Do certain or all Data East machines have this issue?

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Do certain or all Data East machines have this issue?

I just noticed a GnR was looking for a ball so I unloaded all the balls and put them back in and it worked great.

A couple days later I go look at this guys Tales From the Crypt and it had the same problem, except this time I knew what I was looking at. I think if you turn the game off and a ball is in the up kicker spot before it goes in the shooter lane it screws up the logic and thinks the ball isnt there and keeps shooting one out.

MY question is this normal or do I have a greater problem?
 
Sounds like you have a flaky switch...

Well there is no switch where the up kicker shoots the ball onto the lane. The trough has all the switches there and when you start a game the gate opens and one rolls over and gets shot up.

The problem is when a ball is in that up kicker and the game is turned off. I played both machines a ton a of times and they worked fine. The one here at my store hasnt had the problem since except when I purposely shut it down at the right time.
 
Stargate is picky like that as well. If theres not 3 balls in the trough and one sitting on the drain seitch when you power up the software is dumb and thinks a ball is missing.
 
Well there is no switch where the up kicker shoots the ball onto the lane. The trough has all the switches there and when you start a game the gate opens and one rolls over and gets shot up.

There IS a switch there( I looked at mine). After the ball release, the ball rolls over and up against a microswitch telling the upkicker to fire. I would say there is an issue with that switch.
 
I want to say I've seen that behavior with my TFTC if I turn it off in the middle of a game for some reason - the ball search goes on for a while as it keeps kicking balls out, and then gets confused when it can't account for them all (because it keeps kicking them out). Zero issues during normal game play, or once it figures out that it actually has all the balls..
 
I should have printed a manual to take with me since most people never get one or lost it. I would have seen the dang switch right away. I still feel like a moron.
 
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