Quoted from arcyallen:

I had three balls (if I remember right) stuck in there once. I gave it a few minutes, and it self cleared. It does a quick spin, and then later a more thorough spin to get them out.

Quoted from prentice:

Anyone ever have their game just decide to end mid-game?
I had a kid multi ball going (and possibly gobstopper multi stacked), and then suddenly my flippers went dead, all the balls drained. As far as I recall, the screens weren't showing anything special, and definitely no Tilts shown onscreen, although it acted like it somehow activated the Tilt code. I didn't even have any tilt warnings, and my sensor is set at the easiest tilt setting, all the way down.
Fortunately it wasn't an amazing game, and I've not seen this happen before. I haven't updated the code in a few months, but I think it is the latest version as of late Dec.

Quoted from judremy:

I was able to add light bars to my Willy Wonka and tap into the GI. The light strips reflect the same color as the GI as they are 5V RBG strips. Curious if anyone wants to see a video or instructions?

Quoted from judremy:

I was able to add light bars to my Willy Wonka and tap into the GI. The light strips reflect the same color as the GI as they are 5V RBG strips. Curious if anyone wants to see a video or instructions?

Quoted from Vernisious:

There is a kickback timer setting. Change to a shorter amount of time after it hits the switch. I believe you can also have the game ball save if kickback fails. I know The Hobbit does.

Quoted from hiker2099:

My Wonka is making tick tock noises from the speaker upon startup. Gameplay is still normal but I can’t get it to stop making the noise. Does anybody have any idea what is happening?
Maybe a fuse? I don’t know where to look?

Quoted from seenev:

Is it like this?

Quoted from hiker2099:

Yes just like that

Quoted from seenev:

It was an intermittent problem for me. Had to go through the troubleshooting process with JJP. They eventually sent me a new sound card.

Quoted from seenev:

It was an intermittent problem for me. Had to go through the troubleshooting process with JJP. They eventually sent me a new sound card.

Quoted from judremy:

I was able to add light bars to my Willy Wonka and tap into the GI. The light strips reflect the same color as the GI as they are 5V RBG strips. Curious if anyone wants to see a video or instructions?

Quoted from hiker2099:

What did they say was wrong?

Quoted from seenev:

They never said. They just saw the video after various troubleshooting steps and said they'd send a new sound card.

Quoted from woodmedic:

I just got home from work and fired up my new Wonka to show it off. The main display showed no signal and what should be on the big screen, is being displayed on the small wonka vision screen. Any ideas to fix this? I rebooted the game twice but it is still the same.

Quoted from Green-Machine:

Had my Wonka for a few weeks now… I hear the term “saucer” I’m not sure what this is. Could someone enlighten me?

Quoted from seenev:

Right wonkavision shot.

Quoted from VinnyBlanc:

When you start a new game with “WONK” lit and hit the standard skill shot, shouldn’t the +1 factory advance portion of the skill shot trigger the “A” and qualify a factory mode next time the saucer is hit? I’ve only had my wonka LE for about two weeks but could have sworn this was how it worked originally. I know the skillshot is registering because I am getting the points associated with the skill shot, just not the factory advance. Maybe I’m crazy….. If not, any troubleshooting suggestions?

Quoted from judremy:

I was able to add light bars to my Willy Wonka and tap into the GI. The light strips reflect the same color as the GI as they are 5V RBG strips. Curious if anyone wants to see a video or instructions?

Quoted from Green-Machine:

Feeling good about my progress
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Quoted from GranpaDave:

Great score! Hope you are using Scorbit to challenge others. Don’t get too good too fast.

Quoted from seenev:

New topper? [quoted image]

Quoted from GranpaDave:

Great score! Hope you are using Scorbit to challenge others. Don’t get too good too fast.

Quoted from Rager170:

Too many cheaters to compare to others like that unfortunately.

Quoted from Rager170:

Too many cheaters to compare to others like that unfortunately.

Quoted from daveyvandy:

Do you think so? I got the impression from the scores on scorbit that they were all pretty legitimate. I know I've seen some people break 100 million on Wonka in this thread before, and right now in scorbit the highest scores are below that for SE (I think I may even be number one for the SE at around 65m).
That's also why having friends on score bit is a good thing. I constantly challenge my dad since we both have GNR. It would be pretty obvious if either one of us were cheating

Quoted from Green-Machine:

What I find amazing is that cheaters feel like it’s okay to post a score as if they were playing at default. Not sure how cheating would make a person feel good! It’s very strange to me.

Quoted from daveyvandy:

Do you think so? I got the impression from the scores on scorbit that they were all pretty legitimate. I know I've seen some people break 100 million on Wonka in this thread before, and right now in scorbit the highest scores are below that for SE (I think I may even be number one for the SE at around 65m).
That's also why having friends on score bit is a good thing. I constantly challenge my dad since we both have GNR. It would be pretty obvious if either one of us were cheating

Quoted from Rager170:

I never understood it either. Some people dont think its cheating sometimes. Like, starting with 5 balls vs. 3, adding posts, adding extra balls.... List goes on.
Its like when I play golf and see people doing things they arent supposed to. You are only fooling yourself.

Quoted from bossk4hire:

I get how it makes it tough for us all to compare scores with so many different set ups. But that's why I just compare my score with others on the same physical machine. I think it a bit of a stretch to call things "cheating" unless folks are taking the glass off and just hitting switches. But that's just me.
If it's an option then I don't think it's "something they shouldn't do" but don't need to be bragging on a score for sure.

Quoted from Rager170:

I agree with scores only really making sense on the same machine.
IMO, if you are changing anything from a stock setup, and then posting scores like you didnt change anything, thats cheating in my book.

Quoted from Vermont:

It would be nice if scorbit could easily capture the games settings that were on when it was played. Then we could really compare different scores with different configurations. Could also have mini-competitions with particular settings to see who can do the best. We could really nerd out on the data.
(Granted, I say all of this having had my LE for about a week and not having tried scorbit myself yet.)

Quoted from Vermont:

It would be nice if scorbit could easily capture the games settings that were on when it was played. Then we could really compare different scores with different configurations. Could also have mini-competitions with particular settings to see who can do the best. We could really nerd out on the data.
(Granted, I say all of this having had my LE for about a week and not having tried scorbit myself yet.)

Quoted from waveform:

I have only had my Wonka LE a couple weeks, and I have been curious about Scorbit, though not quite enough to actually try it. Are there any players here who use it and find any of the features really fun/interesting/compelling - want to tempt me with what I'm missing?
I'm a little surprised Scorbit doesn't collect that information or have a mode for only comparing scores with certain default or accepted configurations. Even with games setup the same way, there's still enough variability in each one (physical location / pitch / level, right and left outlane post arrangements, flipper angles, switch adjustments, etc) that I find it hard to really compare beyond broad ranges of scores across multiple instances of a machine. A player that can routinely get into the hundreds of thousands is different from one getting into the low millions is different from one hitting middle tens of millions (all presuming 2.0+ code - anybody hitting tens of millions pre-2.0 is a wizard). But, anything like a top-10 seems a little silly between such diverse setups.

Quoted from Green-Machine:

I’m not sure if everyone has a tendency to be a fair bit better at certain playfield layouts but I cannot get the hang of my stern JP. It’s been two years owning it and have improved but man I struggle to be consistent on it.

Quoted from Green-Machine:

Feeling good about my progress
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Quoted from bossk4hire:

I enjoy it as I can send my neighbors challenges and then 10 min later they are knocking on my door to play the game (im lucky to have 4 other neighbors with pins). My kiddos enjoy it and I like how it keeps your scores for you. The accomplishments really don't mean anything to me.

Quoted from jackd104:

My 12 year old is a wiz. Here’s his accomplishment from the Western MA pinball club last night.
(Yes, the inevitable has happened. He’s better than his old man).
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Quoted from Spatacuulous:

OMG - We just got the game last week and I've touched 5 million and felt like I was transported to another universe. This must be other-worldly! Great score. Hope you had a lot of fun getting there.