Is there a meltdown wizard mode after you beat reactor 9 with crazy synth music and the ultimate light show and a chance for another 2mil in points.?

Not that I’ll ever ever beat 9 reactors. I will need a menu option to make it a 3 reactor wizard mode.

Initially I’ll setup my TNA super easy, since I still suck, and it’s great to still make progress. Meanwhile advance the difficulty as I get better at it..

On my DI I started with super easy presets, and it reduced the frustration enough to really advance my flipper skills.

Now I can do decent live catch, drop catch, post pass. Still lacking the intuition and execution big time.

What really got me hooked and buying a TNA is watching how it forces great flipper skills, emphasis on control, variety of back hand shots, deceptively simple rules, killer light show, killer sound. Basically the perfect pure pinball machine.

My TNA is shipped and making it's way to the west coast! Looking forward to getting my butt totally kicked by this thing.

That sounds awesome.

Cointaker will have the Laseriffic toppers in a few weeks. If you write them they will put you on the list to be notified when it arrives.

Nice article on TNA!

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/talking-pinball-with-the-designer-of-total-nuclear.html

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Totally different games. One of my friends in Germany got hooked on the music. I really think if it was sold in Europe it would be off the hook popular.

From the videos the game just ends after reactor 9. I’m sure over time Scott will plant new Easter eggs.

6 month waiting line. It’s not an impulse buy.

Wow the machines look fantastic. Counting down the days!

They had TPF. Recovering from TPF. Launching Alice. Lots of stuff.

I think it's to their disadvantage in terms of the "transparency" they have on every shipment that goes out being discussed here. It's easy for customers to get hypercritical, with no visibility of all the things a small company has to do day to day.

Are there multiple post mounting points for the outer drains? Just thinking of ways to make mine n00b friendly.

Just received my TNA and put a few games on it. Love it!

Only one issue so far - my 48V supply (a meanwell SE-600-48) has a SUPER loud fan. Video below.

Seems like something is wrong with it? I have several meanwell supplies on other stuff and I’ve never heard one like this?

Thanks!

Ok. Probably forced to install a better psu cooling solution..

Nice. So a 60mm 12V fan is what’s needed? Probably can add a fan pwm controller to that third pin.

Can you post a picture of the old PSU fan? Just to see the make and model.

The psu is 48V out, so there must be an internal 12V supply for the fan etc.

Ok I ordered the 60mm fan. And also this fan controller. That I will mount external to the supply. To tune the fan speed.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072M2HKSN/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1

The supply used is very high quality (Meanwell), but actually not that expensive ($70). It's a SE-600-48V supply.

The supply operates at full load up to 40C, then de-rates up to 60C. There is no active ventilation in the machine, so it depends how hot it gets. But likely the fan can be turned down a bit for normal operation. Would be goo to know how loaded the 600W supply is.

So the strangest thing happened to my TNA today.

We got it last night. I but 50 games on it. Everything was great.

My 9 year old got up and started playing. On her second game the machine was stuck in a ball search.

I had a look and only 3 balls in the trough. Hmm. No balls anywhere on the table or in any scoops.

I pulled the playfield up. Looked through the case. No balls laying in the bottom of the box. Anywhere.

How could ball 4 disappear into thin air? I added a 4th and playing it again.

Totally stumped where ball 4 could hide?

I added a 4th ball, and the game is playing fine. All scoops are empty. This AM I looked around all the slings and didn't see a ball hiding.

LOL. How can an entire pinball be missing!! I will keep looking around for it.

I looked around with a flashlight and didn't see it. Possible it's hiding somewhere. Arrgh!!

I found it! I found it!

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So my sub makes that awful “flub” sound end of game when the bass really hits. You know that sound you don’t want to hear out of a sub.

I went to adjust it (sub volume knob closest to the front of the cab) and oh my goodness it’s touchy. Tinyest change and the sub goes nuts.

Is it possible to tweak the sub to get an easier adjustment?

Spent more time tweaking my sub settings. Really touchy. Finally lucked into a setting that’s about perfect without distortion.

Given how touchy sub volume is on the 2.1 car amp, likely out the box you will want to tweak it to avoid distortion. Mine is sounding perfect now.

Hitting the right orbit is kicking my butt. Is it hard for anyone else? Also struggling to hit the scoop with the right flipper. Doing better back handing it.

This game is just wonderfully brutal. With enough forgiveness with the saves to not demoralize you.

I went to 5 balls. Tweaked the save times up. And it’s a tiny bit more friendly.

It just happened again on the same side bumper. Basically it gets kicked back and forth and gets enough power to drill into it and lock.

It has a thick rubber band around the whole kicker. Which one would I buy to hopefully fix it?

My 9 year old is all over TNA and likes it a lot better than my DI. I think the simplicity and light show is really appealing. Even as it brutalizes you. Cranking it up to 5 balls and increasing the save timers made it family friendly..

The thing is, it’s making my DI a lot less fun.. it seems pathetically slow now.

109 here and I have to wiggle the bar a bit to get it to lock down. It takes a little positioning.

I bought mine after offering a premium to another pinsider in line. Cost a nice premium but couldn’t be happier. You can always throw around $$ to see if anyone will bite.

Mine sits next to my Dialed In. It’s so fast and exercises so many flipper skills I really feel it has elevated my play in DI drastically.

But in the settings you can select at what reactor you get a free ball. Mine is 2 and 5

Just updated to 1.2 and played co-op with my 9 y/o. We had a great time working together. She loved co-op mode, and the whole idea of us vs the game.

I received a 60mm stealth fan from Amazon. I'll attempt replacing the super noisy stock fan in the PSU with the new one to cut down on the noise. My game room is comfortably silent even with my DILE, so I'm compelled to swap it out.

I paid more than $1k on top to buy a space in line. Not saying how much.

Totally worth it. I can’t stop getting punished.

My upper flipper return spring broke last night. It’s a tiny spring. Definitely not up to the task. Mine is 109. Hope they change it in future builds.

My 9 year old daughter had a sleep over party. I have TNA sitting side by side with my DILE.

All weekend they wanted to play co-op mode on TNA. They love working together to beat the reactor. High fives and good times. And always they wanted me to also play co-op with them. Which turned it into a great bonding time.

My wife who isn’t yet into pinball also got really into co-op.

So I have to say for us co-op is the single best feature of TNA!!

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Yah we made I through reactor 4 together. High fives and cheering. But the girls were sad when they didn’t get to register the app 2M score.

Having a co op high score would have meant a lot to the girls.

Nice!! I got the speaker grills but can’t figure out how to install them. Any info?

Yes. But it requires the disassembly of the power supply. Not trivial.

Before swapping the fan in my psu it was a screamer. With the game idle it literally gave me a headache.

$10 to swap in a quiet fan. It requires the removal of the psu and pulling it apart.

Buying a $210 fanless Meanwell works too. I prefer the $10 option.

Yes both the stock and new fan have arrows. Although reverse airflow will work ok.

The caps hold over time won’t be more than 10s. So no issue for shock.

But as you can see the mod is not for everyone.

I’m super happy with my quiet TNA now.

Just 4 screws attach it to the box. Then you need to remove the AC input and 48V output. I took pictures of the wiring in order to make sure I made no mistakes when re-installing it. The AC wires are a bit short, but overall pretty easy.

Make sure the machine is unplugged.

Nice 4 reactor score. I cranked mine to 5 balls, and generally make it to reactor 3 on a decent game. Have never visited reactor 4.

I brick 90%of my right orbit shots also. It’s just a super tight nasty shot.

So I just post pass to right flipper and use left orbit to enter the reactor.

So the ceramic power ball is just ultra fast?

man you guys making your TNA harder. Mine kicks my butt. I run the timers longer with 5 balls. Reactor 4 is where my journey ends.

If there is any doubt about TNA as a family game. It was the highlight of my daughters 10th birthday party. The girls spent maybe 90m playing co-op mode.

We love it!!

Put a sheet of stern HD glass on my TNA this weekend. Super nice improvement with a lot less glare/reflection. Not a bad $240 upgrade.

I’m glad I swapped the fan in my psu. As I share the room with a PC and VR. Was pretty painless.

But yah depends on the situation and person.

I also have a new LCD and yet to install it.

I just swapped my LCD with the LG panel in this thread. You have to swap both the screen and lcd control board since the resolution is different.

It’s better but still disappointing. The viewing angle still greys it out, and blacks still suck. It’s better than stock but not worth the effort imo.

Hoping someone links to a better panel.

I tuned the settings best I could. The lg panel just pretty much sucks.

Have the link for the panel you used? Maybe there are variations.

I ordered the same one.

After seeing the TNA at cax, mine does look somewhat better. I’d def be down to drop by and play some pinball sometime, and check it out.

I ended up cutting the "teeth" of the lock bar some to it could engage cleanly.