I don't know if anyone has fixed the following "bugs" before, but I've decided to share these:

Display:
- Crank It Up - Battery mode intro animation: Removed 2 "static" pixels during the animation in the lower-left corner.

Sound:
- Coffin/casket multiball instruction (James): Replaced "Smash four balls to start multiball." with "Smash three balls to start multiball.".

You can download the zip here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ah1qajm3l9vcn1a/Metallica%201.64%20Fixes.zip?dl=0

The zip includes a macro for Pinball Browser (MTL164-PRO-LE.pbm).
Just be sure to change all the *PATH* references to the correct location of the folder using a text editor.

If you find any other DMD or audio "bugs", just let me know and I'll try to fix them.

I've noticed a couple of things when I was changing all the rubbers to transparent ones.

I really recommend adding a M4 size washer between the wedge base socket of the right electric chair spot flasher and the "Feed snake when flashing" plastic (-28).
I've also added 2 M4 washers under the support of the left wire ramp to keep the ramp centered between the two wire guides.

While I do know receiving a perfect product is impossible, I am quite disappointed with the overall quality control of Stern. (I bought a NIB Metallica premium monsters at the end of September in 2014.)

I've sent a mail about some of the following problems at [email protected] in the first week of November in 2014 and I've still haven't got a reply from them.

- The left side of the cabinet came scratched and has a fairly large air bubble under the decal.
- There are some fairly deep scratches on two capacitors on the I/O power driver board.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jkik6oozslpf4fd/IMG_20141028_023108.jpg?dl=0
- The two electric chair optos were already defective after 70 plays because of cold solder joints on the LED's.
- Three lamps had bad solder connections and were broken off which made the lights flicker.
- Some plastics still had some protective tape on them.
- The rusty screw of the right electric chair spot flasher.
- I had to adjust the bumper/stop of the hammer assembly and the up-post coil. These were set to their lowest position.
- The connector of the magnet processor board wasn't plugged in all the way. (I know connectors can come loose during transport but it was the only one. I guess it happened during the board swap.)

Has anyone had a similar experience with NIB games?
While I really enjoy the machine, I really doubt I'd buy another NIB Stern in the future for such a price.

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