I’m thinking about joining the club, I’m especially interested in this pin because of the rules, tons of modes and variety.

Whenever I’ve played has been on location and I was not crazy about the gameplay, shots and layout especially the turntable. But likely as not the games were not set up properly or was misaligned.

Just like to hear from the owners if it’s a good layout, fun good shots. Is the turntable fun? Is the turntable problematic? Any bad issues with the game or bad code bugs?

Call around to your dealer, I’ve seen Cat Woman pinballs in dealer stock on the internet. Also hear (saw) that Stern is making a run of BM66 Cat Woman in November.

I was thinking about getting something new maybe around Christmas, had thought of AIQ or GnR but decided not to get either after playing. Keep coming back to the idea of BM66, I have played BM66 on location but never really understanding the rules fully. I was watching some of Jack Danger and he said something like the major villains aren't important as the minor villains. I don't understand what that means, does he mean the scoring of the majors aren't as big as the minors or that the major villain rules are not as interesting?

I wanted to get some opinions on BM66 (my other thought was MM or MB remakes both are top rated but I feel like the rules of those two are not as deep as BM66).

Can you tell me what these are blankets and what material? Just wanted to make sure that I'm getting there correct size.

edit is it the 30x40 size blanket?

I’m thinking about buying a BM66 as they are doing a small run soon.

It’s funny tho was thinking about a newer pin even Halloween or Ultraman but often the new pins are a big crap shoot.

My last two purchases were older titles SW and JP both had been out years by the time I picked them up and I’m so happy.

Thinking with the killer code that BM66 will really be what I’m looking for in my next purchase.

thanks for the heads up.

I was curious how much video assets are on BM66.

I have SW and believe they have 450 different video clips from the films.

I’m hopefully getting BM66 in the near future.

Just been reading the rules. Have a question about the minor villain modes. What is the most valuable/important?

It seems like Egg is the least important because it only gives points.

Bookworm seems like the best if you are able to complete a few it’s best to have bonus carry over from ball to ball.

Tut and Hatter both important work together. Not sure what is more important I think Tut (save progress also more points during modes).

Iceman very powerful

Shame good but not as iceman or bookworm.

Do you guys have a specific plan for maximum points?

Does it seem like Egg is too underpowered considering it gives nothing but points where Tut gives two bonus. But it does seem like Egghead is fairly easy to complete.

First Tut is save minor villain progress and it’s even retrospective to minor Villians you have already played. (According to Tilt rules). But you need Hatter to replay villains you have started before.

It’s actually very clever how it all fits together and builds on each other.

I did say first Tut but mean the first one you complete not referring to the first season Tut. After you complete any Tut you have the ability to save progress.

hopefully I can join the club from the August build. Two dealers have told me they might get one more than they have fully confirmed. IOW example one has 4 confirmed but another note said 5. But they’re not 110% sure about the 5th.

Hopefully one of them is correct about the extra unit. However they both made clear to me it’s not certain.

I contacted ever dealer and they were all sold out or in one case wanted $10k for the prem.

Used prices are through the roof.

Hopefully Stern can see they still have strong demand and make more.

I was slow to warm up to BM66 was almost about to buy it a few times but other pins got in the way.

I really don’t like to rotate my pins so I’m getting very particular before I buy anything new.

Thanks

Just got word the ‘August’ build had been pushed back to Q4.

I wanted to hear something like it’s going to ship in 2-3 weeks or so. Instead I got sometime in the late fall/winter.

I am officially on order for the next (last?) run of BM66, super excited, I had been toying with the buying the pin for a while. I think the theme has grown on me and the rules are what I am really interested in digging into.

it would be nice to see if there was a final wizard mode, I would never reach it but could see Jack Danger get there would be great.

I have JP and that has the ability to skip to the end (Wizard) without playing your way there. I have not tried it yet but that would be great if other games gave you that option for the impossible to reach end modes.

That’s crazy

I’ve had a BM66 on order since July, asked distributer what’s the status they said December.

I'm going to guess no. Actually you can get a tape measure and find out yourself but I was looking with the head folded it's probably going to need 30" by 30" clearance and length of 50".

it might need a bit more in every dimension to prevent scraping or account for wrapping.

Just checking, since BM66 came out 4-5 years ago, do you think it still holds up against the newer competition? I just got JP and Godzilla have BM66 on order.

Looking for some opinions from people who own Elvira, DP etc. that are higher rated than BM66. Why do you think BM is not too highly rated? Is it because BM66 had such poor code when released it never recovered.

Welcome to pinball ownership, is this your first pinball machine?

Thanks for posting that video, the commissioner Gordon rules are so great and can't wait to get my machine to play with the bat-phone points and bonus X shots

is this something that I should do when I receive my NIB BM66?

Great points, I’m also super high on SW the layout, theme and code. SW code is different than most pins with huge movable bonus X. BM66 has the X shot multiplier and the minor Villain bonuses are unique and interesting if overvalued in some cases.

Got the call that my BM66 is to be delivered on Thursday. I just sold out R&M, but this has been the most pins I can remember getting in a short period of time.

June JP premium
November Godzilla LE
December BM66

I just got my BM66!!

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I'm having an issue with the top diverter (?) sometimes it will allow the ball to shoot around (holding the left flipper button and action button) but other times it'll rattle and catch on that diverter and the ball will get stuck.

That’s the way to do it!

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I was getting stuck ball here, found there were 1-2 wires hanging down, can almost see the wire in the second picture.

I reached my finger in to push them up seems to be better now.

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I've been playing, fun to build up the bat phone hurry up and the X shots it's a game within a game. Only bad thing is when I drain after setting up a few X shots without cashing in.

When the bat phone is active it’s a hurry up count down, hitting the commissioner Gordon target resets the hurry up and adds X million to the hurry up score. Hurry up points can be very high value and is listed on the high score table.

The X shot bonus is also the Commissioner Gordon shot (see Wiki rules).

Here is the bat phone high score

I'm pretty bad so the 100M range is a good game for me.

Question, during the crane mode sometimes the ball won’t be directly over the insert. Is that normal or is there an adjustment that I can make?

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What’s a big bat phone hurry up score?

Anyone have a really big score? I’m only at 55M.

My left orbit shot is sometimes clunky, I increased the pitch made the back legs longer and the shot became a bit less clunky. Not sure if it was the increase pitch or just me getting better.

The rules are exactly what makes this game great. http://tiltforums.com/t/batman-66-rulesheet/2463#toc1

I’m also wanting to see how to fix the crane alignment, there is a feature adjustment called crane lag (I think it’s #173) but it didn’t do much. I’m still off on the first two inserts.

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I don't see how to adjust, the linked post shows a screw under the crane toy but I don't see any instructions of what I need to do with that screw.

Do you guys frown on adding time to the minor villain modes? I’m not that good so hardly ever finish the modes thought of bumping them up to 60s just to help me out.

I think there should be a time pressure to the modes not unlimited time like are in the major modes. Maybe 55-65 Seconds will be a happy medium where there’s some time pressure but not just that you can take all day.

new game code for Stern connect etc..

(flipper power adjustment)
https://sternpinball.com/?post_type=game_code&s=Batman+66+Super+LE

V1.06.0 - Jan. 18, 2022
======================

- Game changes
- Added adjustment for flipper power
- Pop bumper levels now start at 1 (instead of 0)
- Text corrected for Egghead modes
- SLE custom speech now defaulted to on
- Bootscreen logo added
- Stern Insider Connected
- Added Stern Insider Connected Ready -
- The game can have a connectivity kit installed and be connected to
STERN INSIDER CONNECTED.
- Once connected you can log in and start earning Achievements.
- To login in hold your QR code over the scanner. When you see you are
log in just push start. By default, the game will automatically start
the game for everyone that is logged in with one button press.
- Login behavior:
- When a user logs in during a game in progress and the player up slot
is occupied, assign the user in the first open slot from lowest
player to the highest player.
- When a user joins a game in progress, award achievements that were
earned up to that point.
- When user authorization failure, remove the user from the session.

- Before you press start, while the login screen is up, the current player
can use the flipper buttons to move which player position that will be.
- After the game, by default, players will have a few seconds to press
start and all stay logged in. The game will start all games with one
press of the start button.
- Added Achievements -
- There are 94 achievements you can now earn if you are logged in.
- Achievements will pop up after you have received them as soon as they
can. Also, they are seen at the start of end of ball bonus if you
received any that ball.
- You can see all the achievements and how they are earned in instant
info or on the web site insider.sternpinball.com
- If you are logged in your high score entry will default to your initials.
- You will still be able to change them.
- System
- Updated to Spike 2 OS V2.6.0
- Updated to System 3.03
- Updated to nodeboard firmware/protocol v0.83.0

Added adjustments for Login and Play Again display timers:
"INSIDER LOGIN TIMER" - Login screen timeout (Default 30 seconds)
"INSIDER PLAY AGAIN TIMER" - Play Again screen timeout (Default 20 seconds)

GAME RESTART behavior:
Holding the start button on ball 2 or greater will follow
the "START BUTTON BEHAVIOR" adjustment.
If ("GAME RESTART" == "YES") and ("START BUTTON BEHAVIOR" == "ALL LOGGED IN")
holding the start button on ball 2 or greater will restart the game for as many
players as is necessary to accommodate the users that are logged in.
If there are not enough credits to restart the game for the necessary number
of players, the the game will not be restarted.

Upon entering the Service Menu for the first time after a software update, a screen
will display the game and system version numbers. This screen will be displayed
for a minimum of 1 second, and is dismissed by the enter button. This replaces
the dots display previous shown at power on after an update.

LOGIN behavior:
* When a user logs in during a game in progress and the player up slot
is occupied, assign the user in the first open slot from lowest
player to the highest player.
* When a user joins a game in progress, award achievements that were
earned up to that point.
* When user authorization failure, remove the user from the session.

Added audits for connectivity games and scanner use
"CONNECTIVITY USERS SCANNED" - display the number successful user QR code scans
"CONNECTIVITY USERS JOINED" - display the number of users that joined a connected game.
"1 INSIDER GAMES" - display the number of games played with 1 logged-in users
"2 INSIDER GAMES" - display the number of games played with 2 logged-in users
"3 INSIDER GAMES" - display the number of games played with 3 logged-in users
"4 INSIDER GAMES" - display the number of games played with 4 logged-in users
"ACHIEVEMENTS GIVEN" - display the number of achievements awarded

Adjustment: "START BUTTON BEHAVIOR"
"SINGLE CREDIT" - One start button press will start a one player game.
"ALL LOGGED IN" - One start button press will start games for enough players
to accommodate all logged-in users (Default).

Added Standard Audit "Total Power Ons" which will display the number of
times the machine has been power cycled.

Turn on cabinet/expression lights, if installed, when in the Service Menu.

When starting a game ramp the backbox GI from "ATTRACT MODE B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" to
"GAME PLAY B.BOX BRIGHTNESS".
When ending a game ramp the backbox GI from "GAME PLAY B.BOX BRIGHTNESS" to
"ATTRACT MODE B.BOX BRIGHTNESS".

New Standard Adjustment "START BUTTON ATTRACT MODE ILLUM."
This adjustment, which is only available and active when the game is in FREE PLAY mode, controls
the behavior of the Start Button Light.
Values are:
"ALWAYS OFF" - Start Button Light is always off when in attract mode.
"BLINKING" - Start Button Light will blink when in attract mode. This is the DEFAULT and previous behavior.
"ALWAYS ON" - Start Button Light is always on when in attract mode.

Update TARGET_GAME_TIME adjustment to ensure a minimal ballsaver even after
the target game time is met.

Do not display LOCATING NODE BOARD at boot when coin door interlock switch
has disabled node board power.

Improve backbox and cabinet audio synchronization.

Update the HSTD reset counter when the Standard Adjustment is changed.

Added TARGET_GAME_TIME adjustment, accessable when the BALL_SAVE_TIME
adjustment is enabled.
TARGET_GAME_TIME enables a multi-use ball saver, whose duration is
dynamically calculated for each ball to help ensure the player has
a guaranteed amount of play time per game.
TARGET_GAME_TIME has a range of 1m 30s to 3m 00s and defaults to
NO_TARGET_TIME (disabled).
When disabled a traditional single-use BALL_SAVE_TIME ball saver will be
used for each ball in play.
When enabled the first ball of play will have a multi-use ball saver of
BALL_SAVE_TIME sec. The second ball will have a multi-use ball saver
which is 25% of (TARGET_GAME_TIME - player_game_time).
The third and beyond will have a multi-use ball saver which is 50% of
(TARGET_GAME_TIME - player_game_time).

Rename Util->Volume->Speaker Balance to Speaker Fade. This adjusts the volume
levels of the cabinet (front) and backbox (back) speakers. The term Balance
was misleading and implied adjusting the level of the left and right backbox speakers.

Added UTIL->VOL Adjustment "SELECT AUDIO FILTER". Values are:
"NONE", "HIGH/LOW SHELF", and "10 BAND EQ". Default value is "HIGH/LOW SHELF".
"NONE": No filtering will be performed on the audio output. Useful when using
the Line Out as input for an external device.
"HIGH/LOW SHELF": A High/Low Shelf Filter is applied to the audio output.
The Bass Frequency can be set to: 125Hz, 250Hz, or Disabled.
The Treble Frequency can be set to: 4KHz, 8KHz, or Disabled.
The Gain can be set to -12dB .. +12dB
On Spike 2 the Shelf Frequency and Gain can be set independently for the BackBox and Cabinet speakers.
"10 BAND EQ": A full 10 Band EQ is applied to the audio output.
Sliders are used to adjust the Gain of a specific range of frequencies.
The Frequencies are: 31Hz, 62Hz, 125Hz, 250Hz, 500Hz, 1KHz, 2KHz, 4KHz, 8KHz, 16KHz.
The Gain curve has a 60dB dynamic range across the -15 .. +15 Slider settings.
On Spike2 the Gain can be set independently for the BackBox and Cabinet speakers.

Allow the knocker sound effect to play completely when a replay is
awarded during the last ball bonus and ensure the normal game
volume is restored.

OMG what happened?? This is so sad and out of the blue I’m floored.

Sad.

If I’m listing my heroes of pinball for Mt Rushmore he’s there on pole position.

Not yet, I was hoping someone would walk me through the adjustment, there is a post that shows a screw at the bottom of the crane assembly but I didn't see any instructions on what to do.

I’m trying to figure out where the full orbit plunge shot is supposed to land.

Mine lands directly on the left slingshot not the left flipper. I’ve adjusted the height up and down and it’s always the same.

Is it worth to upgrade to the new code?

On a full plunge orbit is the ball supposed to hit the left slingshot? That doesn't seem correct to me, and I can't figure out how to fix.

I have adjusted the slope up and down 20 different times it didn't make any difference.

The lag adjustment didn’t do much for me. There is a post that deals with the crane adjustment screw.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/batman-66-official-club-thread/page/264#post-4975417

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/batman-66-official-club-thread/page/264#post-4975947

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/batman-66-official-club-thread/page/264#post-4976302

If anyone can please elaborate on the crane fix. ie the ball doesn't line up with the inserts. The lag function doesn't do anything on my machine, I can't understand the opto flag adjustment that was posted above.

Thanks will give this a try!!!!!!!!!

I have old code 1.05

It doesn’t have IC code but my pin came with the hardware for IC, is there any reason to or not to update?

Same

I have a last run of BM66 and have an issue. When I press the left flipper button to allow the plunge to continue all the way around to the left flipper, the ball instead hits the left sling. I saw a video about Elvira with this issue and was solved by moving the ball guide inward a bit there is a screw to loosen and room to make this adjustment with the screw bracket.

I looked at my BM66 and can not move the ball guide inwards without drilling the PF.

Does anyone have a suggestion that I could try to make the orbit land on the flipper instead of the slingshot?

I was having an issue where on a full orbit the ball would hit the left slingshot instead of the left flipper. I tried to think of what I could do because the ball guide had no extra room to move. I added a small piece of thick tape that was maybe a tenth of a mm thick. The ball was now hitting the right flipper instead so that was no good either. I then added a regular piece of scotch tape with a small piece of paper folded in half. It now works as I wanted to hitting the left flipper.

It’s amazing that such a small adjustment could make such a huge impact.
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Can someone point me to video or explain how to adjust my crane that is misaligned. I moved the adjustment tabs as much as they allow but still way out of alignment.

Thanks