Suggestion/wishlist item:

Make the sacophagus lock flasher (under the PF facing up through the mech) pulsate when a ball is being loaded into it. Basically start pulsating when a ball is detected at the "gate" until it's been loaded and the mech has returned to level. Let's throw some attention/light onto the cool stuff!

Long-shot Wishlist item:

Add 6 more Maiden songs that you can select to listen to while you are playing. Surely there must be enough storage available for this, and all you really need is a single graphic image for each song when it appears in the selection list. Zero impact on gameplay, etc. this should be easy.

Sounds like your Captive Ball Hit switch at the back of the sarcophagus trough isn't registering. Several/many folks had the same issue. I think Stern is using the wrong switch on these, the ones they put in are way too difficult to close.

See https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/iron-maiden-issues/page/5#post-4432426.

I hear you, it's a major PIA to try to adjust and test. Worth trying to recreate the problem with the glass off as you suggest.

I would contact Stern support or your distributor. I kind of have a feeling that the initial run at least used the wrong spec switch on that mech that require too much compression force to activate. They are probably aware of this by now.

I suspect they'd just send you out a new mech to install and send the old one back, but don't know for certain obviously.

Release Notes:

V1.01.0 - June 20, 2018
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- Playfield Validation - motor switches are no longer causing playfield to be validated early (causing early autolaunch / ball search)
- Playfield Validation - clairvoyant ball changed from setting valid playfield to add valid playfield switch
- Loop Jackpots - fixed an issue where draining while loop jackpots hasn't timed down yet causes no big loops to be registered for the rest of the game for all players
- Loop Jackpots - fixed an issue where when loop jackpots are lit and ball jumps the right up post you are no longer awarded 2 loop jackpots
- Mystery Award - 3M points award changed to 5M
- Mystery Award - 5M points award changed to 10M
- Mystery Award - 250K power jackpot boost changed to 1M
- Mystery Award - 1M power jackpot boost changed to 3M
- Mystery Award - 5M power jackpot boost changed to 6M
- Mystery Award - Level 3 award added 'Spot Soul Shard' which can be awarded once after completing 2 mins to midnight
- Tomb Award - collecting the award now awards a left ramp shot as well
- Tomb Award - add number of possible tomb awards to the tomb award title (Pharaoh's Tomb Treasure #n / 10)
- Skill Shot - added Super Secret Skill shots
- All Mode Grace Periods - grace period shots are now still available if you do not qualify for soul shard
- Cyborg Multiball - fixed an issue with the wrong icons on the LCD changing to solid when those shot types were hit on the playfield
- Cyborg Multiball - icon layout on the LCD now matches the playfield inserts
- Number of the Beast - add sound effect on total screen for total reveal
- Sound / Speaker Test - added all music and speech to test
- Enter Initials - can now skip display of all high score awards by pressing both flipper buttons
- High Score Tables - change 'Supersling Champion' from hit based to score based numbers
- High Score Tables - change '? Master' to say 'Hits' instead of 'Combos'
- High Score Tables - screen optimized to fit better into memory
- Topper - added topper light shows
- Competition Mode does not alter TILT DEBOUNCE time from default 1000ms
- Improved font drawing performance

- System - Updated to V2.04
- Added adjustments for backbox and cabinet speaker types to the service menu UTIL->VOL.
Supported speaker types are "8 OHM" and "4 OHM".
The amplifier power curve is appropriately adjusted for the selected speaker type.
- Added Maintenance Reboot support. The game will automatically reboot if it has
been on for more than 48 hours and has been idle for at least 15
minutes. A 15 second notification display will be presented and can be
postponed by pressing both flipper buttons, inserting a coin/bill, or starting a game.
- Updated 'TILT DEBOUNCE' minimum value to 750ms to avoid overly conservative configurations.

- Adjustment Changes:
- added 'TOP EJECT KICK CLEAR FREQUENCY' - defaults to 4 repeated kicks without clearing the scoop results in a 5 kick clear from the scoop, setting to OFF reverts to old behavior
- changed 'SUPERSLING CHAMPION' - to reflect scores instead of sling hits
- removed 'SONG SELECT TIMEOUT'
- removed 'SONG SELECT EVERY BALL'

Code: http://www.sternpinball.com/game-code/game-code-iron-maiden-le

My brief test last night with 1.0.1 code seemed to show this music attenuation bug has been fixed!

They removed it.

And I the music attenuation bug is still there in v1.0.1 as well. I must have been wishfully hallucinating when I initially thought it was fixed.

If you reselect the same song it starts it from the beginning again. Iron Maiden songs are 12 minutes long. I want to hear the whole song not just the beginning over and over.

Basically, it comes down to this. If you are going to make a "music pin", then do it well and support the kinds of features a fan of the band would appreciate.

They should have a settings option where it solely uses the egyptian font like in the high score table.

What ohms are the FF speakers rated for? Set it to that.

On my LE it’s all 4ohm and my settings are:

Backbox speakers:
Treble: 77
Bass: 60

Cabinet speaker:
Treble: 20
Bass: 125

Typical volume: 40 to 45 with Music Attenuation at -20.

I also have a Polk 10” powered sub on the game to help with the low-end grunt.

The music attenuation bug is still there in 1.0.2. It is really starting to bother me.

The stock sound mix is backwards from what a music pin should have. If I crank the volume it sounds like some *sshole is turning the music down everytime a sound effect is being played, and then back up. Super annoying. It should sound like a loud bar where Maiden is cranking at a nice steady level and you can hear the SF and speech “behind” the music, not in front of it.

Setting music attenuation to -25 is a nice setting for me but the lowering volume every ball is killing me. I have an LE in a home environment, details matter.

I feel like I could fix this bug in 15 mins. If I could access the code...

Agree on the whole redesign probably not being on the table, but I hope they fix the simple bug that causes it to not reset to the original attenuation between balls if you keep the same song playing.

Lol. That's "kinetic ball action" in motion.

I have to admit I was a little surprised the first time the ball dropped off the top of the sarcophagus lock like that too.

It's a feature, not a bug!

Yeah once in awhile. Usually lands in the shooter lane so no biggie.

I just noticed this post by Mr. Elwin himself on the www.tiltforums.com site where he list differences in the IMDN sw between 1.02 and the build at pinburgh. Should provide a nice preview of the fixes we can expect in the next public release:

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FYI Iron maiden code that will be running at Pinburgh will have the following changes from the current 1.02.

Aces High - fixed an issue where destroying the 2nd bomber during the grace period will start a roving shot in the mode that never ends for all players
Aces High - initial jackpot scores are boosted by 500K
Aces High - fixed a display issue where the playfield multiplier was being applied to the base value instead of the total (no effect on final scoring)
Aces High - fixed a display issue where jackpot scoring equation would not be correct after first Super Jackpot (no effect on final scoring)
Soul Shard - fixed an issue where the Tomb Award would not light after spotting a random Soul Shard through Mystery Orb Level 3 (after 2 Minutes to Midnight)
Trooper Multiball - added missing Beast 1x Jackpot callouts
Trooper Multiball - boosted volumes of selected trooper speech
Cyborg Multiball - fixed an issue with the ‘Showtime’ speech was getting called when you drain into lighting Cyborg Multiball
2 Minutes to Midnight - changed background font color to red for more contrast
Mode Totals - fixed an issue where mode totals were excluding the values of shots made in the grace period
Eddie Cards - Trooper Level 2 card is easier, can now be collected by making any 5x Jackpot shot OR lighting all shots for 3x Jackpot
Revive - when balls are being launched into play and Revive triggers, no revive will be taken and ball saver will be extended 4 seconds with no grace period
Score Frame - fixed a rare issue when adding a player during Bonus countup results in temporarily displaying 0000 scores for all players and overlapping text
Music - fixed an issue with the attenuation getting set back to ‘0’ between balls, now it resets it to whatever the adjustment says
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The most awesome of these is the "Music - fixed an issue with the attenuation getting set back to ‘0’ between balls, now it resets it to whatever the adjustment says" which has been my nemesis since I got my LE!

So happy!

Simply incredible! Sincere thanks to Stern and everyone involved on continuing to refine this masterpiece.

I don't know. I guess "great sound" is always going to be subjective but I'm pretty happy with my LE at the moment.

My Settings (under Utilities->Volume):

4 ohm for both speakers (LE)
Backbox Bass Gain: -5dB
Backbox Treble Gain: Default/Factory
Backbox Treble Frequency: 8 khz
Cabinet Bass Gain: +9dB
Cabinet Treble Frequency: Disabled
Cabinet Treble Gain: Factory/Default

For what's it's worth I'm using a 10" Polk external powered sub under the game as well. I have it adjusted to filter freq. 1/4 and volume 1/2 ish.

Game volume is set to 40, and I much prefer a more present music track so I also use the Sound Attenuation = -20 dB.

Feels and sounds great imho.

Well not sure what's going on for you then. The cabinet woofer certainly sounds poor if you pump treble freq. through it, which is why I detune it in my settings. Do you have the speaker ohms set correctly? What kind of game volume are you using? At 40-50 I don't hear any obvious clipping or distortion.

EDIT>>
"It's by far the best sounding pinball machine I've ever owned." Scratch that. Forgot about TNA!

Yeah but I am surprised by how often I notice no sound when the ball goes over the inline switches. Makes me sad inside.

They could add a little something to fill the void...

For example STTNG with the shuttle-craft swooshing sound the inlanes make. It's like total muscle memory now ball comes down inlane = cool swooshing sound. It needs something.

Yeah I agree it would be nice if it would change it up a bit when you collect a really large power jackpot. Also we really can only have one callout for collecting an extra ball?