I've had my nib Met pro for 2 days. There were a couple small issues to resolve but it's great. My only problem at the moment in the ball launch. I'm not sure yet exactly what is wrong but I'm 90% sure it has to do with the first piece of metal the ball touches down the shooter lane. The ball rarely wants to clear the lane and skill shot area smoothly. Most of the time the ball just jostles around on the way up the launch and either end up in the pops or doesn't keep much speed going for the super skill. This seriously effects gameplay. Occasionally on launch the ball will actually jump and get stuck above the launch area in the underside of the wires from the right ramp. This means taking the glass off every 30 games or so.
If this were an older pin my first thought is to take the metal piece out, grind the front lips down more and replace it. This is like a new car to me though. I shouldn't have to and don't really want to have to Jimmy fix things.
Any way long story I know.
I'm looking for any advice from anyone who has had the same issues. Are there simply some adjustments I could be tweaking to get it smoother? Thanks
Ps. Could some tell me which plastic post to metal post everyone keeps mentioning in this thread? I can't the details in this thread. It is constantly referred to as "that post" lol.
Pss. Can't wait for all my bells and whistles to arrive.

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Also if someone could send me a link to somewhere that sells ball jump guards, specifically the extended plastic protector at Sparkys feet please. Major ball jump area.

Thanks for the speedy responses. I will take a closer look a the shooter but I have rolled the ball up the lane manually a few times and I am fairly certain the left side of the metal fork occasionally jump the ball. I'll I've done to it so far was make sure the screw was tight(it was)
I will post a pic shortly but there may be a bur at the end of the metal. Hard to tell from just running my finger along it but I do think it has a bump a the tip and it hit the ball sometimes.
I will definatly check the spring you've mentioned as I do feel it is a bit strong

I agree it goes away at lighter plunges but then its not strong enough to get that easy mystery rebound from the plunge.
I think my problem is this metal. Why else would the ball jump up right there only to wedge itself in the underside of the wires frame.

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Im not going to wait for it to happen but the ball gets stuck under here if I hops

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The glass is on in the pics sorry

Thank you. Just ordered one

It doesn't fit through. It wedges itself between the bottom two. I pull the glass down and poke it with my finger and it falls right back down.

The rod IS hitting the ball a little off centre to the right. What is the best way to recentre it?

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Working on that thanks

Not what we were talking about. Shooter lane problems UNDER where you are looking. I want to stick some guitar picks or something where you are talking about

So I thought I had some burnt out or loose bulbs in the back of the play field........2 light assemblies were crushed with the wires ripped out. It is clearly from being caught on the prop rails and slammed back into place. Come on stern. This is a joke. These pics might not do justice but here are the damaged pieces. I now have to look up these parts, order them, wait and them solder them into place. Nice n.i.b.

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On a brighter note, this arrived today.
Snake fangs/tongue and Sparky glowing wires for his brain bucket

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Did that first of course
Need to find the part number though

Looked at the track list online an realized I'm missing "end of the line" as an option. Is this standard? Does it ONLY play if you enter end of the line e gameplay? Seems odd.

Also is there an option to make the song you choose continue through all balls. The song restarts every time you sewer.
Thanks

I just tried. They actually start over every ball. I tried sewering immediately or waiting a minute. Starts over. Lame

Playing around with it, it seems like the songs each have one checkpoint near the middle to restart at but that's it. Gets a little annoying playing with a 5yr old. Oh well.
May have to look into the track swapping I've heard so much about. There are a couple songs that I'm just never going to choose for a pinball game. I'm looking at you Enter Sandman, Unforgiven and Fade to Black........tempo is way off for this game.
How is Hit the lights NOT in a game where you literally hit lights? No Whiplash? Come on lol

How difficult are we talking? I'm good with electrical, not so much with computers.

Also I'm inclined to agree on ONE but I just love when it finally gets where it's going.....eventually

So I took apart the shooter rod and it was already as far to the left as possible. After a bit of experimenting a single well placed washer has everything perfect. Still shouldnt have to Jimmy rig thing on a brand new pin though

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First mods to my new MET pro.
-Colour coded fuel gauge
-Blue lights for Electric switches (felt there was enough white going on with the crosses and picks)
-just 2 purple accent g.i. bulbs
-Snake fangs/tongue
- Sparky E.L. helmet wiring.
So much fun.

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Does anyone have a link to the guy making the cross inserts? The little plastic things to direct the light at the crosses only instead of white rectangles. Thanks you.

Not a mod but some little pop vinyl guys were cheap and add a little something

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Thanks. I contacted him as they are currently out of stock. Fingers crossed. Ew accidental pun

Yay! Install completed. Can't play tonight because everyone is sleeping. Boo urns. Can't wait to try it out tomorrow.
Fair warning to Canadians. The duty fees I was hit with for my color dmd were inexplicably high. Not trying to dissuade anyone from a color dmd. Great product. Just be prepared for that and factor it into your personal spending budget.

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Omg. Got battery ciu, grave multi, Sparky multi and justice for all. What an improvement!! Still waiting on some parts but I'm really liking how this is all coming together.
Does anyone have any tips for replacing the ugly yellow instructions though. Point me in the right direction for other options please. (Not those light inserts though)
Thanks as always

Wow. What an improvement.

Very. Not the best instructions but a couple YouTube videos later and I was set

No. Not even remotely noticeable unless you are right at it (at least on mine)

Got a couple more packages in the mail today. Extended ball jump guards at Sparkys feet and Pinnovator sub kit.
So happy. Sounds so much better instantly.
Here's a quick vid of what I've done so far. I also installed the colour dmd last weekend. It was daunting at first but after watching a few YouTube videos it wasn't that hard at all. Makes the game twice as nice with one mod.

I've got the 2 wire blue and orange (also mezel) It's just the orange wire isn't super bright. The blue is still very noticeable during electrocution though
Wish they had kept it blue and pink. My friend has blue and pink and the pink pops more than the orange. I'm considering swapping the orange for a purple/violet one

Yay. Got more packages in the mail.
3d snake mod and powerblades. Will post finished product this weekend.

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Great
Hopefully it goes better than the snake mod. It is so cheaply made. None of the screws holes even lined up properly. Things had to be bent and forced and I still had to leave a screw out. I was so unimpressed that I decided not to do the blades today because I'm worried they will also be of cheap quality. VERY UNIMPRESSED with pingraffix so far. (Both in quality and shipping) Fingers crossed for the powerblades.

Are yours the creeping death? How long have you had them?

That s fine for the flat snake mod. When the 3 holes on the 3d snake aren't even close though....poorly made
I bent it all together to get the 2 outside screws in. Left out the back screw

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Also worth pointing out to people considering this mod that it makes it almost impossible to see the upper lane lights

I do love the effect it has on my brain when the ball goes through the snake ramp and I momentarily lose sight of it in "the tunnel.
I'll get used to it but it gives me a feeling when it loops

I didn't want to say anything as I haven't installed mine yet but I'm inclined to have the same view. How can they even interact? Seems like a problem that just happened to coincide with the install

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have spoken to Joe directly and he is aware of the snake production problems and has told me he will send a replacement so he has a good business ethic at least. Will update soon. Thank you Joe

......clerks 2 though?......meh.
Congrats man. If you choose to do only one upgrade I would recommend the color dmd

I've installed most of the common met mods in the last month. Ive only had my met a bit longer than that

I have both. Sub would easily have been my second recommendation second. Plus it's way cheaper. Loving the color DMD though even after the crazy duty fees

Nice concept but it is one of the least visible spots in most peoples collections. Maybe if you only have one?

I recommend putting a piece of Mylar over the tongue decal before installing. I've had mine just over a month and it has pretty bad wear in the centre already. Easy fix since I was sent 2 decals but easier if id known ahead of time.

It's been over a month of mailing drama but my Cliffys finally arrived yesterday. Why do you have to have so many rollovers Metallica?$$lol

Mezel Mods

I suck still and I can consistantly get to about 70mil. 90 on a good day.
Good players will bank that in one crank it up though.

Beginner things to note. Combos and Coffin hurryups are easy points that I wasnt getting in the beginning. Learning the point system takes a long time but makes sense eventually and then the points start coming

Mine will be 5 in a few weeks and I always shout to him when a sparky mb is close at hand

Hi guys. Probably a common knowledge issue here but I could use some advice.
I've had my MET pro bnib from stern for 3mo now. My left flipper just started acting up today. It retracts really slow now like an air cylinder letting air out. Is the coil no good or is there and easier fix I should know about. I'm supposed to have people over to play on Friday so of course it chose now to act up. Thanks.
Also, should a home use pin be having these issues already?
Oh, also, also, is there a setting I'm missing for the ball eject to the launcher? Mine more often than not shoots the ball too hard and kicks it back down. It relaunches it of course but it really messes up flow. Especially if it cant launch the first ball in multiball. Thanks.

I manually pushed the flipper prior to posting my question. It is the same. Fast out. Slow in.

Flipper issue seems to have resolved itself for now.
New question....
I bought a stern sam shaker today. Easy mod, or should have been. Screwed everything in place, hooked up the wires, not complicated or anything. I'm getting nothing from the shaker. Turned it on in the menu and went to coil test, even played a ball to make sure. Nothing. Could I have a faulty shaker or is there something obvious I'm missing?
Wires from shaker go to included board. The other wires taps into the nearby power and the matching backbox wire near the back of the cabinet. I cant figure out what could even be done wrong at all. I drove 2hrs to get there and back today. I'd like to avoid the drive again. Thanks

My left flipper hums. No biggie

Shaker update. After speaking with my distributor I found the problem was a bad ground wire from stern. He mentioned having a few shakers where the wiring was wrong in the ground assembly. I Jimmy rigged my own and it's working fine now. Factory setting is maximum use but it moves the pin around too much so I've set it to minimal and other than sparky multiball nothing else seems excessive.

Thanks to the poster for this idea I saw here last week. Cheap, Easy and if you look around a bit there are so many shapes and sizes depending on your preference.
I wasnt sure I'd like the look of the convex mirror as they tend to stretch and distort reflections. Instead I found this nice little wedge in the automotive section at walmart. Works great and blends well with the curve of the ramp
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Now I'm just waiting my powerblades from Joe at pingraffix.
.....maybe a cemetary arch is needed as well.
It's so easy (and fun) to get carried away with mods. I dont work on my car when I'm bored, I work on my games

Unfortunately, pinball life has ludicrous shipping fees to Canada. (Southern Ontario. About 90min from Buffalo)
$10 diverter post and 50 balls. Over $65 shipping....for a $50 order.
Ok, balls are kind of heavy. Let's see how much for just the diverter post. O wait, over $40 shipping.
I've shipped entire game board for half that.
I've had custom glass work delived from the southern us for less than that.
Pinball life, if you are reading this. You are missing a huge market up here. Sort your shipping rates out.

Arcade game boards

For me its Justice for All.
I almost always sewer before the animation even starts. Idk why but WAY too often

This.
My met did a bit of the same at first. I adjusted the ball eject a hair and it improved quite a bit. Installing the right wall rail guard finished off the job. Never happens anymore. Dont wast you money on the rest of the shooter lane protection though. I'm removing mine this weekend. No matter how many times I adjust them, they always affect the shooter lane in a way I dislike.

I feel like I remember seeing this topic on this thread last month but any advice would be great.
I finally installed my power blades and they look amazing but...
Im registering sparky hits for no reason. If I turn off the power blades it's fine. Turn it back on mid game? Boom, sparky is lit up in no time. Any advice from the other poster that was on here with that problem?

Joe is shipping me a replacement box. Good customer service at pingraffix

I like to mod my playfield to make it a little nicer but dont really see the appeal to undercab lights, toppers, etc. Other than a coloured DMD, I focus on where I'll be looking most of the time. Exterior cab decorations are for when it's just sitting there in a corner.

This.
I've spent...well, a lot on modding my MET. It was my first NIB pin and I added all sort of crap. I'm not worried about its resale value because it was fun to do and makes the game look great. Ive since stopped spending so much on mods. That being said I've been considering putting spinners in but would only do it with total light show for that satisfying sound. We get nailed with on shipping in Canada. $80 duty on my colorDMD

Side not on randomness of duty fees.
Any packages I've received from Mezel or pingraffix have never had any duty fees attached to them.

Need a little advice here. Flipper issues for newbs.
My left flipper starts to bind up and not retract properly after a few games. I've been following this thread for a while so I believe I need to swap out some flipper parts, moe specifically the cardboard looking tube that has been know to be the wrong size occasionally.
I'm a quick study (YouTube taught me how to solder, mod game systems, fix old arcade games, etc.) but I've just never had to do any work on flippers before as I've only recently been able to have pins of my own.
If someone could provide a link to a YouTube video or something along those line as to how to properly do this job I would greatly appreciate it. I'm just not sure exactly what I should be searching for. Flipper rebuild videos? Something more tailored to this exact issue? Idk
Thanks for any input

Yes the coil gets hot but no hotter than the o e on the right which is always fine. It looks like the plastic piece connecting the coil to the flipper assembly gets crooked once the coil has warmed up

Just a heads up to anyone considering the power blades mod.
Joe at pingraffix has been great at trying to fix this issue however.......
I am on my 3rd modulator box. The first one smoked. The next 2 interfered with the sparky opto registering hits that never happened.
I ordered my powerblades in May and still do lot have working ones. I would be very hesitant to install this mod as it clearly has issue and possible compatibility problems.
It IS beautiful and looks GREAT when running but I've had nothing but problems.

Just to clarify my issue from some of these others. My pro lens are strictly when the power blades are on. If I turn them off mid game, everything play fine again. Any other mods I have installed have been in for 6months already with no issues. I agree with Joe that this may just come down to my particular model having some slightly different wiring and I do like the look off the powerblades. I just want people to be aware that these issues are possible. Joe has tried to fix this but it just doesn't seem like it will happen for my particular machine. Idk. I just dont want anyone thinking I'm slamming pingraffix. They have treated me well but I believe there may be some occasional compatibility issues. Maybe the boxes have come from different suppliers? Quality control? The blades still make for nice art if not constant reminders that they should light up.

Mine however is clearly related to the powerblades though. If I turn them off mid game, everything is fine again. It's not the optics picking up the light either. As mentioned in other posts. I'm not angry and I wish they would work but they just dont

Except I was the one with the original issue. Mine IS powerblade related. Joe is great. I 100% agree. He has tried to amend this for me but there are some obvious occasional compatibility issues.

Can't agree with you here. I personally preffered the pro so that is what I bought. I still wanted lots of bells and whistles, so I to own a pro with lots of mods put into it. I don't expect to get the value of the mods back but for a game I intend to have in my home for a long time, spending the money to make it pretty makes sense. Most of my mods would have been done if I'd bought higher end models anyway. Color dmd, art blades, 3d snake, sparky wiring, protectors. I think the only thing I'd have save on are the lights and shaker. I just prefer the feel of the pro and I'm not a fan of the hammer. The colour dmd was still the prices part of the whole thing.

Milk the for whom the bell tolls ciu. Go for 100m+ then collect

I know it's not high to a lot of people but I set a new high score on my met pro tonight.
2 crank it ups, one of which i tanked.
Sparky mb
Coffin mb
Snake mb
Cross mb
Fuel
Justice for all
Final score

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Pmd

Does someone have the rubbers list please?
I'm looking to make a titan order and want to make sure I get the right ones.
Thanks
Pro model

Pinnovators board for subwoofer, color dmd, making the frog a proper snake.

The only reason I don't have these in mine is I don't like them changing the colour of the plastics art.. I would love to know where to find some of these.

Or those spiderwed ones that are never around anymore

Question.
I know no more about pinbrowser than the fact that it exists. I am not good with computers.....at all.
That being said I'd love to finally swap some songs out without affecting gameplay (so Sandman stays)
How do I even begin to go about this?
I'd like to remove he following songs
-One 7:28
-Sad But True 5:26
-Unforgiven 6:20
And replace them with the following songs
-Whiplash 4:10
-Four Horsemen 7:14
-Hit the Lights 4:18
(how did this not make it in the game? What is the most common objective in pinball? Hit...the...lights)
Anyway, that being said I've also heard the songs need to be similar length.
Tips? Advise? Willingness to come to my house to do it for me? Lol.
Again, I have no idea where to even begin. Thanks

I did a bit more research on the pin browser process.
I feel I am too computer illiterate to do this with any confidence.
Anyone here live near Hamilton, ON. and have experience with this? FREE PIZZA AND BEER if someone can do this for me lol.

I've figured out my preferred swaps based on songs I like vs matching track time.
I'd like to..
-remove One 7:24 (1066) and replace it with Hit the Lights and Motorbreath (7:25)
-remove Unforgiven 6:26 (1494)and replace it with No Remorse 6:27
-(if possible without sound issues) remove Sad But True 5:23 (1281) and replace it with Moth into Flame 5:52 (if it wouldn't work out well ecause of the variance in track length I would just leave SBT alone for now)

I'd also like to ditch Fade to Black and Enter Sandman as well but they are crank it up modes so they stay. I've considered cutting Sandman as I never play that c.i.u.
I can only get 2 c.i.u. per game so far and i go Ftb and fwtbt.
Thanks again for any help or advice. Cheers

I have yet to set high scores on seek and destroy, blackened and of course end of the line.
I believe blackened is collecting all the band member picks, correct me if I'm wrong.
How do I go for seek and destroy?
Thanks

I've gotten that animation once. Pretty sure its Blackened

Seeking someone with PinBrowser experience.
I'm looking to swap tracks on my MET Pro
-One (1066) 7:24
for Hit the Lights/Motorbreath 7:25
-Unforgiven (1494) 6:26
for No Remorse 6:27
If someone here has experience with audacity and pinbrowser swapping tracks please PM me.
I would be looking to get the 2 songs changed as well as any accompanying track titles on the display.
I'm willing to spend a small amount of cash for someone's time. I've got $25USD in my PayPal if someone is willing to help me out. Cheers.

Also if anyone has changed their t molding to purple, could you post a pic please?
I took the chrome off to put some black on but now that it off I'm thinking purple could work since I have the creeping death theme

Pm'd

What size is this t molding? 13/16? 3/4 isnt going to be big enough. So hard to tell. What a strange size.

I dropped my snake wireform off at the powdercoat guy today. I won't be playing for at least a few days so of course this happened
Awesome news.
This will be my first time updating but it seems pretty straight forward.

Here's a copy and paste of the changes.
Yay!!!

V1.80.0 - November 16, 2018
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- Reworked ball locked lamp effect.
- Captive ball extra ball #1 (default for auto setting) lowered to 10
hits (from 15 hits).
- Combo champion # of combos lowered to 10 combos (from 20 combos).
- Added new marker to The End Of The Line music for better shooter groove.
- One (lady justice) mode was not being restarted when a shot was made
during the mode. This has been corrected.
- Added a "reset timer" adjustment for the One (lady justice) mode.
- Added combo lights adjustment. Default is FLASH ONCE (show lamps once
for a small period of time, then turn the lights off). Other settings:
ALWAYS and NONE. Competition + Director's Cut are set to FLASH ONCE.
- Coffin hurry-up now leaves all shots lit to reset the hurry-up score
when multiple hurry-ups are available instead of requiring the player
to complete them individually before they all re-light.
- "The End Of The Line" song is now selectable at the start of the game
if the player has made it to "The End Of The Line" (the 5th Crank It Up
mode).
- Shot features shot lit (the blinking arrow at the start of the ball)
will no longer move to a shot that is ready to start the coffin hurry-up,
nor will it move to a shot that is associated with a currently running
coffin hurry-up.
- Super skill shot to light a shot for the coffin hurry-up will now always
be on the active shot for lighting items (the blinking arrow at the start
of the ball).
- Reworked guitar pick target lamps. The unscored lamps now blink only
when they are available to light the snake lock (and during Blackened).
Otherwise, the unscored lamps are OFF.
- Added explosion sounds to the start of the fuel mode.
- Changed the sound for completing a pop bumper to something slightly
louder.
- Reworked song transition markers for "Sad But True" so more of the song
can be heard.
- Added lamp effects for "The End Of The Line" super jackpot.
- Added shaker motor effects to "The End Of The Line".
- Shortened the extra ball and replay effects during multiball and "The
End Of The Line".
- Fixed the timing of the snake bite sound at the start of the long
version of the extra ball display effect.
- Added more speech for snake lock.
- Added snake talk scripts (ADULT CONTENT and BEEPED) for completing the
guitar pick targets when doing so lights the snake lock during multiball
or during "The End Of The Line". This was implemented, but the scripts
were missing from the snake script table.
- Updated some HSTD initials.
- Crank It Up modes now wait for collect/continue to finish obtaining
user input before terminating. This allows the player to "collect" the
mode points even though the song (mode) has technically ended.
- Changed the Crank It Up default collect/continue relight difficulty
from EASY to HARD. This requires the player to re-collect the Cross,
Electric Chair, Coffin, and Snake to relight collect/continue during
the Crank It Up mode.
- Some work on The End of the Line:
- Starts as a 2-ball multiball.
- The music does not start until the mode start animation has
finished playing.
- Removed the timer. The mode will continue running during single
ball play.
- Added mystery award for single ball play. This awards the first
available shot from left to right (even if that shot is the super
jackpot).
- If the mode is played through until the song ends at 7:51, the
flippers are turned off and the balls are collected.
- The first part of the rule has been changed from all 6 shots lit
to light the super jackpot to 1 shot lit to light the first super
jackpot, 2 shots lit to light the second super jackpot, etc. up
to a maximum of all 6 shots lit to light the sixth super jackpot.
If an unlit shot is made during this stage, that shot will light
to advance to the next stage (super jackpot).
- Removed "failed" super jackpot award display effect and moved it
to "ended". (This is the animation of the car not making the jump
and crashing at the bottom of the canyon.)
- Removed the failed shots from the second stage (super jackpot).
There is now only one shot available during this stage (the super
jackpot); it moves around randomly.
- Removed some audits (super jackpot failed, completed). The mode
cannot be completed, it can only be played until the song ends.
- Added jackpot speech.
- Added super jackpot lit speech.
- Added instructions to the start display effect.
- Added instructions/status to the background display effect.
- Changed the scoring for the super jackpot. The first super
jackpot awards the total points scored during the first Crank
It Up mode played. The second super jackpot awards the total
points scored during the first Crank It Up mode played plus
the total points scored during the second Crank It Up mode
played, ... etc.
- Corrected the mode tune. The full song is now played from the
beginning, and it ends in silence.
- A ball is added when lighting the super jackpot and for scoring the
super jackpot, always.
- Added logic to shut down some rules, as this rule is not covered
under the normal multiball handling (it can be single ball play)).
- Added item collects (Cross, Electric Chair, Coffin, Snake) to light
collect/continue.
- Added collect/continue so the mode can be ended (it does not end
normally when play goes down to single ball). Collect/continue is
only available during single ball play.
- Snake lock for 2x scoring now allowed.
- Reworked the replay effect so it is more efficient.
- Shortened the replay effect if the replay is awarded during bonus (as
a result of the bonus putting the player over the replay score).
- Inhibited the trailing "free game" speech at the end of the replay
effect if the replay effect is run immediately after bonus.
- Added small explosion sound for completing a pop bumper.
- Broke out right eject kick settings into TIME and POWER. This gives
better resolution/control over the behavior of the kick.
- Added a setting to carry over the fuel lane (piston) awards (lights)
from ball to ball.
- Changed default cross hits from 2 to 1.
- Changed default item requirements for Crank It Up from 15 to 12.
- Fixed a bug in the Blackened mode where the super jackpot light would
stay lit (blinking) after it was collected and no longer available.
- Added a custom sound previewer when changing the MODE COMPLETION SOUND
adjustment so the user can preview the sound before having to try it out
in the game.
- Implemented alternate Crank-It-Up completion sounds. The sound that
is played when "completing" a Crank-It-Up mode is controlled by a new
game-specific adjustment: "CRANK IT UP COMPL. SOUND". The sound that is
played is a new sound that is more appropriate for a Metallica game
(less fanfare-y, more metal-y).
- Game over effects are now killed when entering test mode.
- Fixed a bug in the auto-percentaged extra ball module that would
sometimes set the extra ball values (captive ball hits, combos) to an
out of range value.
- Mystery award text now expedited when the mystery award display effect
is blown off.
- Flipper blowoff for mystery locks the last frame so the player can see
the award.
- Score type changed from 32-bit to 64-bit.
- Updated to new game versioning scheme.
- "The End Of The Line" mode background lamps now higher than BLACKENED
lamps.
- Fuel mode start was also scoring the first letter of "FUEL" for
lighting double scoring during "FUEL". This has been corrected.
- If all piston lights are blinking and the fuel lane target is hit
then the score value is doubled.
- Changed fuel lane scoring. Changed fuel lane "blown pistons" so a
blown piston is awarded for each light that is lit instead of only
awarding one blown piston for any number of lights lit.
- Increased the priority of the fuel lane target hit display effect
so the extra ball lit display effect would not cut it off.
- The three lights by the fuel lane are now reset when the blown pistons
are collected.
- Fixed an issue with the skill shot where the 2x right lane award was
not being re-enabled on short plunges.
- Fixed an issue where fading the music volume would cause the music
to cut out entirely (bonus, game over).
- Snake multiball background display effect was not showing the correct
shot value when the super jackpots were lit. This has been corrected.
- Lowered the score for the snake multiball super jackpot.

Updated and briefly fiddled with some of the new features. I like some of the new ease of play and while the 1 hit cross makes more sense to guest, I can see this one being an easy multiball now. I cant play mine until my wire form is painted and by then I think my new rings will be here and I'll have to do that as well. I so excited they put this update out but of course it's the week where my game is out of commission.

I have some good news and some "bad" news about the update.
Since I already have my met opened up I decided to cheat my way through some modes and get to end of the line.
The good news,
After achieving (not completing) End of the Line, the song is selectable from launch. I turn off the pin and disconnected power. I was worried it was a running reward. It stay as an option indefinitely.
The bad news,
ColorDMD WILL need a patch. Most animations and text are intact......until you reach end of the line. The text prompts aren't coloured, the scoring has weird colour issues and the animations have errors.
Other than a needed color dmd update, all seems well. Great update

I'm waiting on an order of purple titans. If I dont like the way the feel I can get black rubber locally anyway. I did a bit of research first and "superbands suck" was a common theme in the threads.

I'd be interested in a rising cross with no lightshow. I'll be keeping an eye out for this.

Finally got my snake wire form back from being powdercoated. Looks great. Green with just a touch of gold sparkle for shine (i went with a pretty dull green to match the snake) Now i just need these darn Titan rings to show up so i can put this all back together and finally try the new code out. 1.8 came out the same day I took my machine apart. Bad luck

Of course picture never do justice but I had some people ask to see it when it was done. I'll post pics again once its installed.
*I just noticed these picture make it look weird. The finish is smooth as silk. I think the sparkles give the picture a look of messy paint. Looks great in person.

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Yay, Titans showed up today. Here are a few pics of the snake. I'm really happy with it. Cost me $80 cdn. Well worth it.
Just waiting on my Cemetery arch and I think I'm finally about done modding this one. Metallica is far too mod-able. More so than any other pin I can think of. It's easy to go down a hole of modding on this one but I love this game and dont plan on selling it so I dont care about the money I dump into it. It's my personalized pin and I love it

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