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MMR Support [MMR Members Only] / Threshhold for Bonus Ball keeps dropping.

« on: May 30, 2016, 12:29:34 PM »

Is this a normal feature of the game?

I've installed U.9.08 "Install Add-A-Ball", since it's on free-play.

The threshold to earn a bonus ball keeps dropping. It started upwards of 24,000,000 (I don't recall exactly), and now it's currently at 10,000,000.

Curious if this is normal behavior.

Thanks.

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MMR Support [MMR Members Only] / MMR: Need to keep setting date and time. Help!

« on: May 22, 2016, 08:24:20 PM »

On my new MMR LE, I've had to set the date and time now three times in a week. When I turn it on, for the third time the test returns the error "Date and Time not set." I would suspect a battery, except it keeps the high scores, and is only losing date and time.

Any advice?

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MMR Support [MMR Members Only] / How high should I set the tilt plumb bob?

« on: May 22, 2016, 11:19:39 AM »

For home use.

I don't have a lot of experience with pinball ownership.

Not sure where is "normal" for the tilt plumb bob. With the top level with the brass hole? Centered? Just barely fitting?

Thanks,

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MMR Support [MMR Members Only] / Set sound less than 8? Also, software update needed? And other Qs.

« on: May 16, 2016, 12:37:24 AM »

Hi everyone, my first post about my MMR (Limited, Silver). I don't need to tell y'all how awesome it is, you already know that! But it is pretty awesome, really.

LOVIN' IT!

A few questions so far, for this game we use in a household setting:

1. The speakers are loud. Really loud. The volume setting won't go less that 8 for whatever reason, even though it can go incrementally higher all the way to max, and back down to 8. Is there a way to make it go less than 8?

2. I read all over these forums about a pending software update. My machine has a sticker on the back of the backbox that says April 18, 2016, which I assume is the manufacture date, and the screen notes "Sound v1.0 System v3.70". Do I need a software update?

3. Sometimes (about 32½% of the time) the ball falls off the left wire ramp to the ball's starboard side immediately after it passes over the wizard area. It's not a big deal, since it falls back into play, but I don't imagine this is normal behavior, and it does gyp me of an "I". Looking at the ramp, it seems perfectly parallel wires with no discernible defect. Is this a known issue, and is there a decent fix?

4. Speaking of "I", the manual says if you get F-I-R-E eight times you activate the video game "Save the Children". How is this possible, considering the F and E are drains. You'd have to drain eight balls to do that! Is this right?

5. Rescue the damsel five times in one game? Obviously it must be possible, but... jes sayin'. We don't have many goals met by household members. Is there a way to clear the default high scores and champions? Not reset them to the factory scores, but clear them entirely, so that our household gets to set at least a few of them at our feeble skill-less levels. From what I read in the manual, the answer is no, but thought I'd ask.

6. When I enabled utility setting U9.08 "Install Add-A-Ball" to replace free credit (since it's on free-play anyway), the machine lost free-play and wanted quarters to play. Not a big deal, I was able to re-enable free-play, but that change isn't listed in the U9.08 change list. Just an FYI.

7. The game is awesome. I didn't know if this was a known issue. It should get reported somewhere, because, while the adverts do warn that the game is pretty cool, no where does it specifically say its awesome. I've looked the manual over pretty closely, and it doesn't appear to be just a setting on my machine. It is apparently just inherently awesome. Another FYI.