That is called a spade bolt, if you haven't gotten your answer yet.

Just joined the club with an OG Tobey Spidey. One owner. Spent about a year on route and been in a basement since around 08. Needs a shop job and the cab has a couple minor bumps from being moved a couple times, but all in all, very nice specimen. Spidey was one of my NIB regrets over the years. Glad to have one, finally. Gonna grab the Sandman plastic from pinball life. That and the Sandman vs Spidey plastic in the pops are the only playfield issues. Doc Ock magnet still perfect, as well.

3rd day of ownership and I was a few Venom shots away from lighting Super Hero. So close. Love this game. Took this pic after ball one (including the extra). 3rd Goblin and 3rd Venom were in progress.

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I spent a good amount of time today getting stuff cleaned and shopped out. Waiting on the replacement Sandman plastic before I can reassemble. It's all shined up. I changed out all bulbs, except for flashers, for LEDs. Hopefully, I can get by without shelling out for the LED OCD. Trying to keep costs down.

I can buy non ghosting. I think that would be cheaper. It's only about 50 bulbs on the under side.

I've never seen the under side of the VE. Don't they use standard LEDs?

Anyone buy a decal set and not need the backboard decal? Mine has a bunch of burn around where the bulbs were and it won't come out with magic eraser or anything. I'd love to buy just that decal. Don't need the whole set.

Thanks,
RC

About 90% done with my Spidey refresh. Waiting on Cliffies and gotta do flipper rebuilds. While placing my pinball life order, I noticed they have a new LED. Economy Ghostbusters. I grabbed 100 wedge and 100 bayonet. I'm happy to report that there is no ghosting in the game now. There is some super fast flicker when, A) the villain arrows in the center are not at full brightness or B) when a white arrow is lit for a shot multiplier. I can live with that. Kinda what happens in AIQ during certain points of the lightshow, if you are familiar.
The comet retros I put in there before (regular, not non ghosting) were ghosting like crazy. I always order from comet, but I gotta say, these PBL bulbs impressed me.

Question about the start of Bank Bust or whatever the second Dock Ock mode is on the VE. I've noticed 3 separate behaviors between my game and others and videos. At the start, the ball is held on the magnet, as it should. Then, a ball is auto launched, as it should. Next, one of three things happen:

A) ball goes to pops
B) ball goes to Sandman scoop, as if a lock was made from the right orbit
C) ball goes all the way around and to the left sling/flipper area

So, which is correct? Is my diverter iffy?

Anyone have one of these behaviors be consistent? I've seen all 3 on videos of other Spidey games. I searched youtube and I paid close attention after seeing it be inconsistent on mine.

Check for magnetized balls, divots in the trough that could hang the balls up and that the physical switches are moving freely and registering in switch test. Also, just making sure it's clean in there, too.

I reached and beat Super Hero today. WOOT! What a rush. Thank you Bowen tutorial. Time to turn off extra ball and put locks on hard settings.

That trailer looks very interesting. Can't wait to see the movie. Guess I got in right under the wire.

Thanks. I found the rulesheet and that seems to be the expected behavior. I have done all topside stuff and rebuilt all flippers. Next, I'll check to see if whatever activates that diverter is having issues. Maybe gunked up or something. I think those things use the small coils that don't need a sleeve, but will find out.

Sandman plastic is likely broken on both, but available from PBL. If the really dirty one has no playfield damage on the Doc Ock magnet, I'd get that one to save money. Sterns of this vintage clean up remarkably well. Recently did a full topside teardown on mine and it is pretty straightforward. Just take lots of pics as you go.

Not sure how tall this guy is, but he matches the new alt translite. Alt version looks really nice.

ebay.com link: itm

HUO, probably 6K ish. With what today's new games are going for, Spidey is a hell of a lot of game for the price. I wouldn't put too much stock in the amount of plays, unless it's on whatever code it shipped with. SAM games reset plays on updating code.

I really love that backglass on Spidey Black. I like the original cabinet over the black version though. Would be really nice if someone would do a translite version of the Spidey Black backglass. Insert take my money meme.

Whoops, I'm a dingbat. I didn't realize you were asking about value on the HUO Black Spidey. Hard to tell on those since they don't come up for sale often.

Is the little one way mini gate bent down or too far to the right causing a ball trap? You can check for magnetization of the balls with lightweight paper clips.

I know the opposite has been tried and does not work. I believe, due to board revision mismatch.

Anyone need any of the decals in this set?

https://www.pinballlife.com/spider-man-full-playfield-playfield-decal-set.html

I only need the big back panel decal and $50 is a tough pill to swallow for that. Happy to split the set with someone if others need other decals. I'll be ordering it, either way lol.

Installed a colorDMD yesterday. Followed the instructions. Apparently Spidey and few others need an extended rom. It says it is supposed to overwrite my product key and I'm supposed to re enter it afterward. The game seems to be functioning normal, but the product key did not get overwritten and a couple of the scenes look like they are maybe not full color. Could just be my eyes. Anyone install the LED version and was there any issues? It also could be that the procedure is an old one and not needed on the current gen colorDMDs. It's a bit confusing.

It's original. There's a note on the site for original Spidey and 3 other games that need this procedure.

https://www.colordmd.com/extended_roms.html

Sweet, thanks for the confirmation. I was thinking that may be the case, but couldn't really tell based on the verbiage on the site. This is my first ever colorDMD. Glad I sprung for it.

Any chance you didn't place the forks of the wireform into the metal transition part of the plastic ramp? I could see that causing a fast ball to hop up high enough to pop off the wireform. That's my best guess.

That's one thing I love about Spike. You can set you backbox GI to almost nothing during gameplay. I go with 60% for attract and 30% for game play.

To pile onto this, also check to see if the balls are magnetized. Magnetized balls can cause all kinds of wonkiness, including this behavior. It was happening on my Walking Dead and new balls fixed the issue. I was getting 4 balls in prison and there was no blood bath stack.

If you are at all nostalgic for the Toby movies, you won't be happy with the vault.

This game is my favorite Steve Ritchie. OG for the win, also. The only reason I can guess that the VE goes for more $$ is that it launched at a higher price. That move by Stern really bugged me. At the time, OG Spidey was selling for around $5K to $5500ish which was ~30% higher than brand new pricing. I got a heads up that a vault was coming with comic art and I was hopeful I'd finally be able to get one. At the time, I didn't own the game because I didn't wanna pay more than new pricing. So, what does good old Stern do, but release the new vault at like $6500 premium pricing, at the time. Screwed again. The only thing the VE has going for it over the OG is crisper and cleaner art.

Spidey is a modern game.

Looks like it is the power and ground for that flasher. It should terminate to a 2 pin IDC connector and plug in somewhere under the playfield with a matching connector. I'd bet the connector is still connected, but those wires pulled out.

Just checked mine. The flasher does not have a wire harness as I was thinking. If that wire is soldered to the flasher, it may be a mod someone tapped into the flasher to accommodate.

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Ditto, on mine. A fast moving ball on the left orbit can and will skip straight to the WEB lanes. I haven't had a right orbit get past the post and come down the left side, that I can recall, though.

How consistent is everyone's bank bust start sequence? Mine never works right. It should fire a ball, from the shooter lane, all the way around to the left flipper, but mine always goes into the Sandman vuk. I do have mine a tad high, regarding pitch. I don't know the actual degrees, but the bubble is a little past the top line on the shooter lane level.

I'll check both of these suggestions tonight. Thanks for the tips.

Bro, this game has the best kinda topper. Included free with the game.

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I'd say that is a rarity. At most, I've gotten 2 in there and it deals with that fairly easily.

Mid game, I'd say open the door, pull the glass and place the balls in the shooter lane after retrieving them with the magnet that I'm sure you have on order by now. There is also a good one at Harbor Freight if you want to get one asap.

https://www.harborfreight.com/15-lb-capacity-telescoping-magnetic-pickup-tool-64656.html

It does not work. The new game has more stuff and the lower amount of ram on the older rev Sam board can't accept it. That's the gist from what I recall.

Sweet. I haven't ever heard that one, either.

The only way my Spidey leaves is if I have procured a nicer one. I've done that with 2 other games so far lol.

You'll likely have to have yours chromed. You may find someone selling a door they had done, but I don't believe that anyone sells a stock chrome door. Chrome is pretty but leaves marks and prints like crazy. That's my nitpicky issue with Black Spidey.

Get these.

ebay.com link: itm

Good friend of mine makes these and way cheaper than buying a whole plastic set.

If you absolutely want clear, message him via eBay.