I use that. Spray it on a microfiber cloth and then clean the glass.

LTG : )

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I'll try that spray way, thanks for the suggestion.

I wise man told me about Sprayway years ago

Has anyone encountered a bug that ended your ball prematurely? I was playing this afternoon and I couldn't remember if I had a mode running or it had just timed out. I hit the Big Bang and then immediately got the sim card scoop for a sim card award. Right after the SIM card was awarded the end of ball bonus countdown started as the ball kicked out of the phone. The flippers were dead so I lost the ball.

Rob

sounds more like a trough issue. put your game into switch test and bang around a bit on the playfield to see if the trough optos activate.

50% alcohol (I use the 99% alc kind) and 50% good ol' tap water. I've been using this for years. Invisiglass is just like eyeglasses, and it is recommended to use this mixture. The canned stuff will work as long as it is amonia free. I just by packs of alcohol from Costco and use a big spray bottle. I wipe my playfields with a rag wetted with the same stuff. It evaporates almost instantly and cleans beautifully. The pure alcohol is great for cleaning electronics as it does not conduct electricity. I stuck an old cell phone in a pool of it, and it ran just fine, fully submurged.

I suppose that's possible, but I've never had an ounce of trouble with that until now. Things do have to start sometime though....

Rob

Man I love Dialed In so much. I've purchased or played maybe two dozen games continuously since I got DI almost two years ago and nothing comes close to the fun and intensity that Dialed In presents. I keep trying to get another pin to compliment it but I just can't. It's on a whole other level of greatness.

I'm happy to see other people finally coming around and snatching them up as they become available. I've said it before but if the theme music was a little 'darker' I think it's popularity would soar even more. Such a gem!

If someone were to make a mod that replaced the cell phone with something not only would they make a killing, but all the nay sayers would be actively pursuing this game instead of bashing it.

I'm fine with it.

Like a spinning tornado with lightning coming out of it

Anyone replace Betty in back? That is the one that is hard to get over for me. Contemplating some AFM flying saucers or a WOZ tornado. Maybe a tornado for QED and saucers for Betty. Anyone do this before?

Went down to play a little bit of Dialed In today, turned the game on and nothing. Game starts to boot, get the thump and the computer is running. So I dig into the computer part, hook up a separate monitor and get into the bios to make sure the hard drive is detected. All looks good, so I force load it and get into the utilities, ran the self checks and it came up with a couple errors when trying to run it. So I did a complete 1.6 install. Install went fine, but still not booting past the speaker thump, just getting the small cursor in the top left. The attached message did pop up a couple times. Anyone else seen these errors?

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A quick prototyping....and what do you think? Needs some tweaking but the lighting effect when you hit the target is great. Trying to get some of the disasters more into the playfield.

Played a few games and then my Bob flap broke off. Always something.

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I reinstalled the full 1.6 again, let the game restart, get a couple pop up messages on the monitor that I connected, then the game just sits with a blinking cursor on the top left. The hard drive seems to copy the data properly, but could it be the culprit? Not sure what else would cause it not to continue booting. I even disconnected the usb cables into the motherboard to see if one of them was halting the boot, no change.

Is there a way to run a check disc on the computer? You may be correct. Possibly a corrupted file/disc is prohibiting start up.

I prefer Ron Jeremy

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Upgraded to 1.73, and all the voices from the characters in the phone are very soft, you can barely hear them. If I go into setting and adjust volume, it increase the announcers voice and the female call outs voice, but not the phone characters. Does anyone know of a fix to this issue?
Thanks, Michael

Mine is on 1.73 and doesn't behave this way.

Were you running 1.7 before that, or did you jump up to 1.7 and then add 1.73 all at once?

I'm running 1.7 and my voices seem quieter than the main voices, but not quiet.

I was running 1.6 before the jump to 1.73

I don't have an answer, I'm just bumping. This is going to happen to all of us eventually, right? Best to figure it out now...

Went and picked up a new hard drive from my office, did the full install, still comes back with the error posted above after restarting.

I appreciate it. Not sure what is keeping it from booting, going to try and download it from the mirror and do it again. Odd thing is that it says it installs fine with the full install program.

What OS is this running?

Have you tried making sure all connections are tight? Ribbons and what-not? Reseating everything you can find?

In my experience with pinball repair it's almost always the simplest of things that'll fix it.

Can you run just 1.70 fine? Then restart, then install 1.73?

This is true^^^^

Betty has an arm that blocks your ramp shots from completing loop.
It’s a timed mode that takes a lot of skill and timing.Im amazed with these comments about cell phones,Betty and QED guy.Pat designed this totally original IP and did a great job.Play the pin open up some modes and multiballs and you will love it. This is like the Roadshow argument,Oh my god I can play that pin because of a song that plays only with multiball
I get the linear argument but the song matches the theme

In addition to all that, changing out anything totally ruins the cohesion of the game. The lcd and audio callouts are telling you to shoot
QED guy to light the phone. If you change him out to a tornado and the phone to something else, it just doesn't match everything else
that is in the game.

Update- downloaded full install from mirror site and used Rufus this time to create image on USB disk, uploaded to machine and everything seemed as good as before, rebooted game and still getting same error.

Checked and double checked all connections - no change.

Decided to go through the bios and check everything. Saw that the onboard video was not enabled, enabled it and let the game reboot.

BOOM! - game is back to working. So messed up that Linux gives you errors when the onboard video isn't working. At the very least you would think it would tell you what is going on.

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Good detective work there! Could you describe what you did? Stuck a usb keyboard on to the motherboard, rebooted and kept pressing F2 to get into bios?

I actually have an old keyboard that plugged right into the purple keyboard port. Pressed delete to get into bios when it first booted. I'm sure the usb keyboard would work as well.

Thank you for the follow up; I wonder if this is one of the things that jumping the specific "motherboard reset" pins would have fixed?

Also, given the BIOS issue, could this be due to the CPU battery failing? They are starting to age out based on some of the info I have seen (e.g. I swear I saw a reminder from JJP to follow the battery changing procedure on these "nowish" to prevent the settings from getting lost and preventing the game from booting.

Not sure what happened to the game to begin with, as I went down the hard drive road first. The battery is retaining the information for now, will see if something happens again.

If you mean scores, audits, settings, etc. etc. They are stored on the hard drive.

LTG : )

No, the bios settings, trying to figure out what happened to cause the game not to boot in the first place. I would think the default image for the bios should enable the onboard video ports. That seemed to be what was causing my game not to boot. The bios is keeping the date and time correct after power down. So I don't believe battery is bad.

anyone know the cost of a phone replacement, assuming it's out of warranty?

Is there anything in the software that makes a LE, or is it just the parts bolted on. When it comes to the lighted ramp, I see open ports under the playfield. Is there anything keeping me from hooking leds up to them?

I had read $225. Was told that not from JJP though. (fixed phone auto correct typo - doh!)

Not sure as I haven't tested it, but as the dongle has your serial number they could do this easily..
Someone with both types could easily test it by plugging in the SE dongle in the LE machine and see if the leds still work..

your dongle knows that it is an LE and therefore be running LE software features.

I think aeneas understood that. The root of the question is “what specifically does DI disable when running with a Standard USB dongle”

We understand they could disable stuff ... but we don’t know if they actually do.

Putting a standard dongle in an le would be useful. For example, do the ramp lights actually stop? Heck, will it even run?

I haven’t seen anyone post/try.

ah, sorry for the confusion.

Game might not boot up without it.

LTG : )

Hi to all!!!

Please, can you tell me the diferences between Standard and LE? Does ir worth???

BR

For whatever reason I've never been able to consistently "scratch" the lottery tickets. Last night I accidentally discovered a far more reliable method: rock your body side to side (and not too slowly). It works every time for me, I don't have to take my hands off the buttons, and I look like a complete idiot doing it. So there's no downside.

You can go to - https://www.jerseyjackpinball.com/games/ click on Dialed In, then check out the different models and specs.

LTG : )

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No gameplay differences

But off the top of my head: invisaglass, colored metal, lighted ramp, nicer back artwork, headphone jack, comic book, ...

Hey! No worries. Hope my post didn't come off to strong either.

Thanks a lot for the answers!!!

Could be possible to drop the customized software, and install it into a SE or LE?

I have a LE new in box near my location... and i am really heavy seriously thinking about it... jajaja

By the way... any update on the horizon!?