What LTG said. The distance between the playfield and cabinet can be different for each machine. If the gap on yours is to small, blades are probably not going to work. Wait until you get your machine and check it out before you order any kind of blades....

Weird thing my date and time went out yesterday too for the first time

As did mine over the weekend.

Must be Gremlins! My date and time went out yesterday as well.

I have the same problem, but the loss of time and date happens vary sporadically. I put in a ticket and a month latter received and installed a software update. After a month of operation I lost the time and date again. There is still a problem. I have since put in another ticket and have not heard anything from CGC.

I just posted the following on the PPS forum:
CGC (Lloyd excluded) customer service sucks. I have had a ticket open for 18 days without a single response from my so called assigned pinball technician Ron Lukwinski. Lack of communication seems to be the normal way CGC conducts all facets of it's business. All the ticket has ever said is, being processed since xx days xx hours. The last time I put in a ticket for this same problem, it took 30 days and numerous emails to Lloyd for CGC to respond. I understand this is a difficult problem, but absolutely no communication is unacceptable. I'm worried for the future when something big goes wrong with the MMR.

Hey guys what was in your bag stapled inside? i only see a letter and the manual....am I missing something?

Nope, thats it!

no plastics?

Not even a key fob!!

A letter? I didn't get that just a manual, no warranty registration card either.

I wonder what support will be like in 5 to 10 years time when things really start happening?

Download it here :

http://www.chicago-gaming.com/Brochures/CGC_Warranty_Card_Pinball.pdf

LTG : )

For 8k you guys want a key fob too? Greedy bastards.

Is there an adjustment to make the video mode easier to attain? I'd like it so that friends could actually have a chance at getting it. Like set the spell FIRE to 4x's...?

I think the minimum is 5 though?

No, you want it to be rare...trust me.

Yes it definitely should be rare. I was disappointed first time I saw it. Was thinking wtf does this have to do with anything???

Looking for some insight. Our family loves pinball. We left the community for a while and recently just signed back on to Pinside.
My family and friends all put deposits on the MMR. Approximately a year ago, We received a call to choose the rails for our machines. Since then We have called and left messages repeatedly. No one calls us back. I called the other line today and it says the VM is full. Why don't they simply tell us what's going on on the VM.

I got three thumbs down for this a year ago... https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/any-update-on-mmr-production/page/18#post-1957893

That's pretty normal.

5 FIREs is only 20 bottom inlane rollovers. 20 ramp shots or random feeds from the playfield. Not too hard. You have to pay attention and make sure you score a letter from every ramp shot.

Some games (original and possibly remake) have problem where the ball will bounce over the inlane switch after falling from the habitrail at speed. Put game in switch test and fling the ball around both ramps. If you don't see the inlane switch closing on each return, you'll have to fiddle with things (google for what others did)

It's a throw back to a classic Williams game.... Defender.

Called who? Who's your distributor?

It's like collecting Wh2O river letters, if you cycle the lanes it's going to be relatively easy to get if you can repeat ramp shots.

I'd still do it today. My MMr flippers don't "suffer" from that.

I worked on spelling fire pretty good on a 80+mill score game yesterday. Still missed it. I've only seen vid mode once and that was purely unintentional. I'm going to focus on it the next few days and see how often I can get it.

IMO 5× default is good, I don't get it every game but I guess I get it around every 10 to 20 games. More often would make it boring.
I am a huge defender fan and I don't think that there is much resemblance. But I do think for a pinball it's a decent video mode. I get the extra ball about 2 thirds of the tries and finish it just over half the time so I think the difficulty is spot on. I like that you can use troll bombs also.

I rate it as better than DrWho video which is too easy and long and gets boring but not as good as fishtails video which is cool.

MM video mode is good because there's actual skill involved. Try to stay near the middle, only attack birds that are going after kids, and if one does get a kid, save the bomb til it's almost off the screen to maximize additional kills.

Too many other flawed video modes out there to call this one bad. STTNG memorization, AFM mindless sweeping, HS2 parking between lanes, etc. FT is probably still the best. Can't believe they saddled GOT with a "game" that's worse than Apple ][ Swashbuckler.. Steve, I love your PINBALL games but you've GOT (no pun intended) to give up on video modes; your games are among the worst examples of them...

So for us lazy people, which setting controls the video mode?

A.2 18&19

I was wondering if it is still possible to get a NIB MMR or an HUO one? Have there been many for sale? Thanks

you can still order MMR although the standards are not suppose to ship until all LEs are produced. Some standards have been produced for shows and then sold afterwards. Games do pop up fs. There was one in the VA, MD, etc. FS thread.

Okay that is good to know. Maybe I will place and order. How many LEs have been produced? Is the run almost done?

Thanks

1000 may have been sold, but definitely not made yet.

The good news is I know I will have standards in stock within 60 days, however as they continue to sell the wait gets longer.

Greg

I have recieved very quick responses from Lloyd and Ron. Ron even called me to talk about my ticket, so keep trying something must have happened for them to ignore your ticket.

Did you get resolution for this issue?

Ya whats the deal. No resolution on this post either

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mmr-error-time-date-not-set

I have always stated that Lloyd has responded almost immediately to both tickets I have entered. Unfortunately Lloyd isn't the person that's going to fix the problem, Ron is. Again the problem I'm having is with CGC not responding to my first ticket for 30 days and my second ticket going on 22 days. Both tickets are for the same problem. I have never talked to or emailed Ron, I don't think I should have too. I don't expect the problem to be resolved immediately, but I do expect some sort of response from CGC that the problem is being looked at. I don't think anybody can say this is good customer service.

I agree its not good service but just saying something may have happened and try putting the ticket in again. My issue was resolved rather quickly, just cant imagine why they would ignore yours.

I had a minor issue w/ my MMr.

I submitted a ticket, received a response within an hour. Replacement part shipped same day.

Has anyone else noticed how the different shades of the display are too bright on MMr ?
The 3 levels are almost the same brightness thus the DMD appears to be only 1-bit two colors (your color selection + black).

When you go in the special CGC menu, you see a square on the right ? It's supposed to show the 3 different shades.

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I tried to fix the problem using the LCD controls (brightness and contrast).
I somewhat managed to fix the problem but the overall brightness of the display is much lower than I would like.

Seems like the firmware update doesn't have the same priority as physical fixes. I'm not the only one who's opened a firmware ticket and heard nothing for days, or longer.

Having an issue with my left flipper assembly. The pin that secures the rod(indicated in the picture below as an example) has come loose twice now in so many days, causing it to completely detach from the rest of the assembly. I was able to find the pin in the bottom of the cabinet and reinsert it and thought I had clamped it down hard enough, but apparently not enough for it to happen a second time now.

How can I secure this pin better? I had a heck of a time working on this part without removing the whole thing, so not sure if there's an easier way.

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