How do I take the balls out of the van when it's time to replace the pinballs?

in settings you can do that

Also on the premium you can just pull the door open with your finger and they will fall out

Yes. Stern just last week made a new batch available.

Pro ordered and shipping Monday!
Super excited to get my first pin and probably get my butt kicked by this machine for a while.

Definitely going to add a bumper to the left outlane. It's been a real PITA when playing on public machines.

Nothing like spending time in the arcade with your mini me on a Father’s Day weekend. Cowabunga to all the dads out there!

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Beautifull translite for Walking!! greats!

Removed it on mine too and looks

Removed it on mine too and looks great

Hey folks,

My TMNT has right around 400 plays. I was wondering when you all suggest a first wax is done. I wax my older Williams games every 6 weeks or so, but this is my first stern and not even sure if you guys wax these playfields or not.

Cheers

Depends what type of wax you use.

Meguiar's Carnauba Gold

Time for a wax, I would just wax it when your do your other games from now on, can’t hurt.

Well I waxed it, but now I have to lower the pitch from 6.5 to no more than 6 LOL! It plays stupid fast!!

He's always been like that and I don't think it will change. Although you still need to advance through training to make use of the perks.

Rob

I'm generally not a topper guy, but this one looks cool.

Rob

Thank you for posting this! I need to get in there and apply a few drops of oil. However, I am fairly new to this! I know how to take the glass top out, but I'm not sure how to get in from underneath to get to those four screws. That pizza is right in the very middle, so I can't reach by trying to go through the front. Can anyone help?

Lift the entire playfield up from under the gap in the apron (where the balls drain), then pull the playfield out towards you as far as it'll go. Remove all the balls from the trough before you go further or you'll be in for a rude awakening. Pull further and you'll hit a notch, then it'll extend further a bit. Then, tilt the playfield up towards the backbox and rest it on there. Get used to doing this as you'll be in here often (if not on TMNT, then on future machines).

Thank you!!!

PLEASE TURN THE GAME OFF BEFORE RAISING THE PLAYFIELD!!!

Here's the for dummies guide that I wish I had the first time I needed to lift my playfield.

To eject the balls manually:
1. Before you lift the playfield, if you have a premium, you can open the van door manually from the front and the three balls inside the van will fall out and roll down into the trough. Either catch them as they come out or you can get them out (via step 5 below) after they roll into the trough.
2. lift the playfield up as in the video above just enough to grab the two metal rails attached to the underside of the playfield.
3. gently rest the playfield on its rails where the lock-bar was.
4. On the right side, where the balls eject into the shooter lane, you'll see the mechanism that does the ejecting, with one ball resting on it.
5. Give that ejector mechanism a quick flick/push from underneath to manually launch each ball - one-by-one into the shooter lane.
6. Since the playfield is now tilted back, you'll want to catch the balls before they make their way onto the playfield and roll to the back of the game
7. Once you have all 8 balls (6 if you have a Pro), then you can safely lift the playfield all the way up to the vertical position and rest it gently against the head box.
8. If by chance any of the balls did roll into the back of the playfield, gently lower the playfield back into place, catch the balls as they roll forward and you can now safely lift the playfield.

Welcome to the club! This is one of the most underrated machines ever made. A top 3 game if there ever was one, imo.

1. Very fast unique asymmetrical layout. Controls nicely once shots are learned.
2. Music call outs, unique sounds and animations are top notch.
3. Lighting is stellar
4. Ball interactive mechs galore
5. Software depth and objectives in spades.
6. Who doesn’t like a Ninja theme.
7. Artwork is ZY’s best ever package. Colors pop and pleasing to look at.

Shameless bump, please view the Premium, that I have in marketplace.

Probably has 80 or 90 plays now.

Looks good, hope it sells. Bummer you’re not liking it. Tmnt is probably my fav of our lineup.

Had a Pro and sold it, got this, bought another Pro. It is all about my skill level and the way I play. I work a lot and use pinball to unwind for 15 to 20 minutes about 3 times a week.

What pitch do you guys find works well? I use a digital inclinometer and have it set for 6.5 all across the playing field, even though the bubble level from factory is supposedly at max. I love a fast game, don't get me wrong, but damn this game is a bit too fast at times. Just curious what pitch you guys are using. Maybe I've been torturing myself at 6.5...

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Ive had mine st 6.5, 6.8, and 7 and ultimately I prefer 6.5. Game is still plenty fast and drainy but I find balls near the outlanes are just a touch more saveable, especially the dreaded Borg double-inlane skip to the outlane on the left side.

Come on stern, where is a code update for this game? A bit tired of the turtle power multi ball crash. Why are they waiting so long to fix an obvious glitch? I know it doesn’t happen all that often, but boy is it disappointing when it does… and pretty please… could you make April not look like dog shit in animations?

Bubble level was installed backwards on the one I received... But even when flipped it, it does not indicate properly..

About to trade my Mando pro for tmnt anything I should look for it has low plays one owner

There are a couple of common out of the box issues with early TMNTs: One was poor print quality on the playfield (like a inkjet printer running in draft mode). The other is the glider servo craps out on some machines. Fix for the servo has been to either replace the servo yourself with a better one or get a new glider assembly from Stern (with the same crappy servo). I can't think of anything else.

I would say the print quality issue is going to make reselling the thing harder, so best to avoid it I think.

You won't be disappointed. It's a ton of fun and very challenging/punishing. After many months, I'm finally able to reliably progress to the mini-wizard mode at the halfway point in the game.

I just sold my Pro because of the coding for this game. Dwight has a lot of work to do on scoring and bug fixes.

Also 1-2-3 foot is the worst and most frequently activated mode in the game. It was most frustrating when trying to level up my turtles, 1-2-3 foot just takes over and completely disables training activation.

If the scoring and these other issues get fixed, I’ll be back with a premium most likely. It’s the best multi-ball game I’ve played so far.

Joined the club today.

Can someone share a photo of the outline, so I can see where your posts are set. Want to make sure mine is at default.

Cheers!

These? And welcome to the club!

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Yup!

So there is nothing you can adjust on the left, and the right is in the bottom (closed) position?

Thanks!

Anyone looking for a great deal on a basically brand new premium (only 5 plays as of today) give me a shout. Game is mint and was just opened up this past week. I posted it in the market place as well.

Wow, you’re out on only five plays on a top 3 game??? One of the best layouts and code ever designed. Don’t be so hasty, lol. TMNT is a real winner! (Clubs are not the place to post games for sale, as we all already have one and love it.)

Can someone confirms, by default, the post on the right outlane is set to the bottom (closest to player).

That is what mine is... is yours something different?

Mine was not. I think on a lot of pros it was set to the upper spot. Making it easier to drain I assume for locations.

I changed it to the lower spot.

Mine is in the lowest position, so I assume it came like that (I'm the second owner).

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I guess there is not an attract mode on here I don't see the setting like on my star wars to to turn it on with sound

I don’t have this problem on the new code. Never encountered a crash. Have you tried reloading the firmware?

I can’t remember. Try restoring factory defaults and go from there.

I have been on the latest code for months and it’s an outstanding bug. Sometimes when turtle power multiball activates the game just bricks.

It’s rare. But somehow usually when I am having an awesome run.

Happened a couple of times to me. Sucks