Mine looks just like that. I'm at about 80-90 games. My shooter lane chipped all the way to bare wood within 50 games.

I also get a lot of 2 ball feeds, and at the moment I am trying the trough eject power turned down, so far so good, but it happens randomly and is very annoying. I don't remember any other pins doing it so frequently. Also today I had a ball eject from the right eject hole and go down the middle and then the game went into video mode and then when it finished it registered the ball as gone...weird bugs everywhere dwight.

I haven't gotten a two ball feed on my GB even once, so doubtful it is a code issue, could be a trough opto issue.

i still have no chipping or ghosting. I'm about 500 games in.

Try unplugging and plugging back in the connector on the ball trough opto. Common issue on sterns.

I had the same issue so instantly did this to my home made airball protector.
I'm hoping all the sellers are updating theirs as well.
There's no need for the ball to have to hit the protector.

I have le#258 and the only issue I have the ball ramp/lane issue. I found the plastic fixes. No other playfield quality issues. Must have gotten lucky.

Short of muting the machine, does anyone know how to turn off the grandfather-clock BONGs on the hour (in the Premium)? I can't find a setting that will disable it.

Forgive me if this was already answered; I couldn't find it by searching.

Pretty sure that is tied to playing Midnight Madness. Since I have updated to 1.10, I have not played MM and it does not gong on the hour like it did before. Maybe try disabling MM in the settings ?

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

The only other major issue I have - other than the super-reactive 2x/3x targets that others have brought up - is that the sensitivity of the Scoleri pop-up targets is really low. They do register, but only about 1/5 times I hit them, even at high speed.

I can confirm that disabling the "Madness Champ Attract" game-specific setting disabled the grandfather clock sounds.

This is more a STERN issue or a "Don't let this happen to you" video .
The link is time linked right before the "oops" .
I feel real his heart break.

As soon as I started to see how he was lifting the playfield, I knew what was going to happen.

Rob

I've seen some folks have asked about how the stern side rails attach and look. Today I found a photo of the rails installed.
I can see there are extra screw holes beyond the factory screw holes but they appear optional. If anyone has installed these rails, I would love to see some hi res photos and your opinion of the rails.

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I thought of those but the price was too high in my humble opinion. I'm not a fan of mods on games because most look horrible and tacky but those Stern side rails looked really cool. I just thought they were too much money for what they were.

I opted instead for regular lollipop rails which I think cost me $60 and protect the cabinet which was my primary concern.

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They look great! May I ask where you bought them?

if its for HUO, with no "moding" aim, 2 pieces of mylar round the flipper buttons is more than enough, and working perfect

just to say nice & tanx that i got my wire protector... but the other way, pity they didnt also add a new (perfect) wire in the set...

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Pinball life!

Yah - I debated this for awhile (even bought flipper button mylar cut outs) and ultimately felt the rails were "more reversible" if I kept the originals. I'll fully admit to being irrational in this regard but the rails help my OCD issues. Lol.

koolego this is what I was talking about the other night!

I guess the sky isnt falling!

Yeah...... But that kinda blows. Now you have to wait posssibly weeks for a mistake on their end ? If this was a car you would get a loaner.

Also I have had new complete PFs that have had light damage during shipping. It was nice to be able to swap the parts as needed to have a damage free game.

This is a pricey fix for Stern, I doubt they want to do this more than once per Customer with defective PF.

One has to wonder if they are now confident they have it handled.

Yeah, we were kinda hoping they would put his CC on file, send out a new playfield, and have him send the old one back....like a lot of companies do.

Hey everyone, I have an issue I hope you all can help with.
I just installed the cliffy shooter lane protector and the stronger spring on the auto launch.
-- Now every time I shoot the ball, I instantly get "who brought the dog". Every ball launch, you hear "who brought the dog".
As soon as it reached the top. I've also seen a few times where it kicks 2 balls into the shooter one at a time quickly which never happened before. - What starts "who brought the dog ?" Where should I start looking?
Thanks for your help
Chuck.

Its great Stern is sending these out. I was about to call them, but was working my machine today so I decided to take a look at my wire to see if it was bent. Imagine my surprise when I saw strengthener accessory was already there!

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So, this started happening yesterday. When going for the skill shot, as soon as the ball is launched and goes through the gate, it registers the skill shot as being made, doesn't wait for it to go down the correct lane.

I thought maybe a bug with 1.10. Just install 1.11 and problem still persists.

Has anyone else experienced this??

As noted in other threads, you may want to avoid 1.11.

Rob

Which skill shot registers as being made? Have you checked all the switches in switch test mode? Pro or Premium/LE model?

Rob

I'm wondering if this is my problem as well. Cause this started happening after installing my cliffy's as well.

How did you "adjust the ball sense switch"?

Premium model. Just checked switches. All seem fine. I did discover though, it's not the gate that kicks off the mode and awards the skill shot. Its the right orbit switch.

On ball one, it automatically awards "who brought the dog". Subsequent balls, regardless if I choose P, K or E, it automatically awards 10% as soon as it goes over the switch.

More to my last. When testing the shooter lane switch with my finger, it'll register. When I put a ball in there, it doesn't. So it looks like I have the same problem as Chuck.

So the question I have now, if anyone knows (before Chuck comes along), when he says adjust the ball switch. Is this a manual adjustment or something in the settings I change? If it's manual adjustment, can someone explain, PLEASE and THANKS!

Arrghh!!! I snapped the boom arm of slimer on my premium. I was trying to stop him from both hitting the city plastic and dragging his butt by bending the rod. I am so angry with myself. It seems that boom arm is like 1/4" too long.

(update: 1.05) (adjusting the ball sensor switch) (refer to photo)

Step1: Test your ball switch be sure you have this problem. (mine started after installing lane protector)
(not the fault of the cliffy, but the cliffy raised the ball just enough so my switch did not make contact most of the time.

Step2: Try raising the switch - loosen the screws and raise up. (for me it was not enough)

Step 3: (only if needed)
(Turn machine off or you will get smacked by the auto launch)
Press wire (ball sensor) down from the top with one hand
Carefully adjust (bend) wire portion of switch upward by a millimeter using a needle nose.
Now the leaf will be pressed down more on the switches actuator button when a ball is present.

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New heavy auto launch spring compared to original spring.

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Thanks much for this Chuck....will try it out later today!

I'm still kicking myself, but I patched the rod with a one inch spacer with a quarter inch bore and attached the two pieces and spacer with JB Weld. I filed off the paint and roughed up the interior of the spacer to form a good bond. Works great until I get a replacement piece. I swear the dimensions on that piece are just wrong. I did post my best score (1.6B) after the repair. I can post pictures later because the mobile upload is not working for me.

The short story is adjust slimer with the washers and do not bend the rod. The rod is not solid and has holes punched through it which are weak spots.

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Has anyone figured out how terror dog scoring works, or how to beat the 75 million champion? It never awards the value shown on the countdown.

Rob

i've just put 129M there as hiscore, but dont ask me how, and even more i'm not sure the game didnt bug (again)

:/

This sounds like you do not have the Cliffy's installed 100% correct. I have these in my TWD machine. It took me a while to get the fitment right and the ball should not be raised up. The best way I found to get them seated right, is put both side piece on, but not screwed tight and simply run the ball up and down the shooter lane until it pushed the cliffys away. This allows for the ball to be seated in the shooter lane property, meanwhile having the cliffys positioned as close to the ball as possible (without getting in the way of the ball = no raised ball).

When it comes to a new machine like Ghostbusters..
* Where can we buy a replacements for cracked plastics ?
* Is it ok to call Stern-support line to order parts or so we need to buy them from a site like Marco and hope they are in stock?

* I see in the manual, there are plastics maintenance kits.
Q: What are the pieces in this kit?

Ghostbusters LE Playfield Plastics Kit 803-5000-H6
Ghostbusters Premium Playfield Plastics Kit 803-5000-H7

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What plastics did you break so others can make a protector

I think an airball wacked my plastic just under the library.
Before I added an airball protector I had airballs hit the top of the library as well.
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I'm pretty sure Stern will send you a replacement in the mail.