My tftc has a broken center drop target. What’s the best way to replace it, looks pretty tight in there? Thx

This was much easier than I thought, no need to disassemble anything.

To remove target: Retract the targets, lift the play field, loosen two screws on the end of the metal housing. get a pair of needle nose locking pliers, remove the old spring from the target using the pliers, remove spring from bracket by hand, slide target out

To install new target: slide target in from the top, use the needle nose pliers to feed spring into the new target, secure other end of the spring into metal bracket. Retighten the two screws securing the metal bracket.

This all took me about 3 mins.

I’m looking for the Chadh version roms, anyone know where to get it or can burn it for me? Is an updated display rom needed too? Thx

You might be able to do a coil test and see if it fires.

Spent the day shopping out and LEDing my game. One of the easier games to shop. Took me about 6 hours, very dirty, so much better now. Just waiting for a cliffy and new game roms. Tomorrow I'll I'll go after some of the coil sleeves.

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Game is all done, including eyeball ramp light covers, man we're those bulbs ugly to look at. Backboard light,side mirrors, trough light, pop bumper flasher strip mod and undercabinet lights all in.

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We need a color dmd for this game.

Oh, wow! I had been looking at the lcd displays only as that’s what I like. Didn’t even bother to look at the led version. Is there any reason why they don’t have an lcd version?

Pulled the trigger on an led. Lcd requires permanent modification to speaker panel and isn’t recommended by colordmd.

Anyone upgrade the speakers on their game with good results?

Look what came in the mail today....

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Yep, done it plenty of times. Only bent legs a couple of times

Thanks for all your hard work on this....if I can ever help you out, please don't hesitate to ask.

Anyone running a color dmd with the 4.0 code? Any issues since display from the colordmd is v3.0?

Thx. I used cool whites in all the gi and inserts. Undercab lighting is pulled for now, too much power draw I think, blowing f7. Color dmd arrived today, going in tomorrow. Still waiting on a cliffy for the scoop.

I might be interested in this. Where can I see the air ball deflector to order?

Thx

Got my color dmd installed, my first led dmd. It’s not bad, but I much prefer the lcd with hires mode as I like the cartoonish look. Huge improvement over the stock dmd.

I’ve owned this game for just a few weeks, but can’t believe how much I like it. I thought it would be out the door quickly and actually had it sold, but I pulled back as I could feel regret building. I love the modes and the ramp shots, which aren’t that easy, it’s a tough game to progress. I also feel a bit attached to the game with all the work I’ve done to it and it’s playing really well. I tore the top down, replaced most coil sleeves, new rubber, adjusted switches, full led including flashers, chads code, color dmd, side mirrors, undercab lights, soon ocd board, etc. only thing I don’t care for is the sound, even with external sub, but it’s typical for de games I think. I thought Baywach was great, this is better.

Could be your battery holder is not making good connection with the board. You’d have to take the board out and resolder the connections on the back. You could test for continuity between the terminals on the holder and the solder points on the back. If you have continuity, it’s not the holder.

Alternatively, You could opt to go with nvram, $10 from one of the suppliers here on pinside I believe. I think it’s plug in for tftc.

Pricing on this game has really been moving up...not even that nice...

ebay.com link: 0

Contact pinsiders barakandl, he sells them. You can get them for any game, but for bw, the chips are soldered on. Sega is plug and play.

Very nice!

First place I’d start is the vuk switch. Sounds like it’s bad.

Leaf switch I believe, the gap is likely too small.

Looking for a topper if anyone has one they want to sell.

Flashers are the larger sockets under the playfield, typically will have an orange wire and a black wire on them. Gi are the lights that are on all the time, you’ll typically find them around the perimeter of the game and under the sling shots. Contact pinstadium if you aren’t sure which clip goes on which flasher lug. For gi, it may not matter, but not sure how he wired it.

what do you want to run off the outlet? that outlet in the game is always hot so you can plug a soldering iron in and work on the game when it's off. You can buy a 12v power supply on ebay for less than $10.

why do you want to plug the stadium lights into the service outlet? I am not familiar with their product, but I cannot believe that pinstadium lights are wired to connect to the service outlet. They should be wired into the game so when the game is off, the lights are off.

I may be in the minrotiy, but I didnt like the led in my game and don't like the dots look overall. I typically buy the LCD and set it to hires as I like the cartoonish look of the screens. I saw a tftc at Pintastic with an LCD and really liked it, I think it was Gabe's. I went with led because of the ease of the install, but if I had to do it again, I'd get the LCD and just deal with any install issues.

Tz is one of the worst games for a color dmd as there aren't many animations. In fact, black and white looks the best for tz imo. It's a personal choice, no right or wrong.