Thank you. I'll hold off on the swap until Stern tells me what they want to do..

Yeah well my two scores this morning were both 18.xx million so there.

Open outlanes, increase pitch, change settings so everything is harder to start/finish.

Wizard's Mist-N-Shine gets rid of the dirt on your flippers, ball trails, etc and makes the pf slicker for a day or two. Plus, it smells good and fights static electricity. Try cleaning the plastic outside panel of your display, you might find that it takes longer for dust to build back up.

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It’s just a small raised lip on the button shaft that catches the end of the housing. Has been a problem for many years. Just pop button out, spin the shaft in some sandpaper between your thumb and index finger. I keep a piece of 220 and 400 in my bag. I use the 400 just as a finisher to ensure it’s smooth. Takes just 5-10 seconds.

I have to do it on about 75% on our new sterns.

I'm uncertain you rolled it. That's reserved for the score going so high that you went back to zero.

What I meant, was that I reached the limit of the code, and then it all just reset.

I think my final score was just under 1B.

This is what I do with Novus 1. But I use it less on the playfield and just dust the playfield sometimes because the game gets too fast for a while otherwise. When dusting isn’t enough, I use Novus 1.

It’s like there are magnets in the outlanes some days with this game.

It's not going to damage the power supply immediately, but if you have lots of clicks, it will shave some life off that power supply relay. I personally feel it will just kill that inductor faster (if that is what is causing the problem as it seems to be).

If you have a non-52CG21 inductor PDB, I'd just swap it. Should solve the problem completely, and then wait for Stern to acknowledge the issue and offer warranty swaps on the suspect PDBs.

Stern changed something with the 2021 builds of Maiden that made my 3D Anubis not fit anymore, so I'm bringing the game back in to see if I can modify the mounting to make it work with all Maidens again. It worked great for all builds before 2021, just that was was different. Bonus is, I get to have one in-house for a while again. I might actually finish the instructions for the columns and torches while it's here so those can be available, too. Design has been done for a long time, I just need to make the installation instructions clearer (it's a little complicated) and get them drawn.

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I didn’t see where you are located, but I do have a NIB Foo for sale, here on Pinside. I’m at 98577. Wouldn’t be worth shipping, as I payed shipping on mine. Only selling because I magically got one of the last LE’s on launch, and need to feed my credit cards.

I agree the code doesn't run terribly deep just yet. I sorta got shouted down when I said this game didn't need coop as the rules were easy to get all the way through by oneself.

I have to humbly disagree on waxing clearcoat PFs..I use a MINIMAL AMOUNT of carnuba wax on my Sterns, and it literally a game changer. Just did this to my GZ that I hadnt touched since I got it over a month ago..totally changed the speed and geometry of it all..and minimal wax will pick up the black gum rubber residue that you cant see on the pf..its there (along with a small amount of coil dust). But to each his her own!

Well they might not add coop, but I think it’d be good and help pull in more operator dollars. I have only been to DC or Austin once, just to tell you skill level.

I mean, as long as the paint isn’t worn off… I don’t think any of us care about personal preferences on home-used games. They will get dimpled though!!

Dimpled = Definitely

just curious, what is the average lifetime plays of a brand new game - anyone check what happens from the factory or your distributor ?

Nope. Never cared.

I believe mine had right around 100 plays listed from the factory. (first run Pro)

I don't think I've ever seen more than 10 from a NIB, but I don't always check.

I wouldn't mind a coop mode. I will take all the content Stern can dish out. Coop mode would be nice for the casuals and kids that want to play. I also want to see a Back Stage Pass mode added.

I will go down and double check in a bit and report back

Yep, you're right. 8 plays from the factory...I was way off

A timed play mode that lets the length (2, 3, 4, 5 minute) be set in the system menu is desperately needed for head-to-head tournaments so the time is counted down by the machine automatically starting from the first plunge and the flippers go dead with no switch hits score counted after the countdown timer hits 0. Dead flippers, count up bonus, display score, exit mode. Would make head to head match play administration MUCH EASIER, and help promote more Stern pinball.

I'm hoping Xaqery is up for adding that kind of mode since he's next up with a pin and one of the new special mode-experimenters at Stern. I'm sure Theguyoverthere knows how valuable it could be for tournaments. Maybe he can help with it. Seems like perfect timing with Dwight up with Eddy's next Stern design in just a few months, and it would be a GREAT way to promote the release at launch party tournaments. Should be a very easy mode to add overall. I imagine it would be accessed something like the co-op mode in his TMNT.

Given the often severe QA issues with machines Stern sends out the door, I'm surprised the number is more than 2, but sometimes it's close to 10.

All my NIB have 1 lifetime play from the factory then reset to 0 total plays by Stern. So you can tell if they remember to reset it will have 1 more lifetime play than the total plays or whatever the amount they tested would be. One Chicago gaming had 1 play my other had 8 total plays so anything double digits is when you have a distributor that likes to unbox the games and look for potential problems before reboxing, then shipping the game to you. Several distributors do that, you can request they don't if you want the initial joy of opening it.

I'm happy with how lucky I have been with my first pin. I haven't had any issues with my Foo Pro (knock on a wood playfield). Well, only a minor tweak to a switch arm was needed to make sure the left ramp registered every ball. Other than that, its been pretty flawless. I keep checking the bolts and screws underneath expecting to see something on the flippers loosen up, but so far so good. At 550 plays.

You’re usually pretty safe going with Stern.

By and large, Stern puts out a good product, so aside from notoriously crappy coil stops, the vast majority of customers for Stern are unaffected. But Stern pin QA goes wrong, it goes REALLY wrong, like the machine with node overcurrent errors from bad sockets right out of the box, which should EASILY have been visible with anyone actually reading the screen at boot when the factory QA'd it.

Couldn't figure out the downvote on such an innocuous post.... now I understand. Thanks.

You’re telling me! Freaking $9500 on a premium only to spend hours diagnosing a bad socket with PinMonk by my side thank goodness

This game is absolutely brutal.

FYI: My lower right target and rock-o-meter exit switches had the wires switched from the factory. Explains why I was having trouble getting my playfield multiplier going on demand and the short plunge skill shot never worked.

Pic below is the incorrect wiring. Lower right target should be white/orange and rock-o-meter should be white/yellow.
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New stream coming soon?

Make sure you are not flailing....slow down and trap up when you can. TMNT is like this too. Its super hard to hit the van ramp on the fly from the right flipper. If you try to hit that ramp on the fly, you have about a 60% chance of drilling the post and rocket draining between the flippers.

5 clicks at boot up .

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Season 2 of SlapDrain starts back up in the fall. The heat in my garage and grueling work load make it very hard to keep a regular stream schedule going during the summer months. I miss streaming already and cant wait to get back to it.

Really addicted to nudging the Lightning Kicker and collecting Bolts .Really cool part of this code .

Backhand the van shot is probably the safest way

Thanks. Added to the 52CG21 inductor click file.

Did you make it to the Third Overlord MB (The Pretender) in that game too? I've made it through all the cities and Foobot in the same game on a few occasions but not with the 3rd Overlord MB completed. That one usually eludes me. I've made it there in other games when I've specifically tried for it but not when completing all 8 Cities and Foobot. If they make that a requirement along with the forthcoming Combotron MB I think that is enough depth to get to the main wizard mode. Hopefully they also put in a grand wizard mode for hitting the Supers in Austin, DC, Foobot, and Overlord too.

Ah bummer. Maybe just some recorded play sessions uploaded to YouTube!

Adding to your list PinMonk
Jurassic Park Prem. May 5 Build.
Video of clicks:
https://imgur.com/gallery/UopT7rF

I’d say close to 40 clicks.

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I’m going to have to check this out .I was just looking for something to watch while I’m resting from the lineup .Walked the 4 dogs then had a very tense 2 hour session and need a break .I got them good tonight .All of them

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Nah ,I just lightly clean regularly and deep clean and wax every 250 .Change balls out as needed . I used to be until I took apart my IMDN completely after 1200 plays .I cleaned everything and replaced what was needed and the thing looked like it just slid out of the box .

After watching Rayday explain everything on stream I now realize there are so many more risk/reward point chases then just modes and multiballs. Amazing amount of different strategies. I still need to better understand Lightning Bolts thought.

This is the best new Stern experience I have had in a long time. I do tend to like faster games that punish mistakes though. I like it much more than GZ because when I missed in GZ I got to wait 3 seconds for the ball to come back down to save it. This is an amazing time to be a pinhead with two games like GZ and FF to suit the type of play that you prefer.