Software engineer here! Can confirm this statement is true.

They added a ton of shit in 1.01. Personally I would have done a 2.0 based on that change log but Dwight is obviously way more modest than I am

Do we have any insight as to when the LEs and home pros are shipping? I want to play!

Charliew65 Breger1 Banker

Congrats! Keep us updated on the travels of your LEs! I haven’t received word on mine just yet (sad face) but would be very interested in seeing how quick they are getting them from factory to door.

Can’t wait to see your handiwork on this one! Think you can get a good match?

Also: how’d you get your LE so soon?!

Anyone else get shipping updates on their LE? My distributor says they're still waiting to hear from Stern. Not sure how long it typically takes to finish the run but it looks like they've been cranking them out according to their Facebook posts.

Has anyone received theirs outside of our man Robert (#212/500)?

Is this with the v1.04 update?

Tagging Xaqery so he’s aware. Thanks for confirming

You’re not alone—same story here. Sounds like they’re still assembling some of the LEs. Maybe we are numbers 499 and 500!

Still waiting for my LE to be assembled, so probably not.

On the LE, it definitely activates during episodes when hitting the lit targets. I played a bit last night but wasn't really thinking about the shaker motor. If I get more time today I'll report back with more specifics.

Anyone else getting a LOUD speaker pop when extra ball is awarded? For example, the bonus spin after a game or when hitting 10 mil score?

At first I thought it was (strange) design choice but I’m beginning to think it’s a bug or a glitched audio file. It causes the video to freeze momentarily when playing.

I am on LE v1.04, which the game shipped with.

What are you guys hearing on extra ball?

ah, you’re right—disabled, did the trick. I think it’s the fancy speakers making it sound different?

Any advice on solving my airball problem?

A shot directly to the right-side stand up target at the entrance to the left ramp sends the ball into the training sign, off the glass, over the lair and down the left outlane.

I adjusted the pizza wheel, which seemed a tad low, to be completely flush with the play field but this doesn’t seem to help.

Is it smart/safe to bend that stand up target bracket forward a couple degrees?

Attaching some pics of the airball bracket in question (as well as one particularly amusing result). The bracket itself doesn't seem obviously out of position. And, like I was saying, I'm still having the issue after raising the pizza wheel height to be as flush as possible with the rest of the playfield. Anything look odd to you?

If it matters, I'm at about 6.5 degrees incline. Manual says 6.5 but I'm seeing most are having a better gameplay experience at 7 deg or higher.

I'll try to get a video of it later. Shouldn't be too hard as it's roughly a 1-in-3 game occurrence.

From pizza wheel

Overhead of brackets (top bracket is airball causing)

from perspective of left ramp towards lower playfield

What happens when the airball doesn't hit the Training/Glider sign...

I have the same problem--my take is that the diverter just isn't getting there in time if you get a lot of speed up the left ramp. Game is too fast for its own good!

Has anyone figured out the rules for multi ball modes? It's not in the rulebook and I'm not good enough to be able to look at the screen while keeping balls alive... Generally, going for lit shots always seems to get it done, but it would be great to know why.

Pizza
--I'm assuming a blue lit target "defeats" a foot soldier, but it seems like this isn't always the case. Do you need to trigger 1-2-3 Foot first?
--What qualifies Super Jackpot?
--Is Jackpoto Grande the same thing as Super Jackpot?

Turtle Power-
--What's the difference between the green shots and the turtle skill shots?
--Sometimes the right ramp triggers a restart of the mode, returning all lost balls. How is that shot qualified?
--How do you get credit for Triple Mondo Jackpot? Is it just getting Mondo Jackpot three times on the same ball? Can you get it in both MB modes?

Don't do it!

Game audio completely screwed up on LE after updating to 1.10.

Update itself went clean, got all successes. But now audio quality took a dive. Callouts, music, all sounds garbled (underwater effect).

Other feedback on 1.10:

The good:

-Shaker motor integration is significant. Love it.

-Foot 1-2-3 is a lot better, but still bugged.
For me the issue was that the center ramp is tough to hit. I'm OK with that, but the problem with it being hard to hit is that you are locked out of left/right ramp progression towards episodes for 20 seconds (or longer) after activating 1-2-3. With the change, this is no longer an issue (thank th maker). One slight, annoying bug--the ramps no longer properly light to indicate the next part of the combo. For example, if you start 1-2-3 and go right ramp then center ramp, there will be no indication at the left ramp for completing the combo (the callout reminder is still there). I'd like to see an alternating yellow/white flash here.

-I like having Final Battle available, but refuse to try it until I earn it myself

The bad:

-The audio is absolutely hosed. It's like listening to your game through a low-fi AM band. No idea what happened, but the levels are completely off and the callouts are almost unintelligible. Hopefully this can be fixed quickly.

Can I roll back to 1.04? I can live with the 1-2-3 issues, but the audio problems are not OK.

I spent some time playing around with the audio settings--looks like they mistakenly changed the default backbox speaker impedance to 4 Ohm (should be 8 on the LE, I believe) among other things. Restoring this helps significantly, but not all the way.

Anyone on LE 1.04 that can tell us what the audio defaults are?

Post 1227 has some mirror blades installed

OK, let's do this. Let me start by saying the music in the game is fantastic and the sound team did a bang-up job. No complaints. But for nostalgia's sake, if I were to tweak a few things, I'd find a place for the following jams...

1) Pizza Power (Coming Out of Their Shells Tour, Turtles in Time Theme)

Commentary: For those unfamiliar, this is the title theme from Turtles in Time. Super cheesy, but dripping with nostalgia from TMNT's arcade heyday

Proposed location: Attract Mode

2) Ninja Rap (Vanilla Ice, TMNTII)

Commentary: Needs no introduction. Of all the jams mentioned here, this is the one Stern absolutely should have tried to license. And for what it's worth, the Ninja Pizza Multiball track is probably the weakest...

Proposed location: Ninja Pizza Multiball

3) Sewer Surfin' (Konami, Turtles in Time)

Commentary: Among the folks over at OverclockedRemix, this is widely considered one of Izumi & Nakamura's best pieces. I will say that I'm not sold on where I have it here. But it has to go in somewhere. PS: There's an a cappella version of this that is pretty good.

Proposed Location: Weapon hurry-up/April hurry-up

4) Turtle Power (Partners in Kryme, TMNT90)

Commentary: I've always associated cheesy rap with TMNT, and it really does fit. I like @Whifflebat's suggestion as the Game Over music. Also works at character select (another "weak" track).

Proposed location: Character selection OR Game Over

5) Boss Theme (Konami, TMNT Arcade)

Commentary: Say your prayers, toitles! To me, this is Bebop & Rocksteady's theme song. Oddly enough, the track for "Window Shopping" is my favorite new jam. I would try to find a place for it in another episode.

Proposed Location: "Window Shopping"

6) Scene 1, Fire! (Konami, TMNT Arcade)

Commentary: I don't have a place for this, but it's one of the best video game Level 1 tracks out there. Perhaps there's an episode it fits well?

Proposed location: Episode?

Help me out here: what am I missing? What's the best place for each of these? Which of Stern's tracks do you LOVE? (Window Shopping for me).

Followup to my previous post with some other contenders that I just couldn't place:

6) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (John Du Prez, TMNT90)

Commentary: Awesome! Righteous! Bossa nova! This is the sick melody that follows Raph's opening "Damn!" after losing his sai. I think I prefer the 90 version to the rearranged one in Secret of the Ooze.

Proposed location: Episode?

7) Shredder's Time Warp (Turtles in Time)

Commentary: For sound effect purposes only

Proposed location: On Dimension X transfer

8- The Damn Dam (Konami, TMNT NES)

Commentary: Obviously this is a joke, but if there's a part of the game you hate and find incredibly stressful, then you may as well throw this in there to remind yourself of the great pain you suffered 30 years ago.

Proposed location: Foot 1-2-3 if you're still on v1.04

The problem of course for you modders will be finding high-fidelity cuts or relying too heavily on chiptunes. I think the "Coming Out of Their Shells" album is commercially available on iTunes and the like. I have seen high quality vinyl rips of the TMNT 90 soundtrack (see

). The original theme which everyone is asking for is just not available at any reasonable quality. The remaster is good enough for me.

It’s not just you!

The right slingshot is precision-engineered to put the ball down the left outlane (which is big enough to fit a banana in, no joke).

Shorting either ramp from the opposite side flipper sends the ball SDTM.

This is largely true for most pinballs: don’t miss your shots and it’s not that bad. My aim is terrible, but I find that the main key to avoiding the left outlane is to make my shot the first time and don’t give the slingshots a chance.

@xaquery minor bug on 1.23:

A center drain that walks its way up the outlane and makes contact with the rollover will clear Battle Again (without saving your ball)

That aside, loving the tweaks. Thank you!

Edit: Actually, Battle Again seems to be kind of screwy at the moment. Occasionally, Michelangelo will start with both outlanes lit. Other non-Mikey turtles may start the game with one Battle Again lit. Doesn't seem to be deterministic--some games you start with one, others two. Random.

I think that's it! Nice catch. Battle Again carries over with a restart.

On the shaker motor change--it is a little... extreme. My dog, who normally has zero reaction to any pinball bells or whistles, leapt out of her skin the first time starting Ninja Pizza Multiball on the new code, lol. She's not a fan.

I don't think it's necessary to remove the shaker motor assembly to rotate the weights:

1) Lift playfield
2) Remove screws from plastic housing with fingers (or 1/4" socket wrench--they aren't really on that tight)
3) Loosen set screw from weight #1 with Allen key
4) Holding weight #2, rotate weight #1 until reaching desired offset (90 deg seems to be sweet spot)
5) Tighten set screw, replace housing, lower playfield
6) Enjoy Ninja Pizza!

I didn't perceive any LocTite on the set screws.

Does this carry a new game mode? It must at that price, right?

To be fair, I'm sure it was a licensing requirement.

And also it appears to be easily removed. Almost as if Stern new it was aesthetically a mistake.

The topper does NOT add any new game features.

To put that in perspective, just months ago, Stern released the Jurassic Park topper at the controversial price point of 599 USD. That topper added a well-received gameplay mode that did well on location. Say what you will about locking features behind a paywall, at least the cost relative to the base unit was in line with features in similar industries.

Now, they’re charging an additional 67% without any added features. Wow.

Our man Xaqery better have some sweet new modes lined up or this is going to be a really bad look for Stern.

Per Dwight:

The topper does over 20 different routines. Some routines are more involved than others.

In the attract mode:
The game cycles through various blink states.
The eye looks around randomly

Having the same issue here. This only started for me after upgrading to 1.23 from 1.21. I'm half wondering if it isn't the software modulating the auto plunge strength to prevent misloading of balls and clogging the upper left flipper during hectic multi balls. I don't think I've ever experienced the weak autoplunge outside of multi ball. And NEVER prior to 1.23.

Is that the mod from sparky pinball? If not, where’d you purchase?