My plunge has always fed the right flipper for every plunge in the 3 weeks I’ve had it. 6.7 degree pitch, level left to right.

I have GnR LE in my basement, only a few steps to manage going down. This game is very heavy. I’d guess at least 100lbs heavier than my Stern Iron Maiden. It was not easy even with 2 guys going down a few steps. You will need 3 people, IMO. Good luck!

that first picture is crazy! I’m guessing that’s a one in a million ball jam. But pretty cool to see! The hangup to the right of that pop bumper is the most common on this game I think. I’ve had my LE for a number of months and that is the one that usually will happen. Although at the right pitch (around 7°) it doesn’t seem to happen too often to me anymore. When I first unboxed mine, the center spinner hangup happened a couple times. But I realized that the spinner was just getting stuck and not spinning properly. It just took a little bit of adjusting and now it never happens. I’ve also had a number of switches on in-lanes as well as the center axl lane up top where a ball would get hung up on the switch between the lanes. Those are pretty easy fixes by just bending those switches towards the bottom of the cabinet a little bit or centering them in the hole. I will get a ball stuck on those diverters on the guitar lock from time to time. I’m not sure about an easy fix for that but maybe some lube on that screw would help.

I had the same issue with the upper playfield bass guitar vuk. Initially the vuk was too weak to make it up onto the bass ramp. So I had to increase the coil power quite a bit. As it turns out I discovered that the coil stop on that vuk coil was loose and too far away from the coil. Overtime it started causing all kinds of malfunctions with that bass ramp and that vuk. I ended up having to unscrew the entire mechanism and remove the two nuts for the coil stop and move it closer so that there was a tight fit. Completely solved the issue and I was able to turn the coil power back down to the factory settings. it works perfectly now. In general, there are a lot of things that were not installed correctly from the factory. Mostly having to do with screws not being tightened enough or cold solder joints. Seems to be pretty common on these LE’s. My guess is that there is some new personnel over there on the factory line that may be new to the job.

Maybe someone can help me out clearing up a weird issue/question I have about collecting patches. I feel like my game may be having some kind of issue either in the software code or maybe something else. I see the display for collecting GNR letters to award the patch on the screens. The ball will roll over the left in lane switch for GNR or fall from the upper playfield to collect a letter and sometimes I do not get awarded the letter. Other times I will get awarded the letter and then keep playing a ball and notice my letter or letters are taken away or cleared. The game will chime the appropriate sound when the ball rolls over the switch or falls from the upper PF. All switches work properly and register. This seems like something in the code or rules? Anyone notice this or am I just not understanding the rules properly? I feel like I remember the GNR letters clearing/resetting once or twice when the ball rolled over the right inlane for JAM letters. It just seems random and bizarre.

To the best of my knowledge, both left and right orbits/loops should feed cleanly to the corresponding flipper and not hit the sling. It may require removing a ball guide rail and bending it (removed and off the playfield to not cause playfield damage). Mine had to be adjusted when I first got it.

I think it’s stunning when you get to be in front of it. Absolutely beautiful and cool looking. Lots of detail and vibrant colors. The lockdown bar, legs and trim really pop as well. I think it’s a gorgeous machine, especially in person.

I own 3 Sterns and a 90s Bally/Williams. GnR is by far my favorite game now. It’s addictive and very challenging. It feels like a totally new pinball experience to me. It’s not easy at all, even though I’m not a great player or anything(average at best). I think it’s more difficult to play than Stern JP or Maiden. The risk/reward aspect is so thrilling and frustrating at the same time(in the best way.) It’s an adrenaline rush. Before I got my LE(I have one of the first runs), I watched promo video and was concerned about all the multi balls. Now I can’t imagine the game without these multiballs. It’s essential to the gameplay and does not feel like too much at all. The drains happen quickly and you want them when you’re in a song. This game is game of the year by far to me. I’ve played AIQ premium and Pro as well as Turtles also. AIQ is pretty awesome and Turtles is fun and fast. But GnR is just on some other level IMO. I’d love to play AIQ more as I love Elwin games and own 2 of his already. But I know that GnR is just a different kind of experience that I’m currently addicted to. Karl’s streams on IE pinball of GnR are thrilling and awesome to watch. It’s so cool to see a pro crush the game and also be crushed by it, haha.

I’ve had the same issue. Very low volume even when maxed out. Same no matter which headphones I use.

My GC is a bit over 16 million. I have 4 or 5 games behind it in the 15 million range. I’ve been stuck there for months. Watching Karl stream makes me want to give up, haha. Actually it’s very inspiring to watch and is making me play better I think. Although I’ve caught the “never cash out bug” recently bc of him. Probably keeping my scores down in the short term but may result in a big game in the future.

Apologies if this has been covered in the topic before, but I was wondering if anyone else is having consistent problems with the kinetic diverters in the guitar ball lock on the upper playfield? I will often get a ball stuck at the very tip of where the diverter would normally allow the ball to pass through to the six sensors. Also it is common when I have three balls locked on one side of the guitar ball-lock, another ball will be fed to that same side and subsequently not register bc it was fed to be essentially the 4th ball on that side which does not have a sensor obviously (and I have to take the glass off during the middle of the game). I have tried loosening and tightening the screw that is on this three pointed star type diverter but nothing seems to change it. Any solutions and/or stories about experiencing the same problem would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

My LE has a 11629 as well.

Tonight I had my best game so far after owning and playing it for over 3 months. My GC’s up until now were between 15-17mil for months. Cashed out a 16mil+ jackpot on paradise city(although the Karl influence almost made me not cash out, lol). Also got a 8mil My Michelle jackpot with some decent booster multiball jackpots. I know it’s nowhere near the stratosphere Karl and others dwell in, but I was super proud of myself. Watching the IE pinball streams of GnR have really helped me grow a pair on not cashing out as well as some good pre-song strategy. This game is just the best! Also, had a nice glass of bourbon and the game cranked to 31 on the volume while playing. It’s such a thrill and the closest thing to a real rock n roll experience in a pinball machine.

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That switch pops out on me constantly. I have the glass off at least once an hour. Very frustrating. I’ve tried putting the end of several different sized zip ties on there but it’s too loose and the zip tie end just slides off easily. Can anyone recommend the right size zip tie for this to work?

I totally love this game. It’s incredible. But am I alone in thinking that this game is a drain monster and insanely hard to keep the ball in play? Like a lot more than most games? I’m at 7 degrees pitch. Maybe that’s the issue, maybe I just suck. But this thing crushes me daily. If I was pumping dollar bills into it I would be totally pissed and avoid this thing like the plague on location, lol. Constant drains SDTM as well as slingshots firing the ball to outlanes, etc. It’s so good when you have a good game, but wow, I feel like I have 10 crap games for every decent one...play better, I know.

Yeah, I totally agree. One of the things that has been causing this game to dunk on me regularly is that I’m trying to collect patch sets like the sponsors(Gibson, Vater, Marshall, Fender), band members, booster multi ball patch sets, etc. In trying to trap up and hit that left ramp all the time before a song, I get some frequent drains. It’s almost a guarantee if I don’t hit it cleanly from a forehand off the right flipper, it hits an album target and drains immediately. Sometimes I feel like I should just get a few ball locks, start a song and just have fun. But, I’m trying to get better and build my scores up. My GC is 28mil with my other high scores in the 12-16mil range. Having a hard time getting over that hump. I know I’m not that great a player, but wow this game is really really hard.

Awesome! Looking forward to the stream and to purchasing these when they are available! Are you thinking of making this for the left ramp diverter coil as well or would that not be practical or necessary?

I carefully bent(using a cloth on the metal and pliers) the left portion of the metal “platform” under the wood guitar headstock upward. I did this 6 weeks ago and have not had one SDTM from that left lock since. It feeds to the left flipper every time now. Others change the coil strength of that left lock release with varying degrees of success.

I suppose I did bend it upward and sort of inward(towards the center). In order to make that left most edge bend upwards it naturally moves inward towards the center as well. I’m referring to placing the cloth on the bottom(floor) of the metal piece and bending it up and towards the center with the pliers attached sort of on the left edge of that bottom metal piece “platform”. That seemed to definitively guide the ball to bounce to the flipper after releasing and falling on to that platform first at the new angle. Good Luck!

I know, right? But it did the trick for me. It’s working perfectly now. Maybe it’s a matter of experimentation with slight bends up or down I guess. I think I also set the coil strength to 4 on the left lock release, just FYI.

Almost doubled my big GC from a week ago! I’m starting to have some success in upping my high scores. All about getting deep in songs, not cashing out, building booster MBs. Feels really good to have a big game after many crap ones, lol. Had a 33mil Sweet Child ‘O Mine. Apologies for continuing to post my scores here. Couldn’t help it with this one.

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I’m really looking forward to this being available to buy. It’s going to help a lot. I have these for my Stern Iron Maiden Premium and they really work. Thx for these innovations, Pinmonk!

It’s well worth the increased cost. I really feel like these are essential if you play for a few hours at a time like I do on certain evenings. That flipper fade is a real buzz kill.

Thx for the encouragement!

I hope someone can come up with a solution for the ubiquitously problematic ball hang-up on the lower right pop bumper. Seems like many have this issue where the ball just gets stuck on the right side of that pop between it and the post and rail. I had a song jackpot(where I was down to single ball play) worth 20mil and the ball gets stuck there. No tilt warnings left and no time for ball search to break it free since I was abut 10 seconds away from applause jackpot. Entire jackpot lost. I’ve been accepting this hang-up for months but when that happened during a huge jackpot I was so bummed, lol! Someone suggested taking off the rubber ring on the post, which I did. Didn’t help unfortunately. I even tried to make that pop bumper more sensitive. Didn’t help. I think it’s just the layout of that area. It’s a natural spot for the ball to rest. I need to do something to mitigate that. Maybe cut a small piece of foam and wrap a rubber band to it and the post? Open to ideas. Even better if JJP has a fix in mind.

Curious as to what kind of rubber and where did you put it? Any chance you have a picture? Thx!

Ha! Us “Greg S”s need to stick together.

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My install of 1.13 downloaded in about 10min, installed in about 15-20. It finished and is working great. Noticed some new callouts with a 17mil first game on the new code. This game absolutely rules! Btw, after playing my LE since early October I think 6.8 pitch is working great for me. Tried 7.0 and it just crushed me for 4-5 weeks. Went down to 6.8 and seems like the sweet spot for my skill level. I couldn’t break 17mil at the 7.0 pitch but have had games of 51mil, 28mil, 27mil, and multiple 16-17mil games since bringing it down 2 degrees.

I found a nasty bug in 1.13 code:

During Mr Brownstone I had a nice big Applause jackpot that I hit and still had 3 other balls in play. I got the encore. But the game became locked in an “Encore” feedback loop. It showed the Encore animation on the screen, flippers went dead, all balls in the trough, the audio chanted “Encore! Encore! Encore!” endlessly. No balls hung up. Couldn’t even tilt out of it. The game just kept looping this Encore animation. Couldn’t even enter the service menu screen. Had to turn power off and on. Also sucks bc I had a HUGE game going.

Yeah, I saw his stream yesterday and noticed him saying that too. I’ve found a few other minor things as well that I can’t remember from yesterday. 1.13 has at least one or two treacherous bugs in it based on mine and what Karl found.

Well even though the 1.13 bug crashed a huge game for me an hour ago, I managed to avoid playing Mr Brownstone and got my biggest GC yet on it just now.

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Finally joined the 100 million club! Big jackpots in Welcome to the Jungle and November Rain(can’t believe I made it deep in to that song finally). This is by far the best pinball machine of 2020, probably best of the last 5 years in fact.

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I have one of the first batch of LE’s. I’ve been running 1.14 since it was released and playing it everyday. No magnet issues thus far.

I own an LE but have played the SE. The SE plays faster with a bit more flow but seemed a bit one dimensional compared to the LE. I really enjoy the upper playfield and guitar headstock lock. Also the RGB hot rails on the LE vs. all white hot rails on the SE is a major difference. Personally, I can’t stand the SE cabinet and back box art. I think it looks hideous, lol. LE has the best art, IMO.

All good, my friend! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I’m fairly sure 1.14 fixed it. I had the same bug about a looping encore animation on 1.13. Since 1.14 update I have not encountered the issue. On 1.13, Mine froze up on Mr Brownstone after completing the song and getting to Encore. Just kept looping the animation and couldn’t even tilt out of it. But hasn’t happened on 1.14 and I’ve been playing it quite a bit.

I checked the Pin Monk shop for JJP flipper fan kit but don’t see anything. Not even the item with “sold out”. Am I looking in the wrong place or has it already been pulled/sold out? Thx!

Thx! Ordered

My GC scores lingered around 15-16 million for about 2 months. Then I started breaking 25 million. A week later 53 million and then recently a 115 million GC. My good games tend to be in the 30-40 million(I probably get a few of those a week?) For perspective though Karl Diangelo seems to get 100 million + all the time. His higher scores seem to be in the 250-300 mil range. And that dude is amazing at pinball. Collecting the Fender patch and other band member/sponsor patches leads to band frenzy in song mode which can really Jack up song jackpots. Great score! 35 million is nothing to sneeze at!

Hi, I was hoping someone might have some insight/knowledge about GNR LE code updating via wifi in my particular case. I’m still at 1.14 but want to update to current code. I’ve been out of town for 3 months for work and when I left in early March it was 1.14. During the last 3 months I’ve read about multiple issues updating via wifi to 1.15-1.18 I think? Is it finally safe for me to do a wifi update now with the current latest code(1.21 is it?)? I’ve never had any issues updating via wifi previously. Thx for any info!

thx for the info!

Apologies if this has been covered but I was trying to increase the power to my upper right flipper(it’s at 20.) in the coil settings menu it indicates that the range for this flipper is 1-32 right next to it…but it is only going to 20 for me. Past 20 it just cycles back to 1. I’m on 1.22 code. Is this a software bug or intentional? Thx for any insight!

kind of a bummer if that’s the case. I have your cooling fans installed and wish I could up the flipper strength past 20. Makes the inner loop way more satisfying with more power. It’s a little weak as is.