Your power distribution won’t work. Trust me and develop a new power source or miserably fail.

You are also missing a lot more videos since you need an error message for every single issue „detected“ or any combination of errors by your system or a dynamic text overlay according to the generated error message.

Just saying...

I doubt with this amount of unnecessary details you won’t finish it anytime soon. Prove me wrong.

Not really. I just have enough experience and gave a clear advise that it will fail!
I owned the game SEVERAL times and as a former owner and tech guy I can clearly say it WILL fail. Anyone with a healthy sense of knowledge (so to speak) would have checked the specs of these ports, the power consumption of the used parts and summed everything up. Basic maths and has absolutely nothing to do with trolling.

If I’m not mistaken you don’t own the game yourself, right? @pinballsp

Ask your friend if he’s willing to draw permanently 4-5A off that connection. Good luck!

does the communication between mod and game actually work or do you only post videoplayback without connectivity to the game?

some of the videos you're planning to show need a delay, exact the same state as MikeD's mod several years ago did.. good luck!

Let’s see how fast you get the game logic into your mod. Hopefully not as slow as color for your DMDs. 2 years Now is way too long and still no solution.

For now I see only 1 row you are checking, that’s a pretty simple thing to do, even with very little to almost no knowledge.

How are you going to handle power surge from the game? It definitely will draw too much from those old wires, trust me or leave it. I know you tend to ignore tips from outside as you consider yourself all knowing.

It’s a sad situation, correct. But that’s not the reason for not showing a working mod. There reason is much simpler: it doesn’t work!

He showed some testing videos of the matrix pcb and there you can see that the video triggering is delayed, triggers on false positives, and there are blank outs between the different videos. This is completely opposite to what he proposed and announced before.

Despite these things I wish everyone to stay healthy!!!

Well, one of his “friends“ that has a unit for testing told someone that the mod has not been installed nor tested yet.
What I want to point out is not that this is a good or bad mod (intention is great!), but instead that progress is FAR from what is proposed here.

so many options and cool stuff to add, probably he currently can’t even decide which future mod to announce first

yeah, probably because he can block and delete unwanted/complaining comments

pinballsp is out of the game in 3..2..1..

True, but the guy that builds it has a reputation and a well known and working programming business specialized at pinball programming services.
He announced it and i'm pretty sure it works as intended right from the start.

I recommend to sell the videos to that guy and and stop wasting time and money on this mod.

Get somehow in contact with the video creator himself (it's not pinballSP) and get your kit done with these videos.
Absolut no-brainer for serving the community and finally get this to a positive ending.

The point with Pinballsp is that he calls everyone a troll who is criticizing his work. He’s resistant to guidance, offered help and suggestions.

He often also been called out for selling unfinished product (the dmdmk66) without the functionality it was supposed to support and probably never will happen to get finished.
Also he has been called out for copying other people’s work and rebranding it to make it look like his own invention.
Another point is that he likes to turn facts to his own favor, eg. telling people he invented different mods and products and others copying his work. This has been clearly declared as false information by several developers and companies unisono.

I personally like the ideas and prototyping Luis does, but he should work as employee, with deadlines and finished products.

As long as there are constantly videos posted on yt imo he's ok. despite the fact that we don't like him we wouldn't whish anyone to get sick.

So, everybody stay well!

It’s just another attempt to promote this bloatware
One can clearly see that the videos are triggered one after another because prioritizing still doesn’t work.

Yes, it does. I checked the source code and that's the reason why the mod is limited in some situations. MikeD knew that but communicated that clearly, and until today it is still one of the most outstanding mods.

If you have the chance to look at the mikeD mod you’ll see how this mod will eventually work, or not. The OP is mediocre at Hardware design but a complete mess when it comes to coding so I assume he will use parts or the complete code of mikes mod, unfortunately.

Compy’s approach of reading the sound commands is a much more precise method of playing the correct video as the machine literally “tells” you what’s going on

I suggest anyone with a sense of business should release his/her own creech mod as this one will probably never reach a reliably working state. Compy *hinthint*

I doubt there even was a first batch.

A 800 USD Mod with cheap, sh*tty power splicers instead of custom cables?
As much as I hoped PinballSp would finally deliver a good product with well-thought Cable- and Power management, in the end it's the same stuff as always: cheapo, fast thrown-together stuff
The only parts that are quality on this mod are from an hired artist and the factories that produced the pcbs and chips.

I, for my very personal part expect custom cables, precrimped or soldered power connectors, depending on the option the customer chose.
Printed instructions, labeled cables, antistatic bags and custom boxes might be only an neccessity in my opinion, but c'mon, if you expect people to pay that much you better deliver something that's worth the benjamins.

Its the overall satisfactory experience that makes you sell things, not the hardware alone or the videos or the software.

Call me nitpicky but thats how it should be done (hint at @compy)

Some of your arguments are right, some not. I’m not expecting 24k gold, only basic connectors and (almost) fool-proof installation. Would you really pay that cash and have to cut cables from a brand new psu? That’s like buying a new car and drilling a bigger hole into the gas intake because the gas pump doesn’t fit.
For positive reviews there should be at least some customers that bought it. I don’t care if they’re willing to pay for it. It’s a crazy world nowadays
Im not warning anyone to buy or not to buy (greets to Shakespeare) but sharing my opinion.
After a few years of development, custom ordered cables, and wiring harnesses (see posts in this thread) and Luis almost pedantic focus on small, nevertheless unimportant details I would have expected just a little more.
I really was expecting a top-notch, well engineered, well thought-out complete package and that might have opted me in to ~10-15 units for resale. But nah, thanks.

You mean business as usual?

very valid argument! Let’s wait a few days/weeks and hope someone is willing to share his/her opinion and experience with us.

thanks for the effort, looks good on hardware side.
unfortunately there is again no real gameplay video and i begin to wonder if you missed it intentionally or is there something not working 100% as expected?
I have a suspicion that the OP told you that there might be something wrong on your side... but it's just as suspicion.

regarding the IP holder controversy:
All animations are intelectual property of the artist that created these. he used no videos from the original film or old animations done by others.
The fact that he has drawn a "creature" still remains his IP, although one could think not, because of a "creature" IP by Universal Studios (and not even minimal IP of Planetary Pinball).

Hardware projects from the OP still smell fishy as there's always minimal genuinity from his side and most is just "protection cirquits" to protect him from being outcalled that his stuff is stolen code and hardware from others. ridicolous

Thanks for the great pictures! Your opinion is much appreciated so I ask you to; and please be as honest as possible regarding the amount of cash you spent; does it actuall COMPLETELY does what it's supposed to do or does it "only" look good? We had so many quality pictures, testing videos, videos with hands moving the balls, but still no real and full frame gameplay video. What's wrong with dropping a few minutes of unedited mobile shots, uploaded to youtube or wherever and show if its really working as intended to be?

As people might have noticed I'm more or less on the pain-in-the-neck-side of things and I somehow wished I am wrong this time. But my fear is that, again, the OP will drop support and move on to the next project, regardeless of this one being finished or not. And I still have the suspiciotion it's far from being 100% operational. Please prove me wrong!

Regardless of the back and forth of this particular seller, the videos and animations are stunning and I congratulate the artist! He/she has done an amazing job and every mod owner is happy to see your work (if you will ever read these lines)!