I love it! Tired of only licensed themes. Bout time we get some new Original themes. Houdini is a beautiful machine with cool features. If they can deal with the geometry issues that people have with Houdini, this could be a really cool pin. Can't wait to play one. This could be my first NIB!

I think the art is fantastic! A steampunk style wouldn't work with Oktoberfest. But put these girls in Dirndls and give them liters of beer...

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When is the reveal? Is there going to be any streaming? I'm getting more excited every day

Expo schedule says seminar is Thursday at 8:30. Does anyone know if there is any streaming and where to find it?

Looks great!
Can't wait to play one. Starting my Oktoberfest fund

^^^ THIS

Finally got to play one. I really enjoyed visiting the tents. And the Corkscrew is really cool, just can't get there. Man that ramp is STEEP

I just got this game last week! And I loved it, until all the coils don't fire. I have No Idea where to look. Can anyone help?

I've looked for any loose connectors. Didn't see any. Tried the coil test in the menu and nothing happens. Is the High Power Interlock switch on the coin door?
I emailed API. Waiting for a reply

Coin door switch was check with DMM and work just fine

The only fuse I see inside the cabinet is on the blue board. Don't think that's it, but it checked out ok

I think these ( second pic ) are the solenoid boards. Two boards and two fuses on each board. All four check out ok with DMM

Basically I pulled and checked every fuse I could see for continuity. All fuses are good

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I took the cover off the power supply and looked. Everything seems ok. Didn't see any fuses either

This may be a stupid question, but is there anything in the menus that might have done something? I was digging in the menus to try to learn the system and settings. When I exited the menu, I pressed Start and the solenoids were dead

Have tested all coils. None work

Have had the machine off for 10 minutes. Still no coils

All serial cables seem fine

Pic is of board. Lights stay the same with coin door open or closed.
On boot up, a third LED is brightly lit. Then goes out

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Ok. So to be clear,
Pull the connector at the power box, measure from the pin where the Brown wire is to Ground? Should read 48vdc?

That is set in an incredibly inconvenient place. Lead is too long to fit. Had to cut a piece of wire to poke around and try to fit it in the hole. Anyway, I think I got no voltage. Maybe at some point consider putting the less likely to need service speaker in the back and the power source in a more accessible location

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I'm going to try to call API again on Monday. Tried a few times on Friday and went straight to voicemail. Hopefully I can get someone Monday

So still nothing from American Pinball. I called several times. Just left a voicemail. And did an email service request. Are their hours changed due to Covid? Does anyone know when and how to talk to someone from American Pinball? My game has only 74 plays and has been sitting dead for 5 days

Change of heart

While I'm waiting to get my game flipping again, I thought I'd try the "Custom Message"
Has anyone tried this? I followed the directions on the website, and nothing seems to have happened.
Is the custom graphic supposed to display on the screen during attract mode?

Yeah. I followed the directions right on. Drive was formatted to FAT32. File size was correct.
Plugged in drive, got green message, removed drive and turned off game. Turned game back on and turned on custom message in settings. Not showing up on screen

Sigh
Hopefully I can play mine again soon

Is API closed this week?

Total buyer's remorse. Trying to be patient, but looking at my $7000 paper weight for the last 28 days is hard to swallow

Thank you. I've called all week, goes straight to voicemail. There is a message from me from Monday

I'm Not trying to bag on API.
Part of this was my issue, part was the distributor issue, and I haven't heard anything from API for a week (maybe due to holiday week).

I am 100% sure this situation is the exception and NOT the rule. It just sucks (for me), that I am the exception. I know it will be made right. Just getting harder and harder to look at my game up on blocks.

I still have faith in API. Just super frustrated right now.

I sent a service ticket on June 5.

Ok. So, I'm tired of being pissed off about a pinball machine. It's now For Sale. Local pickup, Cash on the Glass
$4950 firm
I'm taking a HUGE hit at this price. I just want it out of my house.
Maybe you can have better luck with it than I can.
I will be opening a for sale ad soon

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No one from American has responded to email or phone or voicemail for several days. This seems to be the only place I get them to notice. I would like the money back that I sent on June 23. Game is sale pending. I'm Done with American Pinball

I appreciate your trying to help me

The last correspondence I got from AP was on June 22 when I sent them money

Warranty is not transferable

Dave told me the part needed to be ordered. But this is the same power supply being used in Hot Wheels so they have them. I don't understand why someone couldn't pull a power supply off the assembly line, remove the 48v section, put it in a box, and mail it. And when that part came in from the supplier, put that part back in the power supply that it was taken from and return it to the line for assembly. Instead they lost a current and future customer

I finally heard back from AP. It's a shame that it had to be taken this far. They are supposed to overnight the part to me. I'm going to give them one final chance. So I have pulled the for sale ad. Thank you to all that pm'd interest in buying. I'm sorry to those who still interested. I just hope I'm not sorry for making this decision

Part came overnight, and with some swag. I put the 48v section in and it seems to be working fine now.
I'm coming back around and loving this game again.
I only have 20-25 games played and I'm still trying to figure things out. Probably going to have lots of questions for you guys

Thanks to AP for making this right

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I played "Last Call" and "Re-Entry" today!!
(Failed at both)

I have no idea how I did it.
Anyone know how to light these last chance games?

Yeah. My son and I have been playing a ton
Loving Duck Derby!
Any ideas about how to light Last Call or Re Entry?

The ball saves? Do you have to hit them a specific number of times?

I've had this happen 3 times. Lights not lit but flippers were ok. And hits still counted

Captured ball keeps getting hung up on the switch. Anyone else have this? I've tried moving the switch wire a bit. Still gets stuck. Really have to shake it to get it loose, uses all tilt warnings, and sometimes doesn't come loose. Any ideas

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Thanks. I'll try to bend it there

Does this continue to work this way during the Ring Toss tent or Corkscrew Multiball? Or does it go back to must hit unlit

Anybody have any idea what happened here? @rosh, @ferret. My game went nuts. After player one drained, player two is up and the game just kept shooting balls by itself. This lasted for a full 2 minutes before I turned it off. Then I turned it back on and adjusted a few settings (tent completion changes) and started a game. Now I have Thor's Hammer Stein instead of Castrated Monkey.

Ok. That's one of the settings I changed.

No idea how to send logs

Thanks LTG

I don't think I have the right manual. I'll download the correct one

What balls did you replace the magnetized balls with? I put a brand new set of Ball Baron balls in less than a month ago (yes, they were the ones that are supposed to resist being magnetized). I bought into the hype about how great they are...guess they're not as good as everyone says they are

Thanks for the tip. I'll try those

I completely DISAGREE. I wouldn't want it to be a cartoonish mockery of the festival. Perfect the way it is

Agree to disagree.
Art is entirely subjective. I like OKT. There's other games that everyone seems to like that I don't. But I do disagree with "weird and ugly"

My son just had an amazing game!
Over 130 Million!
Including over 5 million in Stein Slinging and
An 82 million Super Jackpot shot in Corkscrew Multiball!

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Yeah he crushed it!
I'm proud to say I was player two on that game
He now owns the high score on 3 of my 4 machines. And he's 12, so I get reminded of that constantly

Your score is crazy awesome!

He's 12. I showed him your score.
He's coming for you

Need a little help. I noticed the arrow is in the yellow and it says go to switch test. I'm not sure how to read this. Does something look wrong in the switch test screen?

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I went in and out of test mode a few times. Arrow was still in yellow and switch test screen looked as pictured. I turned the game off and on again, now arrow is back in green. Didn't notice any errors in gameplay. Seems all good now

I think there is a setting to limit the number of extra balls