• Occasionally the 'Jackpot', 'Extra Ball', and the 'Shoot Again' light will get stuck on dim when they're supposed to be off. Per Cameron, the "dimming light" code was a major hack, and sometimes it doesn't know what it's doing with the lights.
• In the Status Display, the # of remaining hits for lighting "Side Show" is wrong. It seems to like the number "11".
• If you have one marvel lit, and "Spot Marvel" and "Multiball" lit on the center ramp, the game will spot the marvel, run through the Multiball animation, then give you your ball back for Join The Circus. (The Multiball will be lit after Party Multiball, however.)
• With above, if "Arc Multiball" is also lit, with "Quick Arc Multiball" adjustment set to YES, it will start all multiballs.
• If you start JTC with "Spot Marvel" lit, when you reach Party Multiball, it will be lit during that mode, yet can never be awarded.
• Lighting glitch - when EB is lit, and JTC is ready, the EB will be awarded, and then JTC will start, but have the wrong lamp effect.
• JTC Mode "Amazing Acrobats", when introducing the mode, does not run through the neato light effects showing you where to shoot.
• If you hit the ramp right after a stacked Multiball mode, and the magnet misses the ball, and you shoot up the ramp again, the "Super Duper Jackpot" animation will run twice. (Unknown if it actually awards the jackpots a second time.)

     I am NOT criticizing Cameron's programming in any way! Trust me, I absolutely love 2.0H, to the point to playing it daily now. These are just things I've noticed while playing. And I know I'm forgetting some as well.

• Juggler Lock: Sometimes when a ball has alot of spin on it, and the Juggler magnet lets go of the ball, it will roll back down the loop. When this happens, it hits the loop switch which automagically awards another Juggler lock. I'd like to see this catch itself - i.e. don't award it right away, if the ball never ends up in the first saucer.
• More scoring from the Judges: They judge the Juggler, Highwire Multiball, and Ringmaster. Why not have them judge other marvels as well? Like the Boom Baloon? Or Menagrie? It wouldn't affect the score hardly at all, since they're all averaged together in the Fun-With-Bonus.
• Scoring Juggler & Acrobats Loops: Some Multiballs (Ringmaster, at least) will still award a Juggler and Acrobat shot when you make either. Other Multiballs (like Highwire) will not. I'd like to see it where no Multiball will score a Juggler or Acrobat loop.
• Upgrading difficulty for shots: After the second Highwaire Multiball, the 'Light' and 'Lock' targets usually require two hits each to light a lock. I'd like to see this extended to other marvels - Like spelling 'WOW', or two loops around the Juggler to get one light.

• Ramp Lockup: One of the major problems with the game, the lock releasing balls correctly. Before inserting the spacer for the ramp, try these first, because installing the spacer can add too much slope to the ramp, making it release two balls instead of one.
  • Game Level: Make sure your game is leveled properly! Most of my friends like putting the game at a lesser slope than the 6.5 degrees- and if you're like them, this can cause a problem. Also, make sure it's leveled left-right.
  • First ball movement: Put three balls into the lock. Move the first ball vertically. You should have very little vertical (up-down) play. If a ball has too much vertical play, it will ride up the post, and off the switch. This can cause problems with the game releasing all balls on purpose.
  • Ramp Level: If you really don't want to get an upgrade kit, and the ramp lockup is still giving you problems, bend the center of the ramp, between the first support and the magnet. Either up or down, depending on your ramp's performance. Bending up will increase ball speed (too much will cause two balls to pop out of the lock), while bending down will slow down the speed.
  • Switches: Even if you have the spacer installed, you may have a problem with the switch leafs. When the post pops back up, it will push the ball still on the ramp back up some. If the switch leaf is bouncing or up too high, it will catch on the ball. Try replacing the leafs with the roller-type used in older Data East ball troughs. These small rollers work great.
• Display Plastic Cut: This one is easy. Every time you lower your playfield, just make sure the plastic does not get caught on the magnet-playfield. No cutting is necessary. Usually when I lower my playfield, right before it catches on the plastic, I pull it forward towards me as far as it will go. Once it's past the edge of the plastic, I push it back so it fill rest in the hooks properly.
• The rest of the fixes, mostly ball hang-ups, are up to you whether or not you want to install them. I haven't installed them in my game, and have very little problems. (For a home game, at least..)

• The ramp lockup test was NOT clearing the switch status flags when it started up, this has been fixed.
• If the ramp magnet switch could not start the Multiball start LAMP effect, but the display effect was running, it would re-run the display effect once the ball reached the lockup. This has been fixed.
• Starting final mode now cancels the multiple jackpot.
• Shots are ignored just after starting a new final mode phase.
• Added additional tilt check in ramp lockup code.
• Added adjustment to install manual eddy boards.
• Ringmaster is no longer down during sideshow, but IS down during video modes.
• Added adjustment to allow all abort-friendly display effects to be aborted right from the start of the game.
• Possible to abort most display effects.
• Added adjustment to make Acrobats only spot from made switch on the ramp (instead of enter).
• Added adjustment to enable the 'old' skill shot. Simple skill shot runs in tournament mode.
• Added adjustment to enable timed Ringmaster mode.
• Added adjustment to skip first Ringmaster defeat.
• Added adjustment to stop Ringmaster magnet catching the ball after WOW.
• Added Copy-Cat video mode!
• Side-Show lamp effect now masks inlane lamps.
• Neon Multiball has a significantly reduced chance of running until one of the regular Multiballs has been played.
• Side show will try not to give out two video type modes in a row.
• Added Juggler sneaky lock on left loop!
• Boom Balloon will attempt to lower itself if it registers hits while it should be down, and the ball is hitting other jets.
• All Multiballs can be restarted when quickly starting another Multiball. (On an adjustment which defaults OFF).
• Updated Cirqus Member time-stamp to reference from 2001, and system clock starts at 2002.
• Created some presets for new adjustments.
• Added 'Early' to game over kickout adjustment - It kicks during match/hstd processing.
• Added adjustments to stop physical Highwire and Juggler locks.
• New juggler lock and start lamp effects.
• Diverter will switch position when balls in play decreases to 1 to free jams. (Adjustment sets frequency, or disables)
• Added quick jackpot, lit from side-show!
• Removed pinball hotline and web/email info from attract mode. :-(
• Tweaked the speech for skill shot, Ringmaster and Hat-Trick!
• Hat-Trick and Ringmaster modes now work correctly together.
• Test Report messages regarding disabled hardware will only show up in Test mode .. Stopping DOT on home games.
• Backbox Luck switch will not be marked bad if the backbox is disabled. (However it will still show up in the test report if it is bad.)
• 'Load Cannon' award on the outlanes has been modified to give lower points.
• Game restart is now correctly handled during Side Show.
• Added delay to Boom Balloon timer so background display effect shows starting time.
• Added feature adjustment to disable timed spot-marvel (off the inlane).
• Added 'Clear Hardware Errors' utility.
• Spot Marvel disabled while no marvels can be spotted.
• Timed spot marvels (off the inlane) are not lit at all if no remaining marvels can be spotted.
• Added music and speech when Join The Cirqus is ready!
• Added new Join The Cirqus phase 'Acrobats Spin': Player must score 100 spins to win. Target spins set by new Feature Adjustment!
• Added second Join The Cirqus phase: Player must score 3 million points (from roving hurry-ups) to win. Final score set by new Feature Adjustments!
• New Cirqus phases played second time player reaches Join. Added new adjustment to set this.
• Add ball/score to background display effect of phase 2 of Join The Cirqus.
• Join The Cirqus intro display effects can be aborted at ball-start and the second (or more) time through.
• Skill Shot lit at ball start, during Join The Cirqus to advance the mode. Ball is held during intro effects (which can be aborted).
• Timer adjustments for Kangaroo Video mode and Cannon Fire Mode can be set to 'OFF' to disable these modes.
• If all marvels except the Acrobats Marvel have been awarded, but the Acrobats mode is active, then that marvel will be spotted.
• Added pause feature to the coin-door. Opening the door disables the flippers, stops mode timers, and starts a ball saver (2 seconds for each ball in play). Balls are re-launched once the door is closed!
• Fixed some small glitches in the ball lock and multiball start lamp effects.
• Removed 'Player One' speech during single player games. Ball serve speech only plays 5 times.
• Modified Backbox disabled adjustment so that the time between kicks can also be set. Changed adjustment text to "BBOX. KICK DELAY".
• Added more compensation logic to Highwire ramp: lock (or multiball) will be awarded if no scoring occurs 5 seconds after the ramp magnet releases the ball. This is so the player receives the correct lock/multiball sequence even if a lockup switch is failing.
• Improved Ringmaster Battle logic.
• Diverter remains unenergized for several seconds after the wire-ramp enter switch.
• Added feature adjustment 'QUICK ARC MBALL.'. When set YES, the ball will NOT be stopped on the ramp magnet when Strike An Arc Multiball is started along with a Highwire Multiball lock (or start).

     Like I did with Twilight Zone, I will have a manual addendum available shortly, that is an update for all software revisions since the manual was printed. You can download the ROM below. If you'd like a chip mailed to you where you only have to plug it in, drop me a line. I charge $4.00 for a chip and programming, not including shipping.

cv_20h.zip {ROM Checksum: $B120}