Metallica Remastered rules and strategy
The Strategy
Metallica Remastered's Electric Chair, Grave Marker, Snake, and Coffin each start a Multiball and award a matching item. Electric Chair, Grave Marker, and Snake can also light their items at the blue spider-arrow shot. Hit all five white-circle shots, then the scoop for the first Hardwired. Complete four FUEL targets, then Dead End for 20-second 2x.
The goal
Complete the five white-circle major shots for Hardwired Hurry-Up. Hit Shows Sparky on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. The electric-chair figure at the upper center. Shoot the three targets directly below him. 10 times for The orbits and Sparky score jackpots. Switches fill Jacob’s Ladder. A full ladder lights Sparky for a Super Jackpot.. Hit the FUEL side target four times, then shoot Dead End for 2x playfield scoring.
How to start a mode
Complete the five white-circle shots, then shoot the scoop to start the first Hardwired Hurry-Up.
Recommended mode: Hardwired Hurry-Up
Use it for a complete mode from the five major shots without first collecting all four item types for Flashing shots build the jackpot. Direct hits to all four physical features light the scoop..
How to play it
Shoot four different flashing major shots. The remaining shot becomes the Hardwired Jackpot; shoot it before its value counts down.
Start Electric Chair Multiball
Hit Shows Sparky on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. The electric-chair figure at the upper center. Shoot the three targets directly below him. 10 times. The side targets count once and the center target counts twice. The final required hit starts The orbits and Sparky score jackpots. Switches fill Jacob’s Ladder. A full ladder lights Sparky for a Super Jackpot..
- During Multiball, shoot either orbit and Shows Sparky on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. The electric-chair figure at the upper center. Shoot the three targets directly below him. for Jackpots. Switch hits fill Jacob's Ladder; when the ladder is full, shoot Shows Sparky on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. The electric-chair figure at the upper center. Shoot the three targets directly below him. for the Super Jackpot.
Start FUEL 2x
Hit the FUEL side target four times to light Dead End, then shoot Dead End to start 20 seconds of 2x playfield scoring.
- Shoot Dead End again while 2x is running to reset its timer to 20 seconds. If Shows Snake on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. Right-side shot used for the pick-target add-a-ball and 2x scoring. 2x is also running, playfield scoring becomes 4x.
Alternative route: Grave Marker Multiball
Use this when the In single-ball play, lower all three inline drops. Shoot the magnet. Later starts need one more magnet hit. drops and magnet return are safer than Shows Sparky on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. The electric-chair figure at the upper center. Shoot the three targets directly below him..
- During single-ball play, lower all three inline In single-ball play, lower all three inline drops. Shoot the magnet. Later starts need one more magnet hit. drops and shoot the magnet in the same ball to start Four major shots score jackpots. The magnet relights them. Under Stern 1.04 defaults, four jackpots light the magnet Double Jackpot and Super setup.. Under default settings, the first three drop-target hits also light both Resurrect outlane saves.
Need to know
- Multiball stacking
- Hit Sparky 10 times. Side targets count once. The center counts twice. Later starts need three more hits., In single-ball play, lower all three inline drops. Shoot the magnet. Later starts need one more magnet hit., and Shows Snake on the Full Metallica Remastered Premium playfield photographed from directly above. Right-side shot used for the pick-target add-a-ball and 2x scoring. Multiballs do not stack with one another. Coffin Multiball can run with one of them; a third main multiball cannot join.
- Hardwired Hurry-Up
- The first Hardwired requires all five white-circle shots. After it has been played once, hit each unlit Hardwired shot to prime it, then complete all five and shoot the scoop to start.
- 72 Seasons
- Complete the four 72 Seasons targets during single-ball play, then make 72 single-ball switch hits. The mode starts automatically; switches build the Toy Jackpot, collected once at each lit target.
Sources and references9 references9 source links and outbound references.
- Kineticist Metallica strategy, updated with the Remastered changes
- Pinball Rulesheets — Metallica Remastered
- Kineticist: Metallica Remastered tutorial
- Pinball Cards: Metallica Remastered
- Metallica Remastered current-code history
- Metallica Tutorial
- PAPA Metallica tutorial
- Post pass technique reference
- Backhand technique reference