The game is designed to take away the 10x if you collect it midfield. If you complete the 5 bank again after doing so, it should relight for 10x and collect 10x the next time. The only bug would be why did the 10x light not go off?

I can tell you for sure that if the game has the 10x lamp lit, that's what it's keying on in the collect bonus routine - there is no separate variable for the bonus multiplier, it's the lamps that are lit that control it.

This is any ball that relaunches without scoring - or if your outhole double fires on launch. The background sound start on this game is a toggle - on, off, on, off, on each ball launch. Although, I hadn't ever tried a double, then drain to see if it starts again. It might not.

Regardless of how it works, there is a fix for it on ipdb as L3.

LED flashes on wms cpu boards aren't as comprehensive as Bally/Stern for sure. They just don't do anything much to point you in the right direction to look other than which ram might be bad. Not sure by what you mean by "opposite" as quoted from pinwiki. I can tell you for sure that the test only tests the gamerom checksum (first), regular ram (second), then the 5101 ram (third). There's no other functionality in that test (this is right from looking at the assembly code). There's no PIA tests, or IRQ tests. (The IRQ is working because otherwise you would get no displays).

So IIRC your behavior seen is the game is counting numbers up when you boot on the 1st player display and the match display? Are they the same numbers in each display? If the match # is counting from 00-35 and repeating, the game is in audits. (And on the plus side, it's booting fine to get that far). You have the diagnostic switch grounded via a solder splash, board attachment,or wiring issue.

Was this issue present before you started to do anything else on the board? Does it do it with j3 and j4 disconnected?

pinballpcb.com makes a good one.

The 5101 is at a right angle to the right of the 6810s.

I put blue ones in mine when I had it hated it. Changed back to orange and put the blue displays in a flash I was selling.

'blended in' too much. I didn't know about the blue eye thing that snyper2099 pointed out, I do have blue-green eyes so maybe that's why.

No not related to Rocky horror.

I thought it was the opposite Barry Oursler designed with straight but Mike Stroll made him put curved. Then they ran out and the last two thousand off the line got straight. I think his topcast interview is where I heard that.

I prefer straight when I had one.

Well, the game is fun to play either way. It's not a bad layout although I do question what the 5 pop bumpers are there for, really not needed. You always get a shot back to the top saucer which can hop over it to get the ABC.

You can adjust to play correctly on anything, curved flipper or not. When I had an Orbitor 1 I adjusted to the way those flipper work just fine, granted you're not trapping up, but you can 'aim' on the curved playfield once you learn its curves.

I still preferred the straight on TW, I'll have to relisten to the topcast where Barry talked about the straight design. He said years later at TPF that they were shipped all curved, which isn't true from several reports of operators from back in the day.... so who really knows?

Maybe precision metal flippers can remake the bananas and someone can come up with a better rubber shoe to put on them.

It's common for repro stuff to not match the originals, or added posts etc. on the playfield where someone added a hole in the past. I wouldn't worry about it.