Hey all, fun group! Just became a member this weekend! Here she is. Spent the weekend shaking out a ramp microswitch wire that rattled loose on the drive back with the machine. Now it seems to be playing 100% except for some insert lights that will not light. The weird thing is that some of them flash in attract mode. One example is the left outlane special light which does not light in test mode, but it does light in attract mode but when the orange flashers are flashing (not when the inserts are flashing like it is supposed to be). Realy weird. Anyways, very happy to be a member. This game is awesome!

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Thanks for the info! I will go through the manual procedure as you recommend. "Tough Dog" lamp issues. Lol!

That looks absolutely unreal! Nice work! Did you put new cabinet decals?

Awesome, I will have to keep an eye out for those. At some point, I would like to redo my PF and cabinet.

Have you tried a switch test to make sure your switch for the up-kicker/saucer registers? As far as the ball saver drain plug, mine is up and down with game play. Could be another switch issue...

figured out my main insert lighting issue. the connector was connected to the wrong header location on the board. love easy fixes! now i just have a few bulbs out but at least the correct ones are trying to light now!

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Yes for the price, it was a good acquisition. Thanks again for the guidance on that @whysnow!

Late reply, but, yes; it looks like the ROMs from IPDB are rev3 as shown below:

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Thx, what kind of chips were they? Any idea? My friend has a ROM burner so we are trying to figure out what kind of chip is needed if we try to burn them on our own. The manual shows this:

Game U2 U3 Jumpers
Atlantis 2006-12601-0000 2006-12602-0000 2, 4, 6, 9, 10

But, those numbers do not look familiar. Are these 27xx EPROM chips?

Ok I fixed the rest of the inserts that were not turning on! yay!!! Ended up being 2 fried transistors at q42 and q62. boo yah! flipper rebuild is next but this baby is already playing great!!!

Hi all, I am not receiving the extra ball award when hitting the lit VUK. Instead, I am getting awarded 75,000 points. I assume there is a setting somewhere but it is not clear when going through the menus or manual. Please help?

Ok I will try this. I know I set them both to "points" but I thought this would not impact the xball function in the VUK during normal gameplay. I bet this is it. Thx for the suggestion. I will report back...

Nope, no luck...

I have the machine set to xx-hard in the game settings menu. I found this highlighted note in the manual. I think the "popper" is the VUK, right? Maybe this means I have to get the VUK value by hitting the A and B rollover switches up to >35k before I can be awarded the xtra ball?

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Anyone know the different between ROM v2 and V3? Worth upgrading?

Maybe I should try since it seems like these changes are not documented anywhere. These reason I would like to upgrade is because everytime I play the game the first ball is automatically locked even though I have the settings set to hard and I get MB just about every time I play. I was hoping maybe the learning mode was dialed in a little bit better between rev2 and rev3 game ROM. Anyone else see what I am seeing where the first ball lock is always lit (ramp down) when launching ball one, even though MB is just about always achieved???

Wow looks awesome! Where did you get the cab decals???

Re: building the jackpot, I have been paying particularly close attention while playing lately. I have noticed that *sometimes* a saucer shot will increase the jackpot. I tried counting how many times you have to hit it to increment the jackpot. I got to 11 the last time I played and nothing. I refuse to increment by hand at this point since I am trying to beat a GC that a buddy put up and I do not want to give him any reason to contest it WHEN I do so. Seems like the number of saucer hits carries over game to game since I got it off the ball 1 plunge on a new game yesterday...

That plastic looks interesting but I am not seeing the extra lane you mention. Any chance you could take a pic of the area where the protector is cut out to give a better idea of where you are referring to on the playfield?