If you want to figure out every shot and best scoring check out this tutorial, that is if you have 2 hours, but it did help me out with rules and strategy but unfortunately does make me any better at execution of the shots but that is what makes this game bad ars.

I have had to adjust my crossbow / top fire button. Make sure it will plunge the ball at the start. If it won’t do that , or you have to keep pressing it to make it plunge the ball then the switch contacts need a tweak.

That looks like a great setup but ouch on the cost!!

Yeah I think it is the old saying you get what you pay for. I think flipper fidelity is about $160, and as far as I could tell not that much better, or $300 for a true audio upgrade. Me personally, not that into sound , I just want it to work but everyone has their own taste. But I did look on his site and everything is separated and has its own power source so no chance of running into a $550 board failure like I almost did.

Going through my parts, I have these brand new flipper bat covers for $10

PM me if you want

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I have the flipper fidelity in my TWD and the 8” sub is night and day difference from the original, the backbox speakers made it a bit better only.
And I am addicted to bass

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Hi guys,

I'm sure this has been mentioned before (I am about to start working my way through this thread) BUT is there a fix for the magnet in front of the prison sending the ball SDTM??

I know about hitting both flipper buttons at the same time but all that seems to do is fire the ball SDTM even faster.

Thanks for any assistance.

I mostly fixed it by having the magnet slightly angled by using washers. I posted my fix earlier. I tried an assortment of fixes. You can search under my user name. Good luck.

I really wish there was an automatic ball save if it goes SDTM... it can be disabled the first time a switch is activated. That said, pressing the flipper buttons on the second crowbar hit in the animation seems to work like 95% of the time for me.

You need to turn the core. Not the metal disc but the small coin sized core very slightly to the right or left. Like taking it from 12 o’clock to 11 or 1.

You have to loosen the huge nut around it from under the playfield. Turn it a tad bit, then retighten the nut.

All hitting the flippers does is make the magnet pulse happen when you want. Most games get to the point that no matter when you decide to pulse the magnet, it throws the ball SDTM.

Make sure latest code is on there.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I do have 1.6 code which I believe to be the latest. I'll check out adjusting the magnet/core tomorrow. Thanks guys

Got to Horde the other night. So exciting as always. Such a treat for having a good game. Who-Dey would have been the first to know I made it to our favorite mode.

I start wiggling the machine left/right when the words come up after the zombie gets whacked in the head by the crowbar. When the magnet turns of the ball goes nicely one way or the other. Not the most predictable but not SDTM either, and no surgery required.

For SDTm, the only thing that worked for me was turning the magnet. There are posts here explaining it further.

Here it is, ‘The Crate’ by Vimtoman. Looks factory and looks-works amazing, very happy. Easy fit, minutes. Even my wife likes it!!!
Get one while you can, I can highly recommend this.

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Back in the club!! Took a few years off, but bought back a really nice Pro.

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What is a TWD topper going for these days? I have one I am debating about selling if the price is right.

One just sold for $1500 here on Pinside, and there was one listed on Ebay Aus. for $4000!?

Wow!

Someone just sold one on fb for 1200. Talked to them about it. I'd love one but anything over 500 is kinda silly to me.

Man, just had a peak at your past collection. “impressive”.

Thank you. When you keep a small lineup of 4 or 5 pins, and you get bored quickly, there is always a lot of buying & selling games!!

I adjusted my machine so that it is not level side to side, but lower by about 4 degrees to the left. This improved my STDM releases from the magnets as well as from the ball coming out of the pop bumper area. I'm not going to say it never happens, but it happens much less than before I made the adjustment.

Love playing this machine. It can be frustrating as hell, but it is so rewarding when you get a good game going.

Same here. I use to get SDTM from the pop bumpers all the time and just changing the level to lean a little to the left made a world of difference.

Props to pinballjj for the horde mod implementation— I took his idea and tried it with some 3D printing. Took some iterations and patience with plastic glue but happy with the outcome .. photos don’t really capture it but shooting a giant zombie head never really made sense so this a nice upgrade .. works perfect!

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Recently purchased a TWD Pro. Everything works fine, except that occasionally after draining a ball, the end of ball bonus screen does not play; it just goes straight to ball 2, or if it's a 2 player game, straight to player 2. It's not happening all the time, but occasionally and enough to be annoying.

Anybody encounter this or have a recommendation as to what would cause this? Recently installed 1.60 also.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

If it was a quick ball, chances are you didn’t accumulate any bonus. There’s no bonus count up if that happens.

I picked up a TWD Pro this morning. I can not update the code. I tried 5 different usb drives. Formatted to Fat32. Tried to download from a different computer. Set the dip switch 8 to on.
The machine does not read the usb drive. It keeps saying to Insert usb. Right now it’s stuck on 1.41. I checked the rom chip, seems like it’s in tight. I’ve read all the suggestions in the forums. Looks like it may need a new board.
I will reach out to stern tomorrow but was hoping that someone would have the solution here.

Thanks Chutwurk, that may be the case.... let me look into it.

Where does one purchase this AWESOME translite?

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Contact @flipordie.

Check out this thread for more info: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/drawing-some-backglasses-happy-trees

Thanks, that's choice.

Did pin graffix only do a couple of the x-bow wraps fir the apron? I see there’s one example at pinball refinery- don’t see any others really? That is really cool looking! Is anyone rocking a red translucent apron? I’d be interested to see pictures, or video with the lighting kit below it..

Just discovered a weird bug (I think). I had a ball get stuck because an LED came out of one of the spots and got in the Outland which caused the ball to get stuck. I removed the glass and put the ball in the trough. I didn’t turn the game off cause I was having a decent game and I knew that with the coin door ball save on I would get my ball back. However, once the ball was returned to play the prison doors would not open as if the high voltage coil for that did not get the message to get re-enabled despite the fact that all the other coils did. The next ball everything was good again.

So I tried to figure out what was going on and after a while I was able to recreate this. If you are playing a ball and open the coin door and let the ball drain (with coin door ball saver on) the ball gets put back into play when you close the door but the prison doors won’t open. Sometimes after playing a while (perhaps after a multi ball ends or something) the doors start to work again.

It was kind of frustrating during my decent game as I couldn’t start Prison multi ball for the second time on that ball. And my last ball was brutal.

Anyone able to confirm that this is a bug? Or is it something with my game only?

I am not sure the programming is fully tweaked for infrequent events like opening the coin door during play. during normal play on mine if the doors are open and there is a lull in switch activity such as a prolonged cradle the doors will close but then reopen after a few switch hits anywhere on the playfield.

More props for this mod. Andrew did a great job ....easy install, fun toy!!! Highly recommend (if you don't already have the barn, obviously)

how is the starting value for the horde determined? Is it a percentage of your multi kill value?

Got my crate installed today, this thing is not like all the other “props” placed in the pin. This is interactive, a super cool addition to the game. Thanks Andrew!!

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Where can I get a new Crossbow/fishtank ramp?
Mine is cracked. Reached out to stern with no answer.
Is there an after market source?

Thanks flipordie it's the business!

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You need a ColorDMD

Do the pin2dmd ones work? They are reasonably priced here, just got one for the getaway.

They work but you didn’t get the full colorization w/out a ton of work coloring it for pin2dmd..

Moved it up to the front rotation, these 4 are the ones that are on all day every day. The other ones down the back are only on weekends.

Sides, i have some lollipop rails to go on it and i'm more likely to get a burst of energy if i'm looking at it all day.

It's in good company here. 4 great games, wish the Black Knight was mine but it's a loaner.

Can't see why it get's all the hate, such a great game.

AFM is still getting the most play, finally got the 5 way combo this morning.

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So which one is the best for Walking Dead, i have a pro if that matters.

Between colordmd or pin2dmd? If someone colored the game it’s installed on already I’d go with pin2dmd probably.. I mean cost wise it’s a big savings but otherwise I’d go colordmd. I had a pin2dmd in Twd briefly before swapping with my sopranos colordmd. It was fine.. very red and pink pallete. But with colordmd there was so much detail that you just couldn’t see before because of lack of contrast between shades. Esp with the stock dmd. Also I generally really like the smoothing effect you can apply with the LCD.

I recently put mine on scan lines and was pleasantly surprised, try it.

I’ve had Randy’s ColourDMD LCD in both of mine. It’s the way to go mate. Yes expensive but worth it and if you want to keep it when time to sell just reprogram to the next game you want to put it into. Not a bad idea to cover all bases and order wiring kits to suit other games, shipping a one of out is a killer.

When I got my TWD prem last year, it had a colorDMD(LED version) in it. I have swapped it for a colorDMD(LCD version set on scan mode).

I posted pics in this thread so you can go back and see what it looks like.

Led version
Pro
Direct drop in replacement for stern dmd
Con
Grainy led resolution not ideal for TWDs dmd content.

LCD version
Pro
Flexibility of picking different modes small dots, large dots, square dots, etc.
Con
The lcd has spacers that make it sit back 1/2 inch or so away from the hole in the dmd panel. If you look at it from extreme angle you can see back into the back box some. If you had speaker lights that would probably have light bleed through. Can put foam strips or something to block the light.

IMHO, the colorDMD LCD set to scan mode is definitely the way to go for TWD.