Just picked up a Fish Tales, and it occasionally resets when launching the third ball. I've looked over this page a bit: http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_WPC and intend to go through the entire list of things under game resets. So far I've fiddled with the connectors to the board and under the playfield.

This happens maybe once every 20 games. Every single time it has been on the initial launch of the third ball. It's happened about 10 times so far, but never on any other ball launch, including after having previously locked a ball and still being on the third ball.

Since this seems like such a specific case, I'm wondering if anyone has any insight. Like I said, I'm planning to go through the checklist, but the problem is that since it's happening so infrequently, I'm not sure that I'll know when I'e solved the problem until I play 50 games or so without it happening. Maybe not even then.

The reset had never happened in a multi-player game until last night...and it wasn't on the third ball launch either. So now I'll have to dig in.

So, for the switches...say shooter lane switch is 61, then I basically look at 60,61,62,63,64,65 etc...and 11,22,33,44,etc? I went though this way in test mode to see that the switches were working properly. How can I tell if they were wired backwards?