I'm in the club, but my Dredd just freaked out with a trough problem. I already have the GLM TX board in place, it may be time for the RX side too.

I think Dredd is jealous that Elvira showed up last night.

_{Post edited by horseflesh : Mixed up my TX/RX}

Just joined the club... from my limited play on it, it seems like it is vastly underrated. It keeps drawing me back for more games.

Everyone that comes over tends to gravitate to JD. It is easy to pick up and play, but the rules can be understood pretty quickly by novice players. Yet they're deep enough to keep players coming back for more. And supergame is like a game within the game. Underrated big time.

Can somebody give me a bit of information on the Deadworld mod. I know the one you buy from Pinbits is set to Free Play only, but I know of some location machines that have the mod. Is the only way to have a pay to play option with the Deadworld mod to use the original prototype roms and find one of the original mod replacement boards?

I believe so. I had a Dredd with the early mod board, and it worked flawlessly. Not sure how easy they are to find. I have the Pinbits mod in my current one, and it works just as well, but as you said it is free play only.

I guess I will have to do some digging. I would really like to have the deadworld mod, but I do plan to eventually rotate in at my location and would hate to have to swap it out. Can you leave the modded disc in with the old rom?

Yes you can. As a matter of fact I left the old rom in mine for a while after installing the disc just to make sure everything else was good before changing it out. It worked like a charm.

How does that work? It seems like you'd end up with a launched ball and the "locked" ball.

Not doubting, just curious.

It works the same as using the slotted disk. When a ball enters the planet, it turns half a turn, the crane magnet picks it up and drops it. The ball never locks, it just travels halfway around the planet like it would do if you didn't have the mod. I recommend this to any body that is installing the mod, because it allows you to get any of the bugs out before you install the rom.

Oh yeah. I had it backwards.

That sounds good, I may go ahead and keep it and just throw the old rom in when I rotate it in on location. Thanks for the info.

After I installed the planet ring, I had adjustments to make with the crane, the inlet ramp guide ( I had to bend it a little so the balls wouldn't fall off) and the ring itself so that it would line up perfect . I then played it this way for a few days, and when I was satisfied with the results (no dropped balls and the crane picking up every time), I then installed the rom, and it has worked perfect every time.

With the mod the optos must sense one ball in for every ball out of the planet or nothing works right.

Good deal. My dad got my deadworld gears fixed yesterday and it all works as it should, so I am excited to start shopping it out and installing some mods

There are other ways to solve this issue. If you want details you can PM me...

viperrwk

Quick question for you LED'd Dredd Owners:

Do you just set the game not to dim? I didn't notice til I replaced the batteries and the settings reset that certain modes dim the lights way down (Blackout, Missile Launch). I'll have to double check later but I think it dims all of the backbox lights, too. It's my understanding that this won't happen with LEDs. If so that's a bummer. Is there any way around this besides leaving the GI and backbox incandescent?
I'd be pretty disappointed to lose this feature that I've only known about for a couple of days.

LEDOCD?

LED OCD doesn't handle the GI lighting (at least not yet). The only solution I am aware of is to use incandescent or disable dimming, as you already noted.

I guess the LEDOCD guy is working on a GIOCD as well. I am not sure that would do it or not.

I just set mine to not dim. Why do you want it to dim when it has LEDs?

What do other JD owners think of the Crane cover mod on Ebay? I had bought a NOS crane plastic (the angled rectangular plastic that goes over the crane) and I'm thinking about one vs. the other.
Dan

When it dims in game, it's pretty cool. It's too bad they didn't just turn them off. Then LEDs wouldn't matter.

Yeah - I went through three translites before I found one that had minimal burn damage to it.

I ordered one, it has to be better than the plastic box.

What is everybody's opinion on the leg color for JD? The legs on mine, like many others are no longer in very good shape with the gold anodizing being worn off in many spots. Plating is just insanely expensive. Would it be better to just use regular chrome legs or get them powdercoated a shiny gold color?

I am not a fan of the red legs.

My JD legs had been replaced by a previous owner with some beat up chrome legs. So, I replaced mine with some new gold legs from Pinball Life (although looks like Terry doesn't seem to sell these anymore).

Also, completely converting JD over to LED's is a daunting task considering I am up over 200 bulbs so far on my count.

We'll worth the convert to led. As for the legs I went with new chrome.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/judge-dredd-shop-job

Most LEDs from pinball life. Some of the flashers from cointaker's

My total is closer to around 187. I've attached my near final version of my LED plan based on using Cointaker LEDs. Would be interesting to find out what others have done or think. I should be finalising it over the coming weeks.

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Would love to check it out, but I don't think it's really there.

Has anyone tried spray painting their Judge Dredd legs with gold spray paint? Or would this be totally dumb to do?

I don't swap out any flashers and I think it looks great. Color match the inserts.

Hmm - is there a limit on the size of pdf files or something. It uploaded but is just not appearing.

I've always been happy with my decision to go with Cointaker Super Brights. The GI and PF kits are nice, but it came with all white LEDs for the back glass and I would've preferred color LEDs. They might have changed this now, but that's how it was a couple years ago when I bought the kit.

I just got one!!!! tricked out with LEDs and hooked up a powered sub woofer to it!!! whoa!!!!

Good news! The deadworld gearbox is fixed and everything is fully working now!! Thanks to my dad for fixing the gears for me. Now I can start shopping it out and putting in the LED's!

I believe it should be attached by a couple of screws to the metal bracket inside.

I did my own gearbox repair on a Dredd once. The splines inside one of the gears gets stripped, so the planet stops turning. I believe this was caused by the crane magnet getting stuck in one of the ball holes in the planet ring. If it ever hangs up this way, I recommend turning off the machine and fixing the crane before you damage the gearbox.

You answered that pretty quickly before I deleted my comment I noticed I had left that bottom bracket off just after I typed that.

All Dredd, all the time! 24-7.

Just the way it should be

I actually prefer all white in the backbox. This preserves the colours of the original artwork. Coloured bulbs just don't appeal to me because they actually change the colouration of the artwork away from what the artist intended. Just my preference.

ditto

Okay, apparently pdf file attachments are not supported yet so I have uploaded my LED plan to Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2o6tbx90nt2oxu/Judge%20Dredd%20Pinball%20-%20LEDs.pdf).

As stated before, this is not quite the final version but is around 98% there. Having now finished my 2 year shop job on JD I now need to see what I think of the LEDs I have installed and see if I want to change any.

Would be great to hear any comments/suggestions on the LED plan.

Looks good but I personally use warm white instead of yellow and orange in inserts as it always looks better and brighter IMO. Yellow LED's are crap and always dim. I wish I would have had your layout sheet when i was doing mine last night

I was excited to get mine ordered until I looked at my cart and it was over $200

Apparently the trick with color matching yellow inserts is to use pink LEDs (crazy sounding I know.)

For the Crime Scene inserts I prefer using warm white with the yellow condoms.

viperrwk

I hear what you're saying about the yellow and orange LEDs but to be honest I am actually pleasantly surprised how well they have turned out in JD. I have used Cointaker Supers and they look good and bright. The only disappointing ones are the large round "Build Up Chain Feature" inserts so I'll be changing those. Plus some of the flashers under the ramps may be better using the Super 13 but that's for testing another time....

I do not like pink in yellow inserts, it gives them a weird tinge. I see how they can work, but I think warm white looks much better and more natural.

I installed the crane mod last night and it looks great! I definite improvement IMO. Very easy to install and plug and play. Can't beat it.

If anybody is working on their Dredd soon and can snap a picture of the underside of the Deadworld lamp plate I'd appreciate it. My wires are pulled off and I don't know which go to F and GI. I looked at the schematics (3-7) and it looks like the blue-red goes to the flasher but I'm scared to assume.

I think that is correct.