It is an awesome game bigd. Shot map is different and the game will punish you if you miss. Code is very similar to SWLE, 4 characters, all with a different mission and skill shot at the start, mash the button mode. Turtles has coop modes, that should be put into every game I think. We love ours.

Left orbit I can never hit and the upper flipper ramp makes me mad lol. Overall its a great pin and one my favorite john b layouts.

Well played the new code. Thank you @xaqery!!!

The best thing is the start of pizza multiball. What an amazing effect. Before this I thought the best shaker effect was in AFM. Now there is a new contender!! Absolutely fantastic addition to this multiball start. Wait till you try it! Thanks Xaqery for making a amazing game even better!

Edit: also the added shaker effects for 123 and weapon make these modes much more engaging.

Would thoroughly recommend a shaker for this game if you don’t already have one.

Chalked up my first game today. Was on an LE at the electric bat arcade in Tempe Arizona. Must admit it was better than I was expecting. It sure is fast and I think has a one more game feel to it. Here on vacation and happy to find quite a few places to play.

think of it like the airball protector on the t-rex ramp, the ball has to be low to enter the t-rex mouth. On TMNT it has to pass the gate. I noticed my training sign was shaking heavily from certain shots and saw it was a predetermined bereaking point. The ball doesn't have to go high into the air, normal shots can lead to slight airballs. So i built a protector and some weeks later the first cracking ramp was reported here. The protector also helps with stability because it holds the ramp together from the top, reducing shaking of the sign, and the shots feel smoother, at least in my experience.

Man, Stern must of gave up on this title?
Did they even announce new code?
Or we gotta find out on our own?

Well, you still found out And it's just a test to make sure we're still paying attention.

Rob

Since the code update on our LE, during Turtle van multiball, machine goes into ball search as it loads 4 balls into the van nstead of 3. We have to wait for the ball searches to finish and release all the balls out of the van for the game to continue

Anyone else have this issue since the update?

They probably get tired of everyone asking for a Munsters code update when they post it. Now that’s a title they haven’t give much love but maybe it will be like Gb and get a massive update at some point

"at some point" ... after 3.5 years

Wow! I’m over the moon right now. I was one of the unlucky few who had the batch of grainy playfields so I sent a request to my distributor to see if they can help get this resolved with stern. It took some back and forth with them, but they finally responded back and are sending me a new (unpopulated) playfield! Must have won them over with my charming personality.

Me too! I was notified last week. Glad to hear the great news! Now we wait

Just got my Pro yesterday and we LOVE it! One major problem that happened twice already. The balls lock behind the van and the white post pulses too fast and won't allow the balls to drop down through. The machine then displays MALFUNCTION. Shut off machine and back on and the ball search goes on but same problem. Have to manually push down the white post with my finger to release the balls. ANyone else have this issue? I contacted Stern and distributor. Saw someone on YouTube with same problem.

On our Pro we are also having ball lock issues behind the van although this was with V1.21. new code does not appear to address this though.

I have the same issue that happens from time to time as well. Never had it shut down though.
Would be interested to know how to fix it.

Some theories on the Stern pinballs being highly magnetized potentially causing the issue. Will let the group know what Stern says though.

I plan on mentioning this in a future video, but for those that have the balls getting stuck (magnetized) in the ball lock area - I switched to titan pinballs (original polish) and the issue hasn't shown its face since.

I never had the problem that people were talking about, but I immediately replaced my pinballs upon delivery of the machine with the Titan original polish pinballs as well. They just look so damn good.

I had this exact same issue. Swapping out the stock pinballs that came with it (that ended up being magentized) were the issue.

Thanks for the feedback. We swapped the balls out before we plunged a ball. I thought maybe the balls were flying around the ramp and loading the truck faster than the coil could close the diverter. It has only happened to us since the code update. I will load the old code back in and see how that goes.

Have you loaded the new code?

V1 22.

Turtles is a great game. Any word on stern releasing their Topper? Patients is a characteristic I'm working on however never perfected.

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Does anyone know how to tighten the glider? Mine came loose and there’s a screw right under the front of the glider that is nearly impossible to get to. Sterns technical support hasn’t been responsive and we’re waiting to play again.

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Sounds like a job for one of these bad boys:

https://www.amazon.com/Anex-6102T-Profile-Driver-Handle/dp/B0016VAIBI/

I’ve had this problem too and does appear to be the balls being slightly magnetized. Seems to only happen to me when I take all the balls out to work on the playfield and put them back in. After manually loosening from the ball lock the problem doesn’t seem to return.

Sooooo a new code drop happens with added shaker effects and no one notices? I kept it a secret from the wife and she started pizza multiball. The “what the ....” look on her face last night was prettt satisfying!

New code has some good fixes. I also like the shaker integration especially on pizza multiball

Ha! You posted this just as I was posting mine. Must have been playing co-op!

Speaking of shakers. Does this sound likes your guys shaker motor when you play....

I never had a shaker sound like that, doesn't sound normal to me.

Funny. Marco just told me it was normal

Lol. There ya go. What brand is it?

Nope, I'm enjoying the 1987/delt combo right now on 1.21.

Check to see if any of the Mounting screws are loose. Bought both of my shakers from Marco and are a little noisy, but not that much.

It is on the loud side. My stern one in deadpool is pretty loud. Are your clips done up on the lock down bar? Almost sounds like some extra rattle. Also isn’t there an adjustment threaded rod thing on top that you can tighten?

It’s a stern. I have adjusted this thing 10 times. All tight. No big bolt going through it to tighten. Adjusted to 90 degrees out. 180 isn’t any better

Lol...that’s funny

Send it back and try another.

Working on it. So far offered a 20% restocking fee

hmmmmmm. If it's defective you should not have to. Maybe try the pinball life one. I bought 2 of them and they are great. Seem to be a little less aggressive than Stern.

For a DEFECTIVE shaker? Is this straight from Stern or a distributor? If it's a distributor, let me know which one to avoid at all costs. That's BS.

Went with the stern for the warranty issue

Thanks very much.

So I'm gonna order shaker motors for stern spike pins.... any real difference between official stern one and pinball life version?

I have pinball life in TWD (Spike 1) and TMNT (Spike 2). I have a stern one in Deadpool. The noisiest one that rattles the most is definitely the Stern one. I am now going for Pinball life from now on. Cheaper too.

Somebody correct me, but I did not think warranty was affected by Shaker motors?

Stern put out a bulletin that basically says all mods that plug into the electricity of the machine and aren't made by Stern void the warranty. They did this because in the transition from SAM to Spike 1/2, the first couple non-Stern shaker motors that were put in the brand new Spike platform blew the node board. It was quickly fixed and there hasn't been a problem since AFAIK.

Of course it is. Anything electrical you connect to the game that's not an official Stern product is not going to be warranty friendly. Some shaker motors have been known to take out the cabinet node board, but that was from a few years ago. Stern shakers come with capacitor kits, where I don't think the PBL ones do.

Rob

Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.

You have that backwards. The capacitor on the 3rd party shaker motors in the beginning was the problem. Sterns don't have the cap according to their 2015 service bulletin:

https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stern-SB184.pdf

(which was essentially irrelevant a few weeks after they issued it since all the 3rd party shakers fixed the problem)