I ran into all the problems that is mentioned on this thread and was able to solve it. But now running into something that I have been trying to fix for the last 2 hours with no luck. It is a very strange problem and something that may have come out of alignment after putting a lot of games on this machine. I called stern and apparently the fix they recommended to me has fixed several machines now ... however, no luck. Maybe they are BS'ing me.
Anyway, the problem is with auto-launch or even shooting ball manually. It will never make it across playfield to say the super skill shot. It keeps hitting the top post (see pic)... it works 100% since I got game about 2 weeks ago but stopped worked a few days ago. It is very annoying when you get trooper multiball and all the balls don't make it up to the top where it is released at one. I am very disappointed that paying this much money for something and have continuous problems. I took the ball guide off and bent in many positions to see if I can get it to work, but no luck. Hope someone here was able to fix - as per stern it should be just a minor adjustment.
Thanks!
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