This can also result in an *insane* amount of damage to plastics and other on-playfield stuff without too much time passing. I get the idea, and it's a good one...if you don't care about what damage you might do.

On my personal TSPP, the garage door really doesn't work, and I haven't bothered fixing it at all. The switch for hitting the door still registers most of the time, yes, but it doesn't necessarily (*maybe* one time in 20?) open up near enough for the ball to pass through to award the Mystery Award or send the ball to the upper playfield. This greatly, *greatly* affects the way the game is played, as you can't afford to just basically ignore the third flipper ramp shot any more...you've *got to* hit that shot in order to make it up to the Living Room to start modes, lock balls for multiball, get super jackpots, etc.

The one caveat to my pseudo-mod (read: kind of lazy about fixing it, but enjoying the resulting change by not doing it) is that the garage door will sometimes slightly open, enough for the ball to get behind it from the Quik-E-Mart shot. This can be a pain, but it's part of the challenge, too.

I've found that playing this way really, *really* makes multiball special, and when I achieve it, I'm feeling pretty good about myself. It also makes playing modes, when you can start them, much different, since the clock is that much more difficult to reset/add time onto.

Meh. I'm not married to the mod, but it kind of fascinates me, so I leave it there. No one plays it but me, so who cares?

To be completely fair: mine doesn't play ultra-nasty or anything. In fact, it's probably time for me to do a complete teardown of the playfields and really, honestly shop the thing. I'd probably be less forgiving of my "mod" if it played like an absolute beast.

Another mod that I just thought of that I've never bothered to fix: the leftmost "large post" in the pop bumper entry area (there are three) is missing on my machine, and I've never bothered to replace it. It does make it so that the standup in the bumper area gets hit quite a bit more than I recall it being hit on other machines that I've played.

Can you tell that I bought a routed TSPP?

Oddly, for as long as I've been playing pinball, I've *never* gotten any kind of coded Dirty Pool. Not on TAF, not on AFM, not on IJ ("You cheat, Dr. Jones!")...nothing like that. Now, it's possible that I've benefitted from other, non-coded types, but they're not coming to the forefront of my mind.

I just find it strange that I've never gotten one. Of course, the argument could be made that "You *hate* AFM, so you don't play it enough to get Dirty Pool!", and I suppose there's some legitimacy to that. But I've played TAF and IJ a *ton*, and never gotten it.

I'm glad some people have been able to!