]

that's wild. never had that happen! although I have had the table's (virtual) DMD go berserk and freeze up.

 

[Aleksandar]

I had this too few times in Android, the right flipper freezes if you press it few times it will eventually release but then freezes again after few seconds, and nothing helps besides quit the game...sucks! And that's new! Also the thing with final frontier when the camera freezes sucks...ah, everybody is apparently so 'excited' about the Terminator pin upcoming haha nobody seems to care about fixing issues of old tables! I would like to know why an 'updated' table, given that the louncher' s position has changed, has more bugs than the previous?!

 

[Clawhammer]

I've had some very frustrating game ending bugs but never of this kind on iOS. Weird!

 

[Mayuh]

I saw that happen on a real STTNG. And also on a Flintstones. Not very often, maybe twice a year... That could very well be something ROM related. Or the flipptronic board acting strange. Weird thing that Farsight emulated all of these - maybe it's the ball search code, that triggers that behavior - my DM does use the flippers while in ball search and it uses the same hardware...

 

[canuck]

It's actually amusing that FS emulated the physics and even the bugs in the original programming. It keeps the game fresh. When a ball skips out of a lane, or gets stuck, or flippers freeze. Not many other programs do that.