Hey guys new owner checking in! My version is old and I'm trying to dump it to a USB drive to update. I have an 8 gig totally empty fresh formatted FAT32 thumb drive and it's telling me there isn't enough room when I try to download or move it to the drive. I formatted the thumb drive as well a few times. Still says not enough room. I also tried 2 other 8 gig empty thumb drives I had laying around that are empty and formatted. I tried saving it locally then moving it to the thumb drive same issue. I also tried to download direct to the thumb drive fails @ 4.0 of 4.1 move. Anyone else run into this? Other than that so far I'm liking it! I know some had cabinet issues I'm wondering if I'm in that club as well. Any "must" do's?

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Thanks I'll have to dig around for a larger one and try that. Insane how not that long ago a 1 gig thumb drive was huge!

Well dug around found a 32 gig and that did the trick. Crazy that 4 gig file opens up more then 8 gigs! Thank god for the "thumb drive drawer"

Oh yea I remember those days! So it turns out that drive I found is'nt FAT32 and the other one I did find that's a 32 gig and is Fat32 it still says not enough space. Really weird. I just ordered 2 fresh 16 gig Fat32 thumb drives from Amazon. Hopefully that does the trick! I wonder if you can only use a certain size drive. I guess we'll see!

yea it's really strange. I can't even get them on the thumb drive. I'll have those new 16 gig drives here tomorrow so hopefully that fixes the issue!

I figured it out. That video isn't clear at all not well made. He never says to "unzip" onto the thumb drive! He just says "click on the zip file" Proper thing to say would be to simply extract the zipped files to an empty thumb drive. That's what I get for not reading the actual instructions from Stern and following a youtube video! The reason it was saying my thumb drive didn't have enough room is because the 4 gig can't go onto a FAT32 thumb drive zipped. Either way all good now I have them on my 8 gig thumb drive and I'll finally update it tomorrow!

Not really some systems use zip files.

Well that made a difference!

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Also thanks to whomever made the new apron cards! They look great!

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Added some purple apron lights. Only had the 6 SMD I usually install the 3SMD little bright but adds some light there. Always hard to get a photo of the proper light of the LED's no less but it works. One of the things I do to all my pins. That and lighted flipper buttons. Dirty Donny side blades will be here tomorrow can't wait to install those!

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OK I'm all modded out I think now! Just installed the lighted speaker grills, lighted flipper buttons, Tournament button, and Dirty Donny side blades. I think she's looking respectable finally. Have a look...

Thanks! that's all I'm missing is the topper! Are the original toppers available anywhere?

I missed one for $1200

ebay.com link: itm

There is one in Europe for about $1200 but $1K would be my max. Not looking to get caught up in the crazy topper price game

https://www.mrarcade.eu/it/Componenti-Modding/2325-ricambi-flipper-aerosmith-sterns-topper-502-7012-00.html

I have a MM remake topper brand new in the box if you want to do some trading / cash?

I do but the price makes me cry! lol

Those are getting harder to find. I got lucky www.pinballlife.com have a few sets of the DD art in stock still. I'd grab them quick!

https://www.pinballlife.com/aerosmith-art-blades.html

2 parts to that answer. Gary Stern is the kinda guy who looks forward and not back. Not what can we re-make but we can we make new. The other part is I've heard those toppers were very expensive to manufacture. The BKSOR was the most expensive. So rather taking the chance, I guess they figure if they re-made any topper you'll have a handful of buyers at first and the rest will rot on the shelves over time. Shelf space that could be used for new money making items.

I'm back in the saddle again! Poor thing was in storage for a bit. Updated the code, did some under cab lights, dice shooter rod, installed a topper I recently picked up, and a good cleaning. The Christmas tree and fireplace needed something in front of it to make it feel more like the holidays... and I think I found it!

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Anyone have issues with the right orbit spinner registering? Mine seems to work intermittently. I checked in switch test mode get nothing out of it but in game from time to time it will work. Connections seem fine. Wires look ok. I also wasn't able to find a new switch on Marco's site. I was just going to change the switch out and see if that helps. I've never really ran into a micro switch working intermittently before that's why I wanted to ask here first. Newest game code is on the game as well. Thanks.

Thanks just ordered one! Sucks shipping is so high. $14. bucks shipping on a $5.45 switch but it was still cheaper than Marco. Always happens when I don't need anything else as well. At least my spinner will be working again..

I actually did all that. I didn't believe a micro switch could be so intermittent. I can hear it clicking each time I manually press and or spin it by hand. The only thing I didn't do was step 5. Well I have the switch on the way already so we'll see what happens! Thanks for the tips.

Well, I fixed my spinner micro switch the other day. First time I shot the ball up there it worked as it should, made the sound, the flasher flashed and then it stopped working. I played about a dozen more games spinner not working. I started looking around to see if there was actually a mode to activate the spinner in game play. So a day later the machine is on just sitting there in attract mode and I look over and see the lower half of the PF is out and node 8 error up on the screen. Other than the spinner I did add a shaker motor not long ago I was reading vibrations alone can take out these node boards? Is that true?
What should my next trouble steps be? Who sells these boards? Any idea what typically goes bad on these node boards maybe I can repair this one. So as for now, no more Aerosmith for me Thanks!

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Node boards are new to me but it's just saying 8? Does that mean all the others like 8a 8b etc are included in that? I did reseat all the network cables on the main board and other boards.

While I'm one of those guys I never believe something is that easy of a fix... I sure hope it is and I'll buy you a beer if it is! I just looked at some pics of the underneath of my PF and I'm sure I missed that plug as my harness is covering it. Currently at work but as soon as I get home I'll reseat those and post my results. Thanks!

Re-seated all of the network cables.. still nothing. I'll have to get my meter and poke around for voltage

I'll try to move it to that empty slot. All I have is a steady red light on that board currently.

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I'm going to pull that board and get it on the bench.

Thanks for the input guys! Every little bit helps! I'd read up on that vibration issue. Amazes me how with today's technology, a component can go bad from vibration! It also makes sense I literally added a shaker motor about a month ago to it! I pulled the board going to do more testing I'll let you guys know what I find!

Thanks! I'm learning the hard way about these nodes that's for sure! This helps! One of my boards had this mod and I was like.. what the heck is a zip tie doing on there! Of course node 8 the one I'm having the problem with didn't have it. All comes into play considering about a month ago I installed a shaker motor!

Thanks! Looks like maybe that was done from the factory on this one? I do have a cap there.

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And it's back alive! Sure enough the vibration took out that D9 diode on my Node board 8. It also took out one of the IC chips right near there. Local pinhead friend of mine brought it back to life for me. Kinda made sense since my board didn't have that stability mod or zip tie added. Since I recently added a shaker motor to it, I think that's what really did it in. Not sure why my spinner was not registering maybe it's part of that circuit but the spinner is also working again now. Looking back, I don't think my spinner ever worked so it might have been part of that failed IC chip. Just thought I'd update you guys.

My local friend fixed it. He got pretty good working on these node boards working with mine. He just took in another pinsiders node board same issue so let's see how that repair goes. There really isn't much to these node boards very simple operation. Actually very smart they are using these and makes sense why you only have one small board in the head.

This was the parts it needed That regulator and the zener diode in the 6 volt power supply.