Awww c’mon....haha its a good song...The one thing I find funny about ‘can I play with madness’ is its similarities to the Go Go’s ‘our lips are sealed’. It’s basically the same song. Once you hear it, you can’t un-hear it haha.

I sold my Maiden pro a week ago but just received the Lermods spitfire plane mod as a late Christmas gift. Awesome looking upgrade but I no longer need it. I'll do $120 shipped in conus if anyone is interested. thx, Ryan

The lyrics sound like they were written by a 12 year old. It's such an awful song. I'd rather listen to nails on a chalkboard. Seriously. All the other songs are great though.

I am not a big fan of Iron Maiden music in general, but the music is very good for this machine. It almost seems like the music was custom made for the pinball machine. I would never change it, it just fits perfectly. But if you just hate the music, then you do you, and change it and enjoy it.

I got my Iron Maiden Pro towards the end of last year and it had originally been sited on location in a bar for a year or so. Have just received some protectors and mods and have started doing a complete tear down. Would like to clean it before I put all the new parts on.

Have just got to the ramps. Does anyone have some tips on removing these or advice? The ramp entrance flaps seem to be stuck to the playfield. I don't want to do something I shouldn't.

Thanks!
Adam.

I haven’t pulled the ramps on Maiden but with the ramps on Elwin’s other games, you have nuts that need to be removed under the playfield.

Yep, you're right!

Apologies, found the nuts and washers holding the ramps flush under the playfield. All good now.

Thanks!

So I set mine up this way and am blown away by how much easier loops are now. Keeping pitch maxed out for good from here on out! Way more fun like this.

anyone with a pro powder coat theres? I'm thinking of doing red. Would like to see others.

Got my 3D Anubis from PinMonk today. Nice little mod .Easy to install with great directions and comes in about the nicest package I've ever seen. Looks kick ass installed. Thanks again for putting quality above all.

Dude.....That is freak'n hilarious. That was one of my least favorite songs but now i select it just to hear the similarities. Too funny!!

Awesome. Glad to hear it exceeded your expectations for presentation!

I waxed my playfield and it was flying off the right ramp. I solved the problem by slightly loosening a screw on that ramp. I guess being slightly loose absorbs some of the speed.

Enter the Powerslave...hanging in the background, guarding the bull's-eye target and showing his overall disgruntlement.

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Very cool! Where did you find those ?

Thanks. I found it online, eBay I think. It is the NECA version Powerslave, I believe.

Popped the legs off of the figure, partially loosened the lower screw holding the back playfield plastic to the right of the bull's eye target and did a figure-eight zip tie from behind the head of the screw to around the back of his belt. Another zip tie holding his staff (in hand) to the right ramp post and it is solid as a rock, hovering above the back orbit and plastic underneath the right ramp. Played a couple games, didn't block any shots, didn't budge at all.

How do you set up a bill acceptor on this game? The manual says setting 46 is a bill acceptor but I don't see it in either of the setting menus. I have an AE 2411 U5 that I'm not sure is set up properly. Id had the green wire going to the center of the connector, but I cut that and added a lug like what I saw on newer versions. The factory connector on the other side does not have a green wire in it in the center.

When I did the update the acceptor spun while it did the node board update after I unplugged it. When I plugged it back it is didn't spin, so maybe it was just until the node update was done. On the next power up it did not spin the belts so I think that's ok, and I know it gets power. The green lights by the opening the bill goes into are not on, so that's why I think there is a setting I don't see, or something is wrong with the acceptor.

Is the bill cartridge on it? If it's not the green lights won't come on.

Looking to hook a powered Polk 10" sub up to my Maiden Pro. What's the easiest way?? Spoke w/ the 2 guys selling line out cables for spike systems on the marketplace. While both guys were SUPER helpful both said their cables wouldn't work w/ Maiden for different reasons. Anyone hook up a sub to their pro? If so, how did you do it???? Thanks in advance for any info

It is. The status light at the bottom of the cartridge is not on, but if I push the blue button and hold it the red light will come on as long as I hold it. So it's getting power, but seems to think something is wrong.

I like the PinSub because it's clean and easy to revert if I want. I know some think it is a waste but it was worth it for me to not have to figure out another way to do it.

https://pinnovators.myshopify.com/collections/iron-maiden-legacy-of-the-beast/products/pinsub-spike-spike2-stern-kit

Easiest is to piggyback a pair of wires on the game's cabinet speaker, run them out through a vent in the cab and connect them to the Polk's speaker-level inputs. Keep the positive/negative the same as the cab speaker.

I’m coming up to a year in this hobby. I now have 3 pins and IMDN is my precious .I have had big scores but for the life of me I cannot play a controlled game I still just want to flip on the fly .I completly understand the code now and know what to do .I somewhat got the nudging down but for the life of me cannot play control pinball .I have a brain block with cradling and playing precision pinball especially during multi balls when the ball save expires .I just can’t break through I have no idea what it is .Any help with this would be greatly appreciated .As always ...UP THE IRONS!!

Are the dip switches properly configured - switch 8, especially?

Do you have the right harness adapter for an amusement bill acceptor and not a vending one? They look similar, but they're not.

The light at the bottom in back should be blinking if there's no cartridge installed.

Ditto....really easy to just alligator clip some speaker wire directly to the sub and then out a vent in the back to the polk.

Gotta force yourself to change the way you play. I’d suggest learning stage flipping, IMDN is a perfect game to learn this technique and in the process it will force you to cradle. Doing this may help re-program your mind while you learn a new trick. Stage flipping, if you didn’t already know, is cradling with the bottom flippers and lightly releasing the pressure on the buttons so the upper flippers release opening up shots that they would normally block.

That works, but you can have feedback issues if you have more than one pin hooked to the same sub. I use the pinnovators sub hookup, much cleaner sound.

https://pinnovators.myshopify.com/collections/stern-subwoofer-kits/products/pinsub-sam-stern-kit

Hey delt31 here is my pro in navy blue with red accents. I like the way it turned.

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Interesting...I think IDMN is one of the easiest games for me( from my collection)
To slow down and control. Keep in mind though my scores aren't the greatest. Go figure.

You are absolutely correct...its great because there are plenty of multiball moments that need stage flipping from both flippers. Just be aware for new owners, when I got my IMDN, the flipper contacts prevented flipper staging so you might have to manually bend the contact blades to allow for it.

Thanks! Looks nice too. Can't go wrong with orange, red or blue it seems!

If I power off, turn on switch 8, and power back on the red light comes on and the belt runs non-stop until I turn it off. I have the 2-wire harness that stern supplied with the game plugged in by the cab mode board. Then plugged the 3x3 connector on the DBA into the matching one at the coin door.

What does your harness adapter square connector look like (which have pins). Have you used this adapter before? I'm wondering if you got a vending adapter instead of an amusement adapter.

Im noticing flipper weakness about 350 games into my pro. Has anyone has something similar? I used to blast the back of the pharaoh target and now I'm barely clearing the ramp (right flipper). Recently waxed but debating another coat.... but this absolutely feels like a weakening flipper and not wax etc.

Edit: Right flipper. Left one seems fine.

I'd check for mechanical issues like a cracked bushing or damaged coil sleeve.

Coil stop. Very common on Stern because they are using stops they know suck. When they fail, it will rob power. Check that first. Also look for gold "dust" in the areas below the coil in the cabinet. This is a telltale sign.

Pinball Life has the coil stops you want.

Replace coil stops...especially if you see any metal flakes in the cab. Sterns could stops are crap.

They sell pre made up ones in the market place. Super easy and sounds great.

Check the flipper is not too tight against the playfield.

Is there an easy way to tell the difference? I don’t have any adapters on the DBA, it’s wires coming out of the body, going into the connector. That connector plugs into the mating connector at the coin door of the game. The 2-wire harness that came with the game going to the power supply is the only other thing I added and there is a single page that came with the game saying to add that and how to do it.

The wires coming out of the DBA are the adapter harness. It's connected to a 2 row 16 (?) pin connector on the DBA side, and a square molex on the side that connects to the pin. You can tell by the arrangement of the pins in the square molex which type it is.

Question. How does the coil stop effect power? The coil pulls the shaft in and the coil stop obviously just stops the momentum. All the energy is from the coil pulling in. How does the stop effect it ?

If the coil stop isn't aligned perfectly it can change the angle that the coil plunger must travel through the coil, causing binding. This often happens with newish Sterns because the rivet on the factory-installed coil stops will often disintegrate within a few hundred games, causing the stop "plug" to separate from the mounting bracket and forcing the plunger to travel at odd angles, etc.

Powered Polk sub has female RCA input only. Thats why the cables in market place don't work. Unfortunatley alligator clip route isn't an option.

If you look on youtube you will find a how-to on converting an RCA plug-in into two leads so you can use A-clips. I made the modified cable for one of my subs that only had RCA jacks and it worked.

The issue is the style of game you've chosen. Keith designes trap and shoot games, and you sound like you're still in the free-flow stage of playing. I would embrace this stage of your development as it is soooo much fun! Old W/B games are perfect for you. The absolute best game to learn on is TAF. Second would be TZ. Third would be a tie between AFM and MB. These games were designed for players like you, and you will likely love them. IMDN wasn't deisgned for that type of play. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy IMDN, but learning ball control takes years. It also takes away from the magic of free-flow play IMHO.

New owner checking in.... I wish I bought this pin years ago! Plays fast, shots and flow are satisfying. Most importantly, my wife LOVES the game.

Up The Irons!

Holy freaking hell do I love this game. Ive owned my pro for just over 2yrs now and its still my favorite game to play ever. (And im fortunate enough to have occasional access to many great and rare games to play during better non covid times)

I just put up my personal best in the new code but more importantly for me and the way i enjoy my games is i was so damned close to Battle the Beast for the first time (and im not even mad that i failed to get there). The new code is much more forgiving to endgame play. I had my Trooper, Mummy and Cyborb cards collected and i was one letter away from starting 2M2M. Finishing that would have been the first time id made it to the Beast. 7 new records at once. My hands were shaking after id drained my last ball.

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I love this machine but the loop shot is really tough for me...

So I did this: https://vimeo.com/501553060