Joined the club with a used Aerosmith Pro I purchased yesterday. What a great game! It wasn't on my "list" but the price was right and it was within driving distance.

I can't believe this wasn't on my list. Good Lordy it's a fun game!

Thanks again Joe!

Lucky for me he's back at college so I can play as much as I want for now.

So this weekend I worked on our new-to-us Aerosmith Pro. It needed a few little things and then a good cleaning and waxing. Holy crap did this change the whole game dynamic! I thought it was fun before now I'm absolutely hooked! What a great shooting pin. Some of the ramps are a bit tough but I like that in a game.

I also added a shaker, service rails, Flipper Fidelity speakers to the head, and a powered Polk subwoofer. I was surprised how much the shaker went off the first couple games. I read here that it wasn't very well integrated into the game but I disagree. It isn't overwhelming or anything but it adds a nice touch here and there.

Head speakers with a separate tweeter are a must for Spike 2 games IMHO. The better sound quality really shines with tweeters. And the powered subwoofer adds so much kick! I know some people like to replace the cabinet speaker with a sub or sub/amplifier combination but I *HATE* the amount of rattling these usually produce.

In regards to the external subwoofer, I finally got a PINsub adapter to work with *only* the cabinet speaker output of a Spike 2 game. All it needed was the input of the left and right channels bridged with a couple of jumpers. Then you can attach the adapter to only the cabinet speaker and it works as it should. For some reason if you don't bridge the channels it won't produce any output.

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The HUGE benefit to this is you can now control the sub and head speakers separately. With the added adjustments to Spike 2 this is really nice.

If you can't tell... I'm soooo happy being new a member of this club!