Just traded for a Lethal Weapon 3 so I’m in the club.
I’m looking at Matt’s Basement Arcade for Chads updates ROM set and there are two options, how do I know which one to get?
I have Chads code on my Hook and it really makes that game shine, hows the updates code on this game? I’ve played a few games already and it seems pretty good as is.

How much are you scoring during Super Spinners? I’m wondering if I need to look at my spinners to see if they are registering correctly. I get maybe a million for each solid full orbit shot made during Super Spinners. I read one of the rule sets online that mentioned you could get up to 7 million a shot during this mode. Tonight I got 4.5ish million from hitting 4 solid shots during the mode.
Having a lot of fun with this game, playfield reminds me of Dirty Harry with the building and the orbits and the gun. The topper is pretty fun to see going off in multiball while playing in the dark.

I really see it now. I hadn’t played much T2 just a handful of games where as I used to play a lot of Dirty Harry. I read the rules for T2 and wow even some of the rules are almost identical, the hurry up in T2 even has the same value as the Getaway on LW3.
From watching the video and the little bit I have played T2, LW3 seems to do a better job of making you use all the shots on the playfield. I didn’t even see a mention in the rule sheet online for what the standup targets on T2 are for where as the drop targets doing two separate things, lighting millions and getting multi ball ready on LW3 is a really good use of them. I would agree theme is better on T2, but gameplay wins on LW3. Imagine if LW3 was Die Hard?!?

Turns out my left spinner was not registering and my right was barely turning. The switch on the left spinner wouldn’t reset after clicking once and the spinner on the right was spinning slowly from being dirty. Bent the arm on the switch on the left spinner and cleaned and lubed the right spinner and now I am getting 5 million or more from EACH shot to the spinners, sometimes getting over 20 million from super spinners. Much better now, at first I thought this mode is worthless now it is fun!
I have a super old code version on mine, the DMD calls Triball Multiball which I read was changed early on and some of the timers in the modes seem better than in the later revisions. I was thinking of getting Chads code since I really enjoy it on my Hook but this game has a Stern DMD running in it with a separate power supply in the cabinet powering it so not sure if that would cause issues
I have display version A2.01 from June 15 1992 and CPU version 2.00 from June 16 1992

My DE Hook and DE Simpsons are like this, I even ended up putting longer leg levelers on my Hook in the back because they were spun almost all the way out. For some odd reason my Lethal Weapon is not like this. Could be the way the floor slopes in my basement, LW3 is on a different wall than my other DE games

My LW3 has a red stern DMD installed. Whatever is supposed to be on the top line actually shows up on the bottom line. Other than that everything displays fine. Any idea why that could be?

I only have mine to go off of but I have a outlane post on both sides. It was that way when I got the game

New high score, made it to super stunt spectacular and then through 3 more stunts, made it to super lethal weapon and then all the way back again, coming just two shots shy of starting super lethal weapon for a 2nd time. 1 extra ball.

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I have some quirky stuff in my cabinet, not done by me, but I can take some pics. Let me know if you need anything different

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I couldn’t find it in the manual but my ball save is 3 or 5 switch hits. I remember reading about it somewhere and I’m assuming it was the manual but I don’t see it now.

I need to make a set for mine so I can get a new plastics set and I also need to make one for my striker Xtreme, just busted a plastic on that one off the drops. Glued the piece back on and I kid you not the very next game I got an air ball that hit the EXACT same spot and busted it again!

What did you use to cut it? I see I can get a piece big enough for both my games for $7.99 around the corner from me. What thickness did you use? Thanks

With all the mods out there I’m surprised this one was never done as well. It is an ugly space looking “gun” from the factory.
Very nicely done

I have it set to any order, not to make it easier but I just don’t like the idea of a shot being worthless to start the game. Plus it gets really fun when everything is running. Set to extra hard and in order would certainly make it much more challenging to get through all the scenes. I prefer the stacking of everything this game has to offer instead of the typical you are in a mode so everything else is off or you are in multiball so everything else is off. Being in multiball, picking off scenes, loading the uzi, getting super spinner and getaway and jackpots all running at the same time is a thrill! One time I had so much running at once, I think all of the above and maybe looping or crazy rigs the game just couldn’t handle it, it made a loud beep noise and reset.
I can usually get through all the scenes or to super lethal weapon in a game if I just concentrate on one or the other. Good games I will get to both. Really good games I will do both and one of them twice. Best ever I’ve done both scenes and super lethal weapon twice in a game, almost a billion points.

I have an older code version as mine still says multiball and not tri ball, but mine is fixed at 3 everytime, way too easy, makes the game basically a guaranteed 4 ball game. I haven’t looked in the settings to see if I can change that, this is a good reminder for me to check. I have Chads code on Hook sitting next to LW3 and it really turned that from a ramp ramp ramp game into a fun game that you want to hit all the shots. I haven’t switched to Chads code on LW3 because I think some of the problems that people had that he addressed aren’t on my code version so it wasn’t going to be a huge change for my game like it was for Hook.