This must be some sort of evil prank directed towards Robertmee.

Yeah how 'bout it .... That and the busted MC playfield on Ebay...I guess I can start putting one together in parts

The playfield looks OK, just the box is in bad shape

where do i find that rom for pinmame?

Look again...The shooter lane is cracked in half. I didn't see it at first, either...A much wiser MC lover on pinside pointed it out to me

Yes, I saw that too. I can't believe Mike didn't point that out in the details. What really sucks is that I've emailed Mike many times in the last few years looking for a MC playfield and he could never find one for me. He's got thousands of square feet of stuff that he's always going through, so I check in from time to time....and of course now that he does find one, it's on eBay. I guess he forgot about contacting me when he found one.

Anyway, like Brian was saying, you'll find a MC eventually. It took me a couple years to find mine, and some of my more rare games took 5+ years to locate. Don't give up!

Matt

Glad to hear you finally got them to work

Man I haven't gotten to the wizard mode yet, but I came damn close Saturday night so hopefully Ill get there soon.

Congrats, Brian! I'm glad you can now see a lot of the stuff in MC that I've taken for granted over the years.

I didn't know that crown mode wasn't a multiball mode for you before....and how did you start crown, previously? I can't imagine it starting any other way than the secret door. Very interesting....

As a follow up to my own question, I'm going to guess that as soon as you collected everything else it just immediately went to crown? Am I correct?

It's a great feeling to nail a bunch of shots in crown and hear him yell "100 million!!!" over and over. Have fun with it! I think I'll go play a game on mine too.

Ah, interesting. Crown is indeed super enjoyable with revision 3. I can't imagine it any other way. The sounds are great too.

So, I wonder what else you're missing by having the Rev. 2 sound ROMs in there still. You must not be able to hear the "100 million" call out, for example, as you said the jackpot wasn't worth that much in Rev. 2.... How about the "Special is lit" during crown?

I know you said you don't want to tinker with things anymore, but if you still want to mail me the sound ROMs, I can check them out in my machine.

We need to give you the full effect of MC!

Finally got around to installing a set today, I did have to use the alternate display U4 to get them working. I still can't play my machine properly as it needs restoring and clearing but I put a few balls through and immediately saw new things, it's far better.

It looks like it was played a lot and never cleaned, then eventually when someone decided to sort it out they went crazy with a machine polisher. The art is mostly intact bar some edge insert wear, but you can see the paint is VERY thin. Also several small chips here and there, minipost below the upper flipper had bent over and ripped the wood up, so someone has replaced it with a yellow star post.

Luckily I now have a NOS playfield (and backglass and ramps). It has some odd dark speckling in the clear (may be a factory reject spare) which is most visible on the whites, but it's much nicer overall. I'm now actually playing my machine because I'm not worried about wearing the worn playfield given that there's a box next to it with a brand new one Not sure how to successfully transfer the decals from the old main ramp to the new.

Anyway, now that I've played it a bit, the old ROMs feel like half a game, it's so much better - you can tell this code was the finished product.

So a visitor achieved crown mode on my machine a week or two ago and we discovered what might be a bug. Just as/after crown was activated, he sent both balls into the scoop.

They never came out. Game just sat there until we turned it off, didn't even try going into ball search which would have kicked them out. Turned it back on and out they popped.

Does anyone have any of these for sale? I also am having a flasher bulb issue in the back glass. For some reason "of doom" never illuminates. Anyone else have this problem or have and suggestions?