Just sold mine after a couple months and less than 100 games. Couldn't get used to using the 5 flipper buttons. Yes I know they can be coupled but they lose power when you do that and you can't make it up the steep ramps regularly anymore. I wanted to love the P3 but couldn't. Sorry Gerry.

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For a longer version of why I didn't like the P3 platform go read my review of weird al on the pinside game page. It's the most recent review.

I messed with set up extensively. I feel like I tried everything.

If you watch the gameplay reveal at multimorphic, you'll clearly see what I'm talking about with the ramp shots being rejected often and the skill shot nearly impossible to hit. Those top level players and the games designer had the same problems I was having.

I only watched the first 30 mins. of gameplay & Here's what I saw.

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These vids were taken with the rear feet all the way in and the front feet about an inch or slightly more out. I set it up to a pitch that was just shy of feeling "floaty". I was having the exact same issues that all of the weird al gameplay reveal players were having in their video.

P3 has 6 flipper buttons. Weird al's gameplay is designed to use 5 of those. 3 on the left and 2 on the right.

the 5th button (white button) on the left is the ONLY button that will operate the small upper flipper on the upper playfield... where you make sandwiches... getting up there in the upper playfield for me was a rare occasion and when I did, I wasn't quick enough to transition to the white flipper button and hit the ball so it dropped back down to the lower playfield.

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Gerry you didn't suggest a variac ever (to me anyway) because I would have bought one and tried it. You did ask me to test my voltage coming from the wall outlet. I did and sent you a pic. It was 110.3V. You blamed the performance issue on my wall outlet current. My electrician said that 110v is normal.

I asked you numerous times to recommend a higher power coil that I could use in place of the coils in the game but you always poo-poo'ed that idea.

I didn't ask for custom coils, just an off the shelf coil that I could buy somewhere and have installed. I put more powerful coils (off the shelf blue coils) in my stargate to make the steep ramp shots easier. It worked great. I dunno why that couldn't be an option for weird al owners too?

The flipper coupling option does in fact "weaken the performance"... making the game not play as intended which results in frustration and people walking away with nothing good to say about it. At least here at my location.

I tried to love it...heck, I tried to even like it. I suspect you'll see my game back up for sale soon.

This is how hard I tried to make weird al play right. My other 32 pinball games all play fine but... at your suggestion Gerry, I bought a kill-a-watt so I could check the voltage going to the game. 110.3 is normal according to my electrician & my 32 other games.

From google...

"Is house wiring 110 or 120?

The most common electrical outlet in any home is a 110 volt. Sometimes you may hear 110 volt plugs referred to as 120 volt. Do not be confused by this; think of them as one and the same"

Now that you refreshed my memory, I do remember you emailing me this... "You could maybe put a "variable ac transformer" (variac) on your power outlet that feeds the P3. I can't say for sure if that will help or not without testing"

"Maybe and can't say for sure" weren't very reassuring phrases making me want to buy a gadget to arbitrarily add more voltage to my $11k pinball game. I didn't want to fry it.

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I hope the 124v from your outlet solves the issue I was having if you choose to couple your mid and lower flippers. If I uncoupled the flippers, the low power issue went away and I could hit ramps all day long without issue. I just couldn't get used to playing pinball using more than 2 flipper buttons. Nor could my guests who typically stay just one night in our short term rental.

There is so much innovation in the p3 platform. Other modules that dont use 5 flippers would likely be fine even with 110 volts. For me the 6 flipper buttons and the underpowered flippers using 110v were what prompted me to sell it.

Gerry went above and beyond to try to help. The customer service I received was the best in the business.

All of this is why I had to sell our weird al. The P3 definitely has lots of Pros but that one Con of having 6 flipper buttons is what ruins it for most people.

I also thought that the P3 always finishing its start-up at the menu screen was odd. My airbnb guests turn the arcade on and off by themselves with a single alexa command...alexa arcade on... turning 50+ games on at once. The ONLY game in the entire private arcade that didn't fully start up and was ready to play was the P3. Many of my airbnb guests couldn't figure out how to get weird al to play from the menu screen. They would text me and say the weird al game isn't working. That got annoying. The p3 should know what module is in it and start-up directly to that game each time... not to the menu screen.

I had no idea.

Being able to hit a very important ramp shot only 25% of the time isn't good. I'm curious how you often you were able to make the ramps shots after coupling the flippers... using 3 buttons instead of 5?

By the way, if just 3 more people leave a review on pinside for weird al, it will be eligible for the pinside 100 list. Lots of people on this thread haven't left a review.

You're my best pinball buddy. I get most of my games from you even though you're 2 hours away. I don't want to piss you off but how is giving my honest opinion on a game that I've owned (bought from you even), ruining the thread? Others are saying the same exact things I am. Weird Al and the P3 platform has some major flaws. Why can't they be pointed out without individual owners taking it so personal?

I know you champion all the small boutique companies and for some reason take it very personally when anyone says anything that is remotely not positive about one of their games. I don't understand that.

People can point out the negatives about wizard of oz and gilligans island (or any game I own) all day long and I would never take it personally even though they are my 2 favorite games of all time.

Nice! Were you playing in 2 button or 4 button mode? I'm not seeing the bottom flippers moving as youre nailing the spiral ramp.

The problem of not being able to get up the ramps consistently happens when you are in 2 button mode... the mode that most pinball players will want to play the P3 in.

Put your game in 2 button mode and shoot the same shot. What happens?

How is gerry going to make a new game module when he's a year backlogged on weird al? I dont get it.

This just shows how inconsequential and wrong the pinside 100 is.

There's a year long wait for your weird al customers games.

How/when will multimorphic be able to make a new game?