Quoted from jsm174:

TBH, sometimes it won't even make it to the upper flipper. So that's why I figured I would ask.

Quoted from Rarehero:

A well designed factory protector is the same thing as a Cliffy. After making a shitty protector & then a temp fix - the next version has to be the last stop on the Protectorgate train. If it sucks, then Cliffy.

Quoted from jsm174:

#352 found its home after a 15 year "dream" theme wait!
(Actually glad it took that long considering all the advances in pinball tech.)
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Quick question if someone can please check and answer. Roughly how far back is the plunger tip from the edge of the auto plunger?
I can't seem to manually plunge the ball with any power. It's bad enough that I've been using the auto plunger all the time.
Compared to Transformers, it seems much further back:
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Quoted from insight75:

Every damn time I see a Pin moved to the lift gate from the truck I start to sweat that its going to fall off.....

Quoted from usafstars:

Measured mine and it's .47" from tip to auto launch forks and it fully plunges to the upper most of the playfield. Does yours have the green spring?
Hope that helps some.

Quoted from insight75:

Every damn time I see a Pin moved to the lift gate from the truck I start to sweat that its going to fall off.....

Quoted from jsm174:

Thanks usafstars. I just checked and mine and the tip of the plunger to the tip of the auto launch forks is about 15/32". So pretty much the same. It has the green spring as well. I appreciate you checking!
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Ha, we're professionals! Actually no issues at all, pictures are a little deceiving.

Quoted from Guinnesstime:

Yep. He's got a billion on the waitlist. None produced as of yesterday.

Quoted from McIntyre905:

Where can I join this waitlist

Quoted from gandamack:

Your distributor gave you a build date of April and it arrived in March? Did you know it was coming that quick or did it just arrive out of the blue? Open it up...maybe you got an LE by mistake, lol.

Quoted from Apollo18:

Email Cliff.
He is pretty good on reply time.
You can place your order(s)
And he will tell you expected time.
Which atm is a few weeks.
http://www.passionforpinball.com/protectors.htm
[email protected]

Quoted from Craziestsinge:

I've noticed the same thing. The tip of the plunger seems very far back and you need to pull-back far in order to get the ball enough momentum to make it to the playfield. Either the plunger is too short, or the rubber tip doesn't extend far enough (Double entendre not intended!) .

Quoted from Animal:

Do the LEs come with an External Volume Control/Headphone Jack? It appears not, but can anyone with an LE pls confirm?

Quoted from madangelo:

They do not.

Quoted from swampfire:

I’m guessing that the Louisville show this weekend will be the first time we see a Rush on free play for 30 solid hours. I’m expecting 700-1000 plays on my Premium, and I’m planning to do all of these things to prevent scoop damage:
1 - use strapping tape to secure the protectors to the bottom of the playfield
2 - mylar under the scoop protectors (and possibly over)
3 - set MB difficulty to Medium
4 - enable the ball lock
5 - lower power to scoop kickouts and lower flippers
I’ve generally had good luck bringing my games to SFGE, with no real damage to 30+ games in 6 years. Hopefully the pingods will be looking out for me.

Quoted from WeirPinball:

Leave yours at home - Flip N Out is loading the show with Rush games

Quoted from Animal:

Do the LEs come with an External Volume Control/Headphone Jack? It appears not, but can anyone with an LE pls confirm?

Quoted from CrashJT:

That would be nice. No it's a Premium. I think Stern is trying to "catch up". I'm happy so far!
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Quoted from Raiders36:

Is anyone else having issues with the left loop not registering. I have seen the magnet sensor fix. Is there anything else people recommend. Now that I am learning how to play more that shot needs to register lol.

Quoted from SonicZone:

- Extra Ball:
- Added another Light Extra Ball ramp award at 68 ramp shots.

Quoted from aamauzy:

Those Time Machine Upgrades sound pretty neat!

1968 is when the first version of the band was formed (Lifeson/Rutsey/Jones, then very quickly Lifeson/Rutsey/Geddy) - I love little references like that!

Quoted from SonicZone:

New code 0.90 just now posted:

Quoted from insight75:

Download so slow. What is Stern still on dial up for internet?

Quoted from Black_Knight:

He's buying one of FNO's show games.

Quoted from WeirPinball:

Ah, got it - I'm buying a pro and premium show game.

Quoted from swampfire:

I’m bringing an SD card with the new 0.90 code - I'll flash another one for your Premium. Can’t wait, less than 2 days!

Quoted from thekaiser82:

Yeah man. It is terrible.

Quoted from jid:

It isn’t -that- bad. I’m sure that when we all start to download at the same time (which we do) it is line a giant DOS attack on them. 40 min isn’t unreasonable. 2 hours would be too much. 5-7 minutes would be bad-ass. But it is soooo much better than burning ROMs!

Quoted from PinMonk:

Get a download manager. Makes multiple connections, letting you download a file 3-5x faster. It also resumes interrupted downloads where you left off.

Quoted from SonicZone:

New code 0.90 just now posted:
PRO V0.90 - March 9, 2022
==========================
Note:
- Score balancing has been updated for this release. Scores earned on previous
releases will be reset when moving to v0.90.0.
Fixed:
- Improved reliability in situations where multiple videos were queued to
play at the same time.
- Game music:
- Fixed an issue that prevented the game from correctly managing the music
during Headlong Flight multiball.
- Game Over display:
- Fixed an issue that prevented the credits display from updating until
after the Game Over screen timed out.
- Mystery Award:
- Fixed an issue that gave out the wrong score value for the 5M award.
Tweaked:
- Drum Bonus:
- Drum Bonus now resets each time it is collected to 500k + 250k for each
Drum Bonus made that ball, plus 10k per pop bumper hit made that ball.
- Drum bonus no longer holds with the Pops Held award from the ramps.
- 1-2-3 Combos:
- The 1-2-3 combos in multiball will no longer qualify albums, and will not
give the 2x quickshot bonus. New adjustment added CAN QUALIFY ALBUMS IN
MULTIBALL (default NO)
- The default setting for COMBO JACKPOT BEHAVIOR has now been changed from
SINGLE BALL NOT IN COMBO to SINGLE BALL.
- Changed combo scoring. Combos start at 250k and will no longer grow when
albums are collected.
- Records:
- Added RECORDS HELD as a new ramp award. When this is awarded, wildcard
records will hold for the next ball, as well as the record boost percentage
the player had accumulated if they had a planet mode running when they
drained.
- Extra Ball:
- Added another Light Extra Ball ramp award at 68 ramp shots.
- Time Machine:
- Reduced the number of show required for the first Time Machine multiball
to 4 (was 5.)
- Increased the number of shots needed to advance to the next Time Machine
multiball to +6 (was +3.)
- Far Cry multiball:
- Improved choreography for the start of Far Cry multiball.
- Mystery award:
- Improved mystery award display effect choreography.
- Planet Modes:
- Scoring balances for The Spirit of Radio, Working Man, Limelight,
and La Villa Strangiato modes.
- In The Big Money, the normal mode award arrows will blink quickly. Shots
to increase The Big Money multiplier will blink normally.
- Match sequence:
- Added the word MATCH to the match sequence videos.
- Sound Effects:
- Added additional game speech.
- Remastered and rebalance game music.
- Expression Lights:
- Improved music lightshows throughout gameplay.
- Instant Info:
- Changed Instant Info Behavior -- Instant Info will close if both flipper
buttons are held for 1 second.
- Adjustments:
- Replaced the SOFT, MEDIUM, and HARD flipper adjustment names with numeric
values. The flipper strength defaults have not been modified.
- Changed the default ball save time to 9 seconds.
New:
- Time Machine Upgrades:
- Complete various goals during modes and multiballs to add years to your
time machine. Every decade earned, the time machine will light for an
upgrade.
- Your Time Machine starts in the year the last Rush album was released,
2012, and the goal is to get it upgraded 100 years to be able to travel
to 2112.
- Each multiball has a max of 10 years achievable through jackpots and/or
super jackpots.
- Each planet mode will get you 5 years for completing it, or 10 years if
you score over 100 million total in the mode.
- Each album collected is 1 year.
- Win Bastille Day for 1 year (max 5.)
- Collect a 6x instrument bonus for 5 years (one time only.)
- Upgrades available:
- Time Machine Multiballs +1 more ball, +10 more seconds of ball
- Extended timers for the rest of the ball
- Easier Rush targets for the rest of the ball
- Time Machine Multiballs +2 more balls, +20 more seconds of ball save
- Combo Jackpot +1x
- Double Record collection
- Double Ramp progress
- High Scores:
- Added a high score entry for DRUM BONUS CHAMPION.
- Competition install now sets the following adjustments:
- TIME MACHINE MULTIBALL DIFFICULTY set to MEDIUM
- FREEWILL MULTIBALL DIFFICULTY set to MEDIUM
- FARCRY MULTIBALL DIFFICULTY set to EASY
- OUTLANE BALL SAVES ADVANCE IN MULTIBALL set to NO
Moved to System 3.10
- Fix game reboot issue at power on with coindoor interlock switch in the
open position.

Quoted from John-Floyd:

my left mini orbit sometimes doesn't register the shot. Prob due to the fact that they ball is flying so fast around the turn it misses the sensor...

Quoted from J-drum11:

Happy new code released already!
Couple things …
I opened up left lane one notch and makes a difference during game play for sure
While in the middle Of doing the same to the right out lane I realized how much work it was going to take and I bailed.
You pretty much have to remove the whole plastic ramp and red lighting or you’ll pull the wires out.
Another thing I noticed was the left Target on the metal ramp to the right was leaning to the left from fall hitting it a lot.
This would interfere when the ball would Come back down through the spinner Lane and bump it out
At first I thought this was a nice feature and they had something up there so it didn’t drain down the middle but it was the target
Leaning to the left.
You can tighten two nuts under the playfield
After straightening it
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Quoted from jpc211245:

I had the same issue. Had to adjust the target back to the center and then realized I had knocked off the sticker during game play. Looked everywhere for it and at the same time the scoop stopped ejecting. Turns out the sticker was at the bottom of the scoop and was prohibiting the ball from ejecting.
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Quoted from jid:

It isn’t -that- bad. I’m sure that when we all start to download at the same time (which we do) it is line a giant DOS attack on them. 40 min isn’t unreasonable. 2 hours would be too much. 5-7 minutes would be bad-ass. But it is soooo much better than burning ROMs!

Quoted from PinMonk:

A piece of 467MP will adhere that sticker back to the target like new and you'll be back in business.

Quoted from Photopin:

I'm not really digging this Straight Down the Middle change in the new code.
Not sure what happened but I installed the new code and had a game where I barely got to touch the ball.

Quoted from freakandgeek:

Come on bro...send us a sideview pict!

Quoted from gripwhip:

Did anyone’s speaker lights stop working with .90 on the LE?