According to ipdb, L-3 is indeed the latest Gold edition, and L-7 is the latest standard edition. Here you can see the revision history for each:

http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/20/Bally_1992_The_Addams_Family_Game_ROM_History.txt

http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/21/Bally_1994_The_Addams_Family_Special_Collectors_Edition_Game_ROM_History.txt

The gold edition adds more gameplay features and modes to it and can be used on the standard pin as well. Great pin and congrats on your first purchase. It's a good one. I heard of the L3 version (which is the one I have) and I never heard of the other one, but I could be wrong.

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I have tried both, don't get the gold, I like the original much better.

Search/Google the differences, and decide for yourself.

I have been Googling around for a little bit here, and maybe this is a stupid question.

Where could I purchase an H4 Rom for Addams Family?

http://www.thatpinballplace.com/eproms/wpc.html

Scroll down to the 'T' games...

Gold rom sucks for competitive play. It gives random "cousin it" awards at the chair that completely unbalance a perfect game. Unfortunately you can't turn them off. It'd be nice to see someone make a hack for the gold roms that keeps the additional speech but loses these awards.

Why dosen't it have a ball save??? My wife hates to play it just because of that...
She would really be pissed if she had to put money in it..

I like the Gold. I enjoy the extra features and since I don't play against anyone but myself, the random prizes aren't an issue.

I didn't play the Gold growing up so didn't want to change it. I am currently running L-5 with the LED fix.

http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/21/Bally_1994_The_Addams_Family_Special_Collectors_Edition_Differences_between_TAF_and_TAFG.txt

>> Changes in game play

Cousin Its Hideout: When given a Mansion Room award, you will
sometimes also achieve Cousin Its Hideout (1-4 times per whole
mansion, operator adjustable).

The Hideout awards are (given in random order):
Cousin Its Hat (5M)
Cousin Its Hair Brush (5M)
Cousin Its Sunglasses (7M)
Cousin Its Car Keys (8M)
Cousin Its Hair Spray (10M)
Cousin Its Hair Dryer (15M)
Cousin Its Wristwatch (20M)
Cousin Its Gold Chain (25M)
Cousin Its Gold Pinball (light extra ball)
Cousin Its Bag of Gold (light special)

Wednesday and Pugsley's Secret Passage: When awarded the 3M Room
you will also get another random Room.

Super Seance: The Seance Room is sometimes replaced with Super
Seance, where each "knock" is worth 5M more than the usual Seance.

It's super annoying when you're in a heated match and someone gets the Cousin IT's gold chain and 25 million unearned points. There is zero skill in that achievement and it's 1/2 as many points as you get for a jackpot which takes considerably more skill.

I can't say that I ever get into heated matches. Besides, I like the luck of the draw, it works both ways.

no solder necessary, the eprom sockets are already socketed.

you can pt a zif socket into them and then use it's quick release.

The eproms are typically 27c040 style if that's what you have laying around, that and an eprom burner.

You'd have space issues because of the other components on the board.

Just insert the ZIF into the ROM socket that's already on the board - that should also give you the height necessary to clear the surrounding components. And you're not subjecting the board to unnecessary heat, and if you ever wanted to return it to original condition all you'd have to do is pry off the ZIF.

Of course, I don't know anyone that changes the ROMs in their machine that often that they need a ZIF...

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The gold roms can be fun and kooky(pun intended) but if you grew up on the standards, they'll leave a sour taste in your mouth. I speak from experience.

Then again, some people really like them.

Can you elaborate? Which do you prefer? Why?

The sound chips from the gold roms will work with the standard roms but not vice versa. I believe theres an extra chip or two with the gold roms that contain the extra call outs.

Are you sure?

I wasn't aware that a regular TAF ROM will work with TAFG sound roms. I don't think this is the case?

Another vote for the standard ROM. The gold mansion awards just seem out of place.

Works fine in my machine. YMMV.

I'm surprised at how many people don't care for that feature.

Whatever Jon Wart says will be the correct answer!

I use the H4. Don't care for all that cousin it hideout crap

I prefer the non-gold roms. I do like the "This is lunacy!" callout during multiball, as all hell is breaking loose with the Power magnets in play. It's quite fitting! But, the rest of the callouts are just a little too much for me. They're constantly going off in places they don't need to(like the "Not bad..." for the Million Plus ramp) and it just clutters up the game sonically. Then, there's all the free points from the hideout awards. Completely unnecessary. I think Bally did that just to give TAF more DMD animations to get it up to the level of the other games they were producing at the time.

And my best reason for not liking the gold roms: It's not the game I remember playing.

I'm happy playing the old stuff.

Cangrats on one of the best games of all time!! My suggestion would be get both, roms are cheap enough to screw around with each set a bit and see which ones you prefer. The game your getting will most likely have standard roms in it unless the previous owner put gold in. Either way you will only need one set. As Pintucky mentioned John Wart is the guy to get them from. I played the standard roms a ton before I got my Addams, once I put the gold in the family preferred them much more as did I.

Gold ROMs seem to be preferred somewhere around 8.

I've run both (don't have a TAF presently, but have had a couple), and the sounds and DMD animations are better on Gold.

A few hard core players do prefer the original ROMs, and that's fine, whatever floats your boat.

I'm getting TAF soon - never thought about trying both.

The game I'm getting has gold ROMs/sound. If I want to try the non-gold, do I need to swap out tge sound chips too?

No,just a straight swap.I didn't like the gold rom.Those extra points is not a good look when talking high scores on TAF. It does add to the color dmd animations though.Plus,if I have 2 bad balls on 3 ball play,I like to do a quick restart.