During Destruction Jackpot the audio from my right speaker crackles a little. Is it supposed to sound like that? I never hear it otherwise. I was thinking it was added to give some kind of authenticity to the old air raid siren sound, but am not sure.

Quick question, after my 3 balls are released from the top of the building for multi ball, all 3 balls drain SDTM unless I nudge hard in which case 1 or 2 still drain.
Is this normal? Or maybe my left to right levelling is off.

Thanks!
Richard

What triggers the VUK when the ball is sent through the building? Is it an opto? Anyone have a photo of where it might be?

It’s kind of by design I think Elwin said you supposed to have to save them some people make a mod to have them go off at a slight angle otherwise just give it a solid nudge to save as many as you can. Or just wait for the ball save to kick more out

Ok! Thanks! Just played another game, seemed this time no nudging was best. Anyway, good to know!

Thanks!

Richard

Me married. Zero pins. Endless shoes, purses etc. Me Divorced. Six pins and counting. Endless vinyl records and no time limit at the brewery. FTW!

Bonus. My girls like pinball better than clothes and shopping!

Woooo, I joined this club 8 years ago Loving it.

Poor guy!. Married 40 years, she let's me buy whatever I want ,

There's an opto at the bottom of the shaft. You can see it when you pull out the playfield to the service poistion. There is also an opto at the top of the shaft that is contained in the vacuformed building. The opto at the bottom of the shaft triggers the VUK I believe from memory

This is the best thing I've seen on Pinside in a long.....long....time. Thank you.

Installed the Real Knocker kit from Pinball Life and have the settings suggested but have not heard it "knock" for a feature I had it set for. For those that are using this what is an easy setting to verify the knocker works in the feature settings? Thanks.

I just joined the club, my Premium just arrived yesterday and it getting the crap played out of it right now behind me.

So this question is going to reveal the level of obsessive I possess. Unlike others on this thread I like and embrace the Connect system. I have everything setup but the only sticker for folks to scan to join is up on the speaker panel, kind of hard to get to with my lineup. They included a heavy duty vinyl sticker with the QR but my question is, where does it go? Basically, where is the "official" spot to place it? I don't want to cover up any art or words, and I can't see any obvious lined off squares where you would place it? With it being heavy duty, does it get stuck to the playfield glass directly? TIA!

I don't think many people hate insider connected as a feature, but the sticker on the speaker panel is ugly, so many want to remove it (peels off easy) and certainly not add a second one.

The only thing that QR code does is save you from typing "insider.stern.com". You then have to register for an account, so just telling new players to go to that website is not much more effort.

For family /frequent players it's easiest to print the personal qr code. Scanning the qr sticker, logging in with phone, and putting phone to game, will get very very tedious. I leave my little credit card sized laminated print right on the apron, and the cards for rest of family near by.

To answer your question, there is not on official place for that sticker, or they would have put it there.

I Protest, heat ray does not trigger the oxygen destroyer. I was down to two seconds left and the ball was nowhere near my flipper so I use the heat ray hoping it would work but it did not.

Also what purpose do those ferrite things serve for the shaker.

anyone heard about a topper from stern for godzilla?

I got to Monster Zero for the first time. I didn’t know you could drain! I tilted with two balls locked.

Not yet.

Karl's been streaming the new 0.97.8 beta code test today. Lots of improvements. He's still streaming...

https://www.twitch.tv/iepinball
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I’ve heard rumors of a third party topper coming out soon and I hear it’s pretty badass!

The game makes the "how embarrassing" callout in English, if you're in either English or Japanese mode. One curious thing, though, is that this callout isn't always made for every very low scoring ball. It seems a bit random.

Callouts are random so that it doesn't get too repetitive or boring.

I know you can replace video on stern SW, like the 1987 tmnt mod, is it possible to edit audio? Are the individual shout outs replaceable I wonder, or is it a complete package.

Mine did that every time regardless of how it was leveled. I bought one of the mods for the top of the building and it funnels them down to the left flipper...no more STDM.

I just put a small rubber dot in the middle and it moves the balls fine. Now I have a tiny diamond shape of metal, and double sided taped it there. Works perfect

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Has anybody made a decal that goes over the magnet?

Thanks!

Good job! The police will never find your ganja disguised as trees in your Godzilla machine!

Godzilla Rocks!

So my left speaker does similar during mecha multi ball that it never did before. Almost makes me think it's in the code.

The notable distortion I get is during that change city annimation when the globe lowers into that table top or whatever it is.

Seems hit or miss. Just got my premium maybe a week ago. Initially without leveling proper sdtm. Used a digital level (not app which may be just as good no idea). From that point on it hits end of left flipper. I understand some have leveled and still sdtm. I thought the one elwin interview he said that the mod should not be necessary and they should not go sdtm but I would have to listen again to confirm..

I've gotta do a minor left slap save every time but it almost always keeps all 3 balls in play. If I don't then it's SDTM and mines definitely level

Isn’t there a ball save implemented during the building ball drop?

I believe it’s by design so you don’t feed the flipper for a building smash until it’s got time to raise back up. I can usually save 1 or 2 off the drop and the other one just fires back out. Rooftop mods are a solution looking for a problem.

If its intentional that balls should drain (and Elwin said it was, to prevent building getting bashed or ball traveling through ramps while building moving) then why are the flippers active? Disable them, just like the saucer multiball (why are the flippers disabled at the start of that anyway?). Leaving flippers active, and trying to catch the balls and have them go down the middle, just feels bad. In 400 games i haven't had an issue shooting balls while the building is moving so i feel like it's a pretty weak argument

I've occasionally had ramp shots that deposit the active ball on top of the building while its raising. This stalls the game, as the building top has no way of knowing ball presence. Full ball search/building drop is then required to keep playing.

I've had my game for less than a week and I don't want to jinx anything but I haven't noticed any playfield dimples yet...have they upgraded the surface to address this issue finally? The finish doesn't seem to be the usual glassy coating but instead it has a little texture to it. I was just curious if anyone knows anything about it or if it's just my imagination.

Mines glossy, but has the usual dimpling, in contrast to my new Deadpool Premium which barely has any... It's just a playfield lottery sometimes you get a winner sometimes you don't I'm playing my Godzilla enough to where most of them are evening out and I barely noticed it anyway

The race is on now! I had my delivery scheduled for later this week but I just received a call that they need to move it to tomorrow morning instead. I hadn't planned for this but I won't be looking a gift horse in the mouth here either. Will report back tomorrow when the beautiful kaiju is nestled in with its siblings!

Hahaha.... I was wondering when someone was going to notice that!
Kidding

Having a bit of trouble.

I was playing a normal game and all of the sudden it starts kicking out all of the balls. I had six on the playfield for no reason. Every time a ball drained it would send them all out again. I restarted the machine after clearing all the balls. On a restart it immediately began ejecting all six balls onto the playfield. This was at the game start. It also would not leave BALL ONE.

It registers when the outlines are tripped but it doesn't end the ball.

Any suggestions?

Start with the switch matrix. Do you see a row or column with everything active? If so, find the common line and find where's it's potentially grounded or broken. I'd start with the shooter lane switch. Is this working properly?

Thank you. How would I go about doing that?

In the menu system. Under diagnostics > switch (sw)

page 17-19 in this manual: https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SPIKE-System-Manual.pdf

hello everyone, a question to those of you who recently received a premium, is the plastic still under the bridge? the one that covers the magnet? or has it been replaced? do you have photos?

there is still a plastic but it doesnt cover the magnet core

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And no, this is not an adequate chnge..saw wear on that plastic within days. Put a piece of rubber where bridge hits temporarily until you get around to adding a washer in the coil mech (see pinned posts)

Thanks so much

Unseat and replug the trough pin connections. Had this happen on mine as well and reseating the connections fixed it as it was loose

Can you confirm that it keeps ejecting balls after the ball save is over?

If so pay attention to the ball trough and jam switches in the switch test.

Also remove and reseat the ball trough opto
connectors and see what happens.