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Jack Danger plays Kiss pinball while rendering, breaks the game via Star Child exploit, discusses Spike 3 code updates.
Love Gun Multiball can be repeatedly triggered by shooting Star Child in rapid succession, making the game exploitable
high confidence · Jack demonstrates this exploit multiple times during stream, achieving three Love Gun multiballs in rapid succession
Kiss pinball has ball save bugs related to the Gene Simmons tongue mechanic that will likely be fixed in a code update
high confidence · Jack states multiple times 'I'm sure they're going to fix that' regarding ball save issues with the tongue
Spike 3 pinball machines use USB thumb drives to download and install code updates, whereas older machines used ROM chips
high confidence · Jack explains the update process: 'you download it to a thumb drive, then you take the back box off, I'm sorry, the back glass, plug a thumb drive into the Spike 3 there, and it just updates'
Jack is working on multiple commercial animation projects including TV commercials, interactive pieces, and mall display animations
high confidence · Jack states: 'I have a project for a TV commercial. I have a project for an interactive piece. I have a project for a mall, like display thing'
Jack previously worked on animation for Jersey Jack Pinball's Wicked Witch game and would like to work on Stern pinball animations
high confidence · Jack mentions: 'working on the Wicked Witch for Jersey Jack Pinball was so freaking fun' and expresses interest in contacting 'Sam Stern about doing animation'
“I should actually holler at them my only thing is animation I should I should contact Sam Stern about doing animation that would be cool combine my two loves pinball and animation”
Jack Danger@ 7:21 — Reveals Jack's interest in combining his animation work with pinball design at Stern
“I love making bullshit pinball announcements. It's my favorite thing to do. Outside of photoshopping crap on my friends photos to make it look embarrassingly real”
Jack Danger@ 8:24 — Explains Jack's tendency to make fake game announcements on Pinside forums as a joke
“Gary Stern was coming over and everyone's like, you already told us, dude. You drank like 900 beers and then told us Gary Stern was coming.”
Jack Danger@ 9:37 — Jack acknowledges he gets drunk and reveals confidential information; Gary Stern visited his location
“This is what happens. We just... If you're trying to score big, we just took the fun out of this machine.”
Jack Danger@ 33:33 — Jack recognizes that exploiting the Star Child/Love Gun mechanic breaks the game's fun factor
“The ball save ones are the most messed up, absolutely. Absolutely. That seems to be the only problem I'm finding, is the Ball Saver thing.”
Jack Danger@ 42:02 — Jack identifies the primary bug in Kiss pinball as related to ball save mechanics
“Keith Keith Elwin made a comment. He's like, oh, Love Gun Multiball in the new code is seriously only one shot? I'm going to exploit the crap out of that in a tournament.”
Jack Danger — Mentions pro player Keith Elwin's awareness of the Love Gun exploit vulnerability
community_signal: Jack Danger actively streams pinball Monday-Friday at 5 PM CST and engages with chat about game design and mechanics
high · Jack states 'I do this Monday through Friday 5 p.m. Central Standard Time' and responds throughout stream to chat questions
design_philosophy: Love Gun Multiball exploit via Star Child spam makes the game breakable and removes fun factor when exploited; Jack demonstrates achieving multiple Love Gun multiballs in rapid succession
high · Jack achieves three Love Gun multiballs in a row from one ball, gets four multiballs in sequence, and states 'we just took the fun out of this machine' when exploiting
community_signal: Jack Danger makes fake pinball announcements on Pinside forums as a joke and acknowledges he reveals confidential information when drunk
high · Jack states 'I love making bullshit pinball announcements' and admits to telling people about Gary Stern's visit while drunk
personnel_signal: Gary Stern recently visited Jack Danger's location and was nostalgic about classic machines like Stargazer
medium · Jack mentions Gary visited Thursday and showed him a Stargazer machine; Gary was excited to see it after possibly not seeing one since the 1980s
personnel_signal: Jack Danger has worked on animation for Jersey Jack Pinball (Wicked Witch) and is interested in doing animation work for Stern Pinball
medium · Jack states 'working on the Wicked Witch for Jersey Jack Pinball was so freaking fun' and expresses desire to contact Sam Stern about animation
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“Folks, we broke the game. We found how to destroy this thing. How exciting is that?”
Jack Danger@ 51:36 — Summarizes the discovery of the game-breaking exploit
product_concern: Kiss pinball has systematic ball save bugs related to the Gene Simmons tongue mechanic that Jack expects will be fixed in code updates
high · Jack repeatedly mentions ball save failures with the tongue mechanic and states 'I'm sure they're going to fix that' multiple times
technology_signal: Spike 3 platform enables easy code updates via USB thumb drive, contrasting with older ROM-chip based systems that cannot be updated
high · Jack explains detailed Spike 3 update process and compares to older games like Bram Stoker's Dracula that have unfixable bugs