First, you want to confirm whether the auto launch forks are sitting evenly on the ball. If they aren't, gently bend them with pliers to where they are. If the forks are sitting correctly on the ball and the manual plunger still isn't strong enough for your liking, change out the shooter rod spring for a "red" spring. Marco and Pinball Life carry them.

I was confused about that too. It's just mislabeled. The "85" at the end of it made think it's probably the right file. I installed it with no issues.

Yeah, ours is set about 6.5 degrees and not floaty.

Yeah, it would be much cooler to focus on the marvel that this remake is.

I'd bet it's Centaur. While I like EBD ok, maybe I'd like it better with some 2.0 code. I'd be excited to see Viking(imagine a new sound package for that one!) or Skateball. Actually, don't do Skateball. I don't want to be faced with potentially selling my first full restoration..

I would presume we aren't talking about adding another thousand Fathom 2.0s in the world. I wouldn't really care if they did. That said, my wife and I aren't exclusivity buyers. We would have bought this game even if it were an unlimited run.

Game freezes? None that are coming to mind.
Delays between balls? Maybe a second or two. Nothing that comes up on my radar as any kind of problem.
Flippers dying if you leave the game sitting for 15 to 20 minutes in game etc? I have not had this type of issue related to a time duration. Now, I would have to hit the flipper cabinet switches with a flexstone periodically. I just replaced them with the low voltage switches per the Zukram recommendation. I haven't had any issues since.
Delays at end of game? No.
Any other bugs? A misplaced voice call which they are aware of. I would imagine that will get sorted with next software update.

My best on the original code, thus far. I did earn a minimum of three extra balls though

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I can't remember exactly what I did but I had to tweak one of my star rollovers. I think I just loosened the screws and played with the tolerance.

I think we had that one happen once.

I seem to remember having to replace a pawl or two after replacing broken flipper bats. Like with any flipper, you have to crank the tensioning bolt really hard to get it to hold the bat shaft in place. Watch the two sides of the pawl as they come together though. If they meet and you continue to crank, you'll break the key or whatever it's called off the other end of the bolt.

If anyone is having trouble with balls getting stuck between the left pop bumper and post next to it, I may have a solution. I basically removed the 1” rubber, moved the 5/16” rubber over, and threaded a 1 1/4” rubber between the posts as shown in pic. So far no stuckies. I’ll report back if this proves to not work. Also, I was having problems with the trough jamming. I found the mech in the state pictured. The plastic part of the plunger had flared out a bit. Once I filed the proud edge off the plunger and readjusted the coil brackets to justify at the top of the assembly, it worked great. Hopefully this helps if you are having these issues.

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I haven't really looked for a solution beyond just cycling the power but I could only imagine it would be a software solution. Most of the time it's just one or two player games so not a big hassle.