Anti-rattle tape would fix it.. or you could try gorilla tape on the top underside of the plastic guide right above where the glass would be.. don’t know how tight the channel fit is there against the glass but that’s likely where the rattle is coming from.

I noticed this as well -but I think part of the problem was that it was sandwiched between potc (hard to find anywhere to play one, slightly newer) and I think afmr - hard to beat a classic... or was it alive cooper there.. never get a chance to play that one either really. Still was crazy that there was no line sometimes .. always lines at those front newer games.

Interesting.. no explanation I can think of then.. weird fluke.

Is the phone scoop cliffy always after market on all versions of DI or did it come installed on the LE or CE ever?

Any idea on rough build dates for the changes?

That, plus those other 10 things on that list it sounds like? And a fix to the issue at the wizard mode?

1660 miles this weekend solo drive.. made it home intact and I’m joining the club for a while

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My time wasn’t a huge deal, just a weekend ‘cruise’ lol. Gas was paid for by other party so I was really just out hotels which was fine.. went cheap as I could find. I wouldn’t have gone so far normally — but we worked out a trade +cash deal. Driving to pick up a pin is kinda an adventure I guess.. don’t mind it too much if I don’t have to miss work

Man.. I’ve played this game a ton at several shows and on locations. It’s still so different at home — to hear all the nuances, music, callouts. To have properly powered flippers, new balls and the Playfield playing real smooth and fast.. Crazy! Really enhances the game to play at home.

Gotta do the Velcro trick on the phone though I think — lots of rejects so far, a frustrating amount. The thin cliffy is slightly lifted around the hole for some reason - is this common?

So my friend is telling me the theatre mag should throw the ball around rather then just dropping it — is this true always or generally and how do you adjust it? I see a normal, partial, and test setting for it but that’s it. I thought I needed to crank the power up or something?

Addedum — I’m running 1.52 which is old apparently.. guessing that’s maybe some of the issue ..

Can someone explain the significance of the spider in this game? Ive never quite got how it ties in to the theme, but it must somehow..

Seriously? Sounds plausible ..

Also wondering about the 4 LEDs in the apron.. significance?

Is there a best way to feed the upper flipper for that SIM card shot? I do wish there was a setting to leave it lit between balls.. that’s rough to lose it

Yea!! Fixed that

Anyone know what turns the divertor on and off for the left ramp (the woman mechanic)

Thanks! Will have to check settings, it seemed down more last night than it should be

I just went from 1.52 to 1.61 — what issues exist at 1.61 — game ending or crashing issues or just minor stuff?

Indeed - saw a LOT of it wish I could have explored a bit off the hwy though. Next time

Thanks! Haven’t noticed anything yet

True it’s not factory but as a newer owner these kinds of scores still baffle me. Haven’t gotten above 800,000 yet. Struggling with scoop rejects. Not from the cliffy - they reject by hitting the metal sides of the scoop mech itself.. that hole is damn tight. Wondering if I can remove the mech and bend the sides out wider..

Exactly! That’s why I’ve already turned on sim carry over. It’s not About trying to inflate my final score —- it’s about being able to have a shot at one day completing all the damn letters and playing showdown.

Had two 500k games to start and then put up my first 1mil+ game today. Hoping they continue to get better.. collecting all those letters still seems impossible

A backhand? I can hit those 90% now — figured out the sweet spot. But from the left flipper they are very very difficult and iffy..

Not preferred but I’ve played with my wife that way to even the playing field (so to speak). Problem is you have the Big Bang button right there on the phone - big advantage if lit

I’ve been having a lot of balls jump the left return guide when it’s coming back to the inlane — Is there a suggested fix to keep the balls from jumping out of the wireform?

Foes the inconsistent phone scoop kick cause almost for there to be done ‘english’ on the ball (like in pool) where it seems to spin towards a drain btwn flippers? That seems to happen to me every 6-10 phone scoop ejects and it takes a good shove to save it..

Oh man, that sounds worse than mine. I do get an occasional one that hits the habitrail but those don’t bug me like the ones that go right for the middle. I can deal with inconsistency as long as I’m not facing cheap drains 1/4 of the kick outs.

Hi all, wanted to thank past posters on help with some issues I was having. I have solved them and wanted to post—

1) phone scoop rejects. Had so many from the over the top of pf protector, and the more I watched balls reject the more I was convinced it was because the ball was bouncing around between the thin metal flaps that angle down into the hole. I’ve confirmed this — I removed the protector and bent the flaps in on all 3 sides so they are about at 100 degrees. Then reinstalled and all 3 sides are flush against the wood they protect and about zero ball rejects now. Posting this as an FYI — you can keep the protector there if you get it installed flush and it shouldn’t affect phone shots. 81B81AE3-06A8-44D4-8351-F529F31D2128 (resized).jpeg

2) ball jumps out of left wire form. Some people said to have jjp send the plastic protector and I was about to bug them when someone posted their own dyi solution. I followed suit and damn it works well — even the super fast shots that scream back around deflect almost instantaneously down to the flipper inlane. HUGE improvement!!! Thank you to whomever posted that.

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During eruption when you shoot the theatre — is the ball supposed to just drop straight down? Is stickman supposed to block a sdtm or the magnets supposed to mess with the trajectory so it doesn’t go sdtm? Nothing is more agrivating than a theatre drop sdtm — is there by any chance ball save setting for this???

Ok — yeah, I think emp is what I meant. Damn, so annoying— I’m always on edge when shooting that shot, expecting to have to give the game a good nudge to try and save a sdtm.

Actually I’ve never focused on what rotates the mode selection.. what rotates it?

With the quantum little mini modes - spider, train bash, etc — does a certain number of shots ‘defeat’ them for bonus points or are they just strictly on the timers and that’s it?

Lol can’t believe I hadn’t noticed that yet. Thanks!

The minimodes seem to take several shots to the spider,ramp,etc and immediate theatre shot right after to activate the ‘mode’. Maybe on the 3rd one?

Yeah I was looking at mine the other day and thinking the same thing about sterns pfs— no doubt there is still dimpling but the craters seem way smaller. Could just be all smashed down but it’s only huo so it doesn’t have *that many plays on it. One thought is that ball speeds maybe are slower a bit. The flipper strength seems turned down on DI compared to a new stern. Are other people able to consistently backhand the left Betty ramp? It’s rare I can make it..

An someone explain what the phone means after you lock a ballin the station and it says ‘press both flippers to cancel multiball’? I’ve tried hitting them both, holding them, double tapping them and it never cancels multiball??? How do you do it??

I feel like I am? You just immediately press both flippers together once and that cancels it?

All right I’ll keep trying lol, sounds like it IS possible at least. Once you cancel, can you lock a second ball so you start the first multiball with 3 instead of 2?

Yep, sounds like I’m just waiting too long.

Sounds like something may be broken/cracked on subway that the ball is getting thru? Have you checked it out below the pf?

I am having a blast on this game but I lose a ball about every second or third game because of a bad scoop eject between the flippers (either unsavable or I tilt trying to save). I’m about to just remove the tilt bob im getting so frustrated with the varied scoop eject power and theatre ‘throws’ that just drop straight down as I desperately try to save the drain.

After how much this has been brought up (it’s been going on a long time, right??) I’m just really surprised JJP didn’t address it either thru code or mechanics diagnostics.

It’s the one detriment to the game- I am super happy with everything else.

I haven’t noticed the video lag but have some coil power issues. What I did notice though the other day — on the roving arrow mode the call outs ‘shoot the left ramp, etc’ were late— behind the arrow, it had already moved on to the next shot. Maybe there could have been some other reason for this but it seemed like it was just delayed possibly? Anyone else noticed this? It could just be a sound ducking/sequence thing going on if there’s multiple clips queuing maybe?

Man I don’t get how some of you guys are collecting so many letters and finishing modes! I think I’ve completed 4 modes and 2 or 3 letters on my best game, but usually 1 letter and complete a couple modes..

You guys are playing wide outlanes, 3 balls, normal difficulty?

Thanks! Been thinking about removing that sim protector.. mines original and bent/beat up .. I think I’ll Ofer a cliffy for it. I thought I fixed my phone scoop after bending the sides in more, but rejects seem to have increased from what I initially was seeing so thinking mantis there.

How many people have actually reached out to JJP regarding this?

Yeah if it can be fixed via software that would be great.. but it could be a while if that ever happens.

Anyone recommend a good 2x 4gb ddr3 memory to go in mine? I have the early build with Celeron and 4gb of memory..if it’s not too $$ id like to try going to 8gb to test difference

Damn! All right cpu fix it is. I’ve not noticed the video lag but erratic coils are driving me nuts

Which processor/RAM? I’m close to pulling the trigger on this - just want to make sure I get something compatible.

I’ve only had this happen once, maybe twice in the last 300 or so games. More hang ups at the wrench girl for me than getting stuck on that track, I’d think it should be very rare.. once or twice every hundred games?

I have iPhone 5/se and it worked fine on older code, using method described earlier. Haven’t tried it on new code yet.

This is confusing to me — on my game it seems like switch hits add emojis to the screen and ramps/scoops clear some of them, along with the pops. Isn’t that how it works? So the longer you go the more switches u hit and the more pop up on screen to clear? I need to go study this again, maybe I’m imagining that?

I have the same trough magnetization issue, been meaning to order a plastic trough shim from Marco, I think those help with the magnetic ‘stickiness’ in the trough.

Wondering how often sdtm drops are happening for others (running newest code)?? I can’t get thru the mode anymore w/out one or two of the drops from the theatre not getting thrown by a magnet at all. Which of course is a sdtm without some pretty heavy nudging .. really ruins the mode for me and is super frustrating. This shouldn’t happen hardly ever on this mode right?? That’s the point of all the magnets - to throw the ball around as it drops out of the theatre?

Yeah - whoops left that detail out of what mode I was talking about lol. Really feels like they could have coded the magnets a little more active for a few seconds after a ball is caught in the theatre and it drops. No problem with risk/reward but that’s ridiculous to have a required shot that stops the ball completely and then drops it straight down. Wouldn’t really call it risk/reward at that point. Just risk lol

Yeah — I get the idea behind dropping balls on this mode rather than throwing them but the magnets should def. be more active for 1.5 sec after a ‘catch’ in the theatre. Or a menu option to throw ball around rather than dropping in this mode.

It would be one thing if it were just a challenging shot... however on my machine at least it’s almost always an accidental shot banked off something else. There are challenging shots and there are damn near impossible shots. That’s with the cliffy removed and top rubber gone... I can hit the train lock shot nearly every time from that flipper but the sim shot maybe 2% from that flipper. Seems like it should be Makeable.. just don’t get it.

Like cut the wood or adjust the posts on either side? I wouldn’t risk either personally, even though that shot has been pissing me off forever. Interested to see what u try though and how it turns out.

I was just messing with those while replacing the cpu — mine has the black on top connection , 99% sure. Will doublecheck

Black on top on mine

Yes, only some modes fling it. If you collect a box or hurry up if i remember right it should fling it, but it flings it around to your upper flipper, not to the pops. There’s a few other times I believe. Otherwise you’ll either get a straight thru shot or the magnet stops it and drops it onto the back of qed, except for eruption as noted earlier.

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