Well thx I know about pinbits but they are out of red

I'm a happy new owner of a fun JD. Whoop

I just joined the club! Drove to Dallas yesterday to pick up a JD. I think I got a good deal based on recent prices, but it does need a little work, so I will be asking quite a few questions I'm sure.

Right now I know it needs the deadworld motor fixed, the left plastic ramp is busted and it needs new rubbers and a good clean. The crane is 100% working and the playfield looks flawless.

My goal is to get the Dredd up to par so that I can rip into my POTO and send the playfield off for restoration...

Looking for a representative led plan. I don't want to miss any

Any chance there is a topper for sale out there?

Here's one: http://www.pinballspareparts.com.au/cabinet/toppers/03-8936.html

Let's all get one of these.

Count me in, looks great. Colors jive with the comics and the subtle shading looks really good, given the dot matrix limitations

I hope they get the DMDs in stock early in January rather than later

I'll order one as soon as they are available. In the meantime I may transplant the one I have in STTNG so I am ready when the code drops. I've been looking forward to this for way too long. When I first played Dredd 20 years ago, I imagined how cool the animations would have been in color.

I transported the WH20 over just in case. Thumb drive ready.

Err I should have said

Looking to buy a Dredd topper in this hemisphere.

Thx

ColorDMD in stock. Never ordered something so quickly in my life.

Does anyone have a good led plan for me to use as a starter. A nice xcell file of the lamp number and type used etc. thanks in advance

Me to got the email clicked the link and $400 gone This should be awesome from what I've seen can't wait

Pinball Center have one

http://www.pinballcenter.eu/catalog/noflix-judge-dredd-p-1069.html?language=english

Does the immortal pinside joke "JD is a $1400 game folks" need to be updated to $1800 if it has a colorDMD in it?jdmfw.jpg

Just installed mine and it looks awesome. Took long enough for a game I own to get the ColorDMD treatment.

Jared in Dallas has the best led plan that I have seen.

It was a joke? lol.

The color DMD is awesome! More like a dream come true. Thanks to Gov and colordmd for getting this one out to us. I stayed up late last night after the code dropped and played for hours. Color or not, I have never tired of playing JD. And now it is better than ever. I love this machine!

I will look and see if I have one for mine.

Here are pictures of mine with LED's.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/dredd-owners-thread-members-only/page/10#post-1873555

I don't have a map, but here is a list of the bulbs I ordered from pinballbulbs.com

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag7WdMaMmKfndF95RWgzM2pKUkZqTnA5b2o4NTF3dFE&usp=sharing

I am thinking hard about color DMD. I figure it might raise the value as much as $200 - $250. As standard DMD Have a fairly short lifetime and the color LCD should last longer. The rub is that there will be nice LED displays ready soon for $300 or so and they will be awesome too. Now if color DMD folks used rgb LED or even OLED then that would push it over the top for me

Unless you are routing your games, a standard DMD in a home environment will last an absurdly long time. Had the same one in my Jackbot for 5 years and it shows no signs of going out. And it's a pin I play very frequently.

That said the ColorDMD is an awesome upgrade. Completely worth the money imo. If you don't feel that it will add value when you go to sell the games, rip it out and save it for another game. More and more games are being added every month with colorized roms. JD is my first supported ColorDMD game and I plan on buying one for every game I own as they become available. Fingers crossed for Shadow this year.

Can you elaborate? Are you talking about the SmartDMD?

Agreed, easy enough to keep your old DMD to put back in when you sell the game.

Just go with ColorDMD - BEST thing I've done to my machine - and I've done a lotimage.jpg

Happy you like it

Battletank never looked so good!

Add me to the JD Club! Just picked up the Judge last week. Added Eagle topper, pulled the ramps and gave it a nice thorough cleaning and tweaking. That's a lotta ramps!

Legs were 31 inches which made it look ridiculously huge compared to my other machines. It was like driving a friggin bus so I took the set off my sttng (put another set of restored legs on it) which were black and gave them a coat of hammered finish rustoleum black, followed by two coats of reflective gold. Both from Lowes. Coin door was beat up pretty good too so that got hammered finish followed by satin black then blinged up with some gold glitter spray they use on glass lamps and stuff. What do you think? I just ordered some spotlights as suggested here. Id also like to light up the white planet area under the playfield directly under the deadworld ring. Any suggestions?

This game is fuggin' crazy! Love it...

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Congrats RCB. Sweet JD! Welcome to the club!!
~Steveo

Looks awesome!

I need to order a set of brass legs for mine.

Agreed. Second best thing I ever did was installing a sheet of invisiglass. As most of you know there are only so many GI sockets on this game and lighting can be an issue. Invisiglass made it much easier to come up with a lighting plan that worked without going to extremes. I used the Cointaker superbrite kit for the inserts, and a combination of other bulbs for the GI. I am very happy with the results. Invisiglass makes this game pop.

I'm in! Have just purchased a JD from Melbourne, $2750AUD after shipping to Brisbane (1500 miles). By Australian prices that is pretty good! It's been imported from Europe, everything in good original condition. I've read through the entire thread and I'm thinking the first priorities are a deadworld mod, LED's, drop target decals and buying that last topper from PSPA!

I have never played JD before so am looking forward to putting a lot of hours of play in over the next few weeks!

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I guess in reality the BEST thing I ever did was getting JD in the first place

You "razzin' on m'bling Yo?"

1. no deadworld mod installed (yet)
2. having a hard time aligning the crane to pick up the ball. got into the menu and found the adjustment for the crane but when it says to align it with the ring I can't figure it out. i found the planet adjustment and stopped it with the crane arm down where it should pick up the ball but when I go try it again it goes back to lowering to the ring about half way between the ball slots. tried moving the ring by hand but it wont budge and I dont want to break it. advice appreciated!

It takes some time to get working correctly. Just align it above the ball and adjust the height in back of the crane. When it tests you will either be right above the ball(wont pick up) or to close to the ball(doesnt move because it is stuck between the ring and the magnet). Fiddle with this for awhile and you will find the sweet spot.

having the same problem. Fiddled with it for hours last night - got a buddy coming tomorrow to help me with it. Fingers crossed. The crane/deadworld seems to be the Bermuda Triangle of pinball repair.

My JD is getting close to being exactly how I want it. My crane picks up the ball ok but doesn't swing left quite far enough. Ends up dropping it right on the edge of the ramp. Do the adjustments in the menu adjust this? Not quite sure how to adjust this.

Mine does the EXACT same thing - doesn't go quite far enough left. Haven't looked into it but if anyone else knows I'd be interested in a solution too.

Thanks man it's fixed. Anyone interested in the fix go look at my activity. On an iPad so hard to type it out again.

You want the crane to be able to pick up the ball just enough to allow it to swing back to the tunnel. Adjust the arm in the crane test by moving it ever so slightly to the left above the ball. Test again. I like to start a game and start multiball right away. Remember if there is resistance or torque between the arm and the ring it will not get to the drop before release. It is timed to release so too much resistance is a bad thing. Give it enough so it moves smoothly and doesn't hiccup along the ring. If it drags raise the crane screw in the back by lifting the front of the crane.

Holy Fck sounds pretty good for me!

I've already spent another 500+ on decals, a topper, deadworld mod and a rubber kit.. next up some LED's once I map out how I want to do that and then maybe i'll have to wait for my birthday before getting a color dmd in there

i have a question about the left launch button and mode select. neither seems to work but i dont know when they are used. i had two balls get trapped in the left shooter lane during a pretty good game I was having the other night. they only came out when the missing ball solenoids started firing. directions on mode select say hit buttons during game to select mode. I don't see anything change when I hit them. I glanced through the manual quickly and nothing jumped out so I figured I'd ask the experts before digging in deeper to save time

putting that color DMD in is like ....having a new game! Awesome!

That switch is dead, or it's not fully connected.

Go into Switch Edge test and press that button. You'll probably not see/hear any indication that you pressed it. If so, I'd open it up and take a look at that area, are the wires disconnected or loose? If I recall, that area is extremely close to the playfield when it is raised and lowered, so something could easily have been disturbed.

If the balls go into the left shooter lane from an air-raid shot, you should have to manually launch them back out (which, you cannot do since your button doesn't work). However, if they go in there on their own, they should be kicked back out immediately without you having to do anything. If this isn't happening, then you probably have an issue with the switch that sits at the base of the left shooter lane.

Lined up next to my TOTAN and SOF. I plan to put a small shelf on the wall beside it for some misc. Dredd memorabilia and such, possibly some JD related artwork.

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Topper question - I just got a new topper but haven't been able to find a mounting bracket, before I spend time trying to make one myself I figured it would be alright just to sit the topper on the backbox without mounting it, anybody else do that or should I really mount it?

You could. Just remember to remove the topper if you plan on bringing the head down. A member on here sent me a bracket, so they are out there.