New member. Paid my dues. I bought the game without ever playing it. I'm confident it won't leave even though I only have room for two. Yeah, I'm that confident. The shadow is the other anchor.

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Does anyone know if that guy sells the 3d inlane guides anymore? No response from him.

I don't know. I will have to ask the seller. Still waiting for sti to pick it up. Ugh, I want it now!!!

I, like many others, have issues with my ball falling off the habitrail coming out of the volcano and dropping down into the pop bumpers. According to the manual the following part number refers to this ramp.

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/12-7314.1

However, every stock congo I have seen doesn't have the side rails. This would definitely remedy the problem but I'm wondering if there is a misprint in the manual or marco has posted the wrong picture, etc. Would hate to buy the ramp and have it be the wrong length. It would be awesome if this is the same length as it would eliminate the problem.

Thoughts?

I don't have the issue of the vux shooting out onto the playfield. I have an issue with that habitrail. If you make the volcano ramp shot it will fall off the wire ramp bc there are no sides. A guy on page 18 posted a remedy using what looks like a ramp protector. I have a ramp protector on the plastic ramp near the exit of the medium sized ramp. I'm thinking of transferring it to replicate what he did on page 18 bc it doesn't appear to serve a purpose where it is.

What is the part number for that ramp protector? I need that.

I took the one off the plastic ramp, dremeled off the little hook ND the nose of the protector. Fits like a glove and balls never fall off.

Got 2.3b last night and 182 diamonds. Hit ghost tribe multiball, jungle jackpot, how the hell do you get to skill fire? Have over 100 games on it and never hit it. Prior to last night had tournament mode off. Put it on last night, nothing!! How do you get this mode?!

I had this problem with vux firing randomly during play. Check your optos in volcano trough first. If fine, then put in switch test mode and random tap on field to see if anything sets it off. Most likely it is a switch on same column. In my case I had a loose wire on one of the three skill shot targets causing vux to fire. Soldered it and I was fine.

Can someone verify if I have a perceived problem. I've been racking my brain. My upper and lower flippers fire simultaneously. You can't stage them. I've spent hours trying to diagnose. Then my friend tells me his does the same thing. Is this the way Congo is?

It has two opto interrupters. You should be able to stage. Guys, I tore apart this machine two times over trying to figure out why they fire simultaneously. I have a thread posted about it. Utter nightmare. I am running the first ROM. I swapped all the opto boards, power driver board, MPU, replaced all the coils. It is insane. I noticed from the factory they had the wires swapped around at the opto board meaning the upper switch fired before the lower flipper switch. I swapped them. Still the same. I'm thinking at the factory maybe they didn't give a shit about flipper wire order because the game flips both at the same time no matter what? The upper flipper coil fires before the upper switch even registers. I tried everything other than a new ROM (on it's way) and taking the header pins off of J212 to check for corrosion under the connector. However, I doubt this is the issue because I swapped the MPU. I contacted my buddy of whom I sold a nice congo to and he says his doesn't stage either.

Wow, so maybe you can't push flipper button half way on congo to only fire the lower flipper and fully depress to fire both? Glad I spent 5 hours trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. $#$*#$(**&$#%&#*$(%&*(&%$*(&$*#(%&

Thanks for verifying. I went nuts trying to figure this out.

Bc you could cradle on lower flipper and hit super skill shot or whatever it's called up by mine field.

The only issue I have is the linear map mode. Still a great game and I'm actively looking for another since I sold mine a while back.