Feedback from pinsider techs on LOTR issue...

[paulohotline]

Here is the link to the post I made ->

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/lotr-balls-keep-being-shot-back-into-play-on-multi-balls?replies=5#post-515446

It appears that the solder needs to be "reflowed" on the optos!

[Malibu-ss]

or replace the boards..............I would switch them first to make sure that solves it.
If you are going to Johns tonight I can bring a set of boards with me

[paulohotline]

Hey dude, its definately worth a try before resoldering a board that 100% working. I will try to sneak away to Johns tonight

[paulohotline]

Hey Malibu, I did reflow the solder on both opto boards and it did work for about 5 min!!! After a reboot, its back to showing 5 balls

If you can bring a set of boards tonight to John's that would be great. If that does not fix the issue, then I need to troubleshoot further. Hey Now!

[Malibu-ss]

I can do that!

[paulohotline]

Cool thanks dude!

[paulohotline]

I am happy to say that replacing both boards with brand new spiffy ones solved the problem once and for all. Thanks dude!

PS, I will mostly like never beat RIK's hiscore of 323MIL on this PIN now

[Malibu-ss]

you should reset your scores.....as the scores that are there are not really fair anyway

[paulohotline]

Noooooooooooooooooooo! I guess I will have to remove my score of 269MIL from Pinside too since it was completed with a jacked up PIN

[prock]

Congrats on getting the machine back up and running. What are you doing with your old boards? Mind if I take a look at them.. I might be able to breath some life into them again for you!

So it was the ROM version that was causing higher scores or just some settings?

[paulohotline]

Hey Prock, sure you can have the old opto boards. If you are coming out Friday I will bring em.

They were failing and causing the PIN to read 5 balls in the trough (see screenshot above). This would cause all kinds of issues that were mostly positively during gameplay For example multiball scenarios would keep spiting out balls like a maniac causing you to complete the mode and get a pretty decent score in the process. The only drawback, would be the burnout of the transistor on the board and eventually smoking of the coil

I added the updated CPU roms 10.02 and display Rom 10.0 to get the shaker to work like it does with LOTR LE. It adds quite a bit of tactile excitement to the game IMO.

[prock]

Yeah I have to DE machines with shakers... I agree it adds a lot to the game. Nice addition to LOTR I'd imagine!

On a side note I found out that the game with the first shaker was a Williams game called Earthshaker. Apparently Williams didn't get around to patenting the idea so DE adopted it and put it in quite a few games (followed by STERN of course).

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