Attack From Mars (Remake - Classic)
Chicago Gaming Co., 2017
Attack From Mars (Remake - LE)
Chicago Gaming Co., 2017
Attack From Mars (Remake - Special)
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Quoted from CyberNinja24:Very much appreciate you starting this thread as the other one had gone off the rails, in my opinion.
I’ve had a few issues with my LE, but Doug has been in touch with me and I feel confident they’ll be fixed. I’ll post the issues and corresponding fixes once I have them ironed out.
Thanks again for starting this thread.
Loving my AFM remake!
Flippers locking up also? (sorry, I had to pry)
You're all not alone in the flipper debacle. I too had a left, and right flipper go dead on me. Simultaneously.
Cats out of the bag now. I'll post up about my experience once it comes to a conclusion. For now, I will leave emotions out of it, and let the chips fall where they may.
Quoted from chrisnack:Sucks to see some of the issues but it still seems to be a small percentage overall.
If anyone has the post for the shooter lane please post/link here. I’ll look for it later if I can.
Current firmware/software is still 1.0.0 I believe as well. I’ll update the first post with that and a link to the software page. Really want to have a kind of master post with fixes listed. I’ve seen that on other forums for other things and it works well.
I believe we are about to find out exactly how "small of a percentage" this is, very shortly.
Quoted from Miknan:Put in my ticket for the Topper and ball launch issues last night. Already got back to me. Said they’ve seen this issue on recent machines and are sending me a new PIC 2.0, whatever that is. Also sent PDF on ball alignment and bending that metal part.
PIC 2.0 is their software update?
Quoted from whthrs166:OK so I just received and installed a new Controller Board (AFMrLE) my game settings with my old board had the flipper coils at -2. That setting was just right to prevent the overpowered flippers causing crazy air balls at default.
The new board had all the coil adjustments set to default ( to be expected) As I played my first game I noticed the flippers felt weak had trouble getting the ball to go up the ramps with any speed So I bumped up the flipper coils to +2 Perfect! This is what I would consider normal behavior for the coil adjustment!
What was your experience prior to the board blowing?
Quoted from hoby1:Lots of bending going on here........ Its so funny how many people are still complaining about the shooter but I have only heard from two other pinsiders that tried the fix i mentioned and they are having zero issues now. Ill keep playing my game and making that super fast skill shot every time. Go figure.
Bending is a half assed fix. I can't believe they released that as a "repair"
Quoted from snaroff:If CGC did as you suggest, guess what? Many of you would still have to bend it for it to hit the black chute in the proper place. Many of them mechanisms used by CGC are the original mechs! They haven't been reengineered and suffer from many of the same idiosyncrasies. The folks building these machines should be verifying it all comes together and works properly as a whole.
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Don't mind me...just a bit jaded.
Quoted from psivo:(New to this website so apologies in advance)
Brand new AFMr out of the box (#747 out of 1000). Anyone had an issue with a right flipper being energized as soon as power is turned on, blowing fuse F115? Left flipper has no issues. To help in troubleshooting, we removed the J119 "Lower Flipper" cabling from the Solenoid Power Board and that helped; powering on did NOT energize the flipper and blow the fuse.
We visually inspected for any shorts around the coil and back and found nothing. As per CGC, we then replaced the coil with a brand new one, still occurs. At this point, we are thinking it's a transistor on the Solenoid Power Board but given this is a brand new machine, we are going to request an entirely new board.
I also find it interesting that the manual states F115 is the fuse for the Lower Flipper Left but ours seems reversed; it is supporting (and blowing) the right flipper.
On a side note, we did update the 40pin PIC2 chip to fix a Topper issue (in hopes it would solve the flipper issue but no luck). Thanks for any advice.
Are they fucking serious??? They can't be this fucking dumb. The driver board is finished. They know what needs to be done: Send you another driver board, the PIC chip, and you're done. Why are they wasting time again with flipper coils?
I'm so blown away by AND furious by this post.
I apologize for my reaction in advance to anyone that may have been offended by it. I have been personally effected by this issue, and felt like our diagnosis was ignored. All along it had zero to do with the flipper coils, which they harped on for the LONGEST time.
Just understand my frustration, and i apologize again for my over reaction.
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