No issues here - love Dredd. The best $1,787.77 game you could buy.

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Sounds like a lemon lol sorry jk ,ive had jd for a while with thousands of games with no issues and I have deadworld mod and glm trough boards .so how come once u put the glm boards in it was fine for a week ? Sounds like it fixed it but something went bad in the trough again? Did you replace the connectors for the trough boards bc they can be finicky.?

The ball not dropping through the opto from the crane should not screw up your ball count. You have trough opto issues.

Their is a very good chance this is the problem. Remove all balls, put the game into switch test mode, pull out the play field and wiggle the wires going to each trough board, if a switch triggers, you have a bad connection. Replace the connectors and be done with it.

For the deadworld mod early rom, it does.

Really...interesting.

Well, then, maybe the first recommendation would be to remove the mod and make sure you get it playing correctly without it. Then add it back in and make the necessary crane adjustments...but it sounds like at this point that might not be worth the frustration.

You can't do that either without changing the roms.

As for the op, I'm guessing the ball drop has been the issue all along. You likely never noticed it before, as this usually happens when MB starts, and everyone is fixated on controlling the ball in play. The misaligned crane and this leading to it not dropping 100% of the balls through the opto there is the main reason with the proto roms for more than one ball coming out.

I bet when you first turn it on, it works fine, one ball pops out, and then this happens after MB, correct? It won't change until you turn off and on again, or go into the menu and come back out right? That's because it doesn't begin a new count with the balls in the trough alone until it resets.

Until that crane drops 100% of the balls through the opto exit there, you can forget about any other possible issue in the game.

So the crane doesn't make it to above where it should drop the ball, is that the issue? Everything else is fine, optos all check out, crane magnet is working fine (sometimes weak pickups result in ball drops, and there is an adjustment for that)?

i would suggest taking the machine to Ken Shipley he is based on the central coast not to far from you and has all the test benches.Australias #1 Mr Fixit and a great bloke aswell.
go into aussiearcade and search skybeaux then message him.

It's just a matter of getting the crane adjusted and dropping the ball correctly.

As a few have mentioned already, I would check out those opto connectors. If new boards temporarily fixed the problem, I would think you have some crusty connections. I cut my pinball teeth on jd, I feel your pain. I sure learned a hell of alot about pin repair during the process though