Hey all,

I have two separate problems that I'm thinking/hoping are related with my Spider-Man.

The first is simpler to explain. I have trouble booting the game up, occasionally. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to the why/when. But I'll flip the game on. Lights will come on, lights will cut out, reboot begins, repeat. Only way I've been able to stop it (and get it to actually fire up for good) is to remove backglass and hit the reset button a few times.

2nd problem is that every once in awhile, while I'm playing, something happens and a bunch of switches fire at the same time. Feels like all coils fire. Multiballs start (if they were a shot away), and the game sometimes kicks out a ball (if MB doesn't start). I haven't been quick enough to notice if this was happening as a result of some switch firing. If I recall correctly, it's happened when the ball has been floating around (not hitting any switches).

I bought it 2nd hand, and it works great otherwise.

Can anyone give me any ideas as to where I should start?

They are not.

And I've gone through and fired individual switches/coils and I haven't yet seen that cause the issue.

Gonna bump this once more.

I just shopped the game. LEDs, cleaned and waxed, rebuilt flippers. Looks and plays great.

Except my original problem seems to have gotten worse.

Let me try and simplify my question:

What could cause all (maybe not all, perhaps it’s just a single row/column) switches to close randomly during gameplay? It seems to happen most during multiball up in the pops, but I swear it also has happened when the ball is free floating.

Everything tests just fine in switch matrix.

I can pretty confidently say that this is not a single switch causing others to close, but some weird combo (or none at all? See my free floating comment). Is there something I can check/test in the power? I’m not much of an electrician.

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure which component is the MPU on the cpu/sound board. That said, I inspected it pretty damn closely (including removing the battery) and it all looks pretty fine to me.

Oh no, haha. That's not what I'm describing.

This is not just coils firing to free a ball. Many switches actuate/close, impacting gameplay. New modes start, multi balls start, and yes, some coils fire. I only point out that it seems to sometime happen when the ball is free floating to rule out that possibility that a single switch is causing a short that makes other switches close. It'd be a lot easier to diagnose if that were the case.

It's not very easy at all. And it happens really fast. It's been hard for me to see what switches fire. I think there are at least two groups that fire on two separate occasions. One that includes the slingshots (they both fire) and others, and one that includes (I think) all of the green goblin standups (cause the mode starts). It's like I need to film the game so I can go back and look.