Not to mention that Comet has a wide selection of LED's you won't find anywhere else. I swear by their twin SMDs, and their Matrix light strips are invaluable if you are going for some dynamic lighting.

Who says Christmas only comes once a year?!

Thank you Mr_Tantrum!!!

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Dealing with Chris (Mr_Tantrum) was one of my best experiences in the hobby. He was VERY responsive, offered a lot of options, and had everything fabricated and shipped within a couple days - even though I let him know I wasn't in a rush. I think I had everything installed about a week after I placed my order. I couldn't be happier!
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I'm not a fan of the "cartoon" looking translites (especially my Whirlwind). So just for kicks I made my own for HS2. Not everyone's taste, I know.

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Mr_Tantrum

From an earlier post, I thought you were a John Wick fan. Seems like a logical orchestration theme for HS2.

Here's a medley to get you thinking about it:

Upper Left Flipper?

I just installed mine. Installation was a breeze.

The shifter comes with 7 lighting "modes". I pulled the green LED's out of mine so now I have the option of red, blue, red and blue, or red-blue flashing. Pressing the center of the shifter (between the 6 allen heads) changes the mode.

THANK YOU Mr_Tantrum!

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Yes, I just desoldered the green LED's - so now any time the green would have lit up it is now dark. I was going to jump the green circuit to the red so that I was getting 2x red and 1x blue during the flashing sequence, but I kind of like the way it looks at this point. Also, I think I'll usually just light it up red, so again, I decided not to worry about jumping the green/red circuits.

That's a piece of the turbo encabulator. It's similar to to an actual automotive component, explained here:

For those of you with Pinsound on your HS2:
I created 5 sound packages, two of which are posted for download here:
https://www.pinsound.org/pinballs/wpc-alpha-dmd/getaway/

For both:
I loaded 15 different lambo "drive by" sounds to the inlanes (because I really didn't like the beeping "car horn" sound)
I changed the "shift gears" tone to the sound of a lambo's engine winding up - needing to be shifted. The vocal cue "Shift Gears" is still present.
I filtered the police radio voices in Mr_Tantrums custom callout files so that they sound more like they are coming through a police radio (in by opinion). This was done with permission from Mr_Tantrum.
I changed the after-ball bonus multiplier sounds to different lambo engine sounds.

Music for "Outrun" is all new. Call it "up tempo" or "club" or "house" I suppose. I'm not wild about having lyrics in the music, so this fits my requirement. You won't recognize any of the music.

Music for "Speed" is also all backing tracks, except for ball capture (which is Yellow's "OH YEAH"). The rest is Billy Idol, Steve Stevens (from the movie "Speed"), Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Cheap Trick (Top Gun end credits), and even the Blue Man Group. The main theme is made up of multiple versions of "Don't Need a Gun" (but no lyrics). If you're not familiar with the song, listen to it here:

If the music does't strike you, feel free to grab all the Lamborghini "drive by" sound files.

A HUGE thank you to Mr_Tantrum for posting the instructions on how to do this, and for all the PM's and emails that he's responded to along the way. It's like I have an all-new game!

I'm using 6 sound packages on my Pinsound + board - Five I made and one of Mr_Tantrum's mixes ("John Wick" - which rocks). All are working well

First, reformat your flash drive as Mr_Tantrum mentioned (FAT32)
Second, you will need to put an "audio" folder and the config.pinsound file on the root.
Just start with one sound mix for now. I always use uncompressed WAV files. Put it in the audio folder.
Put the USB into the game. Start it up.
You should hear "loading sound files, please wait". This may take a half hour.
You should be good at this point.

To load more sound packages, just put them in the "audio" folder and repeat the process.

Switching sound packages on the Pinsound plus board while playing is a little different than Mr-Tantrum's Pinsound 1 board. To change sound packages you will need to turn the volume to zero twice. There is a little finesse with this, but you will get the hang of the timing of it. You will hear the "jingle" when the sound package changes.

I created this one to help me after a lot of trial and error. Mr_Tantrum, I used yours as a starting point but colored coded mine (first column) Black cells are ones that I don't think ever play. The ones with similar text color are ones that I am using the same song (first column).

I just added the second column prior to making this post. I tried to reflect my experience as to which ones play often or seldom, which ones are "versions" or "intros" of another, and which ones will only play for 20 seconds or so and will require cropping just the "good part" of a song.

I used this to make 5 orchestrations now (although I've only posted 2). Maybe someone will find it useful as well?

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Good point, I don't have the attract sound enabled so that could explain one of those.

BTW, I used your psrec files to determine the "black" cells. Obviously those songs might make it into game play at some point, but just not on those particular files. For some instances I use 3-5 different starting positions of some of the song and put them in a single folder so I don't always hear the same part of a song over and over given the same stage of play. "after_videomode" is one of those folders where I'd like to hear a different starting position of the main theme. Same with the inlane "klaxon" sfx sound - I have 15 different sounds in that one folder alone. Works for me I guess.

And thanks again for the big head start on working with the PinSound system. I would't have attempted it without your instruction. Your shaker programming is also spot-on!

Next up: My T2!

Tying the shaker to flashlamps only is nice, but if you're already putting in a PinSound board you really should consider their shaker. The shaker can be programmed to respond to much more than when the flashers are activated. It can respond to almost any trigger - all the way down to when a target, slingshot, rollover, etc is tripped. If you're going to put a shaker in your HS2 and are getting PinSound, you don't even have to do the programming - Mr_Tantrum has already done that, and when your shaker arrives it will already be "ready" for your Getaway!

LMK if "Upside Down" or "More More More" plays on your pin. I don't think those two will come up on mine

Interesting that you and I both seemed to find the same 11 songs that never seem to play. One of us could have saved some serious time figuring that out.
Also interesting that your folder numbers (prior to the folder name) don't match what I have. I similarly compared mine to both Mr_Tantrum's "000012" old numbering system as well as the folder number system that was resident on the original orchestration. Just curious - where did you come up with those folder numbers? I used Mr_Tantrum's John Wick folder numbers as a template (for example, I have 2425679781 for "ball in shooter lane").

I put songs in those 11 folders to as a placeholder as well. I just use songs that I'm already using somewhere else so I don't spend more time editing songs in audacity that I know will (probably) never play.

I get that. I'm counting at least 4 different folder numbering systems. Using "Ball in shooter lane" as an example I see:
2425679781 (John Wick as an example)
0025093848 (Original Score as an example)
0000001 (Your earlier work)
0025093848 (Sleepy's spreadsheet)

The folder names are a little different as well. I see main_theme_3 and main_theme_4 on most. Sleepy has main_theme_b and main_theme_2.

Anyway, I'm not going to figure it all out. I'm using your John Wick as my overall template because the config file I'm using works with it and so does my shaker.

Again, I couldn't have done any of this without your head start. Thanks Again!

I wasn't planning on uploading my other 3 sound packages to the PinSound site because I figure Timothee and Nicolas are getting tired of all the HS2 submissions. However I received a couple PM requests after all these posts today so here goes:

V2 is my orchestration using Rob Zombie's "More Human Than Human" as the main theme and Rammstein as everything else. Make sure the kids are in bed when you get to the ball lock music. "More Human Than Human" can be heard here:

V3 is my orchestration that features the music of Joe Satriani. I'm using a few versions of "Summer Song" as the main theme, which can be heard here:

V4 is my orchestration featuring all the music from Total Nuclear Annihilation. I have this pin and really love the music. I used a few versions of "Heat Exchanger" as the main theme:

All of my sound packages are instrumentals, as my preference is to just hear the music and let the pin's callouts provide any vocal elements. If this isn't your thing, you might want to skip my V2 sound package. I also did a bit of work on the SFX and Vocal sounds on all of these as well, similar to what I've done before on my V1 and V5 packages.

I just uploaded these and they haven't made it to the main download page yet. If you want to give them a try you'll have to get them from the forum site: http://pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?/files/. Send me a PM and let me know what you think if you give them a try. Thanks!

You might want to add a column if there is an "alternate" sound available (and from which orchestrations it can be found) for something other than music. Maybe a description of the new alternate sound as well?

I used to use those. Now I just give mine a good clean and polish. The stickers are available from Marco.

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Of if you've done all that modification to the backbox, why not a custom translite to show how "custom" it is.

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I did a couple different ones with a Diablo but I didn't like the look as much. The Diablos on the DMD and the playfield are a little nondescript, so I didn't mind the slight modification (as long as it wasn't a Ferrari!).

Our local police don't make a habit of using Apache gunships to follow speeders, so I didn't mind using an image of an actual police helicopter. Again, I was removing the tie-in to the Apache by changing the translight anyway, but changing it to an Apache would be pretty easy if I wanted to do it.

At a minimum I wanted to get a mountain road, red Lambo, police car(s), and an actual police helicopter.

Here's one with a Diablo (SV Edition), freeway overpass, mountains, and helicopter.
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Thanks for your unilateral proclamation. You've now inspired me to put the whole machine back to it's stock condition... Maybe I'll get to work this weekend on my others as well. Does anyone want a boat load of mods and ton of white LED's from any of my pins?

Black subtitle, logo position and ...

The helicopter is banking into the road, and it's rotor is about to make contact with the guardrail. Wait, that's the original one I'm looking at

Stern sells the "double headed slapping caterpillar" on their Super LE (SLE) versions to the Chinese market only at this point. Use the "DHSC" order code if you want one for other markets. Mine does come out of the translite as Haymaker mentioned, but that required a lot of modification to adapt it to the WPC platform. I admit, it sure adds another element to the game!
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Thanks!

For those that don't know, not only did Scott Danesi create Total Nuclear Annihilation (the pin), but he also created all the music for it as well. He continues to be very active on the forums for his game and is constantly improving it based on customer feedback and feature requests. A lot of pinheads dismiss TNA due to it's lack of toys or ramps, but it is a VERY FAST game (like HS2) and a blast to play. I believe it is the only pin with a co-op mode, which is great to play with someone with a different skill set.

You seem to be missing quite a few parts. Check out the diagram on page 2-29 of the manual for a complete list and description.

How does the ball make it to that spot? After going up the lift ramp?

Here's something kinda fun. Check out the red/blue apron lights during video mode and multiball (at 20 second mark and again at the 2 minute marks). Please excuse the sloppy gameplay with a camera between me and the pin.

I like it. Makes more sense than the checkered flag flipper toppers (the theme of HS2 doesn't involve a race track).

My game did the same when I got it. Like pkrobin said, the balls are supposed to be released with a delay between them. If you search the forum you may find what I did... the spring on the solenoid / post that holds the balls in the lock needs to be "beefed up". After researching the forum I also found that if I added a second spring it solved the problem. I don't have a pic of mine, but I "interlaced" two springs together. Not sure why it works, but it did.

Very simple to install, but unless you REALLY tighten up on the lock nut the whole mechanism it will want to turn if someone aggressively turns the key to start the game. Fun for home use only.

Your cabinet decals look great. Nice deep reds. Where did you get them?

The same thing occurred on mine when I first got it - it always let 3 balls go at once. Somewhere in this forum someone suggested adding a second spring on that coil plunger. That did the trick, and I haven't had a problem since.

Love that version of Bang a Gong! If you make an upbeat 80's mix, I'll be the first to install it!

I was going to make another one and pull some pieces out of this long version of Two Tribes - never got around to it.

I put a Van Halen orchestration together awhile ago but never got around to testing it in the pin, and I know the volume levels of the music will have to get punched up a little. If no one else does one, maybe I'll resurrect the one I have.

In the absence of a true Van Halen pin, I installed about 20 of my favorite Van Halen tracks into my Getaway.
If you have PinSound in your Getaway you can download and install my Van Halen sound package here if you are interested:
http://pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/335-getawayhs2-v6_estroh_vanhalen10/

The main theme soundtrack actually uses five early DLR tracks:
Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
And the Cradle will Rock
Jamie's Cryin
Runnin' with the Devil
You Really Got Me (which I think works best after the "Eruption" ball launch track)
If you want to have just one play, you'll have to delete the others.

As the game progresses you'll hear later tracks and more of Sammy's vocals.

Big Thanks to Mr_Tantrum for the instruction and the voice files.

Enjoy!
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https://www.pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/336-getawayhs2-v6_estroh_vanhalen10/

I would LOVE to see this when you're finished. As a half step in that direction, have you considered just red (or just blue) for normal mode, and then a flashing red/blue when the mars lamp is going? That would be a little smaller pill to swallow...

https://www.cometpinball.com/products/8smd-flex-flashers

The piece of the hinge that connects to the long part attached to the playfield appears to be bent. You might want to remove the entire hinge on both sides and straighten things out. The movable part should "stop" at the long flat piece attached to the playfield.

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You can use your TZ as a guide to see how it's all supposed to work.

Yes, standard part. Is meant to keep the ball from leaving the playfield. Same thing with the one over the hairpin turn on the left side.

Odds are though, the ball will never hop out of the superchager and hit this piece. I wouldn't sweat it if it's in a home use environment.

It's VERY EASY to plug the monitor cable back in without noticing that the plug is "shifted" on the pins. Take a close look and make sure you plugged it in correctly, and also that the ribbon is not upside down.

If you operate the flipper manually by hand and REALLY PRESS IT (hard) to it's full "flipped" position, do you feel any mechanical "catch"?

I've restored two Getaway pins and I used both of the ones you listed. The short answer is that I was MUCH happier with the ones from Classic Arcades - both in terms of color and customer service (I had a slight issue with both).

Check the slings for the ball.

As far as the playfield goes, you need to lift it up when you slide it toward you. The triangular tip of the slide mechanism needs to raise to a point so that it goes above the pin on the cabinet. You will hear a click sound when it finds the correct position. Then you can tilt it all the way up.

I've put something like this on 2 High Speed pins and a Getaway HS2. I always use a separate power supply though.

He's one on my High Speed:

I usually tap the wire between the switch and transformer. Then install a 120VAC / 12VDC power supply (5A) off of the tap to power all my mods. I tap the 12VAC power to the beacon and run it through the coil side of a 12VAC/2VDC relay. The power supply runs through the power side of the relay.

Sounds complicated, but it's pretty straightforward. If you have a Pinsound board you don't need the relay.
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I've got a decent collection of W/B pins and I prefer mirror blades on most of them - nothing against art blades, but I think the mirror blades really opens up the "environment" of the pin - especially those with a lot of light. I've restored three Getaway's, but the one that's bolted to the floor has mirror blades installed.

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... and a big "thank you" to Mr_Tantrum for all the awesome mods!

I just bought 4 more sets from Cointaker during their black Friday sale for various machines I'm working on. Looks like they still have them discounted: https://cointaker.com/products/ballywms-remake-mirror-blades

I've bought them from other vendors though... I'm sure they're all coming from the same manufacturer somewhere.

Regarding your lock. When in a single player game and starting multiball, does your lock let all 3 balls out at once, or is there few-second pause between each ball release?

Mine acted this way when I got it. Springs don't "wear out", but adding a second spring on mine fixed the problem. There is a post about that somewhere here from year's ago. I'm surprised that solution worked on mine (and I'm a mechanical engineer). Thank God for these forum posts!

Those two disconnected wires go to the lamp on your start button. They were once plugged into 9/J135 and 6/J138. J135 and J138 headers have the same circuitry as J133 (red lamp wires) and J137 (yellow lamp wires) directly above them - except J133 and J137 are connected to the playfield lamps, while J135 and J138 are connected to the lamp(s) in the cabinet... just the start button in the case of HS2.

The switch's lamp wires (yellow, red) are completely isolated from it's switching function (white and green wires). In other words, having the red and yellow wires disconnected won't affect the operation of the switch.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the an in progress game doesn't restart while holding the credit button in" Can you clarify?