Yes it looks like it's been around. It's laying on its side in most of the pictures.

I’m sitting in my living room reading this, lol

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Start here: 85 Contrast, 25 Brightness, and Gamma On. This will be a huge improvement. I also leaned my monitor back, it was not hard, and it was another very good improvement. No cost, tall people will have the very top of the monitor a little cut off.

Don

If true, point that out to mods. They can take care of that issue

So I am having a weird problem with my drop target 2, where it will not drop, although the coil is working, the opto and switched all seem to be behaving correctly. I have tried adjusting the brass component that pushes the drop target.

The strange thing is that if the game has been switched off overnight (or for a while) it will work perfectly. After about 30 minutes play it will then when I get to the end of game with a ball in the drop-target it will try and free the ball, but not be able to release it. It generates a backward force flicking the ball back into the top target (or into the right scoop if the top target is dropped).

TNA usually drives me crazy in a good way, but this is driving me crazy in a bad way.

How many plays since cleaning the drops and sliding washer faces?

If it's been well used could be all grimy in there inside the workings and just be sticking. That could explain cold use working, but sticking once cabinet environment has heated up.

If everything else checked out and ran out of ideas ... I'd unclip the drop keeper posts, remove the washers and springs, and just the drop targets themselves. Clean it all, reassemble with a tiny bit of your favourite Dry lube maybe, may solve the issue, and can't do any harm if your confident with the mechanical and circlips.

When I installed Lit Drops I removed these leaving the mech in place, not alot of spare room though, some may prefer to remove the whole drop mech.

Also clean the ledges on the mech body, where the ledge on the target face rests. This will help sensitivity if grimey, but the slide washers would be what might stop the target dropping.

My TNA had enough games played on it that I had this issue arise, prior to installing the new drops. Cleaning the grime off of the sliding faces solved it for me. Doesn't take much grime to get sticky.

I had a similar issue with one of my drops, I took it apart to clean it only to find it was totally clean. I ended up needing to trim a few windings off of the small spring in order to get the mech functioning properly. It wasn't worn out or anything, just a bit too long in its fully compressed form. Haven't had an issue since I did this.

I had an idea last night for a gameplay feature that I have no idea if it's possible, but it seemed fun and challenging. Basically, as the reactor heats up the flippers become weaker. So if the reactor doesn't reach critical, and the ball leaves the reactor, then the player will need to either complete the keypad for the reactor bonus to strengthen the flippers again (and maybe they become stronger as the keypad nears completion), or as the reactor timer winds down the flippers would regain strength?

I usually don't try and get the reactor bonus and that seemed like a good way to bring that into gameplay more. Maybe if the reactor becomes critical the flippers could become intermittently weak? I really like the idea of the machine becoming effected by the reactor being critical.

The name of the feature just popped in my head, "Radiation Sickness"

Little birthday project my daughter made over the weekend...was a lot of fun to work on it with her !

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That is absolutely AMAZING!!! Thank you for sharing!
--Scott

That is awesome!

I have a weird issue all of a sudden. The shaker seems very very weak in game.

I did a shaker test and it rotates through level 1, level 2 and level 3 and it shakes my house but you start up a game and it seems to be doing very little all of a sudden.

If I do a test of the shaker in nthe normal coil test i just makes a noise and does nothing.

I haven't upgraded the code to the newest version yet, i'm on the previous.

I have shaker set to normal setting.

The subwoofer also seems weak all of a sudden.

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

So the shaker seems to work but the sound sounds horrible. It almost seems like the sub isn't working and the bass is coming from somewhere else or something. Sounds very distorted and like it's digitally clipping. What should i check out here?

1. Does anyone have a dscription or diagram of what each knob on the amp adjusts. I messed around with mine and now can't seem to dial it in to sound good.

2. I know there is a sound test but is there a test with the sound effects like locking a ball etc because those are hard to dial in while playing a game

here's what was posted as being stock, I believe.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/total-nuclear-annihilation-cluball-welcome/page/32#post-4246313

Most likely the sound input jack going into the amp, which is conveniently mounted directly next to the shaker on the bottom of the cabinet, has become loose causing it to short out when the shaker is active, or a loud bass sound is played.

I've had this problem twice now, first time I took the amp out and apart and re-soldered the jack. Wasn't as trivial an exercise as you'd think. Now it's started happening again on my game. I think I'll order a new amp and maybe find a better spot to mount it, or mount it on some rubber pads or something.

Hi all. I just joined the TNA club and have been enjoying the game immensely.

I notice that the top left led on the center grid doesn’t have quite the correct colors. Is there and adjustment somewhere to fix this? Thanks!

Just checked the led board and one of the cable connection was loose. Reseated it and colors are now all correct. Nice to have an easy fix.

Well, that was easy! Welcome to the club.

Just as a reference for people (and a shameless plug for the company I work for), there are a ton of replacement parts available for TNA on the Pinball Life website here:

https://www.pinballlife.com/total-nuclear-annihilation.html

--Scott

You don't have the clear drop targets on that page

I just added them over the weekend. Definitely blends into the game perfectly!

It would be nice if they offered a complete ring kit.

Here is the ring list:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gwjXq_-yFIkouIl6ymJw9wfq6O8rOhnZ/view

Great minds. We just did the same to ours this past weekend. The light up drop targets are an outstanding mod to add.

What do you ladies and gentlemen think of this?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFC0wp6HthR/

I shrunk down the reactor status and reactor value and moved it down a bit and to the right to make room for the scores on the LCD. I think this looks pretty good. The scores also do not go all the way up, so tall people will be able to see the top of the text without issue.
--Scott

I suppose the streamers will like it, but not needed for the rest of us; if it was an optional thing that would be cool for them.

Probably not enough room to run them just 1 row across the top? maybe current player larger others smaller to make room. A segment looking font might be cool too, or not

Love that you are still looking on adding things

Thanks for the feedback. I am looking to just make this a default screen for everyone, but I am aware that this is redundant data. I like the idea of using an LCD font. I will need to locate a free commercial one or just buy one.

--Scott

To be honest I would much rather have this be an option I can toggle on just for streaming. It would be very redundant otherwise and I know us streamers are a very small minority. I can continue to set up another camera for score if needed.

If it is going to be default would you consider putting it on the bottom instead? Or only have it display the current players score and remove the word Freeplay as almost all streamers are playing on Freeplay anyways.

I can absolutely make this score display thing a setting too. I was just trying to keep it simple.

Beta code will be released soon.

--Scott

Major props for continously making improvements to TNA.
As you mentioned, please make the new LCD on-screen score a defeatable setting if you implement it.

PS - Can you also hyphenate "co-op" and add a space in between "BallSave?" - said Oxford English Dictionary

I am very new to fixing pinballs and I just learn as I go to keep our home machines working. I am stumped on fixing our TNA. In the middle of a game the top section stopped working so the top flipper does not work, the ball does not bounce off the top green bands but it will score, and the ball scoop up there also does not work. The circled blue wire below had broken off so I re soldered it on, but that did not fix it. I have checked other connections and the only other thing I have found loose is the button (circled in the picture below) attached to the black box in the back left of the cabinet. If anyone had any ideas in layman terms on how to fix this issue I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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So I fixed my drop target, and it seems like I introduced a new problem now a bunch of LEDs are not lighting, and I can't see any pattern.
They are 110 (Ball Lock 2), 102 (left Radioactive 1), and 129,130,131 (all right radioactive LEDs).

How would I go about looking for the root cause - I tested the LED at ball lock 2 and it works fine when I plug one of the other connectors to it. But no voltage when I try to test.

Any and all problem solving tips welcome (if it was a WPC lamp matrix I'd be fine, but this is mysterious).

TheNoTrashCougar Scott, I can not thank you enough for continuing to add to this game. It truly is a masterpiece on so many levels. I can’t wait to see what you will add next.

Ps. If you ever run out of ideas I have multiple different speed run and over gameplay modes I’d be happy to bounce off of you

Is number of spins left for super spinner out of the question?

We had pingolf yesterday, a hole was "start super spinner, then make a shot to the lit super spinner" .

People asking if it showed progress anywhere. Not needed for regular playing I guess, just saying.

It's already in there! It is called "Super Spinner Seed Hits" under the "Gameplay (Feature)" settings.

You are very welcome!

--Scott

I meant a display of progress so players know how far to go. Like I said, not essential to be able to see that during regular game playing, but for our pingolf hole it would have been great to be able to see that during gameplay (how many spins registered, or how many left til super spinner).

Here is some new beta code for those of you that want to give me a hand testing!

https://www.scottdanesi.com/?page_id=1724

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v1.4.2 BETA - 09/12/2020 - Scott Danesi

## Bugs Fixed ##
-none

## Features Added / Modifications ##
- Scorbit functionality added
- Added service menu option to show scores on LCD -> Machine (Standard) -> Scores On LCD
- Added ability to turn off backbox LED during gameplay -> Machine (Standard) -> Backbox LED On During Game
########################################################################

Sorry, I misread that. I can add this, but at this point, I am adding way too much stuff to the LCD. I would probably have to build a status report page, which I was never planning to do for this game. I will give it some thought, but it will not be in time for your tournament. Sorry.
--Scott

So how is scorbit? Any cool plans with it?

Have you looked at the fuses - In the back box - under little covers . Those circuits are controlled from the top board on the Right hand side (Page 32 of the manual).
Good luck

I am definitely planning on adding some cool stuff for it, but this update contains fixes to make sure it works great just like the other machines.

Nahh all good, just for future golf maybe, was a good hole!

Golf was already done when I posted. Just a thought, people were asking how to know.

Today Flip Frenzy players all loving TNA!

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"SUPER SPINNER IN x SPINS" -> "SUPER SPINNER ACTIVE" , seems more logical than just counting the number of spins. ?

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Plus it might be a bit cool to see the number decreasing, however rapidly, at a glance during orbit? . Would be the bomb for pingolf!

Actually I have just been through the lamp test diagnostics and there are more LEDs (66,67,80,81,82,83) that are not lighting, as well as a couple of segments on the ball save timer display (136 and 137).

A couple of times the ball save timer has been completely blank during multiball, but then working on new ball or scoop kick out. Makes me wonder whether I should be looking for a loose connection near the ball save timer.

I can't see any pattern to the LEDs not working, as they are spread across most of the PD-LEDn (power drivers??) Or am I looking at a fried IC somewhere?

Hi Scott,
To my taste, i prefer as it is right now.
I do not feel the need to have the 4 scores on the LCD screen

Hello,
Do you know how i could get the "Welcome tu the Future" title neat and clean?
I am planning to do a sticker to put on the coin door.

Thanx for helping.

Have you checked ribbon connectors (reseated) at the Proc LED board, where they all congregate.

Another vote for not having the scores on the LCD. I think the current screen is perfect the way it is!

You can turn it off.

Thank you for taking the time to help. It was a fuse, I didn’t even see the fuses with the covers on them.

This is a cool idea.

Status info might look good in the same spot that tells you when super spinner is active. Crappy mockup attached.
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