Joined the club this weekend! I'm very excited, though having issues out of the gate. I had to take the backbox off to move it and I'm concerned I did something wrong on reassembly. I did a lot of verifying and can't figure out what if anything is incorrect, though there seems to be several variations between the WPC manuals...

Symptoms:
* turned the game on and the DMD was scrambled.
* Double checked connectors, re-seated, turned on the game, no improvement
* then the DMD went black, GI and inserts went out, the glove didn't move at startup, and the flippers started firing
* booted in safe mode, checked TP voltages on the driver board, all appeared ok (TP1: 15.3, TP2: 4.8, TP3: 11.9, TP4:0, TP5:0, TP6:72.8, TP7: 21.5, TP8-18)
* booted without the fliptronics board plugged in and no change

Attached some areas of concern after consulting the manuals (J137/138 = interchangeable? J133/134 = interchangeable?). The numbers on my CPU also do not match the manual (206, 207, 208 are different than in the manual). Do these look correct?

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I will do that, thank you! I'll check the pins and maybe do a continuity test on the ribbons if everything looks okay. Visually, the DMD ribbon doesn't look great going into the sound board. I also noticed the molex connecting the CPU to the battery board was a little wobbly. Could a bad solder joint(s) from the battery holder cause something like this?

Fixed my issue, which was a misplaced ribbon cable connection (off by an entire row of pins). Thank you dudah & CrazyLevi for the suggestion

Now back to more important things, does anyone happen to have extras of these plastics?!

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I would agree. You are trying to avoid any sort of hop or dip as the ball transitions from the lane to the flipper, so I always focus on that line, meaning the top of the lane guide as it flows to the top of the flipper rubber. Here's a related discussion -- https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/aligning-flippers-rubber-on-or-off-flipper

Johnny has been shopped (topside), cleaned, titan translucent rubbers, color DMD, 3 spotlights added, LEDs swapped with Comet sunlight 2 SMD. Looks & plays great. Now I just have to make sense of the plot of the movie. Enjoying the callouts though, and I'm glad the dolphin from SeaQuest could score another gig.

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Agreed. Sunlights are my jam, frosted in the GI and clear in the inserts/backbox. Plenty bright, highlights the original colors of the game really well. It makes things easy from an ordering standpoint as well as 99% of the time I'm only ordering two types of bulbs. To each his own.

The ColorDMD adds a lot actually. This is first time I've sprang for one. For one thing, I find it much easier to follow action/directions in quick glances in color vs monochrome dots.

I tried to lower the enormous factory default high scores in the settings, but it still shows up as the default in the attract screen. If I go back into adjustments, the change was retained. Am I missing something?

That did the trick, thank you. Now I can actually make the high score table, lol!