The black MMr has the inlanes wired backwards, and the left switch is flakey as well. Mechanical issues, nothing about the new platform. Agree on the flat-ness, they play a bit slow. I hope they make one of the games steep and turn up the flipper strength. The power here seems fine, all the games are playing great.

Couple other minor bugs on all three games: the duke of bourbon insert flashes without any incandescent emulation, and the DMD animations occasionally 'tear' .. usually ones ones involving flashes or lots of animation. The cabs and playfield do look nice, colors are nice and vibrant. Castle boom and such seems fine.

You can't just "turn the coil power up." Not unless they've invented some cool new variable DC power supply. The adjustments allow them to vary the amount of time the main power coil is energized, which makes the flipper stronger (longer time) or weaker (shorter time). However, longer full-power timing means more heat is being generated, both on the coils and on the board transistors, and too much heat will cause the coil to be weak as well.

What I don't understand is how their adjustments interact with the EOS switch, which is supposed to control power coil timing in the first place. Next time I'm down there I will ask them if they can set one up steep so we can try it out, just in case the levelers were just a setup error.

Hopefully compensates better than LOTR. A while ago I noticed my left flipper on that game would start off way too strong and quickly turn ultra soggy... I thought it was binding but turned out the EOS switchblade was snapped off. The game was basically unplayable; after 10 min of play the left side got super hot and could barely make the Aragorn ramp. Replaced the EOS and it's fine now. I don't know if demoing a game with disabled EOS switches is feasible, at least not a Whitestar game!

The DMD issues are software and can be fixed - colorDMD has already solved that issue on their systems. The Duke insert is also a simple software bug that can be fixed.

The flippers and leveling is another issue. Let us try a steep game please

That's cool, I'll give the steep one a shot.

Got 40M on the black one; plays nice, was just missing lots of shots due to the different pitch. My own MM is about 7-7.5 deg, these feel like they're around 5.5-6 degrees. They fixed the inlanes, it was actually the lights that were backwards.

Just got done playing the black MMr after they made it steeper, and am happy to report it plays just like an original MM now. No issues with shots making the ramps, and gameplay behaved exactly as expected. I think folks will be happy with these machines. Thanks go to CGC for listening to feedback and adjusting the game setup for us picky bastards

And yes, the castle bulbs are 555 and can be changed.

Would you sell your HUO MM for 8K? Or would it take 20K to get it? Hence the remakes