I’m finally ready to release details on ordering your own. Check out my website at geeteoh.com for details on how to order one for your KISS machine. You'll get a plug-and-play board configured for custom sounds, a printed manual, and (at least initially) the optional song select cable with attached pushbutton.

https://geeteoh.com/geeteoh/kiss.shtml

This is a new design of the AS-2518-50 Bally KISS sound board with custom sound support. Although the board is capable of sounding 100% stock, it is intended to add custom sounds to the KISS machine. It is all controlled by three volume mixing potentiometers and five DIP switches. All the sounds are contained in WAV files on the MicroSD card. This board will NOT work in any other machines besides KISS.

Stock Mixing Knob: Adjusts the volume of the stock electronic chimes, noises, and tunes.

Extra Mixing Knob: When turned up, it adjusts the volume of extra sounds that replace the tunes at power up, coin-up, game start, KISS bonuses, and end of game. It also adjusts a set of sounds that are attached to the solenoids such as each of the pop-bumpers, sling shots, ball eject, knocker, etc.

Background Mixing Knob: Adjusts the volume of the repeating background song(s) during game play.

Attract DIP Switches: Turns on single or multiple (1 in 15) attract sounds that play every 3 minutes between games.

Optional push button can be attached to the sound board to advance to the next song during game play. 10 songs are available on the MicroSD card.

This custom KISS sound board gives you a whole new game experience from the simple beeps and bloops of the stock -50 sound board. Check out this video to see more details about the board.

Stock Sounds: There are 18 WAV files that contain all the stock chimes, noises, and tunes of the stock Bally KISS -50 sound board. These vary depending on the settings of the MPU S8 and S32 DIP switches, but it is recommended to use S8 OFF and S32 ON. These stock sound files contain the entire set of notes for a noise or tune. This makes it easy to customize.

Extra Sounds replace Tunes: Each of the stock tunes are replaced with one of five randomly selected WAV files when the Extra Sounds mixing volume is turned up. This is for the tunes for power-up, coin-up, start game, KISS bonuses, tilt, and end of game.

Extra Sounds tied to Solenoids: As an added bonus, my board detects when a solenoid fires. If the Extra Sounds mixing volume is turned up, a WAV file will play when a solenoid fires. The ball eject solenoid rotates through five WAV files. The others have one file; knocker, each of the 4 pop-bumpers, tilt, drop target resets during game play, and each of the sling-shots. Some of these will skip playing the stock scoring sound - such as the target reset, pop-bumpers and sling-shots. If you don’t include a file, nothing will play

Background Sounds: You can either have one background file (song) played during the entire game, or have it change for each ball. Background volume is controlled with the background volume mixing knob. Single vs Multiple backgrounds are controlled with a DIP switch. An optional push button cable can be routed to the front of the machine to change songs during game play.

Attract Sounds: A sound file played periodically between games controlled by a DIP switch. You can choose between one attract sound or have it select one of 15 random WAV files. The attract sound is played about every 3 minutes.

Common Setup Examples:
1) Stock Machine: STOCK volume up, EXTRA and BACKGROUND volumes off, Attract DIP 2 OFF.
2) Stock Machine with Attract: STOCK volume up, EXTRA and BACKGROUND volumes off, Attract DIP 2 ON.
3) Stock Machine with Attract and Background: STOCK volume up, EXTRA volume off, and BACKGROUND volume up, Attract DIP 2 ON.
4) Stock Scoring with Extra Sounds, Attract, and Background: STOCK, EXTRA and, and BACKGROUND volume up, Attract DIP 2 ON.

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The female voices as well as the song introductions, pop-bumpers, and sling shots (all the non-stock sounds besides the background songs) are set by the EXTRA volume mixing knob.

Try backing off the BACKGROUND volume and/or increasing the EXTRA volume a bit. Use the TEST button on the board (when not playing a game) to help with these settings. There is a lot of female voices in this test sequence to help set the volume.

To start over with setting the volume mixing knobs - Set them all pointing diagonally top-right (about 10 o'clock). Then adjust the main amplifier volume a bit to your liking. If the main volume is too sensitive, turn down the three mixing knobs together a bit and try the main volume again. If you aren't getting enough main volume, turn up the three mixing knobs together. Once the main volume is set, then I'd do the same by slightly increasing the EXTRA volume and down a bit on the BACKGROUND.

Again, use the TEST button to help set these.

And THANK YOU for lending me your KISS machine to do all this development. I couldn't have done it without your help.

And... Thank you for lending me your KISS machine to do all the development. I couldn't have done it without your help.

Bank 1 has the Rock N Roll all night as the 5th song while bank 0 has it as the 3rd song. It's easier to just add the ON DIP switches at DIP4 and DIP5. Bank 0 is both +1 and +2 off. Bank 1 is +1 on and +2 off. I seem to have a bad batch of MicroSD cards. Let me get you a new card out. For now leave it on bank 0.

I'm not going to be filling orders for a week or so here while I iron out issues that some KISS owners have seen with my board. I stand behind my boards and I am determined to make sure my board works well in everyone's machine. I just got a second machine up and running here today. I also have KISS owners that have been helping me test updates. Sorry for the delay.

I have fixed the issues with my custom Bally KISS sound board. I have boards available for sale. See my website for order information.

https://geeteoh.com/geeteoh/kiss.shtml

I’m getting a lot of positive responses from those that have the board.

Thank you to everyone that has given me improvement ideas and tested the early boards. The end result far exceeds what I thought this board could deliver.

I have a bunch built up and ready to ship out. Price will increase a bit on Jan 1 to cover parts price increases.

Putting my KISS board in Dolly would cause few if any sounds to play. My custom KISS sound board detects sound sequences from the MPU that are unique to the KISS machine in order to play all the custom sounds. Same as my Star Trek board - it only works in the Star Trek.

The -50/-32 sound boards only play 32 individual notes. The MPU must send a series of note commands to create the noises and tunes you hear. This series of notes is different from machine to machine. For example, the start game sequence for KISS is "Rock and Roll all Night" notes. My board starts the background song when it detects the "Rock and Roll all Night" note sequence. Since Dolly starts with a different sequence, the background would never start. I detect all the tunes for KISS and play alternatives - where Dolly has different tunes. Tunes for power-up, coin-up, start game, tilt, KISSx4 bonus, colossal bonus, colossal bonus drain, and end game. They are all different and none would work. (actually tilt may be the same)

You can see the actual note commands coming from the MPU in one of my earlier KISS sound board videos. Here is one that shows it well for Star Trek MPU commands (about half way through).

Then there is a bunch of game specific stuff I do as well. Like suppressing the stock scoring sounds on the bop bumpers and sling shots - because I play my own sound based on solenoid commands. The code for this would need to be tweaked for each game.