Full instructions are on the website. Follow them carefully. First do a Full Install of 1.60. Then do a Delta update to 1.73

Follow instructions and you shouldn't have a problem.

Worst case scenario if you should "brick" your game. Start over. Do a Full Install of 1.60. After that do a Delta update to 1.73.

LTG : )

Thanks guys.. im 2 hrs into this and followed the instructions. Insert the USB, fire the game, nothing happens. Just boots up to 1.50. And I can't get the backbox open. Read about that in another post. So far not real impressed with owning this. Game is cool, just haven't had update issues on my Sterns or American like this. I've gone thru the process twice. 1.5 it is..

Try a different USB stick. Make sure it has nothing else on it. I think you want to use an 8gb one, but LTG can weigh in for sure.

Also make sure the USB cable is connected at the other end.

Ok.. I'll check both. I assume I need to get into the backbox. Should be interesting. I used an 8G, but I'm going to pick a new one. Give it another try today. Thanks for the help.

No, you update the code by using the USB that has the Bluetooth dongle. It can be accessed through the coin door.

I get the same thing on my Wonka

I tried to play my DI with my phone but the app said you can no longer use it as the app no longer is supported by the App Store. When did this feature vanish? My nephew when he comes over loved playing the game and flipping it with the phone.

Just replaced my battery for one of the more stressful pieces of routine maintenance I've done to date. That area on DI is tight!

I love di ,I believe it to be a top 10 but the SIM card shot take away a lot of fun for me,just to hard to make,I wish there was another way to complete the sim shot,maybe a super combination of ramps and orbits ect,just some other way!

Ditto... last week for me. I was shocked at how much of a pain it is to get in that spot with my big mittens.... and the battery was seated really tight!

Better wait until the Battery is empty and needs to be replaced. The only thing would be to enter the BIOS and activate the multimonitor setting. Much safer that way.

Need some help, fellow DI owners. My kickback coil suddenly went offline. No response in play or test. The switch for the kickback is fine. The fuse, F706 is fine. It’s almost brand new, like 150 plays. So coil should be ok, right?

Any suggestions much appreciated!

Thoughts:

1. Kickback in a 70V coil. Did you ensure the coin door interlock switch was "active"? If not, it cuts the 70V during testing
2. If you did have 70V and it's still not working, I'd start with the basics... look at the coil and verify it doesn't have a broken wire

Yep, I made sure of that. Coin door is closed during test. All other coils are firing on “repeat” in test mode (trough, auto-plunge, etc.) Only kickback won’t. The game is almost new, opened a few months ago. I checked the coil, looks normal. Wires are soldered well and nothing is loose that I can find.

Any connectors on the I/O board loose or off ?

LTG : )

I checked there too, but if the fuse is good, and the wires are connected to the coil perfectly, it seems either the connection at the board is bad, or the coil somehow failed. Coil failure on a new pin with under 200 plays seems unlikely. It seems like a connection must be loose. But where? Does anyone know exactly where on the board the kickback connects?

I/O board pinouts are in the manual. D-103 and D-104

LTG : )

Thanks, Lloyd!

I’m still trying to score a hard copy of the owners manual. I bought my DILE last summer but it didn’t come with one.

Looks like JJP still has them on sale on their website, $39.99:
http://store.jerseyjackpinball.com/Parts/Dialed-In-Parts/Dialed-In-Operations-Manual.html

I grabbed this and a full set of replacement plastics in the fall for around $100.

You can download a PDF one from the website under Support - Downloads - pick the game you want.

LTG : )

And of course you can access the manual from the service menu in the games. Take a look sometime at what is in the delta code updates. The reason the delta file is so large is that it has a copy of the manual in it.

Put it on a USB stick & take it to Kinkos or Fedex and have it printed & spiral bound.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions on the upgrade. After buying an LE with 1.50 code I had trouble loading the new code. The hang up was the download tool. Unetbootin would not work after multiple attempts. Rufus worked on the first try. Was also told to use 8-32gb stick, nothing smaller or larger. Worked fine with Rufus and 32gb USB stick. Up and running.. fun game.

So I just joined the club, and I decided to download the Jersey Jack iPhone app only to discover I can’t find it in the App Store. When I googled it, the app comes up, but then I get a message that it’s not available in my region ( I live in the US). Is the app no longer available?

It doesn't seem to be.

Problems early on. A lot of phones wouldn't hook up to it.

LTG : )

That seems pretty remiss of JJP if true - after all it’s a pretty cool and unique feature of the game. Even though not many people would use that feature to play normally, it’s fun to show guests. I also use it to give my 6 yo a helping hand when she’s playing! I’ve still got the app on my phone and it works fine. Maybe message JJP about it.

My feelings as well. Hopefully we can find a copy of the app online or through JJP even if its not supported by Google play anymore. I've had my game for about a month and am dissapointed the app isn't available. Its advertised on the game itself.

To be fair, I was never able to make it work anyway... It did not stay connected, so I could not use it.

I was also hoping the application would be slightly more than just control, like for ex high score recording or something of that nature, but it does not seem to be the case (not that I can check, since it does not work )

The App never worked on my iPhone, unfortunately.

Here's what surprises me... typically if an App is no longer available for "purchase" (even if it's free), if you previously purchased it then you could download it again. While I'm certain I "purchased" it in the past (how else would I have found it doesn't work), it doesn't show up in my list of purchases. At least in the case of Apple's App Store, it looks any history of it has been erased?

Interesting.

"Hello. I'm calling from Dialed In Electronics. We have detected a problem with your App"

App was 'neat' but a missed opportunity to do something interesting with multiplayer.

Totally hit n miss with the app for me, sometimes it worked but mostly not. Because of the flaws the game’s far better off being played without it IMO.

I really liked the app, my 6 year old nephew couldn't get enough of it when he came over. I hope this is just getting updated and not disappearing. I have the app on my phone and it just wont work now, requesting to update but app no longer in the App Store!

Picking up a DILE tomorrow! Now someone tell me everything I need to know, so I dont have to read this whole thread. Ready.........GO

Reading the thread is fun!

Congrats!

Just look at the key posts for now. They cover a lot of the major stuff.

So 4 issues right off the bat that I noticed that are not in the key posts.

1. I'm not getting anything but "fuzz" on the phone screen.

2. Sounds like a screech when the kick back triggers, cant tell if it's in the sound or from the coil.

3. Sounds like when 1 of the characters talks from the phone, it is distorting.

4. My theater is not sending the ball up, but dropping it back to the flippers.

I will start searching these issues, but if anyone wants to send me in the right direction, i wont be mad.

And according to JJP site the code went from 1.60 to 1.73.
My code says its 1.71 LE. Is this correct?

Read the change log - https://marketing.jerseyjackpinball.com/di/di_changelog.txt

Do the Delta update to 1.73 if you want. Read instructions carefully.

LTG : )

So I updated to newest code and I started troubleshooting the phone issue. When I swap the theater and phone then the theater has the "fuzz" and the phone shows upside down which think is correct. So if the problem is being sent to the device, how do I fix that?

Joined the club a few weeks ago and am really enjoying the game so far. Need to learn the other nuances to scoring as all im doing is lighting up the phone and completing modes. What else am I missing? What else is worth pursuing?

Did get incredibly close to the Showdown last night. Had all but one letter and then everything fell apart. Ill get there!

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Sorry you are having some trouble.

Did you purchase it NIB or from someone else? If from someone else, did this phone problem exit before you purchased it? I'm only asking for context and to, perhaps, eliminate thing like "something came loose" while it was being moved.

With no further insight available, seeing "fuzz" is odd IMHO. I'd expect the little display, whether the theater or the phone, it either show the video mostly correctly or not at all. This is because the display device is synching to the analog signal. Seeing snow may represent a more several graphic card problem.

But before assuming anything, if possible, I'd suggest plugging an older VGA monitor directly into the phone output on the Dialed In PC box.

Sorry I don't have any "this will fix it the issue" comments.

I got into the computer in back and found the video card was not plugged in all the way. Phone is back up and running.

My next question is when I played this on location, I would start multiball with 3 balls. I have only had 2 ball multiball. Even the animation shows 2 balls going through the station. I'm assuming this is a setting, but cant find it anywhere.

And how do you get access to the small speakers? I had to unhook the right side because certain tones would distort.

First MB is a two ball MB. The next one is three ball and so on.

And the add a ball feature when you knock a ball back into the phone scoop during multiball..... just another possibility

Wait.... There's a graphics card in the system?? Curious to know which one...

Welcome to the club! You just got your DI and you already are 1 letter away from Showdown? Man, you don’t waste any time! I’ve owned a dile twice and never get further than 4 letters. I struggle to collect SIM cards. Very challenging game. Other than MB and phone modes, you have the BOB and Quantum Theatre features to finish. Monkey Wrench MB and some other stuff.

Let us know if you beat it!

A ATI Radeon 6450, only for the phone monitor connected via VGA. Take one with active cooling (fan), hard to find.

Truth be told, the electronic architecture of JJP baffles me. A consumer grade motherboard and graphics board are not really designed for this type of use case in my opinion. It draws so much power it's noisy, I can't let it powered on in my living room

This is pretty much the main complaint I have on this otherwise great game

You surely know more about electronics than I do, so you probably know about this already. I had concerns about the noisy hum that DI produces too. A friend recommended a cheap little buffer device that plugs into the board. It really cut down on that feedback/hum sound. Like I said, you probably are way ahead of me, but I wanted to mention it just in case you or others haven’t tried that.