Whats up! Why would I wanna be in a Family Guy club!??!?!

As for LEDs - use non-ghosting or premiums and they won't flicker. I used Cointaker's 2-LED Premium (the flat top kind). They're awesome. Cool white under blue & green. Warm white under yellow, red and orange. Use colors to change inserts that look better in color than white. I made Death red, EB orange, Pirate green, Jackpots red. Warm white in GI. I think I used a cool white on Brian's spotlight to make him more white...I'd have to turn it on and look....but I'm lazy lol.

Color matching isnt necessary for the most part. Here's why.

Yellow and orange LEDs are dim and both look orange. Warm white brings out the real yellow and orange of the insert.

Red LEDs look almost identical to warm white so I rarely bother. Also some seemingly red inserts are amber. You'll only see the difference if you use warm white .

I like the "emerald green" and "Sky blue" that cool white brings out of inserts. You only need to color match if you want "forest green" and "smurf blue".

The only insert I almost always use color on is pink/purple. Those always look best with a pink LED imo.

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If you get Premium or Non-Ghosting, they're non ghosting

I notice your Stewie has a helmet on - I tried that when I originally got the game, but then he'd never face the correct way during gameplay. Just that small weight difference throws off his alignment or something.

Somewhere in the middle. Steve Ritchie posted a story based on how many had sold by mid-2007. It didn't sell well at first because overseas buyers had no idea what Family Guy was...and even some U.S. operators didn't get it, so they decided to make Shrek to use up the extra parts. Some people stop there & use his number for how many were made, but they ignore the rest of the story. ...the game got great reviews and did very well on locations in bars and college towns. Collectors warmed up to it due to the great reviews, humor and deep code. Sales picked up by Xmas 2007 & were brisk throughout 2008...when it was all said and done, they were making games up until the very end of the license & ~2500 were made.

No idea! If so, that's a good deal by today's standards!

That's not that limited. It's a decent number for that time. Also keep in mind most stayed in the US since hey weren't as familiar with the theme overseas. Games that sold more like Pirates or LOTR had a lot go overseas.

Why? They're regular pop caps. Brian blocks one, Peter's on top of one, and one is under the Mini Playfield. Peter's pop doesn't have a light in it...so I wired one in there and tapped it into the one behind Brian.

Nice! Congrats! Shop it out, put on fresh white rubber (looks and plays better) and you're good to go! You're missing the scoop plastic. Those were very prone to breaking without a protector. Hopefully you can find one. If not, you can prob get one of those little LCD TV mods to put over the scoop.

Here's what it looks like...although it normally doesn't have a light under it. I added a socket and tapped it into the GI. I think the protectors were probably from Pinbits. You can also see the Cliffy on the scoop.

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Flippers are perfect. IMO FGY is one of Stern's best "out of the box" games in terms of build and feel...it has a Lawlor B/W feel. The reason that plastic broke a lot is because it's right on top of the scoop...it has a little pressure on it and the scoop is constantly getting hit by balls, eventually the plastic breaks at the pressure point.

Hmmmm...anything else will be purely to your taste.

For LEDs, I'd recommend the warm white 2-LED with clear dome style for GI. The flat-top premium style for Inserts. Warm for red/yellow/orange. Cool for white/green/blue. These bring out the true insert color...superior to the "phony" look of color-matching. The only color LEDs I use are Red under Death's insert & the Jackpot inserts., Orange under Extra Ball, Green under "Pirate". I like Pinball Life's 4-LEDs for the spotlights. I'll have to double check, but I'm pretty sure I used warm in all of them - but maybe put a cool for Brian's.

I also got the box set of character figures and used some of them to replace the stock ones, as I liked their expressions better. I replaced Meg, Brian, and Stewie from that set. I also took the beer mug from the Cleveland toy and put it in Peter's hand. I put a beer bottle in his other hand, and a martini in Brian's.

Nope, that's by design.

Hey, where did you get the Stewie stool? I've always wanted to add that to mine.

Yes, update to 12.0. I think the game launched with 7.0 or 8.0. There's an unreleased 12.01 that fixes a few audio bugs floating around as well.

Here are the changes from 7.00 up to 12.0

V 12.0 - 29-Jan-2008
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Family Guy Changes
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- fixed spelling of plural "hero"
- Added ticket dispenser test. Jammed tickets are now reported in tech alert.
- Coil drives used for ticket dispenser operation (AUX 1-3, coils #33-35) can no longer be activated in coil test.

System Changes
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- Changed the file name for USB backup. The file name now included the spoken languages present in the game image.
The formatting of the version number has also changed to be a bit more readable.
- Changed the tab order of the RichEdit control and the single line input text box.
- fixed a problem where the checksum(s) in the checksum table could vary from build to build).
- Changed greece pricing from EURO 6 to EURO 8. Short month names in certain languages were too long.
- Fixed problems with U.K and Spain tournament prize pool messages.
- Changed the wording of the 'INSUFFICIENT SPACE' message for USB backup. Updated revision comments.
- The USB backup test now checks the free space on a USB memory stick and refuses to save the game image to the stick
if there is insufficient space to do so.
- Ticket dispenser API changed so that tickets can be dispensed without clicking the meter.
- Cleaned up "OK" and "Cancel" slowness. Added debug message boxes.
- Changed Spain factory default pricing to Euro8.
- Added new artwork for ticket dispenser test.
- Cleaned up flipper ball search and test mode entry/exit API.
- Fixed a problem with changing the dip switches. When the dip switches were changed and the game was rebooted, the
system would not install the proper adjustment override values associated with the new dip switch settings.
- Added tournament settings for Spain.
- Added tournament settings for UK
- changed french text in www.stern.pinball attract mode screen to fit on display
- Fixed a problem with ball search. If a request was made to put off ball search for a smaller amount of time than a
larger value that was already timing down, then the smaller amount of time would overwrite the larger amount of time,
which would often result in ball search occurring when it should not.
- Fixed a problem with font rendering. If the font character information happened to be in a different flash memory bank
than the font character image data, then the characters would be rendered incorrectly
- Added 3x7 outline font.
- Added 5x7 outline font.
- Added the 9x12 outline font.
- added missing translated text
- Shortened the tilt sound, as there was a lot of dead space at the end of the sound.
- Changed the size of the space character for the 5x5 outline font. It was too small.
- Added a 5x5 outline font.
- Fixed a problem with the '1' (one) character in the 7x10 outline font. The character was not the same width as the rest
of the numeric characters.
- Fixed the 'custom' tournament setup such that it is possible to set up a high score tournament with only 1 prize.
Bump 'N' Win tournaments are still a minimum of 2 prizes (one for the high score, and one for a single position in
the Bump 'N' Win table).
- Added a 'coin_door' module to the core system.
- Added 'BALL_SAVE_OTHER_OUTLANE' such that expedited ball saves can be handled via outlanes that are neither left outlanes nor right outlanes.
- The background lamp effect for "get balls into play" was not being killed when the "balls into play" request finished.
- Changed Norway 2 pricing; added Norway 3 pricing. Added pricing messages to the pinball pricing table.
- Added a way to get at the fractional portion of the credits.
- Fixed some misspellings in Spanish (RESET GRAND CHAMPION and RESET FACTORY SETTINGS).
- High score to date now times out if it appears that the player is not doing anything to enter their initials.
Added an icon for ticket dispenser test.
- Fixed a misspelling for the Italian 'CYCLING COILS' test.
- The attract mode display effect for custom message was not auto-sizing the fonts. This would cause long messages
to be rendered (clipped) off the screen.

V 11.0 - 27-Jun-2007
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Family Guy Changes
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- added stewie motor test
- Changed scoring for beer can collect.
- Fixed some issues with mini-playfield inactivity detection, added an adjustment to turn off
auto-disabling if it's still a problem; mode shot counts now reset each time the mode is played
so that tv wizard scoring doesn't get obnoxiously high.
- added a delay after completing the 4 bank drop targets to reduce balls from being launched into the glass
- Stewie Multiball starts are now audited
- new graphics, speech added

System Changes
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- Ball save is now expedited via an outlane switch.
- Fixed a bug in the USB write file code that could appear when spanning FAT clusters. Optimized
several USB file operations so that they are more efficient and run faster.
- Removed the 12v lockup code. This is no longer useful.
- Got rid of extra 0 at the end of a minor version.
- Added instant info modules.
- Factory default USA pricing is now USA10 (1/$0.75, 2/$1.50, 3/$2.00).
Tournament prize pool bump upped to $0.50 (from $0.25).
- Fixed several USB bugs.
- Fixed a problem with the 'total plays' audit.
- Fixed a bug with audit dump.
- Fixed the extra ball crash bug. This would happen when the maximum number of extra balls was exceeded and the game programmer had specified extra ball points.

V 10.00 - 22-Mar-2007
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Family Guy Changes
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- changed default "raise death" settings
- Updated sperm attack (final mode) graphics
- Added graphics to first 2 phases of Sperm Attack.
- Final Mode qualifying implemented
- final mode lamp effects added
- added Game Intro speech phrases
- added flag art
- added more funny speech phrases
- added final mode music
- Final mode added

System Changes
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- made tilt debounce longer to avoid quick danger/danger/tilt scenarios that occur when nudging the game 1 time.
- Increased the heap size.
- Added sound effects for USB update complete and USB update error.
- Added new "download compete" sound.
- Fixed a bug in 'sys_lamp_matrix_free()'.
- Added copyright tool.
- Added translations for the "lost ball recovery" adjustment.

V 9.00 - 6-Mar-2007
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Family Guy Changes
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- added dubai settings, added mode total transition sound, added new/bigger ramp sound
- added penis car speech phrases to family mode
- removed fart sounds from spinner during Fart Multiball when "family mode" is set
- added drunken clam speech phrases to family mode
- added sexy party settings for dubia
- added fart multiball total speech phrases to family mode
- added lard multiball speech phrases to family mode
- added happy hour speech phrases to family mode
- added crazy chris speech phrases to family mode

V 8.00 - 1-Mar-2007
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Family Guy Changes
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- fixed spanish speech
- added default setting for extra easy thru extra hard rule installs
- added tournament info to attract mode

System Changes
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- changed asterisk from 7 to 5 pixels wide in the 5X10 font
- Tournament 'enter initials' display effect now displays asterisk characters for the PIN.

V 7.00 - 26-Feb-2007
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Family Guy Changes
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- new beers collected sound f/x
- fart mb switch scores are now scored and shown on the fart mb bg screen
- new collect beers display/sound f/x
- spanish speech added
- Lengthened TV Wizard Mode total page display and added sound to it
- Added sounds to TV Wizard mode.
- left return lane is now more responsive during fart mb

System Changes
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- Audits and adjustments now only make '-' and '+' button sounds if the audit and adjustment numbers and/or values actually change

All Stern SAM games update easily with a USB flash drive. Just download the code from Stern's site and follow the instructions.

If you want to see something funny, before you update your FGY, update it using Shrek's code. You can play the game as Shrek and it works 100%.

Have you been playing the TV modes? Shoot the Lois Spinner until the TV insert lights up, shoot the scoop. Try to score well on those modes, as it will pay off if you get to TV Wizard Mode.

DEFINTELY go for that Stewie Multiball...that's the whole point of the mini-pinball. You have to get alternating Jackpots to build toward Super Jackpot. Example, get Peter on the mini, then Peter on the main.

Did you unzip the file and put the .bin on the thumb drive? Did you follow the steps? Did you flip dip switch #8, turn on the game, then chose update?

It's an audio bug...the countdown will keep playing even if you're out of Multiball. Stern fixed this but never publicly released the code. PM me if you want the unofficial "home rom."

Stewie made the mini pinball. He's not as professional as a real pinball maker!

Back of the cabinet. Date is stamped on there.

I'm assuming someone recreated this in Photoshop? You might want to correct the mistake on Neil's hat. The image was just flipped so it says AV on one side and VA on the other. Or is it best to leave it accurate? I dunno...that always bugged me that we/Stern didn't catch that lol

Ugh - that bootleg translite is fucking terrible. Typos, horrible composition, perspective that doesn't make sense. Anyone who'd actually pay for that shit and put that on your game - Shame!

All games have Chicken Fight. It used to be a video mode where you just had to slap the buttons to win. It was changed to a switch frenzy mode where you have to hit switches to win (spinner or bumpers are your best bet)

Launch code has it as a button mashing game. It's not like that anymore....unless you have old code on your game! If your game has anything below 12.0, update now!

If you do have up to date code, go for the spinner during Chicken Fight or try to stack it with a multiball.

Put the plastic protector set on. I've had it on my game almost since day 1, and my scoop plastic is still fine!

We're the protectors under like they're supposed to be? I've seen some people put them on top instead.

Wow, that’s awesome!!! PMing!!!!

Yes, everyone should be on 12.0!!! Never leave any game on old code.

If anyone still needs unreleased 12.01 “home rom”, PM me w your email. It has no new content, but fixes 2 audio bugs. It’s free play only, though.

SAM games had a sound spike bug - where the game gets super loud &
needs to be shut off. Most got an update to fix this...FGY’s didn’t get released for some reason. There’s also a bug where Lard Multiball ends, but the jackpot countdown audio continues. Both of these bugs are fixed on the 12.01 code.

Thanks Mr. Tantrum! The stool looks amazing, like it should have been there from the factory.

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Compare it to any recent game. Family Guy has lots of animation that’s true to the source material and more callouts than any modern game. 5 seasons worth of clips, plus Seth doing tons and tons of custom callouts. It’s a perfect example of what a licensed game should be. Appreciate it, you could be playing Fake Dino Land with awful fake voices & 1999 Crazy Taxi animation.

Impossible. The game shipped with 6.0 or 7.0.

Speaking of Evil Monkey - one of Pat Lawlor’s original ideas was to have the Monkey moving around on a track like MB Drac or Mick on a Stick. I told him the Monkey should maybe be hiding in a closet door that opens up to reveal him...anyway, he ended up as the ramp flap lol. I think it’s cool, though, does any other game have a controllable ramp target like that?

I also pitched that there should be a shot just for hitting Meg - that made it in.

Yes. It’s an attract feature! You may be able to turn it off in the settings if it bothers you.

Dang - my playfield has never worn, but I’m thinking it might be a good idea to add a Mylar piece where the kickout is.

Just a reminder - if anyone would like the UNRELEASED 12.02 Code, PM me your Email & I'll send it to you. It's Free Play Only, so if you're operating your game, you won't want it.

This code fixes the following:
-Sound spike bug fixed. SAM games had a bug where the sound gets crazy loud, and you have to shut off the game to "fix" it. Many games got a code update to squash that bug...for some reason FGY's wasn't released. 12.02 fixes this.
-LARD countdown bug fixed. After Lard Multiball ends, Stewie will sometimes keep counting down for Jackpot, even though the mode is over. 12.02 fixes this.

The boot rom doesn't contain the game’s code. That rom is burnt on a chip, game code is re-writable using the USB port.

I don’t remember if the boot rom is socketed…but if it is, find someone local who can burn the rom for you. Easy to swap it out. If it’s soldered, you can still probably find someone local to burn & remove the old one, add a socket, then replace.