Got my SNS playable last night. Only real issue left to fix is someone had put in a not even close coil on the left launcher so waiting on a coil.

I’ll have to see if I can make it harder to cradle the ball... it would be kind of cool if they had set it so if you hold the flipper for more than say 2-3 seconds (whatever the average time to completely stop the ball) it would score that shot as a foul.

Sure is a fun family game! I love that anyone can easily understand how to play without having to explain anything.

It also serves as a gateway pin. My younger brother who never really played my games much latched onto this on and a day or two into the holidays started migrating over to over games.

Maybe fashon up some metal tabs and rivet them onto what is left of the plastic?

Getting the brightest led flash lamps you can is a pretty spectacular effect.

Be careful with switches in this game. They used the Piezo film sensor type at least on the playfield rollovers. Bending those can damage them and supposedly there is no adjustment to make with those switches.

I don’t know if the switch for the kick up is the same type or not, just make sure its a regular switch before adjusting. If it is one of the smart switches, see if there is an actuator you can adjust instead of the switch itself.

Very odd, I’m presuming it does this without the player even releasing a ball?

I would say the switch (I think opto) for the ball VUK is flaky but also scoring a miss is interesting... I thought the sequence was that you had to have a released ball for a miss to register and just having something register in the VUK wouldn’t do it by itself. I’ll experiment with just dropping a ball in without releasing one and see what happens.

When this happens is the gutter-ball solonoid also firing? Just thinking maybe its registering a ball there by chance.

I tried out a couple games randomly hitting switches without first releasing a ball. Nothing would trigger any type of scoring (not gutterball, nor dropping into the vuk, nor rolling across the pin rollovers). For the game to score it seems that the program has to think a ball is in play.

To me, that leaves a couple possibilities:
- A ball kickout is weak along with a flipper switch that is triggering making it appear like no ball is in play but the cpu received a signal to release the ball and since there is no mechanisim to confirm release it scores accordingly. Its a stretch but I like to rule out all mechanical/playfield related options before anything else.
Or
- Board issues... maybe the program ROM is corrupted or maybe the RAM is... or maybe a socket is just getting flaky. Might try reseating anything socketed. If that clears it up then replace the sockets.

Nice idea, it looks very classy. Are those pin-blades or something you custom made?