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There's a couple of things I need to grab from pinbits, so if anyone else wants in to split shipping, send me a pm or email chris.bardon (at) gmail.com. I'm in Mississauga (Winston Churchill & Derry), so you could either pick up there, or I'm at most of the TOPL events. Starburst doesn't do...

It's funny going back and reading that after what's happened since then. These days, the Costco version of BDK would have been the $5k Pro, and the regular version would have been a 7k premium/LE.

I just figured that being able to make these at a larger scale might drop the price, but you're right-they can't keep them in stock at 400 bucks. Further proof that pinball people are insane :) At $200+ for a replacement DMD, if/when one dies, I'll probably get one of these, even though I only...

Smart plan-makes them easier to make and ship out. Wonder if that means a price drop soon? If they could get them $100 cheaper it'd be much more attractive than they are now.

Neat idea, and the results look pretty good.

Congrats-that's a great first pin.

Simple fix for a bad speaker wire in LOTR fixed the right speaker cutting out, and then I realized that the other problem I had was some glass rattle from the sub. Managed to minimize it, and then play a pretty epic game. Managed to hit Destroy the Ring on ball 1, and was on track to get a new...

I'm still trying to hold out for the inevitable next gen version. Glad to hear that the game turned out to be good though! After GTA4 I was a little worried.

Amazing that someone left one sitting for this long...

Nice progress-I could never get into FT, but some people seem to really like it.

Re: Pinball Crawl Presented by 3030 Nice idea-any idea how many locations there are?

Played a little LOTR, and then spent some time trying to track down why the music sounded staticky. I think it might just be flaky connections to the speakers, so I'll try to replace those this weekend, but it's strange that the only games I've noticed this on are LOTR and TSPP. Something...

Tested last night in the switch test, and 20 or 30 cycles of the flipper all activated the EOS switch correctly. Holding the flipper button also kept the EOS on, so it doesn't seem like it was stopping. Is it possible that the EOS could register in the test, but not actually be doing anything?

Thanks, I'll check those out. I thought of the EOS, but won't that usually throw a credit dot up? Perhaps if it's only registering 50% of the time it's not enough to generate an alert, but enough to heat the coil more than it should? You're talking about the vertical play that you have with...

So I noticed something strange on my TZ last night when I had a bunch of people over, and that's where the left flipper would stop returning to its home position after the game had been up and running for a few hours. I let the machine cool off a bit, started it up again, and it was fine for...

And even that seems to be changing. Last time I was in there, it seemed like a lot fewer pins than last time. Just along the front window, and not right in front as you walk in. Might change the next time there's a new title to slot in there, but not near as many as I've seen other times I've...

Adblock plus fixes the internet. Only advantage to a device like this is that it works at the network level, so it'll also help with other phones/devices, but you might also be able to do the same thing by messing with your router. I haven't tried it, but you might be able to short the DNS...

I've been having this issue on and off for maybe a year now on my JM, but it seems to be getting worse. What will happen is that I'll turn the game on, and everything is fine. Hand goes through its self test, finds its position, and the game starts. Then I'll lock a ball (first one is usually...

I actually read it that way at first glance too :) So a fire button with no cannons? Back to the old DE "get your hands off the flippers" tricks perhaps?

Sounds like minimal gameplay differences between the pro and premium this time-the biggest change sounds like a ball save kicker on the left for the higher end models (which is probably replaced by a SW ball save in the lower end models).