Sometimes things get knocked around and loosen up. I’ve seen a few of my strange issues on various machines resolved by resetting the cables at the trough area. If the issue persists may not be a bad idea to pull the opto board and reflow the solder joints on the pcb connectors.

Also, if you use a shaker in your machine. Not a bad idea to lift the table up every once in a while to check cable connections and make sure everything is secure.

Anyone put Precision Flippers on? I'm looking to get a Halo set when the come out with green. How do you like them on TMNT?

OK, I'm finally (almost) in. Closed the deal on a Turtles Pro, but I can't pick it up until next weekend. Looking forward to battling Krang and Shredder soon!

I have the halos on all of my machines. They are awesome. Make sure you get the bushings. Pinball manufacturers really need to license these things.

Went downstairs to play some turtles today, game boots up just fine. When I press the start button, everything freezes, topper lights go out along with all playfield lights. After a minute the game reboots. I’ve done about 5 reboots now, can’t get a game started, any thoughts on what to immediately look for?

*edit* I see from a page back looks like others just started having this issue, did anyone figure out what’s up here?

I've had this problem a few times. I got it to work by removing and then reinserting the SD card. I'm using the 1987 code. Not sure if it's related. One time I had to put in the original code SD card to get out back to working normally.

Perfect! Switched around the SD card, seems to be working again.

Hey gang, I am in search of a premium in the PA area if you know anyone looking to get rid of theirs. I bought a bond pro to help a location and I’d be happy to trade that towards it.

No problem! TMNT is an awesome game. Definitely one of the best to have at home. I love the challenge of Borg games.

i agree TMNT being a very nice/fun/fast game, but no matter the more games i put on it, its still eating balls, again & again, mainly the left outlane (audits are showing more than 2X than right outlane)

this would be very frustrating in location, home is no prob

a friend of mine got a very strange problem, he has a tmnt pro newest software.
He only gets some pizza toppings (Peperoni, fudge, Octopus, Peanuts Butter und Anchovis)
he never gets Gummi bears so he never had a 3+ multiball
Rotating either with targets or bumpers will only provide the listed toppings. He did test with glass off, so several changes did occur.

He did write a new sd-card and still has the same problem.
switch test is ok, bumpers show pic-o-pops pictures.

Has anybody had seen this problem before? Or know how this can be?

I'm guessing the new Sd-Card should have reset to factory but is it possible competition mode is on?

we did load the settings back via usb, so competition mode could have been reloaded again.

thanks
that sounds like it makes sense, will test out and give feedback.

I will be selling my 1 owner TMNT Premium Shortly. I am in Va Beach so not super close but not too far.

thank you so much, we have been strugglin so much.

yes competition mode was the answer.

well easy, sweets are not good for health, too much sugar...

and than yes logical, you have your answer already, competition mode is the key

Posted my TMNT, looking for music pins (and others) to match my Gameroom theme. Lots of custom mods!

SOLD!

Machine - For Sale

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Got positive feedback

I just installed a set of silver halos, and think they look awesome with glow-in-the-dark rubbers. I’ll report back with gameplay impressions.

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Update on precision flippers. After logging a few games, I really like them. It’s almost like the feeling on a game after installing new coil stops. Flipping is very crisp and snappy. One of my goals was to be able to backhand the left ramp, and I still could not do it at the recommended flipper bat alignment. I had to raise them slightly, and now can backhand both ramps easily. However, I noted the orbit shots are now harder. Always fun getting a game dialed in the way you like to play!

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TMNT lockup when you start game?

anyone have issues when you turn TMNT on were it immediately locks up when you go to start a game and reboots?

I've checked the Node boards tests all pass (though node board 0 is 0.5 where the others are 1.x something not sure that matters)
updated the game code with full update, and put on Fast boot: NO to verify the images and nothing.

it doesn't always happen but once it happens it happens for a while before it "works" again.
this is a TMNT pro.

I bet it's something with the sd card. I had it once where the sd card half popped out. You could just pop it out and back in and see. If that doesn't do it, if you haven't already, get a high quality sd replacement and burn the raw file onto it. My next step after that would've been to check the connections like you just did.

thanks that makes sense. I'll give that a shot hopefully it will fix it.

Now the turtles have a place to hang out.

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This looks cool! Really still love the news building. Are you planning on selling these or are they just for fun?

This has been reported by several users, including me, so you're not alone.

Cool pizza parlor. Print it bigger and make it a topper with TMNT action figures hanging out inside and the van parked next to it.

bingo

Picking up my TMNT Pro in a few days…. For those of you that have added action figures on the playfield what size or series fits well and looks good? Thanks!

TMNT Clip & Go Keychains match the art well. It takes a bit of work to get them off of the base, but it's possible.
ebay.com link: itm

Found these while Xmas shopping. They are smaller scale compared to the original size of let’s say a 80’s Gijoe and perfect for a pin.

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The product line I think is called “Reaction”

Anyone know how to diagnose this? Playfield inserts light all over the place when flipping. Mostly on the left side of the playfield.

In switch test, any coil that fires, triggers inserts all over the playfield.

I have already tried reseating all rj45 connectors to no avail.

It's a pro model and on the latest code.

interesting. that is frustrating. I change the SD card and no changes, oddly when I reflash it it work for a while then stops. it's odd when it you power it up it looks like it turns on for a second, I'm wondering if some data is getting corrupted.

is there any group of people that are having this so many we can get Stern to look at it, since it seems to be some potential common issue.

Not an action figure but I made my own custom shooter plate as I didn't like any of the ones Tilt graphics or others had.
I just created a pinside shop (arcade-cabinets.com) and put them up for sale. Each is hand made with 4mm plastic over the image which is backed on 2mm plastic base with 3M adhesive. I also have a few other plates for other games.

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Okay, we got this fixed. Turned out it was all due to the Center LED Board having a few screws being backed out. I had installed the Pin Monk colored gel inserts for the Mode inserts and had left a couple of the LED board screws slightly backed out on accident. The vibration from any coils firing, or even the ball rolling across the playfield, would cause the LEDs to do all kinds of weird things. I don’t understand why, but once we tightened the board back down to the playfield it cleared up the weird behavior. The search for a solution did also lead me to find a wire on the left sling switch which has broken its solder and I fixed that too.

after it refusing to play after power cycling and waiting 5 times tonight. I decided once again to flash the SD card. and it works again. I"m 99.9% certain that they have a bug either in software corrupting the settings or maybe in hardware where the system is not powering down or signaling power loss correctly such that the system cannot sync it's settings to disk and getting corrupted. I"ve got 10-to-1 odds on that.

it actually looks like it's runnign linux on arm (I shouldn't be surprised) on one of the old cards I found a core dump. I'm half tempted to debug this myself except I really don't want to waste 40 hours lol.

Yes, there seems to be some form of problem here. Will report to Stern. I just started having this issue. A change of SD card seems to have fixed for me, but having the problem again now this AM. Have tried multiple SD cards, reflashed, etc. First game or two seem to work perfectly, then the issue starts up again. Once the reset occurs, I can't get a game started at all until the SD card is reflashed or changed.

Wondering if the reset issue perhaps is related to insider connected and home team settings. In trouble shooting and trying to think what I've changed since this issue started, it's been increasing my home team users from one to three. Will attempt to change the home team number of users back to one and report if this fixes my reset issue.

These look good, thanks! Doesn't seem like they made another set with bad guys though.

Quick update. Removed my multiple home team users. Played two games, haven't had a reset issue yet (encouraging) after having one every time I tried to start a game. With multiple home team users, started getting the reset issue every game - regardless of logging in or not.

mine does not even have insider connect. I did see home team settings in there but I think they were turned off. I"ll have to double check that.
Mine also does seem to require a reflash once it stops working. I am interested to see if it locks up again if I can "restore" settings to fix it.
I've put a USB stick in there and saved the settings, and I know if it locks up I can reboot it then go into service mode as long as I don't first start a game. I'm going to try that next time it locks up. I do have a core dump (a file of the crashed program memory) that Sterns programming team should be able to use to see what went wrong. I'll give it Stern if they respond to my support request. Heck I'll be happy to help them debug if they don't know how to (though I'm sure they do)

-brian

Thought I had it fixed. A number of games worked. Doing the same reset thing again now. Has to be something with the code I would think if many are starting to get this issue. This is a real bummer, I just wanna play!

mine just wacked out again. I could have swore it crashed during welcome to the concrete jungle (though stilll played.. I was in the middle of the episode and the episode just stopped). after that game I power cycled and it no longer works again, I tried restoring the settings to no avail... reflashing again now. Have not heard back from Stern yet, this is disappointing. Esp for the cost of these things.

So I believe my theory on the settings getting corrupted is correct.
I took a copy of the SD card image of the "crashed" SD card as well as a newly imaged SD card and compared them.
The only differences besides 2 files that should not matter was on a partition with the "nv" directory (non-volatile, that is settings)

I took the sd card that crashes, and removed that directory, and put it back in the game, now the game boots, and starts with the "guided" setup.
at which point I can restore my settings (from the USB stick) and everything works again.

It also appears going into the service menu -> utills -> inst -> factory seems to fix things too at least it locked up again and that also allowed me to play after rebooting and reset times those.
I’m now wondering if maybe my 10 character initials setting is allowing corruption? The onky settings that I have that are. It factory default is, 10 char initials, through eject power 150, external volume control cabinet and headphone and free play. Im going to reset my initials to 3 only and see if that fixes it but I think it was happening before I ever changed those from 3 to 10

I have weird issue. I have the Stern headphones/volume controls on the coin door of my TMNT Prem. Latently, when I turn the game on, it will play the theme song once it finishes booting up. When I go to start a game, it won’t start and locks up. If I unplug the sound wires from the back of the headphones/ volume jack and reboot, the game plays fine. I am running the most current code. Anyone else see this issue?

Can you post a picture of the connection?

I have a pinball life one on my Pro. I had to turn off the setting that allows you to change the main (non-headphone) volume. It wasn't a freezing issue, but it solved my issue. But anyways it might be worth a try to go through settings. You might want to double check the settings they tell you to change when you install it.

mine does have that headphone connector.
https://www.pinballlife.com/stern-spike-2-headphone-jack-assembly.html

I thought I set it back to factory defaults (volume only controls headphone rather than cab + headphones) without any changes I thought.
I might have unplug it altogether and see if that fixes it.