Does this only work on sterns? I have a south park that I would love to change the callouts and sounds on. I am pretty damn good at the voices and would do the callouts myself.

Can someone beg, plead, or bribe Lyman to turn on the switches for spinners on the Pro, PLEASE!!! Stern could then sell a kit that would include the spinners and the plastics and I'm sure they would sell a bunch of them.

probably wouldn't help even if you bribed. the short answer is that there is a reason that they offer a pro model and a premium model.

if you were a company offering two models that were priced differently and offered different features, would you want your customers to buy the cheaper model and then upgrade it themselves to the level of your more expensively priced item without seeing any of the money that it took them to get to the higher priced option?

I'm going to sound like a jerk but plain and simple, if you wanted the spinners and the other options afforded by the premium and limited models [and integrated into the code], then you should buy the premium or limited model

I disagree, they could activate the two switches sell a kit and make extra money and it still wouldn't turn a Pro into a premium. There are plenty of other differences such as color changing inserts, the hammer, rising cross, different translite, etc. that distinguish the Premium from the Pro. I'm sure it will never happen, but it would be nice IMHO. I'm not trying to start a debate just wishful thinking.

Sure you are . Anyone giving back and forth on a subject is participating in a debate. If you weren't interested in a debate then you wouldn't have responded as shown above by stating the pros for your argument. That's by definition, a debate.

guys - looking to update metallica songs. Is it required to have a serial link to connect? If not, how else do I connect (usb??)

No. Download the original code to your pc. Open that code in pinball browser. Import songs into the appropriate places in pinball browser. Save that modified code to your pc. Place that new code on a flash drive and update your pinball machine as normal with that flash drive.

nice! thank you.

DONATION made. Now I just wait for the key. Putting On my Own at the game over screen for my GB is worth the 20 by itself.

When I try to load the comm patch I get "Warning: Cannot remap vector 0x30!". Is this preventing it from working properly? The procedure continued and asked for serial number of machine, but I don't seem to be able to connect once the new code with patch is installed on the pinball machine. Port can be opened but it won't communicate.

Edit..I just read the first version of the instructions that says if you get an error or warning while loading the comm patch, it is probably not compatible with your pinball. Tron Pro, FYI.

TimeBandit:
which version of the pinball browser and the comm.dll are you running? for v5.80, you should be using comm120.hex

Yep. 5.8 and comm120.

I would shoot olivier an email with the exact error message

I don't believe it's possible to just use the intro of a song (like hero of the day) at the end of the game but NOT replace a main song in metallica right? I just want the little snipet instead of unforgiven at game over but I think hero will now play in unforg place right?

EDIT - doesn't seem like it's possible to do. I replaced I think the right little snippet but it still defaulted to unforgiven during game over.

You da man, Olivier! But if I am the only guy on earth trying to do this with Tron, then please don't do it just on my account.
Now, what would be really cool is the export/reimport functionality. I would love to move some sound scripts between sound requests.

I really don't understand the logic of removing the export function. It doesn't accomplish anything except making it more difficult to export sounds which is still somewhat simple to do using a sound to file driver. This is the type of tool that's totally legal regardless if Stern likes it or not.

Just to ensure I'm not doing something wrong is it possible to do the following:

Metallica - instead of unforgiven playing during game over I want to replace with hero of the day

Ghostbusters - instead of who you going to call during game over I want to replace with Bobby brown on my own.

bump - can someone with more experience than me confirm?

Metallica - yes, if Hero of the Day is longer than Unforgiven it will end at the length of the Unforgiven song. If Hero is shorter, you'll have silence at the end of the song making up the time of the full Unforgiven song.

Ghostbusters - I don't have experience with Spike games. But according to the OP, in the very first post (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images#post-872012), Pinball Browser should work with Spike. The same clipping/silence would apply if the replacement song is longer/shorter, respectively.

I don't think that's what he was asking regarding Metallica.

If you replace Unforgiven, whatever song you replace it with will play in all other instances of Unforgiven. You can't just replace one of the shorter request numbers and leave the others. You replace the longest instance, and all other requests for that song get replaced automatically.

You're correct. That's what I was asking. I was hoping to just change a small snippet not repave the entire song.

One other question. I don't think this program recognizes FLAC format right? No way to increase the quality of the conversion a it replaces the song? Feel like I hear a little crackling with the songs. I did increase volume to make them louder as the in game option is bugged.

I think it only recognizes WAV, but I could be wrong.

By the way, if you still want Unforgiven as a song choice, but you want Hero for a Day in the Unforgiven spot for end of game purposes, You can always move Unforgiven to a different song spot. That's what I did with Ride the Lightning because I didn't like the way Sparky multiball started the song midway instead of from the beginning. I did the same with KISS, so that I have Dr. Love as a song choice, even though I replaced it for God of Thunder for Demon Multiball.

Tagging post. *starts work on 8-bit Metallica soundtrack*

thanks but the problem is I don't want hero of the day in the game at all EXCEPT for the game over. The intro to it would fit well. I guess that's not possible.

I have noticed that some of the songs have a very small crackle noise during them (hard to tell but I can hear it every so often). My songs are 320kbps quality so rock solid. It must be this software or the fact I'm increasing the volume of the songs? Anyone have this issue and what are you guys doing to get the best audio quality out of it? I'm thinking of swapping stock with pinball pro even though I have a polk sub. maybe that would help?

The samples in the STERN SAM roms are 16 bit mono. Anything that is replaced will also be saved in 16bit mono so don't expect audiophile quality out of the Stern SAM. I've been playing TWD resamples by various folks and don't notice any crackles.

I haven't played with boosting volumes by waveform in this particular software itself, but I have worked quite a bit with digital sound in the past and I might offer the theory that you could easily be correct about the issue you are experiencing having to do with boosting the volume of the waveform you are giving it. There is a phenomenon called clipping that occurs with waveforms that are increased in amplitude that can cause this effect (can also potentially be very bad/damaging for the speakers, btw). In this case too there is also the additional variable that unless you are giving the software the absolute exact format it requires for the firmware (this may be particularly difficult), it will need to transcode it to be able to put it in the firmware for you (meaning the clipping may be artificially induced in the transcoding itself based on your source input).

I might suggest a couple thoughts here. First, try it without increasing the volume. If this sounds fine, then I might suggest trying it with less of a volume boost. Another alternative might be to try something called "compression" on the waveform. This can potentially make it sound louder as well, without actually boosting the absolute amplitude of the waveform (and avoid clipping). Compression is safe to play with. Over-compressing won't hurt anything, but it likely won't sound too good. If the issue is indeed clipping as I mentioned in the very beginning, I think you may find best results with very mild volume boosting, combined with a little bit of compression. Ultimately, it would be best to use the in-game volume adjustment of the music if you can though - I suspect the in-game mixing would likely be able to take care of all of this better and more dynamically.

Again though, I am not the expert on Olivier's software or it's usage here. Perhaps he could give better guidance on the transcoding aspect.

See post 798 in this thread for sound file specifics. You can't just use a high bit rate stereo wave file, it has to be mono

thanks

Hello oga83

I like the pinboll browser and its capbilities for editing/ colorizing games!
Maybe I didn't read carefully or missed it otherwise, but is there a way to switch between the different frames without leaving the editor window?

That would be really convenient and much faster then always open/close that editor window and reopen at the next frame and so on...
Are there any shortcuts ?

greetings,
Dom

what does the low pass filter do? It's checked by default so I left it on.

thanks but not sure what that means. Should I leave it on?

So now that I have a bunch of sounds changed for xmen how do I get it into the game?

Being able to export sound would be very helpful. There are a few examples of Tron remixes out there and I like a couple tracks from each. Any chance this is possible?

There are plenty of easy enough ways to do this. I believe audacity is free and provides a way to record sounds that are being played via a loopback device. You'd simply configure this and then play the sound files one by one in pinball browser and save the file.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html

Many sound card drivers have stereo mix option installed. You can simply enable that and use the sound recorder app while pinball browser plays back the sound file as shown here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/39532/how-to-enable-stereo-mix-in-windows-7-to-record-audio/

If all else fails, virtual audio streaming works. It creates a virtual sound device you enable which just sends all pc sounds to a file. You'd enable this, click record, play the sound in pinball browser, click stop and save the file and repeat.
http://www.virtualaudiostreaming.net/

In short, pinball browser removed this capability but it doesnt prevent you from doing anything you want it just makes it annoying.

Any suggestions for a song to replace Unforgiven for Metallica's end of game music? Need something faster and more exciting.

how about 'I disappear'?

Ok i just donated how long does it usually take to get the key?

Donate, go to bed, wake up to key.

Shortest Straw is almost the exact same length.

Has anyone played around with sounds on Spike games yet? And what is this Key people are talking about?

I have changed songs on KISS. The key is what you need to unlock features after making a donation.

Has anyone talked about adding voice to Ghostbusters?

So I rethemed a Rolling Stones pin to a foo fighters pin. Wanted to show a video clip in this thread. I used pinball browser to change everything. It's an amazing product.

Wow! Great job all the way around! I'm happy just to be able to change a few songs on my MET and KISS! This looks like it was quite the project!

Nice job. Do you have close up images for everything? What do you make the dude on the stick from. I had Eddie figures to choose from. I don't imagine you did.