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There is a spring from the coil up to the gate. Where it attaches onto the
gate, it has slipped up and out of position, slide it back down. LTG

"Natty" <oldefortpub@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The top left gate above the rollover lanes doesn't fully go up,
> blocking the ball from making a full right to left orbit and sending it
> into the rollovers. I know it is getting the signal because it makes a
> noise and tries to open, but it just stops halfway or so. What should
> I be looking for here?

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"Natty" <oldefortpub@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I shoot the horshoe ramp again the post up/diverter comes up behind the
> trunk and takes the ball, but it does not lock. This happens many
I have seen the same problem on mine. Perhaps a switch problem with the
trunk locks, maybe the balls aren't exiting from that area properly (that is
what happens in mine, sometimes it tries to feed a ball to the basement
popper but the ball remains stuck in the locked position.

> noise and tries to open, but it just stops halfway or so. What should
> I be looking for here?
Inspect and bend the mechanism (likely the spring).

> The basement acts strange too. After hitting each white target four
> times(?) the basement lights up. How long should "Raise basement"
> stay lit if I continue to miss the basement shot? Sometimes it seems
> to stay lit until I make the shot, other times it turns off.
I haven't figured out if it times out after XX seconds or after X failed
middle ramp/miss basement attempts. I see the same behavior. though.

> Is multiball a three or four ball multiball? Seems lately it has been
Trunk multiball is 3 ball, Tiger Saw is 2-ball, I presume Grand Finale is
4-balls.

> three, but I think I remember a four at one time. Is there a way to
> add a ball during multiball?
Not to my knowledge.

> horseshoe on the other side without colliding. Is this possible or was it
> just magic?
Magic!

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having a few problems.
>
> After I hit the center staircase five times the locks light up. So I
> hit the lock and it locks ball one. Then the locks stay lit, but when
> I shoot the horshoe ramp again the post up/diverter comes up behind the
> trunk and takes the ball, but it does not lock. This happens many
> times without locking. Should that lock the ball or not? M

Yes. It should lock. I'd guess that the switch that monitors the 2nd
locked ball under the pf is not registering, so the game thinks ball 2
is not locked yet, allowing an unlimited number of ball 2 locks. Test
the switches.


> The top left gate above the rollover lanes doesn't fully go up,
> blocking the ball from making a full right to left orbit and sending it
> into the rollovers. I know it is getting the signal because it makes a
> noise and tries to open, but it just stops halfway or so. What should
> I be looking for here?
>

Adjustment. Perhaps a spring if I recall.


> The basement acts strange too. After hitting each white target four
> times(?) the basement lights up. How long should "Raise basement"
> stay lit if I continue to miss the basement shot? Sometimes it seems
> to stay lit until I make the shot, other times it turns off.

Not sure.


> After a ball drain the DMD goes through the bonus, magicianship, etc.
> When I first got the game I think that I had to press a flipper button
> each time to skip the different post ball awards. Now I press it once
> and it sequences through all of them. It is faster, but is that the
> way it is supposed to be?

When launching the ball, the game automatically cycles through the
skill shot awards (start illusion etc.) Is this what you mean?


> Is multiball a three or four ball multiball? Seems lately it has been
> three, but I think I remember a four at one time. Is there a way to
> add a ball during multiball?

IF I recall, three, unless one is locked in vanish lock.


> Concerning The horseshoe shot where safe escape and spirit cards are
> collected, I had a multiball going at one time and I could almost be
> certain that I hit a ball up the left side of the horseshoe and right
> side of the horseshoe at the same time and they both exited the
> horseshoe on the other side without colliding. Is this possible or was
> it just magic?

That's like tiger saw multiball. The left ball came from the vanish
lock, the right ball came back down. During tiger saw, the effect is
the ball being cut in two.. thus delivering two balls.



> Thanks for your help.