Love all the show call outs
I might have to get that fence and EL mod on mine. You have under cabinet lighting too? Looks great!

Weird, I didn't have to tweak a thing on mine and I have an early run too. Maybe you just got one with a bad part? Stern will fix you up. One thing about Stern is their QC sucks but they bend over backwards to make it right.

Yes I have undercab lighting and backbox flashers. I bought everything off the pinball refinerys TWD page on their website. So it's basically a "refinery edition" TWD.

Thanks, I'm going to look into those, looks great!

Wow. That was fast. I'll get started. Guess I'd better go get the pro.
Oh, and an X-Men if I find one.

I gave you pics of the xmen pro. What else do you need?

It sucks that you are having issues, and you have every right to be frustrated. I don't think it's fair to compare the game to Avengers, though. With TAV, the need to majorly tweak it was pretty much inescapable. Other than perhaps a few switch adjustments for the bash toys, TWD is generally quite a solid player right out of the box. Yes, the left ramp was a problem on early builds, but that has since been corrected by the factory. The crossbow issue you are experiencing is not common at all.

Thanks. What tweaks have you guys done to the zombie in the barn? Granted, I haven't looked at the switch yet, but plan to this weekend. Lemme know your suggestions. Thanks!

I agree. Mine has been great out of the box other than the left ramp issue which was quickly fixed by Stern. No comparison at all with Avengers, as virtually every one of those had numerous things that needed to be tweaked/dialed in.

The only thing you can really do here is adjust the switch to make it more sensitive. Mine does not register every hit either. There must be something about the angle of it, because my Well Walker and Bicycle Girl register the slightest of impacts.

When we were playing your TWD, I remember the xbow not working from time to time like mine is. It would start to go then stop and sometimes go and release, and other times it would ball search itself. Is that not the case anymore?

It's actually pretty much *never* done that except for when you played it! Funny how that works.

He has "the touch"

Interesting. Makes me wonder if it's a bug during 2-player games? I had mine working great then played a game the other day with my niece and it started acting up again.

Next time you guys play your TWD can you do me a favor and play a few 2-player games and let me know if it acts up?

I adjusted the sensitivity on the switch of multiple games we worked on so they were more sensitive and registered all hits. Out of the box I found the majority were not sensitive enough.

Ah thanks Gio. That's pretty much what I've been doing. had it working good for about 20 straight games then started acting up just the other night.

Did you mean this reply to apply to his question/problems with the cross bow? Or are you talking about the prison walker?

I don't know how a 2 player game would screw up the cross bow. I will give it a try tonight though.

My problem now isn't the head registering hits but the Optos that register hits and spell prison. They worked perfectly until the latest update where stern made them "more sensitive" in the code. Now they don't register all the time, especially with really hard hits.

My crossbow goes into ball search every now and then too SKB. Doesn't bother me, I'm waiting on Yoko's bow mod and will look at it then.

The prison walker head has been great for me, registers every time and never had a problem with the magnet. The pro I played on location needed an adjustment.

No other issues of any kind for me. Once I got it dialed in all I have to worry about is keeping the beer ice cold!

I was referring to the Prison walker. The Crossbow issue was not common in the games we worked on.

Try reseating the optic sensor wires. Just like the ball trough problems.

That's what I thought. Thanks.

Glad I'm not alone. Bothers me when a main feature doesn't work more than 95% of the time. Especially since I was just learning the rules of the bow and actually enjoying it a lot.

He said that it goes into ball search once in awhile. So does mine. Started happening after the most recent update and its common.

I don't think this is the same issue that you are having. Even when the game goes into ball search when the ball is locked in the crossbow, the crossbow still works when you hit the button. Is that what's happening with yours?

For some reason by crossbow doesn't go into ball search nearly as often as it did right after the update.

Yea youre right. Different issue. Mines not a ball search. It's a stutter step. And when it stutters it immediately shuts down the xbow mode meaning all xbow shots are not lit as if regular play is back in action.

I have exactly the same issue with mine and like you have tried adjusting switches etc,if I find a remedy I will post it up.

Update: I found this wire connector to the Z connector very loose. got it a little tighter and secure. Will update if it resolves it but this switch connector is related to the closed door switch. The problem appears to reside in one of these switches around the prison.

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Man my Premium has been one of the more reliable sterns i've had. Only had to replace the cable that seems to be a major problem on this title. Never have had an issue with the crossbow.

Turning out to not be a flakey switch. At a lost. Stern tech support really hasn't chimed in much. Gio has been helpful thankfully. Will see what happens. Here's the issues in case any others are having them, all these issues are inconsistent and don't happen regularly but 'seem' to happen more often when the prison doors are open for clear the yard and bg ramp is up and running bg mode:

Woodbury: when the shot is made it auto awards the first reward and auto launches simultaneously before even displaying the awards.

Xbow: cancels the mode before the bow even goes out more than half an inch; motor stops then starts and auto fires (I presume because when the mode auto cancels the ball switch is still detected.

Skill shot: sometimes cancels the final shot into the inlane and awards no skill shot. This is after the ball rolls over the star lanes.

At this point; if I had to guess the issue, I'd say it's the first star lane sensor that's the issue because of items #1 and #3 above. I disconnected the sensor and it seemed to happen more often but still not consistent. I'm at a lost and this is above my pay grade lol. Hopefully others with these symptoms can chime in. I'll wait to hear back from Gio or stern before starting a tech help thread.

Due TWD is very hard to play I decided to add some "cheating flipper bats". This bats are an idea from a friend and me.
The clue .. you can make them easily longer and easily adjust them from the top. No more playfield flipping for adjusting.
The bats are made out of very highgrade aluminium and are playing great with superbands on the TWD. Also I like the design.

I will show up with this bats later (also on pinjournal) because we are having some little problems with mountimg them on Bally/Williams machines but for STERN they work very well. They are made out of full aluminium in professionel quality.
I sell them for TWD in red ( we have also black and blue) for 89,90 EURO plus 10 EURO shipping worldwide.

Please have a look on the pictures.
I still have 2 sets as shown (can made longer up to 6 mm, have 3 screws and a weight of 67 gramm ) and 3 sets "new model" (which can be made shorter - 3 mm and longer + 3 mm, have 2 screws and weight is 55 gramm). Original bats have around 30 gramm.

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I need them to be like this:

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Uhhh ... nearly possible

Lifted the playfield this morning on my new TWD pro and to my surprise, all the LEDs on my TWD pro are not those surface board mounted types but regular 44 and 555 bulbs.

Because of this I might want to look at changing some colours on it, does anyone know if colour changers like on the premium and LE would work in the same way if added to a pro or would the code not make use of them the same?

Thanks

No colour changing available in the pro. You can put coloured bulbs in there but they will be static.

I wish KISS was the same but the pro is surface mounted so can't change out but TWD i can

Ah well, thanks anyway

Have ordered some LED's to mix it up a bit, putting green in the W-E-L-L inserts, purple in the P-R-I-S-O-N ones, blue in the walker kill inserts, red in the 9 number inserts at the bottom and a colour changer in Last Man Standing, hopefully to encourage me to get it lit one day

Also, is there anyone else who's TWD pro has 2 small daughter boards on the power driver board, forget which connectors it was exactly but one was the lower left and the other on the far left side close to the light tube holder.

Thanks

They sound like the termination resistor boards for the lamp matrix. The shorter one goes on the far left where the yellow harness plugs in for lamp columns. The longer one goes down the bottom on the left where the red harness plugs in for the lamp rows.

Do they look like this?

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Thats exactly it, I take it these are perfectly normal to have?

Thanks.

TomDk that weight is too heavy on the flipper bushings, it will break them causin the flipper to drag on the playfield. (seen it from experience)

Yep. Totally normal from the factory on LED pros. They address ghosting. You can leave them off as an experiment and you will see ghosting in some of your inserts. And if you remove the little power cable between them with the boards in place you will see really bad ghosting.

Mhhh .. so far no reclamation about that and I have around 50 customers.
Did you buy from me ? At least in Europe we are exclusively selling the AdPins.
If you think the plastic bushings are too cheap and china stuff:

We have them also in bronce

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Do you have a website so I can view all your products?

http://www.adpin.de/sprachauswahl/german/home/

But so far only in German. We are working on an international version.
Bushings for STERN are in production. bally William available

BUT .. I will now stop my commercial. Here we are just talking about a little helper for TDW
and an alternate for closing the outlanes.
In my outlanes I have WMS starpost , little bigger in diameter than the original ones but, for sure, it makes the pin noz easy to play anyway.

hi all

joined the club over the weekend. love the game. i see some people have racked up over a billion points on it. any ideas about the best mods to get for it?

thanks

start with voice mod its free and changes game to a more enjoyable experience, then save up, because modding this one is gonna run about the price of another used pin

Had my best game ever last night - finally got to horde. Wow what a mode! If you don't have a shaker in this game its worth it for this mode alone.

What would be the easiest way to get at the Right outlane post? I want to adjust down but I want to take apart the least amount stuff to get there.

Going off memory here but it was actually easier than it looked; i believe it was 2 or 3 screws on the main ramp above it will give you enough free room to unscrew it and move it down.

To unscrew i used a small skinny phillips to keep the screw in place and used a nut driver from underneath to unscrew. Just be careful when you get to the end not to drop the nut

Then, with nut(s) in hand, and the 3 screws off the main ramp, you should be able to unscrew and pull the screw out enough to move the screw and post down to the next notch. Tighten, then put ramp screws back and you're golden!