I noticed the premium download gives you the mando_le file. Maybe they are the same... or maybe they put the wrong file for the premium code download?

Warning, old man rant here, but my mando premium came with the Stern Insider kit thing and I totally hate it. I don't like the stupid bright red nonsense and QR codes on my pin and I don't like a bright white square while I am playing a game. I can take the crap off but it looks like I will need to order a new apron and right decal?

I got my mando premium, here are my thoughts:

- Get sour on it kind of fast because I think the right ramp feels like shit and is not smooth at all, but as I started learning the rules more, especially the pf multiplier stuff, totally coming around
- Among new pinball players it is the favorite of all my games (new people hate STTNG so much)
- I have had multiple screws come out of the upper pf during gameplay, and both ramps have come loose near the inlanes. I would recommend tightening as many screws as you can see out of the box.
- My ramp broke after like 10 games in a non-severe way (ie can still be played), Stern sent me a new one pretty fast. Waiting to get Cliffy before I install it.

And then the main thing I want help with...

Last night playing with a friend was regularly having games of 10m-300m. Then randomly my score went to 1.5 billion during one ball, and I didn't seem to do anything that amazing. I had a mode and a mb stacked, and I had the flamethrower on, but still, it literally jumped more than a billion points in the span of like 30 seconds. We noticed after this that the "ascending beeps sound effect" kept randomly playing in short bursts, and when it did the score went up a very small amount. I figured maybe stuck switch but could not find one anywhere, and no lights kept getting activated or anything. I power cycled the game (before it logged my seemingly invalid score), and after that everything seemed fine. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Software bug? Some switch I missed? Code version is 1.20.

Also, can anyone point me to some part of this thread that talks about recommended settings different than factory that they like? I was considering lowering flipper power on the small pf.

-ben

This was good advice, it did help a little I think. I also slightly lowered flipper power and I like it there (225).

Does anyone know what switches award beskar in small amounts? It happened again where anytime I flip it is awarding a small amount of points and 2-4 beskar. I assume a switch is stuck on somewhere but I couldn't find it.

EDIT: Nvm, I think I found some other posts about this by searching for beskar... it's apparently the switch behind the scoop.

I just had this exact thing start happening on mine. It is an issue with the opto sensor, for me it is specifically the trough jam switch. I tried reseating the plugs and it didn't help, it is acting more like a cold solder joint. I opened a support ticket with Stern.

This is fixed, I took both boards off, cleaned the sensors (which were not dirty at all, I don't think this helped anything) but I also cleaned the holes in the trough. I do think there was a strand of something hanging in the trough jam hole that was dancing around with each flipper hit.

-ben