vote for metallica!!

code 1.6 just made this machine fantastic, and a full Cointaker LED conversion is a must!

I never realized this until recently..but I don't think I'd rather have any other machine (maybe MB) except my metallica at this point.

I put my moded metallica out on location for the local people to enjoy. As cherry as she is, I feel better having people enjoy it and making a little money on the side.

just physically bend the ball guide away from the orbit by hand (shouldn't take too much on each side)....mine did that right out of the factory, ball couldn't even go through or drop out.

I guess if you apply 60 lbs+ of torque to the ball guides by hand you could possibly break the ball guide post bolts that run all the way through the PF

strange, I didnt' have to take my cross out, just pulled the flasher led from the bottom of it.

If I remember I had to bend the bulb bracket down a little from inside the cross, then pull out the led...or something like that. I know you can do it, I've done it. but you can also just remove the cross

you mean like DH? no, but that's ok because you pretty much stack EVERYTHING in metallica anyways

cointaker has one, but I had to mod some of their choices (such as color changing bulbs under certain inserts). they have the brightest and best bulbs imo

metallica is pretty much the bees knees these days imo, I put up 222 mil last night on location. I closed out 2 CIU songs, had blackened and seek n destroy going as well then choked. I love stacking any MB on top of coffin, then add a ball and just rock it.

the metallica pro is the most fun machine right now imo. go for it!

best 7$ mod I've ever bought! no more airballs, thanks man.
jordan

I sold my tron original run preorder pro model for my metallica, and I have never regretted that once.

i'd get a free sparky out of it if it really bothers you. the problem is you'll have to return the scratched one for a replacement.

he has the rare whitewood backglass avatar.

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everyone needs an extended plastic for sparky on this machine, don't know why stern didn't engineer it like it should be.

scoring is all about fuel mode going then enter CIU. yesterday I played a long game, 3 sparkeys, 1 coffin (75 hits), 1 graveyard, 1 snake, started seek and destroy into CIU enter sandman, and could put up only 160 mil. I can't break 200 anymore unless I start fuel before going into a CIU song. So much chopping wood, and if you dont' hit your CIU and/or close them out your toast. the staking features in this game are just fantastic.

agreed, when I can get to 3 CIU songs (most I've made), I score highest. I seem to play for MB modes even when CIU is lit, because I'd like to at somepoint get to Sparky SUPER JACKPOTS (hit 8? sparky super jackpots to light?), and I'd like to get to a second coffin MB at somepoint.

having lady justice going, seek and destroy started, with fuel, and going into CIU is the BOSS stack

wish I had 500$ for those custom DD sparky's with the brain on the helmet

slows the game down, blocks middle of pf, not worth the money.

the LED lightshow and coding on the other hand, FANTASTIC

it adds stop and go to the machine whereas the pro does not. I love the premium and LE, but honestly would rather play a pro. I am crazy and such, but that's what I enjoy

agree with this, the snake adds more fun than the pro does. that, the spinners, and the LED show make the premium/le niooooce.

yes, but you do have to wait for the ball to get magnetized, then 'hammered' through the pf. then you play the next ball. the pro just keeps rockin gameplay as Robert states "balls in the casket"

there is a difference, I suppose we can agree to disagree

let us know if you ever reach that 5 billion!

strange, I like to sleep on top of my bed. haha, sorry but I thought that was funny. maybe you need more sleep? brain, not, working...need coffee.

I don't know....they still say 'hell' a lot with the 'adult content' turned off in menu.

why buy their 5$ magnet protectors when you can buy a 1 foot sheet from them for 7$?

they have to make money somehow, easy to make a template for those magnet mylar cutouts and have a 400% markup on the actual value of the 2 inch piece of mylar.

then you have leftover mylar for other instances.

pretty sure most of these metallica pros have this flasher bulb issue.

same here too after a few weeks when I had got mine.

ghost post

has anybody noticed that it is harder than heck to score with the new code? I can't even break 100 mil anymore

yah yah . i had put up 420 mil 2 times until the new code, now i can't even break 100 mil. i started do or die on IM the other day on ball 1, so i know i can play...sometimes .

I play about 2 games a week on metallica on location, I used to put over 100 mil on 1-2 games and walk away. I was hoping to get some rules/strategic information from anyone else that finds the new scoring system strange....play better is easier to say I suppose. I will 'play better' in both pinball and life from now on.

I had the whole kit ordered before mine was even delivered. The deluxe version with the flashers is awesome, color changing remote controller with lots of modes. you can adjust the brightness and the speed of the modes as well, I strongly recommend the best version with flashers.

cointaker video and my own machine

read up a few pages, I had posted cointakers video and my machines video of the backbox.

anybody had a shaker motor installed on there machine from day one, lots of gameplays?

I turned my machines volume down the other day, and noticed it sounded like the shaker had worked itself loose.....nope, basically the entire cabinet is 'shaking apart' it sounded like.

it seems as if these stern cabinets are shaking apart literally? anybody else notice this, kind of amazing. my friend and I have been discussing the 'quality' of the building materials for Stern cabinets lately, as he noticed his new KISS is super light, both the cab and the backbox when pulled off.

thoughts? had to set it to minimal shaker mode to prevent my machine from further rattling apart.

tightened the mounting screws as well as the cover. same noise rattle, determined its not the shaker, pressed on the pf firmly, not the pf shaking...oh well, as long as it powers up and plays

the pf glass is firmly positioned on the machine, but I may line it with electrical tape, thanks for the suggestion!

not as compared to pre spike systems I'm assuming. just going off what my buddy told me, 'I can't believe how light this kiss machine is, the backbox weights nothing' as he had to remove it for transportation.

I don't use locktite, as it seems most parts/components on machines will eventually be removed/replaced. I do tighten the mounting screws as needed (probably have done it 3 times at this point). I recall my tron didn't shake like this, but then again I probably didn't have as many gameplays.

thanks for the suggestions.

i wish stern didn't use locktite in the factory. i know of a xmen wolverine magnet core that is impossible to remove unless i were to heat it up. not my machine, and i don't get paid to repair it so.....

My metallica Pro (not led model) is probably the last 'solid' pinball machine stern will release from the factory (SAM) IMO. With GOT pro next to it, GOT feels like it is 50 lbs lighter (no joke), its almost too easy to shift/nudge. Metallica feels like it is a Williams WPC machine compared next to the Spike. I enjoy the lighter machines for moving.....but they feel super light when playing/nudging.

anyone else notice this difference between the SAM and Spike machines?

Still going strong 4G plays later

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longevity? both myself and my friend have had to replace the plastic to metal post (18$ part), and I'm sure it will fail again.
next time i'll get the full metal post.

i'm finally pulling my 2013 met pro off location to enjoy it at home after 1.5 years or so. pumped up to get back into it as i don't play it hardly at all anymore.

page 161 at the very bottom of the manual;
http://www.sternpinball.com/games/metallica/pro
i'd measure it, then figure out which one? good luck
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Added over 8 years ago: I'm Welcome

i got mine from member Rickwh on pinside. i don't know if he is still doing them, great product that has held up!

not only am i an owner in the metallica club, but i am also a client.

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i had to bend either my left or right armature of the auto plunger in a little more, so that the ball rests equally on the auto plunger bracket. this resolved my weak auto plunges, or plunges not making it up to the pop bumpers. also had to do this with my TWD.

hope that helps.

you just need to press and hold down the left flipper button to access the other skills shots while plunging the ball.

i've seen an X-men were the entire wolverine magnet pf area is concaved because the magnet was too high, which then mushroomed down the entire playfield surrounding it.

if the magent is slightly higher, the ball impacts will mushroom it down into the playfield. this picture doesn't do justice showing the depression of the surrounding pf around the magent core, but it is laughable in person.

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Gweem, you can only stack coffin with either sparky, graveyard, and/or snake after you have started coffin mb. you can't stack any other way.

yeup,

i think it's easy to get confused that you can add a ball to any multi ball by hitting the standup targets, then shoot for the snake. it may seem like stacking another mb, but you are always just adding a ball at the lit snake.

well, it's not easy to distiguish out normal options with your cliffy there...

since the ball fails with both manual plunger and auto, its either or both;

1. cliffy alignment
2. ball guide allignment in shooter lane.

i bent one of my ball guides a year or 2 ago in the shooter lane. visually inspect what the ball is bouncing off first/second/third maybe when you manually plunge. just my suggestion, good luck!

i gently bent it with my fingers, the metal side rail ball guide on the left of the shooter lane. i would recommend plunging the ball, and see what its hitting first...that would be the problem child. i would assume either the bottom or the top could be adjusted if that is the problem.

i recall my balls would have too much movement side to side when auto plunging up the shooter lane, so this reduced movement.

i have a LCD in mine..love it. I have it set to high res, but it is a 'little' dark, but you can adjust the brightness. i left mine set to default though.

some people praise the LED as being brighter...but you don't have as many options for the dot controls.