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“Four fried chickens and a Coke “ The Blues Brothers pinball

Replay said:
Yep. Spinal Tap was awful.

BB?

Positives -

Someone will create good code and share it - they always do.
Stars 2.0 is a decent layout.

Negatives -

Flippers need more juice! Original Stars 1978 has way more power!

Who knows this may work out and be a keeper:eek:


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Hallelujah some positive thoughts 🫡

Looking at the layout I noticed that there is some kinda Ball lock and also a jump ramp which isn’t on stars so my thoughts are if it’s a stars layout with some extra features on it , it could be all good… who knows , but it’s exciting to find out.
 
Replay said:
Yep. Spinal Tap was awful.

BB?

Positives -

Someone will create good code and share it - they always do.
Stars 2.0 is a decent layout.

Negatives -

Flippers need more juice! Original Stars 1978 has way more power!

Who knows this may work out and be a keeper:eek:


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That looks like a handful of cheap toy cars and a 6 pack of strong beer away from being the greatest game ever and the best night of my pinball life.

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Already banking a load of classic Bally sound effect files to slap into the BB.
I believe the open source platform for the code is available now , gonna have a little look and play around.
 
Will2.0 said:
Thanks mate I get what you saying but lately I mostly look at my few games now and BB as soon as I paid for it I made my peace that it’s with me forever. I have been slowly reducing the amount I have in pins as I just don’t have the love as much as I used to , for me it’s still about the hunt.
If I buy something I need to know I have an exit plan , this wasn’t the case with the BB
I don’t think you can understand how much I love this theme.
I couldn’t re theme a pinball for the price that this is at for one , and for two I wouldn’t know where to begin lol
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I get the retheme cost. It is not easy for normal folks to slap in a set of boards and reprogramme a game. I have bought machines to retheme and cant even get a coil to fire on the playfield using code...

Someone needs to write a package with a good GUI that you can swap sounds over with etc.

Flippers are easy enough to sort out. Wire them like system 11 flippers, with old fashioned HV leaf switches and put in decent mechs and coils.

As I said I sold the last 3 thunderbirds (I remember now) and had one in the house for a couple of weeks. The mechs werent great. In a short time I had two coils fry. The good thing was Ben Heck was on hand to tells me how to repair his boardset.

The issue I think with open source code is if you install code that has been shared and it say burns out coils or mosfets - there will be zero warranty.

It is costly to get licenesed songs in pinball but the 'open source' thing gets around that.
 
Pick Holder said:
I get the retheme cost. It is not easy for normal folks to slap in a set of boards and reprogramme a game. I have bought machines to retheme and cant even get a coil to fire on the playfield using code...

Someone needs to write a package with a good GUI that you can swap sounds over with etc.

Flippers are easy enough to sort out. Wire them like system 11 flippers, with old fashioned HV leaf switches and put in decent mechs and coils.

As I said I sold the last 3 thunderbirds (I remember now) and had one in the house for a couple of weeks. The mechs werent great. In a short time I had two coils fry. The good thing was Ben Heck was on hand to tells me how to repair his boardset.

The issue I think with open source code is if you install code that has been shared and it say burns out coils or mosfets - there will be zero warranty.

It is costly to get licenesed songs in pinball but the 'open source' thing gets around that.
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From what I can work out from my conversation with Mike and from pinside is that the program is available now and you are able to play around with the system now.
Apparently it’s just a case of locating the sound you want to replace and changing it over same as the songs , the code as well the same but chances are I would never touch that.
As the code is from Homepin I can’t imagine that if you tinkered around with it , it would blow the board up ?? But maybe knowing my luck 😂😂

Tobins mates thunderbirds mole board went and as he knew I was getting a BB he asked me to message homepin they messaged back immediately built a new board and shipped it out free of charge the next day , I was genuinely blown away by that. As at the exact time I was in USA paying £200 for an LED board for my stern Beatles that I swapped with a guy on here and found out it had a light out the game was under six months old and had 50 plays on it and the stern board wasn’t covered and cost £200 from Marco, that’s utter gash!!
 
Pick Holder said:
I get the retheme cost. It is not easy for normal folks to slap in a set of boards and reprogramme a game. I have bought machines to retheme and cant even get a coil to fire on the playfield using code...

Someone needs to write a package with a good GUI that you can swap sounds over with etc.

Flippers are easy enough to sort out. Wire them like system 11 flippers, with old fashioned HV leaf switches and put in decent mechs and coils.

As I said I sold the last 3 thunderbirds (I remember now) and had one in the house for a couple of weeks. The mechs werent great. In a short time I had two coils fry. The good thing was Ben Heck was on hand to tells me how to repair his boardset.

The issue I think with open source code is if you install code that has been shared and it say burns out coils or mosfets - there will be zero warranty.

It is costly to get licenesed songs in pinball but the 'open source' thing gets around that.
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So you could change the standard flippers coils for stronger ones if these don’t have enough juice??
 
Love to hear this positivity from Will-I-Was (on tv).
I’m with you dude, I’ve also chatted 1:1 with Mike and agree he seems a decent bloke.

Oli can wait for Stern’s Male Sauna Semi-LE, I reckon this could be fun. One way or another. And if Ive’s bagsied the Carrie Fisher role then I’m throwing my hat in the ring for a go as Aretha
 
Isnt there supposed to be a moderated forum for owners so they can submitted altered code to be checked and verified by Homepin so that they can say it is safe for others to download use?

Changing sounds on it will be a case of finding out what sound board it uses and working out how to swap them out, don't think the sounds are held in the open source code that is out at the moment, but havent looked to much into it.
 
Having a quick scan through the code it looks like it may be using a WAV trigger board (Details Here) and the sounds files are stored on an SD card as WAV files.

They appear to have files names starting with a 3 digit number which are referenced in the code, i.e. which shows the defined sounds and its matching file number on the SD card.

#define SOUND_EFFECT_NONE 0
#define SOUND_EFFECT_BONUS_COUNT 1
#define SOUND_EFFECT_DROP_TARGET_COMPLETE 2
#define SOUND_EFFECT_TILT 3
#define SOUND_EFFECT_TILT_WARNING 4
#define SOUND_EFFECT_DOOR_SLAM 5
#define SOUND_EFFECT_10_SECOND_WARNING 6


#define SOUND_EFFECT_BACKGROUND_SONG_1 400
#define SOUND_EFFECT_BACKGROUND_SONG_2 401
#define SOUND_EFFECT_BACKGROUND_SONG_3 402
#define SOUND_EFFECT_MULTIBALL_SONG_1 420

So it should just be a case of finding the file on the SD card for the sound you want to replace and replacing it with your own WAV file with the same name.
 
cooldan said:
Love to hear this positivity from Will-I-Was (on tv).
I’m with you dude, I’ve also chatted 1:1 with Mike and agree he seems a decent bloke.

Oli can wait for Stern’s Male Sauna Semi-LE, I reckon this could be fun. One way or another. And if Ive’s bagsied the Carrie Fisher role then I’m throwing my hat in the ring for a go as Aretha
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It’s good to be positive as there is so much negativity, i guess it’s because I am coming from the time of the next stern might be their last .. seeing a crappy game like 24 or HRC roll off the line and thinking this has to be the last and now look where we are more pinballs than ever , the NIB market and LE market has been destroyed by greed , NIB has become ridiculous you have to be prepared to loose 2k immediately.
This game dream theme NIB at a price I am over the moon with …. Result !!!
Can’t believe we are actually getting a blues brothers pinball 🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️❤️
 
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Fantazia2 said:
Having a quick scan through the code it looks like it may be using a WAV trigger board (Details Here) and the sounds files are stored on an SD card as WAV files.

They appear to have files names starting with a 3 digit number which are referenced in the code, i.e. which shows the defined sounds and its matching file number on the SD card.

#define SOUND_EFFECT_NONE 0
#define SOUND_EFFECT_BONUS_COUNT 1
#define SOUND_EFFECT_DROP_TARGET_COMPLETE 2
#define SOUND_EFFECT_TILT 3
#define SOUND_EFFECT_TILT_WARNING 4
#define SOUND_EFFECT_DOOR_SLAM 5
#define SOUND_EFFECT_10_SECOND_WARNING 6


#define SOUND_EFFECT_BACKGROUND_SONG_1 400
#define SOUND_EFFECT_BACKGROUND_SONG_2 401
#define SOUND_EFFECT_BACKGROUND_SONG_3 402
#define SOUND_EFFECT_MULTIBALL_SONG_1 420

So it should just be a case of finding the file on the SD card for the sound you want to replace and replacing it with your own WAV file with the same name.
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This sounds like even I can do it 😎😎
 
AlanJ said:
The code isn’t written by homepin. It’s based on the code that dick hamil wrote to allow you to run new code on an arduino in a classic bally or stern ss game. He did that project to allow folk to change the game rules in those old games. It works in those pretty well by all accounts.

Homepin new arduino based "bally style" open source boardset thread | Homebrew pinball | Pinside.com

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This sounds so positive…. Loving this ❤️
 
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