Quoted from Matsurigatzu:

Wife and I just keep getting screwed over by the putlanes. What’s the best way in settings to overcome the ball constantly going out on us? New to pinball

Quoted from Matsurigatzu:

Wife and I just keep getting screwed over by the putlanes. What’s the best way in settings to overcome the ball constantly going out on us? New to pinball

Quoted from Brombomb:

You have to Earn an Ally first.
* Jet Fighters - Get 4
* Super Secret Skill Shot (under upper flipper - shoot scoop)
* Halfway through some Kajiu battles
* etc...
Then you have to shoot the scoop to gain your ally. Above your left flipper and in front of the scoop there are 3 lights on the playfield.
* Purple - Rodan - 2x playfield Scoring
* Yellow - Mothra - Left Outlane Save
* Green - Angurius - Add a Ball
You can use your right flipper to toggle these lights, while their blinking, before shooting the scoop. Once the scoop is hit, they will turn solid to indicate it is active.
If you have Angurius, you can then use your action button at any time during MB to "add a ball". If you time it right, when your 2nd to last ball is draining, you can press and actually get it to give you 2 balls for add a ball.

Quoted from DaveH:

And just a tiny bit after
I love that moment when things are settling and I am smacking the right flipper to get what I want.

Quoted from Hayfarmer:

Also, go into settings and turn down the sling power.

Quoted from Matsurigatzu:

What does that do?

Quoted from VinnyBlanc:

The ramps don’t need to be lit (or qualified) to count toward kaiju battles. The white arrows on the ramps are just with respect to destroying the building.

Quoted from JP76:

I have a dumb question. After beating the first monster in Tokyo, how do you light the white ramp lights so you can start the next Kaiju battle? I had GZ multiball ready (2 balls on roof) but I didn’t want to start it until I started a battle.

Quoted from Matsurigatzu:

Wife and I just keep getting screwed over by the putlanes. What’s the best way in settings to overcome the ball constantly going out on us? New to pinball

Quoted from VinnyBlanc:

Just replaced my first Power Distribution Board (on Godzilla). I was having an issue where the coin door interlock was not working (cutting 48v power). I obviously started with swapping the interlock switch first and that didn’t work. Did some googling and I saw people in the Jurassic Park group on pinside has the same issue and swapping the Power distribution board worked. I gave it a shot and voila!
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Quoted from freddy:

A new GZ pin .
Faulty distribution board.
One would think stern or your dealer would have replaced this board free of charge .

Quoted from big-c66:

Have any of you had the problem when you shoot the ball into the building it doesn’t come back out it stays down in the back of the playfield. I have to take the metal cover off the back to get it out it’s done this 3 times now. I just bought this premium brand new a week ago and have maybe 10 games on it.

Quoted from Bublehead:

Ok, to update my recently built premium problems... there are some things they are aware of...
If your recently built GZ premium has a building entrance opto that has failed for any reason, they think they might know why and will adress it if you call support. They have a couple of recommendations that depend on your symptoms and how they failed. Call and put in a ticket.
If you are getting random lockups, turn off the power, remove the micro SD card from the CPU board, (NOT the SD card, which is physically bigger and holds the game code image) and restore power. Does it boot and play now? If so, replace the micro SD card with a blank, new micro SD memory card, the same size as the one you removed, and at least one with a minimum Class 10 speed rating. No need to format it, it will be detected and formated when you turn on the machine. The micro SD card is scratchpad storage for Insider Connect communication, it is designed as replaceable scratchpad memory that gets written to and read from during IC communications and instead of using expensive ram, or the game code SD card, they opted for cheap uSD memory so if read/write cycles wear it out after a while, operators can restore IC communications by simply swapping in a new memory card. Now if they would have just used a better supplier of micro SD cards...
And put in a call and a ticket... they will not probably spend that extra $0.05 for a better uSD card until they find more than 15% - 20% failure rate, so lets tell them were to stick the latest batch of uSD's, shall we?

Quoted from Matsurigatzu:

Wife and I just keep getting screwed over by the putlanes. What’s the best way in settings to overcome the ball constantly going out on us? New to pinball

Quoted from CoolCatPinball:

Nothing much in the settings will prevent outlane drains besides turning down the slings coil power. If you haven't already, move the adjustable posts to make the outlanes narrower. That's about all you can do.

Quoted from big-c66:

Have any of you had the problem when you shoot the ball into the building it doesn’t come back out it stays down in the back of the playfield. I have to take the metal cover off the back to get it out it’s done this 3 times now. I just bought this premium brand new a week ago and have maybe 10 games on it.

Quoted from JP76:

I have a dumb question. After beating the first monster in Tokyo, how do you light the white ramp lights so you can start the next Kaiju battle? I had GZ multiball ready (2 balls on roof) but I didn’t want to start it until I started a battle.

Quoted from barndawg:

This is unfortunately somewhat common. If it's just caught on the lip leaving the building, you can probably fix it by calibrating the building height (there are instructions in the manual). If it's getting stuck deeper in, check the Key Posts on this thread (there's a link at the top) and find the one about the Subway VUK not triggering.

Quoted from big-c66:

Yeah that’s what it’s doing. The ball gets stuck way down in subway. Now when I do the test I can get it to fire it out of the subway up to the building it’s driving me nuts. Lol

Quoted from big-c66:

Yeah that’s what it’s doing. The ball gets stuck way down in subway. Now when I do the test I can get it to fire it out of the subway up to the building it’s driving me nuts. Lol

Quoted from Chopplebrains:

Yeah, I hear that. Still having a few issues too.
1. I’ve had a tough time with the building too. Is there a post that explains how to better level it? Sometimes a slow ball gets stuck rolling back out the front entrance - just a small height delta (lower than) the playfield.
2. The vuk is challenging - I changed angle with washers and had to turn power way up. Mostly works but sometimes still takes 2 to 4 extra fires of the vuk coil to make it to the top. Not sure if tweaking building level will help with that or not. Or if there are any other tricks anyone knows to really get the vuk for building working awesomely?
3. Magna Grab not lining up ball for loop shot. I tweaked right back corner leg leveler to be a little higher, I think I’m .25 degrees tilted left in the back - doesn’t seem like enough though. The shot is almost never lined up to hit the loop from magna grab on upper flipper. How much are people tweaking level on that to get it to work most of the time? Sucks because when I play I almost always just try to get it to lower flippers, but middle spinner, then hit the loop shot to get my destruction jackpots.
I love this game - my favorite machine right now by far. I’ve put soooo much work into it - would love to get these last couple things nailed down.

Quoted from big-c66:

Yeah I love this game too haven’t had a a problem with magna grab lining up. That vuk is driving me nuts specially with me not having it but a week out of the box. I’m going to figure something out for it.

Quoted from CoolCatPinball:

Nothing much in the settings will prevent outlane drains besides turning down the slings coil power. If you haven't already, move the adjustable posts to make the outlanes narrower. That's about all you can do.

Quoted from junkyard:

I bought a magnet Mylar fr pinball life. It’s a donut shape. I trimmed it down to go around the magma grab and line up with the bridge drop Mylar. I messed up and I think it over laps a bit. In any case now I can hit destruction jackpots all the time. One dollar fix. Of course there is shipping though.

Quoted from Chopplebrains:

I had heard about this - I have a playfield protector in mine - seems like that would mitigate the Mylar issue?

Quoted from BFaster:

For the VUK, sounds like you've found the key post with washers. And it sounds like that is a pretty solid fix.
For me, I didnt have to go that far. Early on, I had the same issue. When I had the playfield on jacks I noticed my backboard was not screwed tightly to the playfield. If I remember correctly there were only 3 or 4 wood screws holding that backboard.
I tightened those up nice and snug, did the same for the VUK brackets, both the one under the playfield and the vertical chute on the backboard.
Then, and I think most importantly I believe, I have never again used that "handle" on the top of the backboard. I reach under the playfield gently with two fingers and find a bare spot to use as a lift point. Over 2000 plays since and it miss-fires maybe once every 15 times. And then it always makes it up on the second coil fire.
ymmv, but worth a check.

Quoted from Scala:

The rgb light for the left ramp arrow stopped working on me. All the other lights are working fine.
Could someone point me in the right direction for what I need to do to fix it? This is the first repair I've needed to make on a pinball machine.
Thanks in advance!

Quoted from Brombomb:

You have to Earn an Ally first.
* Jet Fighters - Get 4
* Super Secret Skill Shot (under upper flipper - shoot scoop)
* Halfway through some Kajiu battles
* etc...
Then you have to shoot the scoop to gain your ally. Above your left flipper and in front of the scoop there are 3 lights on the playfield.
* Purple - Rodan - 2x playfield Scoring
* Yellow - Mothra - Left Outlane Save
* Green - Angurius - Add a Ball
You can use your right flipper to toggle these lights, while their blinking, before shooting the scoop. Once the scoop is hit, they will turn solid to indicate it is active.
If you have Angurius, you can then use your action button at any time during MB to "add a ball". If you time it right, when your 2nd to last ball is draining, you can press and actually get it to give you 2 balls for add a ball.

Quoted from Chopplebrains:

Magna Grab not lining up ball for loop shot.

Quoted from EspoPinball:

I see many posts about cracked plastics under bridge from the violent shaking. I added a simple fix that prevents plastic damage. I simply added soft Velcro to under side of bridge metal rails. It’s black, sticks on easily and invisible to the eye. When the bridge slams down it acts like a cushion.
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Quoted from Chopplebrains:

I did the tightening but will double check this - thanks. Another thought - I had vuk issues with Elvira hoh - the main thing that fixed that was taking the rod out of the coil and grinding it a bit - not making it shorter, just barely enough to add a scallop so the ball has a little niche to sit in - this made it so the ball was centered on the rod and would then fire straight up the vuk every time. I thought the Godzilla building vuk had a metal rod instead of plastic - does anyone know if it’s metal? I suppose I could grind metal too but a little harder, not sure I have the right tools.

Quoted from bigguybbr:

Is magna grab supposed to drop the ball so it actually hits the flipper, or like mine, does it drop it near, so you have to bat at it a bit to get the destruction bonus? I can’t smash that loop off the magnet drop, rather just get it with enough force to get it around slowly. When I hit the center spinner orbit I can rip the loop, so it’s just the magna grab that puts it almost a little out there to make it a challenge. I kinda figured that’s by design.

You can trim off about 90% of that velcro. You only need it at the very end of the bridge that touches down.

Quoted from Chopplebrains:

Wrt magna grab, mine releases such that the flipper most often can’t reach it or can barely reach it - rarely is it ever hit with enough force to make it even into the begin if of the loop shot.

Quoted from BFaster:

You should be able to hit the loop from the magna grab drop.
Check the key posts up top.
It's buried in there
Here ya go.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-godzilla-official-owners-club/page/170#post-6820254
Yup, I know it says its for easier entry to the left ramp.
And it does help with that as well.
After that, if you are still missing, I believe the next advice was to start dropping your back left leg leveler by a quarter turn until you can.

Quoted from PinMonk:

Godzilla humidifier...
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Quoted from Billygrippo:

Has anyone had their coil stop screws break and everything fall off?
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Quoted from Billygrippo:

Just my personal machine. It does have about 8-900 plays.

Quoted from toaster777:

Wow that is cool! Where did you get that?

Quoted from PinMonk:

I've seen that on route machines. It's not super-common, though.

Quoted from Billygrippo:

Has anyone had they’re coil stop crews break and everything fall off?
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Quoted from Bublehead:

Welcome to Stern's High Quality Pinball Manufacturing family... this is pretty standard these days, at times, it's the suppliers trying to make a little extra by using cheaper grade steel. They all try it. It bites Stern in the ass all the time... like the crappy standup target brackets for the powerline targets had a bad bunch of softer than desired steel used to make a recent batch that let the targets bend back and wipe out the opto behind it. Now Stern gets to replace a bunch of standup brackets AND optos... but leave it to Stern to keep right on buying from the same suppliers because they are the cheapest...

Quoted from PinMonk:

I've seen that on route machines. It's not super-common, though.

800-900 is nothing for a route pin, so it's definitely a defect to have happened so quickly. I'm assuming one screw came loose and that allowed the impacts on the coil stop to break them both off from the repeated hits on a loose coil stop.

Quoted from Billygrippo:

Sounds about right. Anything comes loose. It’s bound to take easier pressure.

Quoted from PinMonk:

I don't have one, I saw an Asian post with it. Somewhere in Asia, probably Japan, they sell them. I did a quick US check and didn't see it online anywhere. Thought it was pretty neat, too. Makes godzilla sounds and everything.