Sign me up as a member of the club, bought our Breakshot via Ebay a few weeks ago based on the wife finding it in a search for a "less busy" table compared to our TZ. Cabinet and PF were all in great shape on arrival, a couple of cosmetic blemishes on the side rails and lock bar and one dead PF bulb. The only play issues were a broken drop target (A replacement was provided by the seller and not installed) and a DMD driver board with a blown cap outlined in another thread that, of course, wasn't an issue before shipping.

Driver board issue circumvented by installing a ColorDMD which looks amazing in the machine; like it's stock. Major props to the ColorDMD and colorizing team that worked on the displays. The table also needed a typical set of rubbers and a good clean+wax, and I swapped out the rest of the drop targets with decals since the originals were plain and very yellowed compared to the bright white replacement.

Couple of hopefully quick questions for everyone:

I've had a few instances with the capture area center saucer and the game not picking it up and raising the post. I end up having to wait for the stuck ball process and a rotation through the solenoids to kick the ball back into play. Just popped in 1.3 ROM updates last night in hopes it will fix the issue, but I haven't had a chance to play the table yet. Haven't found a change log anywhere, anyone know what changed? I had 1.2 in it before so fingers crossed.

Anyone else get a nasty air ball from the lower flippers off the upper drop target area into the glass? I dropped the flipper solenoid strength from 13 to 10 after installing the 1.3 ROMs in hopes that might cut down on the issue a bit.

Is the knocker solenoid incredibly loud by default? I'm greatly considering putting some sort of padding in there to dampen the impact/volume.

Yea, this must be the case since I had it happen again last night in play test after installing the 1.3 ROMs. I remembered the issue incorrectly, the opto trigger raised the post, but the center saucer switch must need adjustment or replacement since the ball just sat in the saucer until the lost ball kickout.

Yep, finally got around to it the other night. Replaced the switch and diode, center pocket working like a champ now. Ran tests and the 8-ball side saucer looks like it needs to be swapped out also. It works, but chatters pretty bad. Good thing I ordered more than one switch

Unfortunately no, there are only two ball saves: The first is for the main initial plunger launch (B2-09, default 8 seconds), and a second save (B2-10, default yes/on) for ejects from any saucer that lasts 4 seconds or until a switch is hit, whichever comes first.

Sounds like you need a rubber kit, my Breakshot bounces just fine with standard blacks. Regarding getting the upper lane you want, did you disable lane light rotation via the flipper buttons?

Normal for Capcom mechanics, there's feedback from the coils going into the audio. Happens with the upper gate coils also, not just holding the flippers. There's a post that talks about some changes you can make to cut down on the buzzing at the cost of some flipper power.

Auto plunger and a 8-10s ball save for Breakshot Frenzy?

Bank shot mini loop to right orbit is a cow kick Easter egg, you can hold both flipper buttons before and during the moose animation, and in the attract mode you can see T-O-N-Y in the rack lights for Tony Defeo .

If you aren't looking to keep it stock, have you seen the ColorDMD for Breakshot? The LED version looked amazing on my table, and as an added bonus it doesn't require the DMD power driver board. The same driver board was toast on the Breakshot I had, replacing the popped cap was unfruitful, and looking into replacement showed I was halfway to the cost of a new ColorDMD upgrade that circumvented the issue.

Yea, Breakshot was pretty prone to airballs hitting the glass when I had it. I kept mine around 6.5 degrees since it felt like it was supposed to be a bit floaty/EMish.