On mine I have the back levelers all the way up and the front all the way down. This gets it close to six degrees. Fast and fun, and a little brutal. A friend with another Mata Hari has his pretty shallow. I find it pretty floaty and not near as fun.

I just checked my original printed manual. Page 7 is indeed blank.

That's cleaned up rather well. So many of these are worn to the wood, and with good reason. Mata Hari is such a fun pin!

Are the tops of the drops level with the playfield? They look a little low, but it may just be an optical.

Don't rely on a visual inspection. Pull each fuse from the machine and check for continuity with your DMM. Be sure to check the under-the-playfield fuse as well. You'll probably get a lot more eyes (and help) if you post in the TECH: EARLY SOLID STATE sub-forum. There's not a whole lot of traffic in the Mata Hari club thread.

Call me a traditionalist, but the original pointed Bally shooter rod is meaningful to me. I remember when they switched over to them. Walking through the crowded arcades, I knew that when I saw that shooter it would be a game worth playing. Bally was at the top of their game during that period, art, rules, gameplay, the whole package! That iconic shooter rod was a guide for where to spend my limited quarters.

My Mata Hari has it spaced as the above photo. The gap from the plate to apron on my Paragon is 2-2.5 times greater than MH. My guess is they centered the plate based on average ball eject point from game to game. It has never bothered me.

The settings for the two games are opposite, but I think there is a very different geometry involved as well. For Mata Hari, having the sling posts at the highest setting tends to bump the ball over to the outlane, especially if the upper posts are also set to conservative. I don’t believe that EBD has options for the posts above the slings, and lower posts are more or less at the level of the return lanes, increasing the odds of a bump over to the outlane, where a rebound from above would hit the return lane.

I have my Mata Hari rigged for all conservative on the playfield and the MPU both. The strategy is to nudge on the slings to shift the ball up to the A/B lane rather than straight to the oposite outlane.

Wellcome to the group! I think bounces from the saucer to the glass are very common. I’m not sure I know what you mean by ‘bounces behind the drop targets.’

If you mean that you are getting glass hits when you hit where there is already a dropped target, I’d check that the drop targets are flush with the playfield when down.

Well, not too elusive. They made 16k+ of them. But that looks like a nice example from the photo. Good score! Many are worn to the wood. I’ve seen that black back box trim on a few other photos. I’m not sure if that is a factory variant or what. It is yellow on most. In any case, it’s a super fun game. Welcome to the club!

That looks like a nice survivor. Good score!