HI,

I'm a new owner of a Star Wars Episode 1. I've never played another version of the game other than the one I just purchased. But I think there might be something wrong with it. So a question for all of you pinball pros: In this game, does the center shield register when you hit it? Because on my machine it doesn't. And when I watch online videos it really seems that the center shield is impacting the video image.

And if it should indeed register the hit. Could you please let me know where to find the switch (I assume it's a switch) that registers it?

I've inspected under the playfield and looked at the assembly in the manual, but I'm still confused.
any help would be more than welcome, as i currently can't trip Jar jar when he is juggling.

Thank You. This helps me a lot. I just found the switch via the Switch TEST. I'll go look under the field for it.

You were correct, it is an optical switch, i was looking for a physical switch and couldn't figure it out.
I found the two sides, took them out and cleaned them, but it still didn't fix my issue. Tonight I'll have a look at the other end of the wires, see if I can figure something out on the card they go to.

wish me luck.

Hi again,

The opto switch leads to the 24 opto switch board. The switchboard has a red light thatès turned on at all times (I think). Is there a way to know if this board is defective? As you can tell I'm new at this.

thank you

I'm back!! I changed both opto switches AND the 24 opto board thing it was hooked up to. Now it kinda almost works. If the ball (or my hand) get close to the left side opto it triggers. but anywhere else refuses to work... Is it possible that I soldered the wires wrong?

thanks

The shield goes up and down at the proper moment. The optos that know that you are hitting the center shield are the culprit.

I messed with it some more and now the optos think that the signal is always broken. They do seem aligned. I'll recheck them tonight.