Well I'll be danged. This is the listing I found. It says they're $70 and sold out!

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/500-5177-01

Thank you!

That listing is for the entire flipper assembly, not just the base plate.

Just got my Star Wars on Sunday. Very nice very clean. I'm still going to shop it out, wax it replace bands and so on. Need to replace a couple flashers to LED. My question is: I see that I have 3-4 clear plastic posts, should they all be Metal Standoffs?

Thank You In Advance,
Pete

Actually it does get used, mine is under "the force" plastic with spacers to elevate the force plastic from the scoop. I also have foam under the plastic to protect it. sorry I don't have a better pic

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I thought I read somewhere in this thread that jabba laughs after he says "pinball". he doesn't do that on my machine. What do I need to fix?

What game and sound roms do you have running ?

Yeah my brothers original ROM does that when you hit the start with no credits. Once he swapped out the soundboard with Pinsound it went away. Would be real nice to get that sound clip online so I can add it back

Checkin in on the v.1.08

As mentioned, would like to see a freeze triggered by the lane switches in addition to the Outhole switch triggering

There’s a sound clip on this page https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Star-Wars-Pinball/Jabba-the-Hutt/

Yup that’s it, thanks!

Hi guys, I'm a proud new owner of a Data East Star Wars Pin! It's my first machine and I've had it about a month. I've been going through it and modding a few things during that time. I'm a huge Star Wars fan and collector so my wife rented this machine for fathers day. She figured if she rented a pinball machine it would go back and she wouldn't have another Star Wars item in the house. Oops. Since I've had it I've cleaned and waxed the playfield, replaced the rubbers, rebuilt and modded the pop bumpers to the Williams Bally style, put in new stand up targets, added the side blades, and replaced the generic flippers with Data East among other things. It came with pinsound and an xpin power board and I added an led ocd board as well as a rottendog mpu. I'm working on getting the Pinball hu hu hu added back in.

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Get a ColorDMD!

A colorDMD is definitely on the agenda, as well as some HD glass.

You could get the Chad H. rom upgrade and get the sound roms at the same time. That might fix your problem and make the game better at the same time.

I’ve got the 1.07 rom. Is there another rom I’d need to get Jabba laughing back? The pin we rented had the laugh but it was 1.04 and didn’t have pinsound. I figured losing it had something to do with the pinsound.

Oh, if you have pinsound - get the shaker. I did the programming for SWDE and it REALLY enhances the gameplay.

1.07 is Chad's latest so you're good there.

Sound ROMs are irrelevant if you've got a PinSound. I love my pinsound, and have the pinsound shaker, which is great as well. Haven't had a chance to see if that sound is in the original orchestration. I'll pull the glass in a bit and make the required shots.

DEFINITELY get a ColorDMD! I'd go with the LED version, I had to do a bit of work to fit the LCD version in mine.

Where'd you get the sideblades from?

I got the side blades from ministryofpinball.com. They’re the only ones I found that really matched the art and theme.

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Any issues with shipping? How long did it take?

My PinSound seems to only have the “pinball” sound without the laugh. It laughed with the original sound card so I’m assuming that sound didn’t get pulled from the ROM correctly. I’ll dig through the files more to see if it’s somewhere else but I assume it’s a simple swap.

Seems like shipping took two or three weeks. I ordered them as soon as I decided to buy the pin but before I picked it up. I later ordered the clear plastic that goes behind Jabba’s bounty and it only took a week.

I have those same blades, just haven't gotten around to installing them. They look good!

Same here...

Ordered the sideblades. Lets hope I can install them and not scratch them up!!!

I just ordered a set as well! lol.

Water/soap method works great when installing. Another set of hands makes install easy.

Anyone make the brite-caps work with DESW? I can’t remember if they don’t work with the deeper top.

I don’t imagine you’d have a problem with the BriteCaps Classics. You may have issues with the BriteCaps Evo’s without doing a Williams/Bally style bumper mod. That’s what I did on mine and I love how it turned out. The Evo’s add about 5mm which helps bring the Williams/Bally lenses back up to the appropriate height. No lense rattle and the BriteCaps look awesome.I have the center lamps on them set to be reactive.

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Yes! That’s what I want. Those are the ones without the wires, correct? I have a set with the wire but the pop action always breaks the solder eventually. Those look great. Can you tell me how to do that mod?

Yes they're wire free.

The DE bumper cap is attached directly to the ring and rod assembly by 2 hex spacers. You remove the hex spacers and replace them with a couple 6-32 nylock nuts. The new williams/bally caps screw into the bumper body witch already has the holes to mount them and the BriteCaps Evo's come with the correct length screws to attach them. I save a little money on the caps by buying them as a set for the game RADICAL on marco. It'll be much easier if you unbolt the rods from the metal yoke on the underside of the assembly and remove the rods and ring from the game. If you want to change your bumper body or skirt you'll have to do some soldering in some tight spaces underneath as you have to remove the light socket from inside the bumper body.

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I recorded the Pinball Hu Hu Hu off the website above and made it into a WAV file for PinSound

It goes here 3720640276-pinball which is in the Voice folder

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X06_xd4D41ThrhDC2ciynuCYr0B_INxg/view?usp=sharing

Fantastic write up! Thanks!

Reviving a Star Wars pin, have an issue with the drop targets.
They do not reset during game play. They do reset in diagnostics.
They do respond in the switch test, but only as momentary switches.

When during game play will they reset normally?

Powering the game off and on then hitting start also does not reset them.

SOLVED!
The drop target bracket was not assembled correctly, switches acted as momentary like other targets, these must stay on
once hit until they are reset. A new game should not start with a target down. Hitting all 3 targets causes them to reset immediately.

The drop targets reset as soon as the last one is hit.

I burned new cpu code v1.07. and installed it. (was 1.03)
The game seems to run fine with it, however, when first powered up, it plays "May the force" and stops there. and continues the boot up.
Is this normal for this version of software?
After it's up and running all sounds play fully.

Yeah I think I remember that. It’s almost like the sound is clipped.

Better question though why the H don’t you have a Pinsound? Man that’s the other missing item

10/10. Must get pinsound.

That’s just the sound card booting. Don’t worry unless it starts doing it during the game.

Although I do recommend PinSound as well

And get the shaker kit while you‘re at it!

Anyone change out an original Clean Cherry DMD (no burn in) for Color willing to sell it?
Pm me

Steve

FOUND

I have one for Tommy listed in the Pinside marketplace. I ‘think’ it is the same as DESW, if so, let me know

I just realized that the pops probably will not go up and down (like they currently do) if I do this mod? Am i correct there? My friend I’m doing the repair for is a little particular. That may disappoint him.

Yes, the caps will no longer move, but they no longer rattle and crack either. The desire for it to be more correct is certainly understandable though. I do car restoration and I’m very anal about factory original. I guess you could do this mod but keep the original caps. They still wouldn’t move but it would look closer to being correct.

My Artoo is doing a half hearted little bounce every few seconds. I'm also getting some random "help me obiwan kenobi" dialogs when there shouldn't be. Any Idea where I should start troubleshooting?

Go to switch test and see if you have a stuck switch somewhere.

DMD quit working:
My Star Wars was working great and the other day I turned it on and the DMD was dead. The game plays normally (all the lights are on, everything works as expected). I borrowed a DMD from a friend and installed it....nothing. I checked all the fuses.

Any thoughts? Appreciate the help. I plan to purchase a color DMD, but thought I should get it back to baseline before I convert.

Check the voltages at the connector on the display.
Also, try wiggle the two pin connector on the display driver. Those commonly need to be fixed

I recently bought some warm frosted LEDS to be used in the SW backbox, besides a couple of other pins.
I had no trouble putting them in Williams pins but the Data East Star Wars backbox sockets are very tight.
555 Bullbs snap in tight, but the LEDS I got would not go into the sockets.
Anyone else had this issue
I measured the LED end thickness and they are about twice as thick as the glass bulbs, which explains the problem.
Are there LEDS out there that the base mimics the bulbs end contact area thickness?

For sale.....

SOLD!

Machine - For Sale

Star Wars - Data East Archived

Partially shopped/refurbished - “Nice, original example & fully working Star Wars DE pinball machine!! Dave has owned it for several years. Comes with Original topper and Manual. NO trades - cash only transa...”

2020-10-17

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Any progress with the speeder mode or any other items for code update?

Chad! Chad! Chad!