Hi guys.
I need some help with my new Ripley that I just got. Had noticed some weird behavior during multi ball that the game crashes. Did some investigating and found out this:
Every time Coil 13 (lock kicker) is supposed to fire, the game crashes completely. I have to manually pull out all the balls from the lock lane and restart the game.
This happens after the 3rd ball is locked and also when I try to fire the coil 13 through the diagnostic menu, game crashes (and diagnostic menu crashes) and resets to beginng.
It is obviously not the coil. I even unplugged j9 to run the test. Coil 9-12 nothing happens (as expected), coil 13, game crashes.
The board looks brand new, no battery damage anywhere. Could this be a defective ROM? Obviously the signal that is triggering the coil (or is supposed to, since it is not triggered but crashes) causes this.
As a side note, I went through the diagnostics and the flasher test only has one flasher going off.
Any hints would be appreciated. I have a multimeter and know how to use it, but I have no idea what I would even be testing.