Greetings. For Gottlieb's 1992 Super Mario Bros. table, just wondering if in the machine's settings if there's a way to have the Castle progression set back to Castle 1 at the end of each game and also if there's a way to change the value of the left ramp's quick shot bonus so that it isn't abusable as hell? These are two big issues with the game's software imo but if they can be adjusted in the machine's settings, takes from the game from being a 6/10 to an 8/10 imo

Thanks for the info herbertbsharp! Per operator instructions I'm assuming what it means by the fine-tune setting is that you can set each specific thing listed to a Normal or Hard setting, you don't just have to set the overall machine to Hard to change one setting if that's what you want to do.

Tournament mode I have mixed feelings about. It kind of does what I want it regarding Castle progression and i like that it disables Auto-skill and Catchup (which funnily enough became main and still VERY controversial features of the Mario Kart series), but I'd prefer that Castle progression is saved for each specific player and once that player gets a game over it resets their progression back to Castle 1.

Not sure how I feel about Bonus Chance always being 1 million and Mystery always being a shell. Randomness of rewards is a feature of a lot of tables, only change I would really want to see in these two regards is just removing the chance of getting Lucky 7's since that can be competition breaking.

If I ever own this table I'd probably just set Quick Shot to Hard so it's max value doesn't go above 7 million (even then it's still quite abusable but not as insanely abusable as before), disable Tournament mode for casual competition and enable it if money was on the line lol. I wonder if there's a way to disable it entirely not listed in the manual?

Yeah, I've never seen or read of this table being used at any tournament anywhere. It's a machine designed for casual play (I do but don't want to say it's designed specifically for kids because it has a ton of features requiring skill) and it's VERY novice friendly, given that extra balls are easy to get, you get tons of kickbacks, SUPERs for an up-post, Invincibilities where you simply cannot drain, etc. etc.

It really is the Mario Kart of pinball machines lol

From watching youtube videos of the table, it looks like maybe powering off and powering the table back on causes the castle progress to go back to zero castles destroyed? Would doing that after every game put a strain on the battery or screw up the machine in any way?

Also i wonder if enabling "Add a ball" mode for the table would have any effect. Unfortunately I don't own the table so I have no way of experimenting with different adjustments and modes. If i did own the table, first thing i would do would be to immediately adjust the quickshot setting so that it's on Hard and max value is 5 million (Hard for quickshot also disables quickshot's extra ball bonus).