Got my mint (seriously, looks like it just came out of the box!) TSPP the other day and have not had such a blast in a long time. I have only ever played this a handful of times before and know it's deep, but man, there is so much going on all the time! I am a big LED lover but I have to say the incandescents that are directly below and glow through the orange ramps are absolutely beautiful. They are staying.

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I'm pretty sure any targets that happen to be up when you are in the I&S scoop always drop before it attempts to eject. I have not once had it try to eject with a target still up. But mine could be the odd one.

A couple of times now I've had to reach into the garage and clear the ball. It seems to be stuck on not much at all, almost like a magnetised ball might stick to another one in ST. Is there something I should get in there and adjust? No problem investigating, just thought I'd check to see if it was a common issue first.

And if the garage doesn't always open when I hit it, is that just the switch not always registering? Or do I have to light something to open it? I'm pretty sure it's the switch as sometimes the hurry up doesn't register either. I can't find anything to "light garage to open", so I'm thinking the switch.

That is normal wear. Cliffy makes a protector for that spot.

Personally, once the shooter lane is gone I don't do anything about it. Doesn't affect gameplay and there's no point in putting the protector there. That wear has been caused by many, many more games than you are likely to put on it at home. You can put the protector on to pretty it up, but be aware that the thinner protectors can deform to take the shape of the worn depression that they are covering.

Thanks for the feedback Elfman. Here's what it turned out to be. The switch arm in the garage was scraping against the left ball guide. So if the ball was going at juuuust the right speed, it would get caught by the sticky switch arm. This is why it only ever happened a couple of times. Imagine the odds of a ball having enough momentum to get over the gap, but not enough to push the switch out of the way, and get stuck on the back side of the ramp being held in place by the switch arm pressing against the ball guide. This is why it was so easy to clear and felt like it was stuck on not much at all..as soon as my finger nudged the ball, the switch would give and all would return to normal.
I bent the switch arm a little to clear that ball guide and all fixed 100%.
Man I love this machine. And the kids are NUTS for it. Best, kid, theme, ever.

Just to hammer home the LED OCD necessity in TSPP..

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After..

It's the fade control that makes it. LEDs are a digital component and in their natural state are just on or off. The thing a lot of people like about incandescents is how they ramp on and off. OCD allows this effect to be accomplished with LEDs.

I'll add a before video above to make it clearer. There are other before and after videos in the main LED OCD thread.

Most of the time out of the box is fine. I've only ever adjusted the settings for ST.

Is there a setting to turn off the pity extra ball? I so hate being offered that ball just because my first two sucked so bad, haha. I've searched through the menus and can't spot it. Maybe it's just part of the general difficulty setting.

Thanks. Stoopid me thought consolation ball was the ball you got for not hitting any switches on the way through.

Every now and then I speed run Alien Invasion for fun. Take the challenge. Here is my best so far at 7min 45sec, with a big chunk of wasted time in there. Should be easy for someone to beat.

Titans. Awesome. Yellows at the bottom and purple on the third. Yes, purple is a surprisingly good look.

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I don't even know how to get there.

I didn't notice a difference when I put mine in.

Honestly, you will not notice one iota of difference. Compression is the issue here, not speakers. I used to change ALL my backbox speakers. I now change NONE of them, so this is not a dogmatic call. I've lived it. Seriously, don't sweat it.

More yellow!!

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Just blue LEDs. They come out a little purple in real life, but the camera exaggerates that too. They are more blue to look at.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tspp-owners-club-members-only?tq&tu=timebandit#post-2734660

This is totally true for under the orange ramps. Of all my machines, the only incandescent bulbs that remain anywhere are the GI that can be seen through the TSPP ramps, and the red Ringwraith flasher in LOTR.