Allowed me to delve into the world of sleeping and anti anxiety meds...yeah, it has it's perks...congrats on getting the auditor pass....mines coming next Tuesday.....joy...

Anyone care to elaborate on the major tweaks and changes going from version 4 to the latest version 5? a must have update in your opinion?

Well i fiddled with my kwickymart rollover switch and i have it registering rollovers from either direction.
I think the basic problem was the wire loop attached to the switch arm wasnt sticking up enough. Also I noticed that the ball when coming around clockwise kinda pushed the switch over instead of down. Balls coming from the top/counterclockwise hit the rollover switch pretty much head on and would register more often.

To adress both issues, i removed the switch and used two pairs of pliers to slightly bend the wire loop so it is leaning a bit towards the top of the playfield. Also i bent it so it sticks up at a sharper angle into the slot.

This may seem obvious to others, but its my first time really fiddling with a switch like that, so i thought id post my solution.

Installed cliffy protectors for the shooter lane, the moe loop, the center loop, and the tree house left loop. Also put some leds in hard to reach places while i had the upper playfield and left loops out.

For under plastic areas i used cointaker warm white frosted
For the lights under the clear lamps toward the back of the playfield, i used cointaker warm white retro.

I use cointaker LED's too, have you used any for inserts yet? if so, which kind? (and do you color match?)

Premium non ghosting for the inserts, I color match.

Yup…. Same here.

Cool thnx guys

I used the premium non ghosting color matching on my met pro. They worked really good.

I was considering just using warm white frosted for the main playfield inserts on TSPP, though. Mostly because i have a bunch of them.

Some of the inserts are side mounted (upper playfield and headlights for the car). Id want to use flex head leds for those. So frosted everywhere, but the few side mounted ones would look weird if they has different intensities of light.

Ill probably wait till the next cointaker sell or promo rate and by that time ill have a purchase order layed out for how many of each base type and color to get. And just go with the premium non ghosting ones.

Fellow TSPP owners, if you are looking for a good condition center metal ramp, I put one up for sale in the marketplace. It does have some blemishes on the ramp flap (which is available from marco), I just was too chicken to attempt to replace the flap myself. So I ended up ordering a ramp+flap from marco and installed it this weekend.

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/ad/17254

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hi all

Is anyone here the person that was selling the donut flipper toppers on etsy ? They look really cool.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/176063861/the-simpsons-and-the-simpsons-pinball

Looks like they closed shop for a bit ?

Does anyone have it ? How do they stay on ?

Thanks

Jim

Take a look at this thread from two years ago. It's PinsOnly's wife who makes them. Try sending him a PM and he might have some.

See post #45
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/does-anyone-still-make-mods-for-tspp

http://www.sternpinball.com/game-code/game-code-the-simpsons-pinball-party
in the download is a "read me" text file that explains the code updates in detail... you can determine whether the differences matter to you or not.

May be buried earlier in the thread.....used Cliffys for all the standard Posts ( took a lot of the " clicking" out) but looking for the size to fit the larger post on right side of garage door, soft rubber version.
Any ideas?....thanks.....mark

Check page 4
First post links to a pinballlife link, and some other ideas afterwards.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tspp-owners-club-members-only/page/4

Thanks! i will check it out.

I have had them on mine for over a year, and no problems - look great.

If you all haven't gotten the Color DMD, it is amazing! Gives it a completely new flavor and is the ultimate mod. The upscaling looks almost as good as the actual cartoons.
As you can tell, I am a fan!

Just installed mine this morning. Haven't had a chance to play w/ the settings yet.

But, wow...what a difference.

Thanks!!! just got home from work and will check out tonight.....mark

A few questions. A couple adjustment/possible fix related. The other just general table info.

First - I'm having an intermittent couch issue. Upon locking a third ball, the multiball animation starts as it should, but now and then, one of the balls gets caught as it's being released. Like the coil pulls the plunger back enough for a ball to fall, but then releases it again and wedges the ball in place as it's dropping out of the couch. If it happens to the first ball released the game will go into ball search mode and it will try again. The first time I ever noticed it, it had happened to the third ball and it just held it in place until the other balls drained. If I remember right I had to manually remove that one.

Any ideas on what's going on or what to adjust? I've got the weld fix in place, and I don't think there's anything wrong with the switches - multiball certainly starts when it's supposed to every time.

Also - now and then (But oddly enough not at all over the past 10-15 games) the VUK leading to the upper playfield isn't getting the ball all the way up. Don't think it's ever taken more than two tries, but it bothers me when it happens. Suggestly tweak or part to replace to adjust for that?

Lastly - not sure on what the part's actually called, but the wire guide between the left outlane and inlane. Is it supposed to be vertical to the playfield? Mine seems to be a bit angled with the top closer to the side of the machine. Often times if I hold the left flipper to try to help trap a ball, or if a ball rolls up the left inlane, it will reach the top and roll up and over. While obvious defenses against this include "Stop doing that" and "Nudge, you dummy", it still annoys me and I mention it since the guide on the right side appears perfectly vertical. Is mine bent, or is that by design? There's a picture in the manual on page 130 that seems to show it angled way more than mine is. The pictures on the IPDB entry and other Google search results are from angles where it's hard to tell. Can anyone check theirs and tell me if it's angled as well?

Mine is angled at the top as well

Angled is correct.

Thanks for checking. Much appreciated. Was just driving me nuts and I assumed I had a bent part, but then noticed that picture in the manual and thought I'd ask.

Quite an evil little design choice.

I suppose there is a bit of a trade off there.

Actually it would have been evil if it wasn't angled, it'd be outlane drains to the left all day long!

OK this might sound entirely crazy, but just in case someone is interested, I thought I'd post before tossing things.

Recently installed a set of cliffys for my table and while I was at it I replaced my couch and the garage ramp.

If anyone for some reason has a couch that is in worse shape than the one I just replaced but just doesn't feel like buying a new one - I'd be happy to send this one to you.
It's cracked - see the pic. Of course it doesn't effect play at all, it's just not perfect and it was bothering me. Still if you're missing your couch or if yours is a trainwreck - you're welcome to this one if you'd like. EDIT - Couch potentially claimed.

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Same goes for the ramp that I replaced. I have no idea how or why, but my garage ramp was damaged, but not in the usual way. The front lip that can crack off and make garage shots hard/impossible is still fine. No real damage that I can see at all. But the other end of the ramp - where the ball dumps into the VUK? Battered somehow - no idea what happened. And as you can see, the former owner/operator jerry rigged it up. Ugly as can be, but works fine. So - got a garage ramp with a busted from lip? Don't want to pay the $50 for a new one and don't mind some crazy crap under the playfield? Free to a good home.

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PM me if you're interested. It won't hurt my feelings if you laugh and tell me to take out the garbage.

Oh. And while I was at it, I managed to swap out an LED for what I am going to guess is the least LED'd bulb on the table.
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Ha ha. Got you. And I didn't have to pull the Moe ramp to do it. Some long fingers, some needlenose pliers, a little swearing, and some light pressure. Done.

Hi all just wondering if anyone can give me sum general tips for the garage door.It intermittantly gets stuck a few times per game till a ramdom hit will open it all the way up.Do i replace coil? Just clean it? Make sure plunger that opens door is functioning fine?Would it improve things to replace with new coil(its been 6-7 yrs since ive had it)?Hopefully its just cord around white plunger like once b4 but just wanted to know if above questions will help if it still happens and isnt cord caught .Thank you all

Stern has an updated, stronger coil they recommend for the garage door. I did it on mine and it completely solved this issue. New coil sleeve at the same time is a good idea.

24-940 coil.

thanks a lot for that and quick reply,have a nice day

I'm just curious how these GI sockets are installed from underneath. I know DE games stapled the sockets in place, making it near impossible to change bulbs from underneath. Is that how Stern did it with TSPP? It's been a while since I've owned games from this era (RCT, LOTR, T3).

The sockets in my TSPP are wood screwed into the bottom of the playfield. But they have a rubber oring between the playfield and the socket. Kinda strange to me. My newer sterns dont have the rubber in there, just the socket screwed to the playfield.

My guess, the rubber reduces vibration and/or provides a spacer. Likely stopped doing it to save time and cost. I like them.

It's like Rickwh says. But there's a couple where there are other parts mounted over the socket underneath. I swapped out most of the GI from the bottom by just unscrewing the socket, swapping the bulb, and then returning it. That little light there was blocked from both sides and you're forced into dismantling something from either direction.

part no please so i buy correct sleeve,thank you

http://www.sternpinball.com/upload/games/226/the/1561/The_Simpsons_Manual.pdf

Page 93 (numbered on document pages) has the garage door parts list.

Little late, but I'm in! Already put in colordmd and duff can speaker leds, itchy protector and leds in inserts. Loving tspp

Sleeve Part #: 545-5076-01

I'm in the club. Got my machine about a week ago. First machine for me. Soooo much to learn and do. Main projects are learning how to adjust Itchy and Scratchy so it doesn't shoot SDTM, and trying to find all new ramps. Can find all but the tree house ramp through the online retailers, but that ramp is sold out everywhere I can find. Anyone know a good place to try, or have one to sell.

Welcome to the club! Found it on a google search

http://www.pinballspareparts.com.au/515-7270-00.html

And this just expired marketplace add.

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/archive/16476

Wish the expired stuff would say who was selling it...

TSPP was the very first pinball ( NIB ) I purchased nearly 10 years ago and still have it. Great game.

Can someone explain the rules relating to the bully targets.

To get the bully skillshot, dont you have to go through the kwikemart... So does that count as both a bulky and a kwikemart skill shot?

Is there a reward/mode for completing all three bullies a certain number of times?

Do they add to bonus x?

I know there is a tv mode that you are supposed to hit the bullies, anything else?

The reason i ask is cause i am suspect that the targets might need adjusted on my machine. They all work in switch test mode both by manually pressing them and by rolling a ball at them. But in gameplay they rarely get hit straight on, always bouncing off the garage door etc. i want to pay attention and see if they are working properly.

How hard of a hit should it take to register? Other than lighting the insert for that bully, what else should happen?

Rick

For the skillshot the bully targets are lit one at a time in sequence.
You need to hit the target that is currently lit after going through the kwik-e-mart.

The DMD should show the bully getting hit in the head by a pinball and it scores 250,000 for the first hit + 50,000 for each additional hits.
It should also award you the kwik-e-mart bonus multiplier.

Bully targets also light daredevil at the captive ball

Thanks for the info. Played a few games and it looks like things are working just as you guys said. Thanks!

Austin's SXSW event will have this:

http://2015.do512.com/p/a-simpsons-kwik-e-mart-squishee-truck-is-coming-to-sxsw

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When The Simpsons Movie came out a dozen (I think) 7-11s were converted for a while.

Worked a couple blocks from here.
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Sometimes i get balls coming down the monorail and they fall off the wireform. Not immediatley at the transition. They fall off after the first couple turns on the wireform. They fall off and either go back into the shooterlane or outlane. Sometimes the ball almost falls off and rolls down the right rail of the wireform before falling in and continuing down to the flipper.

Doesnt happen all the time, and it doesnt seem to have to be a fast ball coming down from the upper playfield.

Any suggestions for fixing?

Machine is level left/right and is set to correct pitch according to bubble level on playfield. I was thinking of maybe adding a couple washers to raise the lower part of the ramp so ball goes a bit slower?

sounds like your wireform is a little twisted/bent. just guessing... but maybe someone during it's past life had leaned on it while working on the playfield ?

It doesnt seem bent. But i had it apart to put some new rubber in there. Maybe i didnt get it back in place correctly. Ill take another look. And maybe get a video.