Cool thanks I’ll check that out

One more minor issue in having...

On the left ramp, on some week shots my ball can get held up right after the turn... anyone experience this?

Yes, I have that issue once in a while as well, but I can usually get the ball to come back down with just a medium shake.

Just wanted to show my probably unnecessary, but desired modification to the 'Creature Feature." It would be great to figure out how to add some kind of mechanism that makes 'creature' shake a bit when mode or shots are activated.

I used decorative items from Petsmart meant for reptiles and bought the artificial leaves, moss. A little bit of electrical / duct tape engineering to affix to the black background attached behind 'Creature" and wallah. I could of probably drilled hole into plastic black background, but didn't want change to be permanent.

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Gotcha, I have to give it a mega nudge/lift the machine to move it, usually end up removing the glass

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/monster-bash-remake-mbr-owners-club/page/141#post-5693695

My issue is after the turn on the other side of the bride. A super slow shot that makes the turn just gets hung up.

Put a quarter between each rear leg levers and casters.

Issue solved quickly through CGC's support

"Please open the coin door and press the enter (black) button twice, advance to A. ADJUSTMENT MENU, hit the enter button, A.1 Standard Adjustment, hit the enter button again and to A.1 27 EUROPEAN SCORE FORMAT, be sure it's set to NO."

Ahh...

Anyknow know of any store in Europe that would still have some NIB MB LE left in stock? Please let me know via PM, thanks!

finally installed the Pinstadiums I've had sitting here for a week. Huge difference! When we got MBrLE a few weeks ago, my wife even commented that it was dark on the playfield and hard to track where the ball was.

Problem solved and she's been playing it for 20 min straight already since she got home.

Did you use one washer on each bolt or two washers on each bolt?

Yep same here. I had to press down “or bend down” slightly on the wire form right in front of the Bride to allow the weak shots to come back out the entry point. It use to get stuck there and rock back and forth like a pendulum and of course had to slide the glass down to get it out.

Stealing that one. That looks cool!

For me I was able to adjust in the menu the strength setting on the scoop, I know somewhere in here some one posted that suggestion, and I also think my app for leveling might have been a little off or I just didn’t do something right when leveling. But I moved my pin a little and it basically stopped with the SDTM shots. Keep in mind still on occasion it might happen, maybe 1 or 2 out of 10 but that’s pinball to me

Thanks for the help, I also contacted Cgc tech support . After accessing power coil menu and adjusting slings to min , scoop to min , flipper to +1 and autoplunger to min it has solved nearly 90-95% of my issues . I didn’t realize coil adjustments were important on this game like they are on the alien

I put two on each bolt, though I don't know if both were really necessary.

With the pinstadiums installed, can you still tell which Monsters are lit or unlit in the center of the playfield?

I had installed the Lermods spotlights to lighten things up, and even on their lowest setting it washed out the playfield so much that you couldn't tell which monsters or instruments were lit/unlit. It did make it easier to see the ball, but I ended up removing them because it was just not worth it.

https://lermods.com/shop/ols/products/monster-bash-remake-spotlight-covers

These can be rotated downward so they don’t wash out the instruments or monsters or they can be mounted on the lower screw of the sling plastic instead of the upper screw. Maybe try that. I did notice on the brightest setting it does wash it out, but once I dimmed them down it wasn’t an issue.

Ok thanks, I think it’s helping. Feels like rejections went from 4/10 to 1/10, do you still get some occasionally?

Yeah, played it last night and reached Monster Bash and almost Monsters of Rock. Have them set on 75% brightness and 100% white. I mean, you can adjust the brightness and colors to suit your eyes, so you're not locked into something that is simply off or on.

These are the newer style Pinstadiums with the plastic channels that hide the LED strips when viewed from the side. So they are not as bright as the original Pinstadiums.

I tried pointing them in various ways (and with the lowest brightness), and couldn't find a variation that I liked. Maybe I will try a trough light at some point instead.

Only once in a very great while...less than 1 in 100 (probably about the same as any other ramp on any machine).

I put in the washers at the same time that I bent the wireframe (to address the stuck ball problem), so it is possible that both those things helped with the ramp rejections.

Prior owner installed a trough light in mine - unless the LE models came with it?

It does its job of lighting the flipper area, but you can see the LED reflections in the DMD screen depending on your height. I need to unplug it now I have the Pinstadiums installed.

I actually never noticed this until I just looked for it. The speaker lights actually reflect much more.

Here's how it looks in my game. instruments are very easy to see, I see The others well.

I've been meaning to turn mine off because of the slight reflection. I turned off the speaker lights on my MMr because those speakers are larger in diameter and def had too much reflection on the playfield.

There should be, and maybe there is, a setting to turn off the speaker lights during gameplay and leave them on in attract mode. Speaker lights is one of the dumbest mods, IMO.

Which rubber pieces are recommended for this machine? I just had one of the original flipper rubbers break, so I swapped both out with "ordinary" red flipper bands that I had from Pinball Resource.

It plays MUCH better now, in that the response from the flipper is much more predictable. I think that the original bands had much less grip, making the ball sometimes sort of "slide" off of the flippers during a shot.

I was surprised how quickly this band broke. Are people using Titan bands, and if so does it make the game play any differently? I had been considering upgrading to Titans on my other machines soon, but didn't think the the MBr would need new rubber this soon. Does CGC use crappy rubber as stock?

I use Perfect Play silicone bands from Pinball Life in all my pins. Lots of colors to choose.

I tried Super Bands but the PP are better. Titans look great but I have not used them.

Nothing "washed out" when using Pinstadiums. Not interested in hearing nay-sayers. I like them and also make DIY stadium lights for most of my games. But for the expensive games, it's Pinstadiums.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Byi9jb5BU8EYUJvS6

I was not "nay-saying", I was just asking a question because I DID have a "wash out" problem with the LerMods lights. And while the Lermods piece was not expensive (and worth a try), pinstadiums are too expensive for me to simply "give it a try".

I’m sorry, I obviously wasn’t being clear when I wrote my message. I was not singling anyone out and had no one in particular in mind, I meant the general attitude towards pin stadiums.

I ended up putting the washers under the ramp wire form to to lift them up and I THINK it solved the issue, about 20 in a row without a rejection. I took a slow mo video and it looked like the ball was getting jammed in between the wires.

Very creative, dude!! Congratz!

Not a big mod guy but this was so classy and easy that it was a no brainer

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That would have looked a lot better if they had made it cover up the screw heads.

I wanted to share these sweet prints i just bought from Doug Horne's etsy store. He aslo has frank, mummy and bride! Great wall art for Monster Bash owners and/or tiki fans. I'm both.

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Thanks man! I felt he needed a more swampy vibe when lit up. If I was more talented and could paint, I would consider painting the Creature however I will leave it along for now.

Anyone have an issue with mummy not opening on occasion? Seems to open and shut immediately, and makes a noise until the mode is over/drain. Just started happening on 1/5 times.

Send him to Modfather!

Really though, since the lagoon plastic is green, you really Can’t see much even when he is painted

Another related question, is there a way to run a test on the sarcophagus opening? Can’t seem to find it in the test menu.

Tests - Solenoids - 03 Mummy Coffin

LTG : )

ahh thanks

Had a couple minor issues with my machine and wanted to post what CGC suggested for fixes. These both worked for me, thanks to Arturo from CGC for responding quickly and with photos!

Issue: Right ramp would reject ball at the turn

Solution: Bend upper and middle wired together

Issue: Mummy would not open/not stay open

Solution: Bend enclosure as per photo

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Arrggghhh...just missed out on Lyman's Lament. I was at 42 mosh-pit shots when it drained...sigh...

I thought it was 44 scoop shots

That was my point...I got to 42, but not to the 44 that I needed.

Yea you said mosh pit shots, i thought that was the spinner

I'm confused now, is Lyman's Lament started by 44 scoop shots or 44 spinner shots?

I thought it was 44 spinners (i.e. Mosh Pit), but maybe it is 44 scoops. Does the number of current scoop shots show in the status pages?

You can see it in the status report. It's 44 scoop shots.

You can also start it by putting the following "code" in, before the first ball with credits in the machine (or free play) and before launching FIRST BALL:

Press the left flipper 11 times, then press the right flipper once, the left flipper 5 times, the right flipper once, the press the left flipper 6 times, then press the right flipper once.