Mine just barely makes it to the tip of the left flipper. Or its sdtm but with a little nudge timed with the flipper button I can save it 90% of the time.

My game really enjoys being broken. I finally got around to replacing the frank gear so now he works good. I had a stuck on left ramp opto and despite cleaning and reflowing is still stuck closed. Now the chop opto and right ramp optos are acting up how they were when I first brought it home. Rapid phantom triggers. And now the crypt drop opto is joining the party random triggers of that opto.

Thanks Chuckwurt!

Modding is fun on this game, for sure. Mine haven't been as extensive, but I feel like they really added some personality to the game: Second Castle Tower, Alice Head in a Basket, and the speaker panel decal. (I'm not counting the Pop Figurines on the top, as they're just goofy)

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This one is driving me nuts, I've had this problem for months now and it's made my game unplayable as the drop target will keep going up and down, rewarding points and sending out multiballs until the game either crashes or loses track of balls/scoring. Spooky sent me a replacement opto for the crypt but it's the wrong one. Zooming in with a camera phone, I think, maybe, possibly, there's a frayed wire from one of the optos touching metal. Maybe. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned something about bending the drop target assembly to get it to align correctly with the opto, but that seems a little vague (or my memory of that post is vague). Reseating connections sometimes works for a ball or two. Doing drop target tests in settings also works for a ball or two. Just waiting for the correct optos before I take stuff off to get in there, although it's a long weekend, maybe I'll mess around anyway. Weird that it's false triggers instead of no triggers, which is what usually seems to happen with dead or dying optos.

*Speaking of the wrong opto, if anyone from Spooky sees this, I sent an email to Morgan early this morning about getting the right opto, but no response. It's a busy week, perhaps people aren't in the office at Spooky today or this week, I'm just checking to make sure Morgan still works there or if I should contact someone else. Thanks.

Seeing as Morgan (aka Squirrel) is Chuck's daughter, I'm sure she's still there. I would contact Chris (aka the brother of Eric Menier from JJP) at [email protected]. He responds fast and knows the game inside and out.

Welcome to my hell! The optos are a PITA to replace and it only lasted a few games before it was back to drop target mania with no ball. I think there is something else going on ... but I can relate!!

Oh no. What potential solutions are you looking into now? A ball ejecting into the shooter lane is a common culprit to start the crypt lock misfiring for me. I'm so good at this game I don't even have to launch the ball to get the skill shot and crypt multiball.

I'm following this convo. I assume you've cleaned the optos with q-tips and isopropyl alcohol first, and checked to make sure they are lined up properly right?

My drop target was doing this exact thing. It ended up being a cold solder joint on the opto. I re-soldered and it's been 100% since.

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I had this problem early in with my game. KT sent me a new opto and as soon as it arrived the game straightened out. It was bizarre. I did use a Q-too and alcohol to clean the optos, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how that fixed it. Still working to this day without replacing the opto.

It’s been 6 months since the last significant code update. Bummed honestly

Did you decide to keep ACNC? If I recall correctly you had yours posted for sell a few months back.

Double post

I have it currently. I’m moving to Chicago however and may need to sell it.

Pretty bummed

I think the rumor was December 1st. Not sure why that stuck in my head, but that's what I recall.

Added a little Christmas spirit to ACNC#250.

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If we don't see one by sometime in January, I think a lot of people will be bummed!

I am still getting intermittent multiple balls loaded into the shooter lane. I have the last update that was available.
Anything I should check or are other people having the same problem still?

Shooter lane switch. Verify that as a ball is sitting in the lane, the switch is always closed/active, and that there aren't positions the ball could rest wher ethe switch is open.

I found with some of my machines with magnets that mirror balls can do all sorts of weird things as they become more magnetized. If you have any old school, non-mirrored balls, trying replacing your current set and see if that helps.

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I looked all around for issues with my optos and I’ve come to the conclusion that the left ramp one is dead somehow. The right ramp, chop opto and crypt optos randomly trigger. Went to check for loose connections and the connectors have been glued to the boards? Is that normal? It was on every connector in the game that had a connection to a board under the playfield.

Yes. Spooky is in a practice of using some sort of hot glue to keep the molex connectors attached to the boards so that they stay fixated to the boards (more reliably, I suppose) with movement of the playfield.

My mystery scoop coil is starting to fire randomly. I've checked and cleaned the scoop optos but it still happens. If you figure out how to fix your opto issues please let us know.

It is normal. Yes, opto 33 was bad on mine; if I hit the playfield, it would trigger. There was a screw touching the solder, removed the screw and it went away for a period of time. Issue came back, and had to replace the opto. Huge PITA to get to for replacement. Replace the runners and post sleeves when replacing the optos. Appears to be more common than I thought.

It’s really odd to me that most of them on my game have either failed or are in the process of failing. They seemed to have been much more reliable in the older games. I wonder if it was just a bad batch around production time?

Can anyone confirm for me the color of the lights in this location during normal play? I think I may have found the start of my opto problems. The light closest to the collect hurry up target is lighting up yellow while everything else is white.

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I had a sling bulb start going purple really often no matter what color it should have been. Reseating the connector took care of it for me if I remember correctly

How many of you guys ever got 4 ball multi ball? I remember doing it long ago before the last two code updates. As I remember, if you stack Crypt and Frank the table will auto launch the 4th ball into play for 4 ball multi. Have any of you done this with latest code update? I may pull glass to test this if not. I've never done it by stacking Ethyl and Crypt though.

I've played a few thousand games and have only ever had 3 ball MB.

I've stacked crypt and frank plenty of times, never had it launch a fourth ball on any code version I remember

Mine is white during normal play...and in looking I just realized that it looks like they might missed one of my LEDs during assembly.

Can anyone else confirm they have two LEDs at the hurry up target?

Edit: Spooky service says that hole was to be used for different lighting and there isn't suppose to be an additional LED there.

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I've been on the topper list for awhile, Spooky confirmed to me via-email that they no longer have the team to make ACNC toppers, so no more will be made in the future.

Please PM me if you are interested in selling your ACNC topper.

Oh no this is so sad!!

I could swear this happened to me back on early code? Maybe I dreamt it. But you're right, it doesn't do it now.

Weird. Maybe they changed their mind during production because I certainly haven’t added any. Mine is game 44.

Still no new code, sigh.
Hopefully for Christmas

R&M just got an awesome code update, so I'd bet we have the ACNC code before year end.

Just joined the club today and I have a couple questions.

1st, I have had a few scores end with a 1 or 2. The end of game match always ends in 0. Something seems off. Are you supposed to be able to have your score end with a 1?

2nd, the speaker lights are different brightness, is there a setting to make them the same?

You get 'one' point for each monster you defeat. The match only checks the tens digit.

Ok, thanks.

Now what is the fix for the magnet save? I tried bypassing the resistor and every setting. It throws the ball pretty hard, just backwards into the drain. Is the plastic disk the only other option?

The plastic disc fixed mine and I have never has the "throw to drain" since. I used to get that drain throw probably 75% of the time prior.

Experiment among the 3 different magnet save patterns available in the game settings.

The plastic disk didn't help on my game, but the magnet save is now working 80% of the time on Pattern 2. My game is #435 FWIW and I believe the resistor was no longer being used by the time it was built.

Mine is #331 and I don't have the resistor either.

#250 - I do have the resistor.

How do I find out what # of game I have? Is the original box the only way?

There is a sticker inside the cabinet that says it if I recall correctly. I'll check when I get home.

I’m game 210. It is part of the serial number.
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