Throwing up Lava!

What a matchup going on right now for Stern Showdown! I’ve played Kiss a couple of times but I’m quite surprised it is slightly edging out GoT.

https://www.facebook.com/136972659243/posts/10158398382214244/?d=n

Man, that's pure crap. Yesterday GOT was in front by 200 votes! Something's fishy...

Interesting, some Kiss fans may have been rallied to vote for the game even though they aren't pinball people

WTF? I mean Kiss is a decent game, but it can't even tie GoT's shoes. Seriously. Can't wrap my head around that one...

It's just the audience we all know which is the better game lol

Quick question for Pro owners. I have the 1.37 code on my pro model and I thought it would be cool to do a tournament during quarantine for just my family. But every time the machine is turned off I’m losing the tournament because my Clock is resetting back to 2015. (HS and settings are saved still) I posted this on Facebook and someone commented that it was a known issue with this code. Can anyone confirm that tournament mode is basically useless with the new code? Why wouldn’t they fix this?

Did you check the voltage of the button battery on the CPU board? Have you ever replaced it?

Settings are saved to SD card. Battery powers the clock

I only heard this was a bug. Never confirmed. I just started a tournament on mine, power cycled and it was still running.

If the MPU has a battery on it, try replacing.

If the Clock is resetting I would check the battery.

Does the same thing on my LE. I said it on day 1 after installing new code.

I'll check battery after I finish cleaning playfield and all switches. I feel it's the right think to do after getting to Iron Throne for the 1st time. Live by the Sword die by the battery?
Say what.

Hmmm... Shows how often I've needed to open mine up. I didn't even realize they were still putting batteries in these new guys. It's probably due for a replacing. Hopefully that's it.

I just replaced my battery CR2032 and yes the tournament setting are staying now. My Bad. Wasn't the code. I apology to D.S. for thinking it was.

Well with no battery how can they keep time?

Found a reproducable bug in GOT pro:

- Start game and pick house Greyjoy
- qualify and start Martell (orange) mode. both ramps are purple, both loops are orange
- Shoot 1 loop (f.e the left in my case)
- Then Shoot the right ramp: having done that, now the right ramp is unlit, center ramp is still purple
- Now shoot another two loops, loops unlit and center ramp flashers orange/purple, right ramp flashes orange. Right ramp should not flash orange I think.
- Now make the right ramp and you are awarded the mode completion. All shots unlit for martell and return to normal gameplay state. Total martell screen is displayed with info saying you earned the martell button ability.
Now the bug:
- I then shoot another loop (nothing really special or wrong happens) and when you now shoot the center ramp even though mode was over and no more mode lights but normal gameplay, you still get another martelll mode sound, display animation and score (jackpot builds)

The mode completed properly. Either ramp completes the mode. Even in Greyjoy. You’re not required to complete all purple shots for martell (as Greyjoy). What happened after the mode sounds like a bug.

I've seen this with the purple shots not required, and always thought that it was weird. Half of the modes hard require the purple shots as Greyjoy, and the other half doesn't matter one bit. Seems like the rules should be one way or the other, and I would lean toward they should have required all purple shots to be made during every mode as Greyjoy.

Probably not going to ever be changed that way, but just seemed odd.

Yeah agreed. They’ve always been that way. Baratheon stark and Tyrell and Targaryen (kinda) require the purple shots, the rest are not required if I remember right.

I always thought Martell was the only one that didn't require the purple shots. So I just did some glass off testing and chuckwurt nailed it. In Lannister they are not required, but since all the major shots are lit purple you tend to collect them anyway. And I see what you mean about Targaryen. Sometimes the two outside target shots are lit both purple/blue so you gotta hit them anyway. Sometimes there is only one shot lit and it's purple so you gotta hit that shot to light more blues to progress in the mode.

I guess I don't play as Greyjoy as often as I should!

I really like Greyjoy a lot to 'abuse' the button ability of all houses... in your lannister time, use up all your multiplier button hits.

The other worse bug present which I wrote about earlier is when playing Greyjoy and earning the Stark button ability. Then using it on your last dragon puts you in a fourth and fifth (maybe infinitive) dragon combat

I assumed via some sort of RAM chip. I thought we'd learned by now that batteries on circuit boards aren't great ideas. But the battery replacement appears to have worked. Thanks guys... Other than updating the code once since I got this one I've never had the backglass off and have never paid attention to the fact there even was a battery there.

Had an AMAZING few games tonight on GOT pro. The experience of giving blood and playing pinball is way better then drinking. When in Targaryen and the wings start flapping your adrenaline starts to soar like no other.
I gave blood today at the American Red Cross because all our fellow brothers and sisters are in need of some reserves right now due to current events. When I finished donating and in the recovery room with cheez-its and apple juice, I asked the nurse if they had any Red Cross donor shirts. She said they were out of the free shirts, but brought me a few Game of Thrones Red Cross promotion posters instead. AWESOME!
Hope all of you are staying strong/safe out there and able to play pinball.
-"The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors"-

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Joined club today and loving the game. My ceiling is too low for the topper, so if anyone wants one of these Laserific toppers, get in touch and make me an offer. Have one in mint condition.

https://laseriffic.com/products/game-of-thrones-topper

You win, or you die!

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During certain Multiball modes my game resets. I did install a shaker motor that I ordered from Pinball Life, but can’t figure out what is causing the reset. It always happens during multiball, but a specific multiball I can’t recall. I can check the connections in the back box, but the connections in the cabinet were secure. Any ideas on how to fix this? I have the minimum setting for the shaker motor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It doesn’t happen all the time. Sometimes I can go through 10 games and nothing happens. I read somewhere on Pinside about voltage adjustments, but not comfortable with making those changes.

Check the voltage output from your power supply. It's likely not quite 48v and dropping a little low under load which causes a reset. If you're not comfortable changing the output you can at least check it with a multimeter to see if it's below 48v, which would pretty much verify the issue.

If you decide to adjust, there's a potentiometer on the power supply that will adjust the output. Use a multimeter and try setting it to like 48.3 or so and see if that solves your problem.

It's overkill since you haven't verified the output, but you can buy a new power supply at Jameco for about $92, depending on if you have GOT Pro or Prem/LE it might be less.

Prem/LE power supply ($92):
https://www.jameco.com/z/RSP-500-48-MEAN-WELL-AC-to-DC-Switching-Enclosed-Power-Supply-Single-Output-with-PFC-Function-48V-10-5A-504W_2198014.html

GoT Pro version ($79):
https://www.jameco.com/shop/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&langId=-1&storeId=10001&productId=2122722

You may also need the cap's on the node board power lines

https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Stern-ShakerMotorAdvisory.pdf
https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stern-SB190revB.pdf
https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stern-SB189.pdf

Totally forgot about those service updates! Good catch.

He can ignore the shaker motor one though. It has zero relevance now. Pinball life shakers are solid as are all third party ones I'm aware of. There was only a problem for a few machines early in spike's life.

I hear the T800 translite is sought after, so if anyone wants one, please get in touch.

Also have the matching Laseriffic topper, and a Direwolf shooter rod.

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Thank you for your advice on the game reset. I will look more into what needs to be done from your suggestions.

I have a Laseriffic topper for sale.

They go for $235, but I'll take a fair offer on it.

Private message if interested.

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Just had a pretty sweet BWMB into a HOTK last night. Stars don’t align like this too often!

Also learned that you can reset the 5x playfield multiplier timer if you have a playfield x ready to start and start it during the grace period of 5x timing out. Juicy!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/641040234

BWMB towards HOTK is somehting I have often.. A 1.5B HOTK superjackpot on the other hand Nicely done!
And good thing to know about the 5x multiplier reset, didn't know that either.

Hey Erik, I watched the video twice and I just couldn't see what you're talking about. Are you saying playing as Lannister you can let 5x time out completely, then start it back up? Or just while 5x is flashing really fast you can hit the button to extend it?

Hitting the battering ram in the grace period on 5x works if you have add multiplier lit.

So what I’ve always known is that if any PF x is running, hitting the ram will extend the timer but only by a little bit. It’s a better play to let the PF x timer run out (wait til the lights go out), and there’s a short grace period to hit the ram and bring the multipliers back at full timer.

Now this only works for multipliers 2-4x. In the past I thought there was no way to extend/restart 5x.

Found out last night you can, but the pf x insert needs to be flashing when you hit the ram during the grace period. You can see in the video that I hit the ram quick enough that I hit it once to get the insert flashing, then once again immediately to start the 5x timer over.

I also forgot to mention this has nothing to do with the Lannister power. This is a trick that works for every house and requires you to hit the ram.

And all of that on ball one. Crazy.

I won’t comment on how the game ended up. Haha

If anything like mine that start half as good, all drain just after ball save ends. Haha....Hahaha

Joined the club this weekend, up on its legs today. A pro in wonderful shape. Thinking about putting in a PIN2DMD I have kicking around and going with a gold palette on it. Only mods are shaker and art blades, and a non-stock battering ram that looks pretty good, no plans to add anything else. Have to go watch some tutorials on it now to figure out what to do. It's been on my shortlist for a while now.

These should keep you busy. Haha

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfeetnClaXkEdfrfe1IVDMunDwD7p5Vk

Yes! 6 hours of walk through?!? that'll keep me out of trouble for a while This game has a June 2017 build date... that seems like a late run, if I'm not mistaken Stern re-ran GOT at some point after they were initially done, any thoughts on if that was during that time frame or did comes years later?

The final 100 game run was when the 1.36-1.37 code releases came out. Last year I think.

Yes that last run was in 2019 -- I got one

I installed a PIN2DMD on my new GOT and turned on the default Yellow pallete, I like it...

GoT LE; Wonder if anyone has experience the flippers going dead during certain multi-balls. It does not happen all the time, but in particular when in castle and winter multi-ball. They do come back to work after a short time. Is this lack of response by the flippers part of the game design, or is this a board issue? I checked all connectors and they are OK.

I think it’s a game feature not an issue. During winter has come multiball if you don’t hit shots in time the left flipper will stop for like 2 seconds.