I went back to 1.57 after trying 1.6 and 1.61 out because the inconsistency in coil power drove me nuts. The most noticeable aspect of it on my machine is the spotlight that illuminates Betty. Soon after upgrading to 1.60, I noticed that the Betty spotlight was flickering, even in attract mode. I changed the LED, checked connections and nothing fixed it. I also noticed that the kick out from the phone scoop was all over the place. One other interesting point was that occasionally after power up, the Betty spotlight would be OK in attract mode. If I played games then, the coils would be more consistent. After another power cycle, it would go back to flickering again and the coils would be all inconsistent again as well.

I went back to 1.57 and all of that cleared up. So once more, I upgraded to 1.61. The first power cycle after the upgrade, everything came up solid, and I thought "good - something must have gone wrong the last time I tried the upgrade." Played a stack of games and enjoyed the new features. Came back the next day, powered it up, the Betty spotlight was flickering again and sure enough, couldn't make the consistent shots I'd been making, and the phone scoop kick out was all over the place again. That's when I noticed that I could repeatedly power cycle the machine and occasionally get everything to work OK.

So I ended up going back to 1.57 and hoped JJP would fix it in the next update. At one point I was going to hook up my oscilloscope across one of the coils and get some screenshots of the differences between versions. I ended up not doing it because I was sure they'd fix it. Looks like I might have to give it a go this weekend.

On 1.57 on mine, 9 out of 10 times, I hold the right flipper up and the ball will come out of the scoop, bounce lightly on the flipper and be trapped. On 1.6 and above, it goes all over the place. Sometimes it flies out so hard it hits the habitrail above the scoop, other times it takes two kicks to get it out of the scoop. It also sometimes hits the right slingshot and occasionally goes STDM as well. It's very noticeable. Best way to test it is to go into the coil test for the kickout, put it on repeat and keep feeding the ball in.

I have the older model H81M-P33 motherboard in my DI.

I upgraded to 1.71 yesterday. Betty lamp was flickering again after the upgrade. Ran the magnet test and it was all over the place, even after trying to tune it. Then put the ball down the phone scoop in test mode and again it was variable how it kicked out. Played a dozen or so games and it's noticeable. Even the autoplunge varies in strength. The phone animations lagged badly as well.

Put it back on 1.57 and it's all good again. Magnet test is way more consistent, eject from the phone scoop goes to the base of the right flipper every time and the Betty lamp stays on solid. Phone animations are good again.

I'm happy to stay on 1.57. It's feature complete and my game plays well on it.

I have the Celeron G1840 on the H81M-P33 motherboard. Build date was 24 October 2017.

Apart from the faster processor, did they ever install a different motherboard in these?

No, the update works regardless of processor. Some people, myself included, have reported some inconsistency in coil firing strength and in animation speeds and sync since the 1.60 release.

The question has arisen if this might be due to the different hardware installed in the games during its production run.

I was playing while wearing a Funhouse t-shirt which has a drawing of Rudy on it. The face detection picked Rudy's face instead of mine and displayed it on the high score table. I thought that was a nice touch.

I did it when I brought my DI home - it's not too hard, and yes, it's similar to a WPC game. Just take lots of photos.

Hi, did you publish the stl anywhere, or could you send me copy? I was going to design one myself, but if you've already done it, that would save me the trouble.

Thanks

Might be worth getting one - Bluetooth connection to headphones and speakers is currently under beta test.

Thanks for creating this and sending the STL. It prints and fits perfectly.

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There is WiFi for DI, it's under beta test at the moment. It was just announced on the beta testers group that Scorbit integration will be in the next beta release for it.

It does in the beta release.

Pretty sure....

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Yes it is, I'm running it. There's an open beta channel for it.

Have a look here... https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jjp-open-beta-program

Just Scorbit and WiFi updates.