Hello! New Catacomb owner here. I have noticed that, seemingly, numbers 1 and 6 from Bank A do not ever seem to be spotted when I have them lit and roll down the A chute in the Bagatelle. Is this expected, because they can be spotted via the roll overs at the top of the playfield? I don’t think that’s the case, as I believe I can collect the number 2 via the Bagatelle, but that also has a spot target on the playfield… If that is unexpected behavior, that those numbers specifically (sometimes any Bank A numbers won’t get spotted) fail in the Bagatelle, how would I go about diagnosing the issue?

So, in the Bagatelle play, whichever numbers you have selected in the ABCD banks on the playfield (selectable via the left flipper) correspond to what the Bagatelle gives you (aka lights, or “spots”) in the Toast when you roll down a given chute in the Bagatelle. For example, if I cycle and have orange lit, which corresponds to the number 1 on Bank A, and then I get the ball in the Bagatelle to roll down the A chute, if I haven’t yet collected the number 1 on the playfield through normal play (one of the top lane rollover switches or dropping the Bank A drops while 1 is lit), the Bagatelle is meant to collect it for me. Perhaps “spotting” is a loose term for this behavior, but that’s what I am referring to. Rolling down the A chute in the Bagatelle does not reliably grant me the corresponding lit number from Bank A, and I believe never grants me the 1 or 6 if they are what I have lit and am trying to collect.

That’s the kicker: I’ve done that, and they do. I’ve adjusted the leaf switches a little bit to make them more reliable, as that was the first thing I thought, but the weirder part is that it seems to be the worst w/ only the 1 and 6, never (or very rarely, if ever, but it seems like never) granting them when lit.

But does it behaving in the way I’m describing (not granting 1/6, but granting the other numbers) make sense w/ that in the backbox? Wouldn’t it behave the same and never spot anything from Bank A? I suppose it’s entirely possible that my sample size is too small and it just *seems* like 1/6 are never spotted and the others are, but that has felt accurate - specifically 1 and 6 never, the other two numbers sometimes.

Speaking of the backbox switches, though: Do all switches in a given chute need to be activated to count the shot? Wonder if my backglass doesn’t keep the ball in the chutes well enough to have it depress each switch reliably.

And I wasn’t entirely clear on another post I saw here about replacing the ball in the backbox. Is there an officially recognized replacement available, or is the go-to getting a wooden ball and weighting it?

Cool, thank you for confirming Helps narrow down the scope of what to investigate!

Interesting! I guess I haven’t had the glass off with an actual game playing, only been in test mode…perhaps I need to spend some time w/ glass off to poke those switches one at a time to help learn which does what!