I think that's the first time I've seen that combo of side blades (mirror on one, art blade on the other)...but I must say, that looks pretty damn cool on this game.

Hello everyone. Just got this game. Ive played about 10 games on it thus far; however, now there's a pop up on the monitor that says "System program problem detected" and two boxes with choices to "Cancel or Report the Problem"
Tried to turn game on/off, but after about 20 seconds, the notification comes up. The screen still playing in the background. Music still goes, Game still plays with this message on, all coils seem to fire. Nothing stands out on the board in the backbox or in the cabinet. I See no blown fuses with all red LEDs next to all fuses.
I was told this game is running the most recent available code.
Ive never had a machine that has a computer pop-up like this before...I have literally no idea where to go from here.
I need help. What do I do??
Thanks!

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Thanks for your response guys. I will look into that this evening. I appreciate you turning me on to this potential fix!

Hey guys, question. I emailed with Barry and he said that this issue of this pop-up saying "system problem" was an easy fix and he let me know what to do. He told me to connect a keyboard and mouse to the cmouter, then follow some commands. So I took a keyboard and mouse from work, both with their own USB connections, but problem is, I'm looking everywhere in the machine and I dont see anywhere obvious to connect these USBs to. I feel like an idiot.
Can someone let me know where to look.
Thanks!

I see. Man,that's hard to see. It looks like there is a black USB behind and a gray USB in front, do we take out both and put the keyboard and mouse in them, and if so, in what order? How did you connect the keyboard and the mouse? Should I take that upper left board down to do this? Sorry if these are stupid questions...I just don't know.
Thanks!!!!

So I was able to get keyboard and mouse hooked up, I didn't see extra slots, so I just removed the 2 USBs that were in there and put the mouse and keyboard in their place.
I hit cancel on the pop-up, escape on the keyboard to enter into that Unobutu desktop, but when I hit CTL-ALT-T to out that command into the Terminal screen that Barry recommended, the Terminal screen would pop up only for one second, very glitchy, and then disappear. Tried turning the machine on / off but same thing would happen. I ultimately ended up hitting the "send error report" on the pop up, for which I do not have the password for that to complete, gave up and turned the machine off and then on again ...and now the pop up has been gone for 6-7 games and game plays well. So at least the pop-up is gone for now ...only question is, why didn't the Terminal screen stay up so I could put those recommended commands...

Wow!!

I think you are right. Certainly I don't want to give any concrete recommendations, but when I obtained my game, I noticed this problem as well. My guess was the same as yours (car door not being registered as "closed"). I took the roof off of that garage and took a look. There is one small switch at the back of the garage. When the car goes back in the garage, it closes a small tab, triggering that switch. I pulled that tab open just a bit, manually, so that the tab touched the car a bit sooner. That fixed that issue. I also noticed a similar behavior while adjusting the handicap targets, such that if they are further displaced (less sensitive to being hit/activated), the car will do the same shaking activity after coming out (by the targets). So at this point, I have the garage door tab on the inside pulled out a bit, and the handicapped targets more sensitive and closer together. It still takes a heck of a hit to the car when the car is out to register a hit during the car modes, but no shaking. Hope this helps.

So I thought I would share an idea I had/non-permanent fix that I added to my TBL.
This in relation to the car "hit" during car modes.

So, initially when I got the game I noticed the shaking/stuttering behavior of the car/car door that I mentioned in the above post in this thread.
After getting that situated/adressed, I noticed that it really took a heck of a wack (sometimes some random direction of the ball hitting to the car or door) to register a "hit" during the car modes. This was rather frustrating.
As I explored this further, I noticed that the car comes out and the door "stops" once the door touches the Handicap targets closing the leaf switches (maybe its just the right target?). This registeres the car door as "open" at its final open resting position.....and when the car is hit, if there is enough "bounce," the car door briefly jumps away from the target, opening the switch, and thus registering the "hit." Problem is, neither the metal car door (with car), nor the target itself has a lot of inherent "bounce."

....So I thought, how can i make this car/car door mech more "bouncy" (for lack of a better term). So, I began to think of some sort of rubber that the door can "bounce" against when hit with a pinball. After doing some trials of various sized rubbers from my random collection of grommets, I came up with this (see pics).

Note, I noticed the rubber can only "just touch" the door when it opens, or it will shake, shake, shake because its not seeing the leafs close/touch for the door to stop at its final resting open position...so, depending on where one's door closes and that residual space provided, there is some trial and error as it would relate to both the size of the grommet and how minutely "proud" it should be from the target itself.

This (attached pic below) is where mine landed. I used a small post grommet and a small touch of glue to attach it to the side of the right target. With this addition, I went from 50% or less registered "hits" to 90+%, which is so much more rewarding. You can see the aftermath of when I had a black grommet glued to the side of the left target...that worked well until I decided on a red one and placing it on the opposite side. Oh well...it's just a plastic target on a game...

Anyway, the above is by no means a recommendation, I'm just sharing the frustration I had, my findings and thought process and this unconventional idea that I landed on.
Has anyone else had trouble registering "hits" to the car during car modes? Has anyone else come up with any conventional or like this, somewhat unconventional ideas to address this?
Thanks
Chip
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I did. I found taking the roof off of the garage and the 4 screws holding the facade of the garage allowed the easiest access to those switches. I adjusted to make the target switches, especially the right, rather sensitive. How did you adjust yours and as a result, what percentage of registered hits do you get when you hit the car door during car modes, if you don't mind me asking (and thanks).
I have not downloaded/installed the new code. I've been anxious to ask those who have. What differences does it have/add compared to the previous code? Aside from car hits not routinely registering during car modes (which is improved with my above post), my particular game, with the exception of occasional bugs noticed during gameplay, plays rather smooth. But I'll say I'm super excited that code is being worked on!!!!!!! That's so incredible and awesome.
Thanks!!

Thanks for posting that vid sd_tom
Awesome idea having the two handicap targets at two slightly separate levels to trip left target first to stop car and the right target to register the hit
Makes good sense!! Awesome.

Awesome!!!
Looks great!!

Looks sharp!!!
I have chrome on the side rails, lockdown bar, etc... but I see your point if yours was the coppered color.
That black sparkle paint looks great!!!
Think you'll eventually do the legs in that paint as well??

Adding the chrome legs might look great...might accent the steel shine from the wireform ramps down at the legs. Certainly worth a try. Sometimes unconventional ideas are the ones that work out best ....for example your side blades choice...to me, that looked so cool, I did it on mine!!
If you do, post some pics!

Looking awesome!!

Super idea putting the mirror back there, looks great!!

That is just awesome!!!!
Love the "flickering" light on the end!
Superbly done, man...just awesome.

I certainly do not want to make any hard or fast recommendations, but at some point either earlier in this thread or in the maintenance thread the issues with the ball from the orbit going straight down the middle was talked about. When I first had the game I noticed the very same thing. I made a very slight adjustment to the metal guide on the right (just to the left of the right ramp). I pulled on the end of that metal guide just a little bit, ever so slightly, making a small adjustment, so that when the ball is coming around from left to right it goes straight to the left flipper. I never had a problem with SDTM since that adjustment. Hope that helps.