I am sure AIQ will smoke TMNT in any aspect, just ordered my Premium.

Hahaha, your hatred for the difficulty of TMNT has been greatly documented and that is acceptable. I expect Avengers to be a bit easier. We won't know until we know but I feel pretty good about that guess.

Keep it about TMNT, boys.

+350 games played on our Pro and still excited to play it every day.
Flow is fantastic. It can be frustrating from time to time, but that's part of a great game imo.
It's still the most packed and most beautiful NIB Pro out there.

I would be more excited about Avengers if the Pro had more to offer. As it sits, the premium is the only way to go on that one.

kh39540 - I am a decent player and don't find the shots too tough, but here's some things that might help. A lot of folks have said to adjust the pitch. Have you been able to backhand both ramps? The right ramp is waaay safer and easier as a backhand. The left as well though a tougher shot. I've noticed on the machine I've played the most that at varying pitches, it's easy to hit the right ramp from a backhand. The left sometimes is not hittable if very steep and/or if the flippers are getting tired from being played for several hours in a row.

Also when the ball comes out of the Mondo shot loop backwards towards your flipper you can hold up that upper flipper. If it's coming out somewhat fast, it'll roll up the upper left flipper giving you a nicer slow roll to aim a shot from that upper flipper to either the Mondo loop and/or the side ("middle") ramp. YMMV but we've noticed this has helped some strangers who have walked by and joined in with us playing TMNT

Avengers just crushed tmnt in my opinion and many other.

That’s surprising, you’ve seemed to love tmnt on this owners thread

I am not a big Avengers fan but I do love me some TMNT. I believe the theme of your game has to speak to you if your going to spend that kind of money and mine screams Cowabunga!

Thanks for sharing the images. If you have to keep hitting the drop target bank on the left, that could make things interesting. Looking forward to giving this thing a flip!

I am officially in the club with a premium i just picked up! (i didnt pre-order, but lucky for me, someone backed out of theirs at my local dealer)

I grew up watching tmnt as a kid and my kids seem to dig it so far (I bought it for me any ways, haha)

The pizza disc seems loud to me (hard to compare/quantify that though), may need to investigate that further. A few other oddities:

- Had turtle power multiball going and eventually drained but my round/ball continued (like it didnt realized all the balls were in the trough). I turned it on, checked the trough, ran a switch test and everything looked fine. Hasnt happened again but will keep an eye on this one.

- My wife was playing and got turtle power multiball without hitting anything, makes me wonder if there is a switch that needs adjustment (the one that starts this multi-ball). Only happened once so we'll see.

Those upper flipper shots are so damn hard but man... when you hit them it feels so good.

I dont understand any of the rules, lol, but that will come to me.

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Totally agree. It's all personal preference, but seeing the Deadpool and TMNT previews from Stern got me pumped to buy.

The ramps start Turtle Power multiball, so check ramp switches.

I do not think so. Both games will hold their own and I am sure both games will be good.

Avengers has just come out and hardly anyone has even flipped it yet.

TMNT is still early in its life and so far looks great. I am looking forward to flipping both. What a fantastic time to be in pinball!

Here you go my TMNT fans
This is a complete rebuild using Pinball Browser that uses animations from the 1987 TMNT series.
Pro, Premium and LE all available on 1.21.0
Premium and LE are untested as of now, so someone give it a try and let me know how it goes.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tmnt-stern-the-1987-code

Looks like I’m slowly making some progress on my grainy playfield issue. My distributor is involved and stern is escalating it for review. Finger crossed they will fix it, but no guarantees of course.

Totally wanted a tmnt until I had playfield issues with my JP premium with radio silence from my distributor. I heard they now changed how the games are manufactured by not having ball guides touch playfield and prevent pooling.

Wow. Amazing work!!! A lot of that looks like it was always meant to be that way.

Thank you! The hardest part was trying to find clips that made sense for each scene. There are over 200 videos, so it was a boatload of work, but also really fun

Well, add me to the list of people with Glider issues. One week old. Noticed this today. The glider is working. It moves left, right and center, but it’s ‘fidgeting.’ I’ve calibrated it twice and it’s still doing this. I’ve heard about Glider issues, but I’m not aware if this is one of them. What’s weird is that it’s working the way it’s supposed to with regards to diverting. It moves left, center, and right but fidgets around...but not in test mode. In test/calibration mode in doesn’t fidget at all but it doesn’t always move back to the same point. If I set the calibration for center at 188 and move it left or right, when it goes back to center it’s 190, or 191. Same for the other positions. There is a tiny 4-pin node board inside some heat shrink that the glider connects to. I’m wondering if that is the issue and sending errant voltage to the servo. Any ideas? It's working for the moment except for the fidgeting. I'm sure at some point the servo will die due to this.

They discovered washers?

Yep, I get it. They definitely have some crappy issues but have you played tmnt? Avengers hasn’t been released so not sure how it crushes tmnt without playing it.

Although, I am excited for avengers and will be buying a prem or le. I do think it will be awesome but won’t know if it’s better until I play it and compare.

Im getting avengers as well but holding on to my tmnt. I need to get better at this game. And unless avengers has coop(havent shown yet) its missing a big feature from tmnt.

I know that look where you just take a little bit too long to take the shot......

Congrats, you wait till he plays coop with you!!

Anyone know what the upgraded sub woofers are ? I got the kenwoods looking to upgrade the sub as well

As I said, found this game too fast and hard when first got it. Now lots of fun because:

6.5
Sling power 20
Superbands. As someone stated they make the world of difference In getting the lair shot. Also helps with middle ramp and loop. The green, although a little dark, looks really great on turtles.

Still fun and fast. But manageable for me.

That is amazing! I couldn’t find turtles clapping so high fives all around!!

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This looks awesome! Love the effort you put in

Anyone heard rumours or noise regarding when we might see the turtles topper?

@ducatination, sounds very similar to what we saw this week. Issues with ball counting, resolved on reboot, resurfacing after a game or two. May be related to the 2nd prob we encountered with the pre-loaded balls not releasing even though the white holding post fired multiple times. definitely a bug.

@ducatination, may want to put a digital level on your playfield.

Got my Premium TMNT Wednesday! So proud of what the team did on this... Now I just have to learn to suck less at it

Anyone who is interested in possible playfield resolution issues should consider listening to last month's
(Aug 10) "Just another pinball Podcast" Episode 8. at about 35 min in Joel (professional printer!) talks about his new TMNT playfield and possible reasons for the resolution issue. very educational.

I just had my best game last night and only got 52mil. I have a lot of work to do to get the Cowabunga Wizard mode. Lol. I think it’s going to be like battling the beast in IMDN. Impossible.

You killed it as always. It's a really fun pin and gets easier with a lot of plays. I've seen your Deadpool scores so I think you'll do fine.

Your art puts this pin at another level! I want all 3 translites on my wall. And will probably get a tattoo of some of the characters.

Been a TMNT fan my entire life, and your representation of them may be my absolute favorite.

Congrats to you and the team. Your art alone was a huge selling point for me on TMNT and Ghostbusters.

I highly recommend changing Adj 15 Lane Change Battle Again to "Yes" to make battle again more useful/effective and Adj 24 Ball Save Timer: LAIR to "2" so you don't get screwed by a moon-walking ball out of the LAIR lane.

Oh and I'd also recommend telling Dwight to allow Battle Again to carry over between balls when you drain without using it!

Lane Change Ball Save is the best adjustment I found and should be default. @xaqery, is there a reason you have it default to slings?

Thanks for the shoutout!

Any word on the resolution to your playfield?

I definitely agree that it should be default. I'd also like to see options for Battle Again Carryover between balls and easier Battle Again options: both lanes lit, both lanes lit for 1st Battle Again, and then 1 lane lit

LAIR ballsave could probably be on by default as well.

Can you guys elaborate on some of these tweaks you making in the settings? apologies if this has already been hashed out.

Any pictures showing the issue? would like to compare it to mine just to check.

Lane change battle again allows you to change which outlane is lit for Battle again with the flipper buttons

The LAIR ballsave gives you ball save when the ball is released from the LAIR lane/Under the the flipper area, so if the ball happens to bounce out the left outlane, you don't get screwed.

Ahhhhh, i get it. Thanks!

This is a screenshot of the document we sent to Stern. My playfield is on the right. The vertical lines from the print head bother me more that the graininess. If they are going to print at a lower resolution that is fine, but they need to at least print it without defects.

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Not yet.

Here's my comparison photo. My playfield is on the left. The biggest difference is the orange color above Slash's left shoulder.

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Have had my TMNT pro since late June. Really great package overall and with some further code enhancement, I think it could be a true “keeper.”

Shots are tough but I like that you can backhand both ramps. My LAIR feed bounced to the outlane a lot the first 2 weeks I had the game but now it almost never happens. Perhaps the rubbers settled in a bit.

I’d love to see an increase in the Team Up frequency. Make it available after 2 battles so that you end up hitting all 4 by the wizard mode. Or have completed modes count as 2 modes for Team Up qualification to further reward mode success.

Mode and Foot 1-2-3 scoring are still way too low in my opinion even with 2x scoring.

Combos need to be added to the code somehow to reward any time you hit the center ramp after another shot. Maybe add in a side mini wizard mode involving the Technodrome after a certain number.

You won’t hear anything.