After an almost 2 year search, I finally brought home a Baby Pac-Man yesterday. Got a few small things to work on, like a wonky left flipper. Sometimes it flips at 100%, other times it flips at 50%. It also needs to be "calibrated" as right now due to the angle of the flipper you can't hit most of the drop targets. Also, my left drop target only drops down about 80%, leaving a portion of it sticking up and blocking the ball. After a couple of extra hits it usually falls down all the way. I also have a few lights that I need to replace (game is already switched over to LEDs). Lastly my sound isn't right. Even with the volume knob turned all the way up you can barely hear the game. I haven't looked into any of these issues just yet, however I did have one thing that has me stumped. How in the hell do you reset the game defaults, or at least reset the Hi Scores? I went through the manual, and I saw the setting for manually lowering/raising the scores at 10K intervals, but that will take forever. Is this the correct way to reset the scores?

"With the game off set all the "Game Select Dipswitch" switches to 1 (up) except for Dip #1 which should be on 0 (down). Then turn the game game on. Wait a few seconds (maybe a minute). Then set the Game Select Dipswitch back to the Baby Pacman settings. The settings are... 00110100 or dduududd"

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Tried pressing both coin chute switches and nothing. Confirmed both coin switches do in fact work. Any other suggestions before I mess with the dipswitches?

Update: I got the scores reset by using the method I posted previously. Set all the dipswitches to 1, except dipswitch 0, then turned on the game and waiting 1 minute. Turned off and then put switches back to default.

Is the standard molding for Baby Pac the 3/4"?

Confirmed it's 3/4".

Update #2 for my machine. The sound problem is now fixed. I knew that the Vidiot board controlled sound, but the first time I looked at it I didn't see the tiny circular volume control button. It was almost all the way down. Cranked it up and now we have full sounds!

Next up is fixing the wonky left flipper and the left drop target that won't go all the way down unless you hit it 2-3 times.

Update #3 - dove further into the wonky left flipper issue. Removed both shafts and here is what I found.

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Maybe try @gatecrasher, he carries and makes a lot of old Bally stuff.

Recently picked up a baby pac. For the first few days, no real issues. Now it's hit or miss with the display. When it works, the colors are great. Here is what is happening, when the game is on, at some point the display just goes completely black. Generally I have to take the back off, re-seat the cables on the Vidiot board, and we are back in business for a few more hours. Lately those few hours have turned into about 20-30 minutes before the screen goes black. Any thoughts on what I should tackle first?

The link you provided to that part, if I order a quantity of 1, does that mean I will get the item in the picture which shows 6 pins, or is the quantity of 1 for each pin? Just want to make sure I order the right amount.

Having a strange problem when I start a game. The pinball play field is starting out with numerous lights already out on FRUITS, several of the PAC-MAN lights, and TUNNEL. Any idea what’s causing this?

See picture below. This is what is lit up as soon as I start a game.

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Happens every time. I’ll have to test the insert lights later.

Let me know when you start selling this product so that’s in plug and play. I’m in.

It's one of the hardest "pins" to work on and maintain. The VIDIOT board is a huge problem, and replacement hardware is not easy to come by. If you bought this as your first pinball machine, you will probably become very frustrated with the hobby. The game is great and so is the concept, I own one, but I have to work on it more than any other machine and most of the time it stays turned off because I haven't bullet-proofed the game to make it more reliable.

I will probably be contacting you tonight with an update on my game. Thanks!