Just got a T2 and the gameplay is fairly straight-forward. One thing that seemed a bit confusing to me is when I hit the leftmost saucer when the Database arrow is not lit, the DMD dispalys "Jackpot Grows" or something to that effect. Despite this I don't ever see the values for the jackpot shots go up. Am I missing something here?

As an aside, but also in regard to the saucer -- I get a lot of balls rebounding (upwards of 50%) out of the saucer, especially when it's a fast/hard shot. Has anyone run up against this and is there a good remedy. I was thinking either tweaking the angle of that metal deflector, or putting one of those foam cushions on the deflector like you sometimes see in games.

Thoughts on either of the above?

Yeah it seems to just list the 1x, 2x, 3x jackpot values which seem to be static (or as you said likely configurable in the settings). Weird that it simply lists the static jackpot values while stating 'Jackpot Grows'. Will certainly give the foam a try -- seems like an easy fix.

On a slightly related topic does anyone know what the newest (or best) version of the game ROM is for T2? IIRC, on boot mine said '50013 L-6'. It doesn't happen terribly often, but on occasion it seems the game gets a little confused -- mostly in multi-ball situations. Has anyone come up with a ROM this fixes any rules/ball tracking issues that might exist?

Thanks!

Is this version of the ROM one of the ones available for d/l on IPDB.org?

Thanks all. The dampening foam did the trick on the leftmost scoop. Almost never get bounce backs now. As I play the game a bit more a few other questions:

1) Is the kick save supposed to send the ball all the way up the right orbit to the multiplier gates? Mine gets it up just shy of the wire shooter gate and then it comes back down the right orbit. Just wondering what the intended behavior is here.

2) Two balls in the skull. Sometimes unintentionally two balls will follow each other into the skull and the drop will pop up behind them lodging them both in there. The VUK tries to send them up but it's too cramped and it just gets into a stuck state. Mid-game I'll have to remove the glass and get my magnet stick and pull one of the balls up through the wire channel to free it; pretty disrupting, especially on a good game. How often do others see this and are there any mods out there to prevent it?

3) Sometimes there's some bounceback that occurs on the head shot (once drop is down) such that the ball comes back out. I've heard tell of putting a piece of foam block in that empty space behind the head saucer to dampen fast shots to the skull. Can anyone comment on this and if it helps the bounce backs?

Thanks all!