I'm considering buying an IM Prem, there is a long thread about code issues, is everyone here generally happy with the code as it is or do you find the bugs annoying and code lacking polish?

Also can you adjust the music volume and sound effects volume independently? Was thinking if I got tired of the music I could make it more a of background sound.

So what about the sound effects? do they go up when you turn the call outs up? so you can have loud call outs and sound effects but low music?

Does this mean that Stern have made changes to these mechs to make them more reliable? Any other changes?
I'm considering buying a Premium and if they have been improved I will buy NIB rather than secondhand.
I would be more confident if a bugfix update is released soon also.

Thanks for that info.

OK I get it you have had trouble and you are annoyed with the level of tweaking you had to do to a new pin, but have you got it dialled now and happy with the game?

I understand if I buy the Premium then I might have some fiddly tweaking to do, but as long as I can get it dialled perfect and stable in the end I will be happy.

Are there any people here who found theirs was easy to set up and play and does not require constant adjustment?

Also are people happy with the quality of these games? or are there some issues like in previous recent releases such as ghosting inserts and other playfield and build quality issues?

I have just sold the pin that is going to fund my next purchase, still unsure on IM I really don't want to buy into trouble and headaches.

Thanks for the feedback, it does sound like the couple of small changes Stern made do make it a bit more reliable.

New soundtrack? did you use Pinball Browser to change the music tracks? I'm thinking I would probably do that and change the tracks to Iron Maiden instrumental tracks so that it's still true to the theme, I don't like the idea of my pinball game singing at me while I play, regardless of the band.

I have found all the songs on the pinball are on YouTube as high quality instrumental versions, these are originals without the vocals, perfect
I think having instrumentals would make the callouts seem much clearer and easier to hear when not competing with singing vocals.
Also using the same songs as the pinball originally comes with means that the song choices and visuals on the screen match up.
If I do end up buying one and doing this I will send you a PM delta31 and hopefully you can answer a couple of questions I will no doubt have as a pinbrowser noob

I have been watching Iron Maiden gameplay on YouTube which is cool, but the players on Deadflip etc are so awesome it makes it look like ball times are really long.

What do people here find their average ball times are like?

I generally don't like games with really long ball times, I had TSPP and enjoyed it but often I found a game went for about 45mins which IMO is too long and I ended up selling it mostly for that reason. I have played LOTR and almost felt like walking away before finishing the game went for so long.

I would say you don't.........rules these days are so deep and complex that I find even as a keen pinball enthusiast I struggle to take them in without heaps of gameplay.

I went to a comp recently and there were quite a few new titles including JJP and Sterns, while I was playing practice games people tried to explain the rules to me but I found I could really only take in some of the basics, there is just too much to learn.

I could not imagine how difficult that would be for a non-pinball player, so I would suggest that you explain the concept that there are rules and why, then briefly explain a few things that are happening as they play and why.

But yeah keep it brief, they won't be able to or want to have too much depth to remember, better to focus on basic play technique such as don't press both flipper buttons at once

Do you have a source for that info? I really hope it is going to happen and they fix the few remaining issues.
I'm going to test play one in two weeks and if I knew an update was definitely coming it would make my decision easier.

Awesome thanks for that

I'm also wondering about the newton ball if the updated mech can be supplied to dealers for fitting on earlier build machines.