Dig around in adjustments, I believe it is called Freeze Time.

LTG : )

I dont get many ball hops on mine from that area - maybe post a picture so we can see if things are correct there.

I have seen some ball hops on mine, but not as frequent as this. You might want to check and see if those mini-posts have bent backwards toward the plastic posts.

The ball saver may not be present in earlier Sw roms. You may need to update those

Standard setting #38.

That post takes a beating. It eventually starts to bend back on every game. I remove mine now and then, clean around the hole, then reinstall it. Make sure it has the big factory flat washer on both sides. Changing the factory white post rubber with a black rubber helps. You'll still get an occasional airball, but not as often. If you do use white, use the small white post rubbers. Not the bigger ones.

On the sound issue, I would try a factory reset and/or reseat the sound roms.

Also -- the music does do an unusual 'restart' between balls. RBION is a great game that doesn't get much respect. I played one on on route a few years ago (knowing nothing about it) and was instantly hooked. Picked one up a year later.

Yes & No. RBION, on the later ROMs, eliminated a timed ballsaver and went to a scoring saver...which I believe is 40-50K points.
Earlier Roms has a very long ball saver time.

Need to check mine too, at the moment my ball save is on points I think but it pretty much only kicks in if you hit nothing at all on your launch. The only place I get airballs from is the loop ramp from the bingo bit, ball is going to fast sometimes and launches off the side when doing the loop.

Really great game, RBION and WW I'll probably keep forever.

Interesting, never knew that. Thanks for the info phishrace

Grats on the RBION Eskaybee. It is the one I enjoy most on Farsight. Nice and quirky theme/music and looks pretty deep. Was on my wishlist for awhile but got cut due to running out of space. Maybe if I ever find a nice one decently priced locally...

I found that, on my version, the scoop itself was bent backwards (in my case, caused by a crack in the scoop) and that after bending the scoop back down to an appropriate level, the ball bounces were greatly improved (as were my shots to the scoop).

I actually throw out a big thanks to Pinball Arcade as their table shows a "proper setup" and was really helpful in seeing what the scoop should look like.

RBION is a great game but takes awhile to understand the rules and objectives and because of this and for other reasons, I believe it's under rated. FYI but you may know this already, if you shoot for the skill shot and hit basically nothing, you can let the ball drain and try the shot again. Ditto on the ball scoop, if bent back properly should reduce or stop ball bounces. You might have to try several times to get it back right and I found it was throwing the balls SDTM and giving ball bounces until I got it adjusted right.

I thought Lawlor didn't dig ball savers, i.e. TZ. He's so mean!

I have ball hop issues when hitting the flippers or slings.....ball constantly hits the metal ramp across the front. I'm pretty sure there's a ball save option as mine has a short one