What do you mean by this? Was your ball lock *rejecting* lock shots or do you really mean the ball lock is ejecting balls differently?

Got my Batman 66 Premium last night. It's my one and only NIB purchase - it's newer than my other machines by more than 40 years. It's also one of the December 2018 builds with an Adam West card.

Everything is great except one issue - the crane doesn't center on the targets when rotates counter clockwise (the direction towards the home position). I've done a search through Pinside and found some other folks with the same issue but I couldn't find a solution or fix. It's not the worst thing in the world but it does smack the hanging ball into the side when going to the home position and when it's in the first position (in front of the right loop), it's close enough to the side that it hangs up balls in play. Any suggestions?

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Oddly enough, three of the four machines are "firsts".
Home Run was Gottlieb's first 3" flipper machine.
Cleopatra was Gottlieb's first solid state machine.
And Batman 66 is Stern's first LED display.

Other companys did those things earlier - but they are still firsts for Gottlieb and Stern. I just realized this probably only interesting to me.

This - with changing the lag time - got me to place where it was mostly on center both CW and CCW. Thanks for the tips.

Another thing I'm finding funny - with my EMs all the weight is in the cabinet. With Batman, all the weight is on the playfield, especially with two motor assemblies. Lifting the playfield is a vastly different experience.

I've seen it twice ... I did a google / pinside search on the text but couldn't find anything related to it. Rebooting the game certainly fixes it and doing something like testing the node board in the diagnostics fixes it.

I'd love to see more about this; it's pretty odd.

I'm seeing the same thing. It's happened twice on 1.02 code, both times at the start of multi ball. I've got about 200+ plays on the machine. And I didn't need to level the turntable - but I don't quite understand how that might relate.

I'm a couple of hundred games into my new Batman and I have a couple of observations / questions - and yes, we are enjoying it immensely.

1) I'm getting serious air balls off of the rotisserie standups - Bat Computer/Analyzer, Joker, Batphone. The ball is shooting back into the side of the left ramp with quite a bit of velocity - it's a bit violent. Is that something that others have seen?

2) I'm also getting the occasional air ball from the slings, really the left one, sometimes with enough air to re-enter the shooter lane. Is this normal or should I lower the power of the slings?

3) The screws holding the bat mobile top of the spinning target seem to be coming loose and require periodic tightening. I'm considering adding a lock washer - has anyone else had to do this?

4) We (son and I ) totally suck at Villain Escape. Nothing worse than getting to a wizard mode and wondering why we even tried.

5) Haven't even sniffed any TV wizard modes.

I was a little ambiguous, I didn't mean the bat mobile itself - yes that is riveted - I mean the disc it's mounted to. It secures to the 2 down posts via screws and washers. Those are loosing up on a regular basis.

All this April talk makes me feel lucky that I was able to get a machine from GEX in early/mid February. And a signed one to boot!

Hold on, it's worth it.

I don't think that's entirely true - my distributor knew my machine had a signed card. It was one of those 50 from the December run - so I'm guessing Stern told them it had the signed card in it. I believe that random NIBs also have signed cards - those are the ones you don't know until you open, I guess.

What I'm saying is, ask your distributor - they *might* know. Mine did.

I've had a couple of new behaviors with the 1.0.3 code:

1) When I close out of villain with a jackpot shot, it can immediately start the penguin bat phone. It's obviously counting the single shot for both the super jackpot and the penguin scoop. I don't remember that occurring before - there doesn't seem to be an obvious setting to control that (although with 200+ settings, I'm sure I could have missed it. Either way, I don't like.

2) I had Surfing Joker finish with almost no hits or shots made. I started the mode and was cradling the ball while I was talking with someone. I hit a couple of switches, including all 3 TV targets and the mode jumped to 100% and closed out. Or at least I think that happened. I was surprised and the 2nd player thinks they saw it too. We are pretty sure I didn't really hit much. I've tried to recreate it but I haven't yet.

I had similar issue - I did two things.

1) set lag to 0
2) fiddled with the adjustment tab that triggers the opts.

Between those two, I got the crane to stop a little off center for both the clockwise and anti-clockwise rotations. Without physically modifying the adjustment tab, that was the best I was going to get. I accepted that a little tiny bit off center for both directions was better than dead on in one direction and noticeably off in the other.

The crane positions are controlled by a tab that is on the underside of the assembly. It rides through the optos; when the optos trigger, the CPU stops the motor. That tab is adjustable side to side; if you loosen the screw, you can move the tab to make fine adjustments.

I've put enough games on my BM66 and I've watched enough of the TV show with my family - because otherwise, how would the kids understand the pin? - that I've really come to a deeper appreciation of the mode design.

Like how the Mad Hatter shots in the The Contaminated Cowl mode are pink - like Batman's cowl.

Or why sometimes the mode shot is the GADGET targets - because in the episode the mode is based on, Batman is actually using a gadget. Maybe I'm a little dense, maybe not. But it took watching the Catwoman episodes The Purr-fect Crime/Better Luck Next Time to understand the Batman was using both his earplugs and high frequency generator at the point the pin was lighting the GADGET targets. I guess it's hard to watch the display and play the game at the same time.

And how the magnet is used in Fine Feathered Finks/The Penguin’s A Jinx - because in the episode, Penguin uses a magnet to trap Batman and Robin.

Some lost opportunities that I've noticed so far, just minor things -

* The Purr-fect Crime/Better Luck Next Time - Robin has a great one liner - "Catwoman, you are not a nice person." - at the point he is on the teeter-totter. That would have been good for a mode shot.
* Surfing Joker - It would be great if the mode switched to GADGET targets at some preset % complete so that Batman could use his shark spray.
* Chief O'Hara - I need more of Chief O'Hara being an idiot. Maybe a fourth minor villain wizard mode?

We have 80+ more episodes to watch and thousands of more pinball games to play, so I'm sure I'll find some more great subtleties in the game and moments from the show I wish were in the game.

After about 1500 games, I finally got "Light Extra Ball" as a mystery award. It was a bit of a unicorn. I didn't really believe it existed.

While I'm cool with a code update that is primarily foundational housekeeping, I can't help but think if they were going to fix the minor Bookworm sound/video bug why couldn't they have fixed the Mr. Freeze "gadgets screw you, not help you" issue. Especially since that was listed as a fix in the *last* update.

I don't expect a semi-major update until after Elvira cools down but I'm really happy with the game, so I'm not complaining. At least not too much.

What is a 2X 5-Way combo? I've gotten it a couple of times* but I can't find any info on what it is?

* Actually, the only way I know about it is when I reset the high scores. Sometimes I get the combo champ as "2X 5-Way" ...

That looks like the plunger for the diverter gate - it should actually be inserted into that solenoid next to it. If you were to check the gate operation in the solenoid test, I'm pretty sure you will see that it doesn't open and close. The spring looks like mine - pretty flimsily - but the problem there is that the plunger somehow escaped from the solenoid. The spring isn't the problem.

I have my doubts this is the source of your troubles. The diverter gate controls when balls go into the lock - but it isn't part of the rotisserie itself so I don't think it would effect the rotation. But anything is possible.

Agree that continuing is almost always the way to go if you want more points. The deeper levels in the villains almost always have more points than the collect. Unless you have some crazy multiplier on the collect shot - then it’s hard to turn down sometimes.

But if you are more interested in the extra ball or getting villain escape - by all means collect and move to the next villain. No shame in that.

Gadgets are generic - that is, it's not like you get the batarang and the bat shark spray (although I would love to see named gadgets). If you look in the info screen (trap a ball and hold until the info comes up) you'll see a count how many you have. They are all equal.

While you are in a mode, using a gadget generally will complete a mode shot. If multiple mode shots are lit, the left most mode shot will be completed (in order of precedence: left orbit, left ramp, bat cave, right ramp, penguin, right orbit). There are some shots that are gadget proof - like most Egghead mode shots, hurry ups, and jackpot collects.

If you have multiple modes running, the gadget is applied to shots associated with the mode on the primary TV screen.

If you do a search through the forum, you'll see a number of people have gotten this. It appears to be a glitch - I haven't seen any definitive reasons for it or solutions. I got it a couple of times in the first couple of months I had the game. I haven't seen it in a long time. I also did disconnect/re-reconnect the villain vision at one point for other reasons - I certainly haven't seen that message since then. Maybe it has something to do with a loose connection to the device? Don't really know, other than I don't get it anymore.

Like many, I would like an additional round of major villain episodes - but as someone just said, space might be an issue. I would also like a system setting that would allow for a random selection of the episodes. For example, you wouldn't know which Catwoman you were battling until you answered the phone. I know many people might not like that and it wouldn't be a good tournament setting but it would be a good option to have.

I saw something in the Feature Audits that I've never read about before (and I did a search through this thread) - there are statistics in the audits for 2 episodes that aren't in the game, at least not that I've ever heard about.

The episodes are Catwoman 83/84 (Catwoman Goes to College) and Joker 118 (The Joker's Flying Saucer). I watched The Joker's Flying Saucer; it was truly horrendous.

I'm assuming these aren't in the game but I did some poking around to see if they were easter eggs or hidden modes. Of course, I wasn't able to trigger them. My first thought was to finish both Catwomen modes completely to see if a third would open up - nope, didn't do anything. The Joker's Flying Saucer did have a clock in the episode - a bomb goes off at midnight. Maybe it's some sort of Midnight Madness easter egg? Again, probably not!

Has this discussion come up before? Like I said, I did some digging but didn't find anything.

My PDF of the manual *kind of* has the part number - page 48, the exploded assembly diagrams of the ramps. Strangely enough, it doesn't have the exact number; it has an XX as the final section of the number. I guess you have to measure the part you are replacing to get the right part since Marco says that's the difference between the 2 part numbers.

I've had Batman for about 3 years - I finally hit the left ramp with a backhand shot from the left flipper. Of course, I couldn't do it a second time. I consider it the most perfect shot of my pinball life.

Minor thing but I wished they would have fixed how gadgets work with Mr. Freeze. I haven't loaded the new software yet but since it's not in the read me, I'm assuming it still works the same crappy way.

There really isn't much to walk through. That screw holds a tab that moves with the assembly through the optos. If you loosen the screw, you can adjust the tab side to side. That controls when the tab enters the optos relative to the entire crane assembly. If you adjust one way, the tab will enter the optos earlier, the other way, the tab will enter the optos later. You'll need to experiment to figure out which direction you need to adjust to center your crane on the inserts - I don't recall offhand.

I did it with my crane - this, combined with adjusting the lag in the menu settings, did the trick.

Since I've had the machine (and probably 1000+ plays) I've done it once from a cradle. In one of the deadflip videos Lyman was doing it with regularity on that particular machine but he and Jack pretty much said it wasn't a shot that was really repeatable with a typically setup machine.

Honestly, I almost never try it at this point - it was clear on my machine it wasn't meant to be.

I'm seeing the same "freeze" or delay on the lighted inserts when hitting the batmobile on 1.11. It appeared to be mode dependent - but I didn't take the glass off and start forcing all the different scenarios. And I could be wrong about that. I didn't ever really play on 1.10, so I can't say when it started.

I have a Dec 2018 build.