This is my first Data East Machine. It is a Stars Wars which I picked up for 850. It needed like 15 things done to it though the cosmetics were great. It is working now but not sure about several things:

1) No prop rod? It has some kind of rubber spring that is connected at the bottom of the cabinet only. Can't figure that out. The playfield also rubs the wire conduit when I raise the playfield so I need to pull out the playfield then push it back to raise it? I've since added a prod rod to at least work on it.

2) The DMD during the game play seems to 'forget' to go back to the score every once in a while. Game continues fine and DMD catches up when you hit a target that requires the DMD to show something other than the score. I have all updated ROMs so is this just normal behavior?

3) The two yellow center targets send the ball off into space. It happened with the two original and the two I replaced them with. I needed to re-engineer them to stop that from happening. Is this normal?

4) What does the shifter do. The switch on it is working just don't know when to use it?

5) The game has very unpleasant sounds when there is some kind of thrust noise needed. Is there anyway to turn that off?

Thanks!

Mike V.

Thanks for the reply! That does help a lot. The targets in question are the two yellow stand up ones. I edited the post to clarify. If they took a direct shot the ball would fly up and go into the shooter lane or one the ramp or on a plastic. I bent the metal brace pieces and the targets forward on both so they are not used as a ramp.

I'll check out that club ..

Mike V.