Hello Everyone. My first post. Only game I have currently is The Sopranos. Bought it new years ago because my wife and I are both huge fans of the show. Hoping to get my second machine very, very soon!

Had my Sopranos shut down, moved cross-country and put in storage for a few months. All told it's been unplugged and turned off for the past 7 months. Got it out of storage and set up over the weekend. Wasn't terribly surprised that it re-set all of the settings and high scores. Some issues though since powering it back on.
1. When I turn it off and then turn it back on again each time it has a message on the display to open the coin door, it won't do anything until I do that. Once I do open the coin door it seems to be happy and is ready for a game. Annoying to open the door every time, how do I fix this issue?

2. Each time I've started it up (just a few times now), it doesn't remember any of the settings I changed the previous time, only things I've done are turn the volume down and set it for free play. Each time I turn it back on I have to do this again, why is it not remembering the changes I made?

3. Not necessarily a problem with the machine, but as luck would have it on my first game in months I hit the buoy that leads to the boat, when I did the plastic piece snapped in half and went flying. Did some google searches and cannot find that replacement part, does anyone know where to find it? Any ideas why it would've snapped in half after my first game, did it get brittle or weak from being in storage?

Okay, duh, I figured out my problem. I'd never replaced the AA batteries! Now that I researched I realized this was a rookie mistake and I should have been replacing them every year or so.

The battery holder fell down off it's location on the board. The batteries did have some corrosion on them but thankfully nothing got on the board. I knocked the corrosion off the battery holder when I took the batteries off.

Is it okay to just put new batteries in there, or because of the minor corrosion should I get a whole new battery holder?

The battery holder appears to be only held in with a plastic bracket thing and a zip tie, there are two little prongs that go into the board. Is that correct? Nothing needs to be soldered, it just needs to make contact with those little prongs/pins?

I believe fattrain is the guy to ask for all things Color DMD related.

I was changing out the rubber on my right slingshot and tightened something too much and snapped off the end of one of the threaded posts. It seems to be threaded along the entire length of it. The manual doesn’t provide much detail on the slingshot parts. Could someone please help a dummy? Which part did I break?

And then if I’m able to get the right post can I remove the entire thing from the underside of the play field?

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Thanks. I felt kinda stupid for doing this to begin with. I managed to extract it from under the play field. I’ll see if they have something at the hardware store so that I don’t have to special order something.

Is this the information you’re looking for?

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Got the highest praise from the wife the other day. We were talking about dream pin themes (hers being Grateful Dead). I said, well, if they come out with a Grateful Dead machine I guess we’ll have to sell Sopranos. Her answer was perfect, music to my ears.

“We’re never selling Sopranos, I love that game. If they come out with a Grateful Dead pinball we’ll just have to have a fourth machine”!

Sopranos really is an underrated hidden gem.

I bought my game NIB back in 2005. Early on I was frustrated with the ball hitting the drop target to the boat and like you said, flying through the air and straight down the middle. I contacted Stern back at that time and they sent me a new drop target. I don't remember the old one now, but I know that the one I have now is more rigid, had a couple of small rivets in it that seem to make it less springy. I can hit that target from either flipper without any problem. It would be worth some searching to see if that was a part that became a replacement.

I installed full LEDs throughout a few months ago. I’ve had my machine since NIB 2005, and putting LEDs in made it look like a brand new machine again. I would not hesitate to just do it throughout. I picked up a complete kit from Comet and even with the episode lights was thrilled with how it looks.

The blades are another story. I wasn’t thrilled with any of the choices on those. I ended up going with the metal side blades, the Bada Bing ones. Immediate buyers remorse on that! There just isn’t enough clearance between the play field and the sides, so it gets scratched to shit every time the play field gets lifted. Total bummer.

Yeah, same ones sadly.

Been thinking of doing the color DMD install. How difficult is the actual installation? Is there just once source for the parts?

Dude, that is AWESOME, and so lucky!

Only thing I can think is maybe it’s one of those settings where you can add some text where it’s the “jrcmic arcade” or something like that. Not sure where that is in the settings, but I’d look there. Did someone else own it before you? Maybe they went to change that and just gave up at A?