You’ll never find the R2. Ive never seen one come up for sale, so you’ll be building that out from scratch as well

I saw you got a SW today, congrats!

If I could find a broken one I could rebuild it

I don't expect this to be quick

But i do think someone out there has a trashed SW , last time I collected these parts(10 yrs ago prior to the arson fire) I bought most of them from a guy in Greece, the rest from a pinsider/klover named SealClubber

Boba Fett and the plastic below Jabba's bounty (the one above two xwing targets)

Whoops... where does this go?

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Behind Jabba

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Good eye! It's odd because I wasn't working on that side.... Must be from a previous owner

Can anybody confirm where the posts that hold up the marquee over the ramp goes? O bought this from a gentleman who had it "professionally gone over" by TNT....smh..

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Yours doesn't look that different than mine.

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It looks like yours is actually attached to a post. On the left side mine's held on with a zip tie....

Ran into another issue. The music cuts out when you start the game and obiwan keeps stuttering may the Force be with you. I just replaced the PS with a rottendog one today and the ribbon cable for the dmd (though in guessing the ribbon has nothing to do with it). I also noticed that on the mpu board the row of resistors on the left are burning hot to the touch.

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Yep, all data east game are burning hot. No issue from those resistors.

Such a bad design. Metal -> plastic -> metal

I have an added protector that gives it more strength.
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SWDE is my second game. Owner for 8 years. All other games are in top notch shape. Time to get this one there. Going to start with a playfield swap (I think). I found a replacement that’s very nice but not unused. Anyone know of a new/unused PF that I could get me grubby paws on? Also, any advice thrown my way for this project would be much appreciated.

I have a pinsound + shaker in my SWDE, really adds to the gameplay!

Now that Chad finished star trek, I wonder if he will have a chance to look at the speeder mode.

replace the capacitors on the sound board.

I am looking.

The major hurdle I have to try to overcome is that I need more free space to fit the Speeder Mode code. And I need a lot. Like close to 1 kilobyte. Considering the entire space available for game code is 48 kilobytes... this means 1 kilobyte is relatively a lot.

Bottom line is I have to rip something out in order to be able to add Speeder Mode.

I've been analyzing the code and I see a lot of space is taken by all the Playfield Light Show routines/data.

I >may< have to rip out some Playfield Light Shows to be able to make room for Speeder Mode.

There are 16 Playfield Light Shows in the code. The good news is that two of them are completely unused so really only 14 are in game... and then there are a couple light shows that are only ever played during Attract Mode. And there are two separate light shows that are almost identical which is a waste of space. So possibly I can start with yanking those and using their space for Speeder Mode. But I think I need to dig deeper and remove even more of them.

Would you guys be OK if the amount of different Playfield Light Shows was reduced in order to be able to add full Speeder Mode? The game would still play the Playfield Light Shows as it does today, it would just not have as many different ones. Meaning... instead of the game overall having a variety of 14 light shows, it would instead have a variety of maybe 6 to 8.

I, for one, don't think it's a big deal to lose some of the light shows.

Don't be silly, get to work

I would be ok losing some light shows for full speeder mode.

14 light shows?? Go figure I never noticed so I say for for it!! I am also willing to sacrifice the horribalr strobing while trying to make the tri-ball shot. I hate that effect

I'd love to have a reason to use the handle, not just the button! As long as you're only taking out attract mode lighting I am ALL for it.

Then maybe you could do a few things to LW3....

You have to have the OEM "T" handle in order to have anything make sense.

To clarify... some of the different varieties of light shows played at various game play moments will have to be sacrificed to make space for Speeder Mode. But whenever a playfield light show plays in the game during those moments, one will still play... but it would have to be one of the remaining 6-8 light shows.

Yes. That will be addressed also for sure! Back when I made the code mod for Star Wars, I didn't understand how that worked but I've since learned so much more from working on the other Data East games.

In fact, let me know if there's any additional tweaks you guys would like to see from v.1.07.

I don't know about anyone else but we use that handle every time we get the tri-ball. We coordinate throwing the handle in sync with the animation on the DMD.

We're silly like that.

-Paul

Red Lion. Hell I grew up in Delta! Small World.

Anything else that could be ditched to free up space?

The coming soon rocky and bullwinkle stuff etc?

question, what sets the limitation in size? Can larger rom's be used?

Can you lower the default high scores so I don't feel l like I suck so much at this game

Thanks for you continuous work on this code ChadH

I’m so excited about the prospect of speeder mode! ChadH is a true American hero!

The display code routines does have some junk bytes leftover here and there.
The code could be tightened up...
The code for GnR was stripped and simplified...
So the same thing could be done with Star Wars.

Doesn't the game have adjustments to set high score and to set
when the high score gets reset?
every xx games.

Original game had default High Scores of 400M, 350M, 300M, 250M, 200M, 150M.

My update changed that to 350M, 300M, 250M, 200M, 150M, 100M (and also changed a bunch of scoring).

Assuming no major scoring changes in possible next update, what would you guys like for new Default High Scores?

Just shift everything down by 50M such as... 300M, 250M, 200M, 150M, 100M, 50M?

Or maybe change it to something more condensed like 200M, 175M, 150M, 125M, 100M, 75M?

I kinda like the next game promotion, but wouldn't be a deal breaker if it had to go

I like the strobing when the Death Star door goes down. Couldn’t you put a filter over your flashers or something?

I love stormtrooper shootout mode (it tries to get you to take your hand off the flipper. Distraction is what it IS). I’d hate to have features I like taken out for one I think I’ll like, but chadH can do no wrong.

I just leave it down all the time. If I feel like opening the death star early I just push the button. Does it do anything when it's up?

OEM "T" handle does. But the program is removed.

Don't we all have the OEM "T" handle? I know I do. I assume most everyone else does too?

I won't be taking out any game play features. I think I can do this with only removing some Light Show variety. If it came to being forced to take out game play features then I'd abort mission.

A small one, but when I power the game on all I get is "may the force" and then it cuts out. Anybody else get this?

My death star opens as expected but doesn't open the second time no matter how often you hit the target. Sound registers when you hit it. Only opens when time runs out?

Any ideas what's going on? Recent issue only.

Thanks everyone

All main production Data East Star Wars "T" handle assemblies are
a stripped down version of the one that is used for the sample game.
That's why people just leave the handle assembly in one position up or down.
The handle is completely useless as it stands now.
I would add a spring that would keep the handle in an up position...
That way it would make sense to "push down and fire".
or if you have the money have the OEM manufacture make
the OEM "T"handle....
Once Data East scoured all the video modes out of the game,
they where able to cut costs even more by putting in the less
expensive "T" handle assembly that is used in all productions.

That is the snd board getting the reset signal...
All three boards have different reset timings...
You would have to stall the cpu reset initiation in order to here the
snd board reset complete its Q call.

Totally normal

I would say maybe a blend of both, 50M seems to low for a high score, maybe start at 75M. 250 to 300m for a GC works for me