Could be a bug in the code but, but the output from your power supply may also be slightly low. This has been a problem with Spike on and off since it's sensitive to voltage drops. Usually these resets happen when a lot is going on in a multiball (like Midnight Madness). Put a multimeter on the output leads on the power supply (not the power distribution board) and see if it reads at or slightly above 48v output (48.1, 48.2). If it's even 47.9, use the pot to turn it up a smidge to get it to 48v or 48.1v.

I've played Munsters Midnight Madness (killer mode, probably the best intro to a MM ever done) a number of times and never had it reset, so it sounds like it may be the voltage issue on yours.

The best intro to midnight madness ever. Really enjoyed it and the mode.

Clock set to 11:59 AM or PM? Maybe your clock is off by 12 hours.

Ah, right. Midnight Madness wasn't added until .91. I've been 'boned.

Yeah, it has to change to midnight while a game is in progess.

~150 million, although I think I could do a lot better now that I understand the multiplier/zaps/super jackpot stacking, but it's on the route now so I have less opportunity to play it.

YES! Having a series of shots to get rid of Spot (feed him?) when you don't want his seemingly eternal mode would be a welcome code addition.

It's not new. Stern has been ripping Cliff off with these since Ghostbusters, but they are thicker than Cliffies and affect slow ball movement.

It easily jumped to the top on the route I help with. But you can't really tell how a new pin will earn until a couple months in when the honeymoon period is over.

Munsters Super Skill shot will teach you bad habits that mess with your Iron Maiden play. I find myself always changing the song between balls now accidentally as I reflexively hold down the left flipper at the beginning of each ball.

A huge improvement in the LE aesthetic - a very unified look now. Love the change!

Might be something specific to the LE, but it may also be that the output from your power supply is a tiny bit too low, which causes resets on Spike. Check to make sure you're getting 48v out of the power supply as it heads to the input on the power distribution board.

I think there was a problem with the Pros rebooting in Midnight Madness and elsewhere before 0.91 was released, but after 0.91 I don't think any Pros have had the issue, thats why I said his may be something specific to the LE or a slightly low power supply output that can be adjusted easily.

We haven't had any reboots on the Pro here (and I have the clock shifted 12 hours on the route so people can get it at noon - it comes up a lot), so I assumed 0.91 fixed it.

You can adjust the tension at the top of the shaker motor bracket with that screw that runs the length of it. Adjusting that usually takes care of noises like what you're talking about.

Ah, sorry, Pinballlife are all we get these days. Been a while since I've even seen a Stern shaker.

We have the issue on the Pro here. Hits the underside of the wireform ramp over the shooter lane about 30% of the time. I'll eventually get around to putting a washer on the ramp supports to raise it a little.

Likely another cost reduction.

It's all time and attention. And time is money. It's likely another cost reduction to save a few cents per playfield.

No ball save on location is not nice. I turned it on since most of the people playing at the location it's at are casuals. My feeling is if the ball is lost in the first 5 seconds, most people affected by this are casuals who do not need to be punished and discouraged, especially since they paid cash for a little entertainment. A ball save at the beginning of the ball doesn't really help good players that much.

Either way, a ball save at the beginning of the ball doesn't really help good players that much. Scoring is blown up well after the first 5 seconds of play.

Kitty is the biggest shortcut. 6x multiplier will give you reasonable points pretty quickly. Don't take any super jackpots until you get it to 6X.

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Also, either Spike II still has memory leak problems and Stern is rebooting it daily at 24/7 locations (most likely since they've been doing this since at least Iron Maiden instead of fixing the leak), or there's an attract mode reboot bug on Munsters. I've caught it live and on video rebooting in attract mode a number of times.

Normally I would maintain a release bug list like I have for Iron Maiden, KISS, etc so they're all in one place here on Pinside and reported to Stern automatically by me, but we're out on Munsters so I won't have one around to check bug reports. The Pro on the route here is going away in the next week or two and we're not getting the Premium as originally planned.

Here you go:

https://archive.org/details/The_Munsters

If you're using Windows to unzip it, use something like WinRAR instead. The built-in winzip extractor has problems with the Stern zips sometimes. Makes a bad file, but won't give you an error so you know.

We clearly have different clientele. 95% noobs at the locations I help with. Games often under 90 seconds. Ball save is good customer service.

Hard to tell from the pictures what kind of gap there is between the mini pf cover and the playfield routed edge, but if you lay a level across it, the mini playfield cover should be the same height as the playfield.

What are you unzipping with?

You need the Stern headphone kit that mounts in the door to plug in the headphones. $99.

https://shop.sternpinball.com/collections/accessories/products/stern-headphone-jack-kit-for-spike

Are you going to offer one to protect the Grandpa hole, replacing the crappier Stern one?

Same problem KISS and a few other have had. You just need to adjust the switch arm.

You can film it with an iphone in slo-mode mode to see if the ball is going over the opto, but if that's not happening, try covering the bottom half of the opto with black construction paper.

Not necessarily even RPM control. If they had a shaker strength adjustment from 0 to 100% like they do for the LED/Flasher brightness that would mesh with the current interface and would be a pretty easy global add.

And as long as we're dreaming, I'd like to see Stern standardize the volume of music and effects across all machines from here out. Why they aren't normalizing everything to a set standard is completely beyond me.

https://www.pinballlife.com/shaker-motor-kit-rev-c-for-stern-spike-spike-2-system-games.html

$99.95 plus shipping. They have the official Stern one, too, but that's an extra $50 down the toilet for functionally the same thing. Use that $50 difference and $25 more for art blades instead.

That happened mostly because when the spike transition first happened, the non-Stern shaker motors were taking out node boards due to a design change/sensitivity no one outside Stern knew about (pinball life took care of the people affected AFAIK). Hasn't been a problem for a few years, but yes, buying ANYTHING non-Stern (mods, etc) technically voids the warranty.

We use pinball life spike (and SAM) shakers exclusively and have never had a problem. Stern's is overpriced, and the red tremor from cointaker makes unpleasant shaking that's more like a jackhammer.

A> That's nice, but they've been sold out for a while (try checking out) and their shipping is generally atrocious.
B> They're so lazy they have a picture of a SAM shaker kit - it's not even a spike kit.

Call around and you'll likely save hundreds.

Latest code is 0.96. I wonder if the machines at TPF were running something newer...

PRO V0.98 - April 1, 2019 <-----Dated April Fool's, but came out 4/8/19
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Fixed:
- Fixed ALLOW SPOT ATTRACT adjustment. If off it will stop the toy from
raising in the attract mode.
- Fixed an issue where tilt would go on too long after all the balls where
drained.
- Fixed sounds being called during test mode
- Fixed the timing of the Zap Jackpot background lamp effect. Zap Jackpot will
no longer show through when they should not.

New:
- Added Herman Multiball Jackpot lamp effect.
- Added Munster Madness Multiball Jackpot lamp effect.

Tweaked:
- Tweaked Shaker motor effect during Super Jackpot award sequence. It's now
less intense and it's more fun.
- Added more intelligence to Mystery. It will start something when the player
has less going on.
- Made the skill shot timer not pause for inactive balls.
- Removed the feature adjustment - START GAME ON CREDIT. This functionality is
now handled by the system.
- Improved the volume and priority of the GRANDPA LABORATORY kick-out sounds
- Reduced how many areas are needed for the first set of areas in MUNSTER
MADNESS LEVEL I from 5 areas to 3. Better than average players that can
trap-up the balls and shoot the lower playfield will have less of what is
easy for them and be more challenging overall. After the 3 sets of areas the
player is forced to play the whole game and put the ball at risk more.

Plus a bunch of system stuff, the only one that's really important is:
Added UTIL->SAVE and UTIL->LOAD which save and restore all game settings
to / from a USB thumbdrive.

Also, "standard" pricing is now $1/1 or $5/7 with the new system.

All the Stern part numbers are in my speaker/amp update thread.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/replacing-on-board-amp-with-external-amp-for-iron-maiden

Braille code on its side? That's an "H", but it doesn't account for the last two dots...

It could also be a byte in which case the picture "01001100" would be a "2"

Watching some of the streams, "t" and "v" come up a lot.