Ok, so Guardians is one of our favorite movies in this household, so when I first saw the Stern pinball announcement I was drooling over every picture I could find. This was one of the first pinballs I wanted to buy in forever, and I'd never owned a new machine before. Ran down to the nearest arcade to play the Pro as soon as it came out and remember being so disappointed with it. The change in voice actors absolutely killed me, but for whatever reason I didn't care for the game itself either with the original code. Big relief that I didn't blind-buy it.

A few months ago I finally tried it again and while I still hated some of the voiceovers, the new code updates since last I played it seemed to make it a lot more enjoyable. I don't even know what was really changed, but I was having fun with it now. Perhaps my own overhype had died down and I wasn't expecting as much from it, but I enjoyed the game so much now that I was actually considering looking to buy one again.

So now I'm back lurking Pinside forums and marketplace for the first time in many years and to my surprise, I just happened to find this thread by a Google fluke. The whole thread completely blew my mind. Had no idea music and voice swapping was even a thing in the newer machines now, and with all the Cleland praise here I had to see this firsthand for myself so I followed all the tutorials you guys put together here and ran down to my local arcade with the 16gb card ready to go!

Holy **** I must been there for 4 hours today enjoying every minute of this mod.
It's a complete night and day difference maker and really filled the empty feeling of what was missing for me to the point i need to own this now.

Still have many questions of what's possible and curious as can be about trying the other variations like the Applejuice remix etc, but really just wanted to say thanks to Cleland and everyone else in here that helped make this possible. (and painless!)

Helps to know everyone there.

I can't stop thinking about it now and will most likely end up being a holiday purchase if all goes well. Hopefully Cleland will be willing to do some commission help for some further updates to his current work as having up to 12 songs now while you're not in a mode sure sounds nice. Looks similar to what Applejuice did, though I'd want some additional song changes and Jackson 5 back at the end.

Saw a post around page 2 of this thread that shows the music choices and how they trigger, but don't guess there's a similar list floating around with the callout information is there? No telling what I still haven't even heard yet and I'm curious how they fit in and what they replace etc.

Also, there's the option of Original movie lines, or both Original and Alternate movie lines. I just picked Movie original, but was guessing these just randomly alternated between Stern originals and Custom real actors if you select both, and made me wonder about using real alternate movie lines over the Stern recordings so you didn't hear the same line every time. (Like if it was possible to double up on the real actor stuff for callout variety in the same scenario)

From what I've seen here I don't even think he has it anymore and probably hasn't thought about changing much in a while, but there's gotta be some choice lines that would work from the Infinity War and End Game movies now that we have the discs of those to use.

Well again, thanks to all that helped here. It definitely sold me on the game and hope to be playing it at home soon enough.