After getting hold of a Tron LE recently I was very eager to set it up... so out went WH2O and in came Tron... a truly stunning game!

After playing it for a while I feel I'm struggling... My understanding is that the main aim is to get to the portal, which means lighting the central column of lights... the most difficult of which seems to be GEM... this requires a very tight shot from the upper flipper to the right inner loop... it's so tight that it's rare that I make it... the right target in front of the left ramp seems way too low, obscuring the balls passage to this GEM shot... What I find I'm doing, therefore, is purely aiming to get GEM lit... it seems in doing that that all the other lights get lit with no effort... and the chances are that by the time I get GEM, then I've almost got everything else by accident... and then starts Sea of Simulation... and what's the first shot you have to make? Yep, GEM!! I've been trying to get GEM for the entire game, and now, when I finally get to where I want to be, I have to shoot GEM again... Typically I fail and loose the ball, so then we're back getting the column lights, and more GEM shots... maybe I'm just very bad at the cross playfield shots, ar maybe I'm playing this game wrong... But to be honest it's making me think I made a mistake buying this game... I want to like it, I want to keep it... Help me someone!

Thanks for that, it was an intersting read, and it will certainly effect how I play the game!! I do think, however, that the difficulty in making the right inner loop will still dominate the strategy needed to get to the Portal... Do other Tron players find this shot incredibly difficult? If only the 'U' target of ZUSE was a bit further back it would open up the shot and ballance out the game...

Thanks, I picked this up in the writeup pinmike sent the link to also... but I don't find the 3-bank in front of the disk is in the way of the right inner loop anyway... what's in the way is the 'U' of ZUSE... from what I can gather...

I'll try getting to the Daft Punk multiball too It that the one also known as 'black multiball', or is that something else?

I'm itching to get the glass off and put a straight edge from the flipper contact point required to make the shot (assuming a slow ball) and the left of the ball entry... just to see what's really in the way on mine

I've only heard of black multiball... apparently it's when all the lights go out except the ramp lights (therefore only possible on the LE model)... is this what happens in DP multiball? If so, then this is what I'd heard as 'black miultiball'...

Understood re the slow rolling ball... the ball will be lower down the flipper to make the shot, and therefore the ball path will be lower at the offending obsticals... Having the flipper a bit lower would also help... I wonder how much adjustment there is on the flipper without drilling the bush hole in the playfield... or maybe I could drill it just a bit bigger

I will try harder sir...

Good tip, have noticed this accidental GEM shot myself...

After a few 1000 games the 'U' of ZUSE target should be hammered back enough to make the shot a bit easier too... hang on, I've just had an idea... now where's that hammer!?

This goes against the grain for me... for some reason I prefer to change something in the hardware