Hi,

Got recently n°113/155.

On right flipper I have magnetic remanence because of bad quality alloy used.
Also got some mushrooming that I have corrected filling roughtly and changing the soft sleeve damaged... But magnetism remains. I have then to change at least the stop and the plunger.

I know homepin is producing his own parts, but with COVID crisis, I would avoid long deadline to recover... So I'm searching for equivalence part for the flipper... It look like Data East/Sega/Stern SAM but as I don't own such pins, I can't tell... Plunger spec in mm: Diameter 11, total lenght 60, pin drill 5 toward link...

Anyone for help?

Hi,

I got replaced plungers with DE previous 1992 and pin stops with bally to discover the right flipper was still sticking one to 3 seconds... I went to menu for test and discovered one push on the right resulted in 4 to 6 impulsions. Conclusion, no remanence... but electrical or electronical...

I then turned to the opto, surrounded by 2 coils (the walk through and the launcher)... After testing and several cleaning the phenomena disappeared. Strange disturbance as normally this I/O failing...

But with optos you never know ain't it?

I played much worse pinball in GTB, bally and Williams games.
For sure this is far to be the best, but the ball flow is good. Too much multiball for me, but a rule update may change a lot of things... If it comes one day...

Seems you are really bashing!!!
Have you ever played that game?

Hi Same for US pinball coming to Europe... 8K dollars for a Stern Pro version, would you ever buy it?

All this bashing (spitting and trolling) is amusing me. Seams the internet is full of haters for everything. TB is not an exception when I see all the negative reactions.

Cost: OK, according market evolution you have an EM for the price now.

Quantities: Only 155 units in the world. So having the opportunity to play it is weak. Owning one is exceptional (if you can ever have the possbility to buy one... But don't do it )

Gameplay: Well... taste and colors... What you like belongs to you... Personnaly MM is a bareshit, Indy not that good, Monster bash is beautiful but too easy really quickly boring... Most of last 20 years Stern pins are shits (exception for Metalica and Ghostbuster). But this is personal...

Rules and code: Well the rules are not so clear... Bonus? yeah peanuts... You have to do all missions to get full handle of points... In easy mode, strategy is to capture and to chain up multiballs... Multiballs are too easy to get... But set the game in hard mode and it is fully different... Multiball is hard to get if ever... And you have to battle hard not be ridiculous

Quality: If you compare to Stern... Well, Stern is bad quality... It's worse and worse the time passing by. TB is different. Of course, the Lockbar is plastic, but you can exchange with a WPC one. Buttons? Well they are acceptable... Sure the feeling could be better with a harder spring inside... The door? Well same as stern, I don't care!!! At least legs are not bending when I'm pushing the machine. Playfield is plastic protected. Ramps are metal (brought it with the update installed). Flippers mecanisms can be changed with standard Bally/Early DE parts... And the machine is delivered with some spare parts. As of today, it is not a handle of dollars to add that will make the difference...

Improvement? Yes, a code update may change a lot of thing... But I don't know if it will ever come. I believe this pin may be worth of it...

Now let the trolls getting back to their spiting and bashing (Got a look in the top100 last week and it was rated 259... Strange it is not hte 10.000th ain't it? But change it with lower rates to flow down it's price... Some friends of mine may thank you for that )

See you

Hi, I share for the code...
The way for bonus management is ridiculous... And someone will have to explain for the 6th mission.
Anyway... Sound is OK (classic sound set on), but mission activation is strange... If no activation in the code (barely, I believe you can play all mission in one shot), there are some freezing in the middle not computing points at some time or recording a dedicated shoot...
I suppose it may be good asking Homepin for that

Yes! If not how can you know... You're only bashing!

Got a thunderbird.
Got a trouble with the right flipper. I have to explore the lattest service bulletin changing transistors on flipper driving cards to be sure (Right flipper stay on until you push the left one). Got an exchange with the Homepin support who is not giving the right solution, but I will give them a return when my problem will be solved.

Anyway, when you lift the playfield you immediatly see the difference with stern (who in comparison is a mess). The only con is some wire gauge (EOS) and coils are undersized.

Nevertheless, securizing the flippers with common Bally/willams and DataEast parts can be done by most of us...