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Over Zealous Credit Dot

Andypc

Andypc

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My Theatre of Magic seem to be over zealous with the credit dot. I know it's all working fine, but it reports certain switches as not working. Test them in test menu or hit them in the next game and the credit dot clears. I get this quite a bit with the vanish lock as I can go a few games with hitting it. Get the credit dot, so then next game I make sure I hit the vanish lock and the credit dot clears. Is there a setting to adjust how quickly it reports a problem?
 
Don't think there's any way around it, it's quite common. My Getaway is at the girlfriends house and every time I go there there's a credit dot, usually for 74 top lock or the gear shifter.
 
I seem to recall numbers like 90 balls, 30 balls or 30 games played before the game will assume a switch is bad. Nor sure which of those is right.

Does that sound about right or is the dot reappearing more often than that?
 
Durzel said:
I seem to recall numbers like 90 balls, 30 balls or 30 games played before the game will assume a switch is bad. Nor sure which of those is right.

Does that sound about right or is the dot reappearing more often than that?
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30 balls rings a bell.
 
If it's 30 balls then that's 10 games at most, possibly less with 4 balls that ToM has I think? So not a huge number of games played before the software thinks a switch is bad because it hasn't been hit in that time.
 
Just found a post on pinside which said it's 30 balls for an inactive switch credit dot, if you're sure it's more often than that then yes, you probably have a dodgy switch or other issue.
 
Need more info really.. if it's happening in the middle of a game vs at power on, or whatever. If it's happening every other game then it's a switch problem, but if it's happening every ~10 games or so then more than likely its the inactive switch autofail. The fact it tests correctly and if you run a ball over it the dot goes makes me think its the latter.

I don't know enough about ToM to comment but how unusual/difficult is it to get the vanish lock in normal gameplay.
 
Poibug said:
Wpc95 were known to have flaky cherry switches that dont work but after a few activatipns work again
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According to IPDB ToM is WPC-S, WPC95 came after that I think. Not sure if that would mean the switches couldn't be flaky there too.
 
Speaking of Getaway, any still running the prototype software edition P-C show a fleeting error dot during play. Apparently the even earlier editions sent every shot up the l/h ramp around the SuperCharger loop, and P-C still expects this to happen. So a ball making the ramp, and simply going around the u-bend and returning brings in a dot, which if called out on declares "Diverter Error". This can appear and disappear during a game, if the SuperCharger then operates while the dot exists
 
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Durzel said:
Need more info really.. if it's happening in the middle of a game vs at power on, or whatever. If it's happening every other game then it's a switch problem, but if it's happening every ~10 games or so then more than likely its the inactive switch autofail. The fact it tests correctly and if you run a ball over it the dot goes makes me think its the latter.

I don't know enough about ToM to comment but how unusual/difficult is it to get the vanish lock in normal gameplay.
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Not that hard if you are going for it (a number of loops required). It's not one of the more obvious shots though I guess.
 
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