Lord Of The Rings Valinor Edition - 4 balls missing?

[ShaunM]

I can insert credits for LOTR:VE, and can hit the start key, but no balls enter the plunger lane.

While the game is in this state, the flippers do work and I can nudge the table until it Tilts.

 

The sound does play (its all intro music dialog whatever).  Scoreboard (DMD) above playfield works but of course is stuck at zero cause no balls.

 

I tried hitting F3 after seeing a suggestion for that online.  No such luck - after the ball search the game returns to attract sequence.  Starting it again displays the message "Four Balls Missing"

 

Hitting Help About shows: Visual Pinball v10.8.0 Beta Rev. 1975 051104c  windows DirectX 32bits

 

Lord of the Rings (Stern 2003) VPW 1.5

 

[ShaunM]

Just realized this is probably the wrong subforum for this.  Will try to move it...