I am thinking about using the Hot Toys IJ figurine with the idol as a topper for me game. Any suggestions on how to make the figurine and the cardboard background sturdy enough, so that they would work ok as a topper? Thanks for any info!

Link to the Hot Toys figurine with the idol and background: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o0uHOG8Rw4g/UGLVYiVaZDI/AAAAAAAAKXo/xVOEswdAuoE/s1600/Hot+toys+DX05+Indiana+Jones_3898.JPG

Would the PinSound board and PinSound shaker work with EndProdukt's sound track with a WMS IJ? There are the files for EndProdukt's soundtrack version available at the PS community, but does it have the shaker codes also (which I guess are needed for the PinSound shaker to work)?

Thanks for any info!

Jarbyjibbo and beltking Thank you very much for the info!

I installed Pinsound board and Pinsound shaker to my WMS IJ and now the game has started resetting. Could it be that the power has gotten a bit weak and a "No More Resets" -board should be bought to go with my IJ or is there something else to try first?

Wow, that's convenient.

This is what the self-diagnosis file tells me:

"5V MEASURED: 4679mV (expected range: 4700mV - 5100mV)
[lowest 5V measured: 4629mV / highest 5V measured: 4766mV] "

Its time for a new power source or the no more reset -board I guess?

Great news if the power source is not dead and new capacitors would help. I am not good at electronics, but my friend is, so my plan is now to get a NoMoreReset-board and then get the spare capacitors, which he could solder in their places, when he visits. Would it work like that to use NoMoreResets as a temporary cure? You meant replacing the big capacitors in the power driver board, right?

Thanks, I had the board serviced and caps changed and other bulletproofing applied to the board as well. In the end it had a bad BR2.

I have the strangest problem with the mini-playfield. Sometimes there is a mode in which I should hit the ball to the mini-playfield, but instead the ball passes the whole mini-playfield to the lane on the left of the mini-playfield and lets the ball travel that route onto the playfield. Also I have noticed that even though the mini-playfield corrects its movements, sometimes there is a slight delay in it doing this.

I made searches and found the following topics on what I believe is a similar issue with the ball passing the whole mini-playfield altogether, but did not find any solution to this. Any help, what is the suggested approach to fix this?

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ij-williams-you-cheat-dr-jones-club/page/120#post-5640383
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ij-williams-you-cheat-dr-jones-club/page/120#post-5641050
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ij-williams-you-cheat-dr-jones-club/page/145#post-5969898

Thanks for any tips!

No, many thanks - that's an excellent tip - many times the ball does not drop onto the mini playfield, instead it rolls pass it onto the ramp on the left.

I have Pinsound and installed on it the EndProdukt's version of the games sounds. Which is the best version to install?
Pinsound Communities have: "Jedi Re-Master of Endprodukt Sound files", "Indiana Jones - Reorchestrated", "IJ_Remastered_Endprodukt.zip"?

When I had my previous WMS IJ, I also had then the EndProdukt version of the sounds installed and to me there were a lot more callouts, but I might not remember this correctly. How is it, is the number of callouts diminished on the versions available at Pinsound Communities?

Thanks for any info!

I have to trouble you yet again, but with my game, usually it is so that the ball first drops onto the miniplayfield ("path of adventure" it is called I guess) quite nicely, but if I after that manage to hit the ball again onto the ramp, the ball passes the whole mini-playfield to the lane on the left of the mini-playfield and lets the ball travel that route onto the playfield.

Isn't one supposed to be able to continue the game on the miniplayfied if one manages to hit the ball onto the right ramp? Or is there some setting for the time how long "path of adventure" is available?

Any solutions - adding washers behind the ramp leading to the miniplayfield?

Thanks for any tips!

I will check, thanks!

Brilliant, thank you very much for this info!

It seems that the up post that diverts the ball to the mini-playfield can get stuck to the low position and that's why the ball goes to narrow escape. I tried to wiggle the up post a bit and got it to move quite smoothly, but still it gets stuck on occasion in the low position. It might be a bad coil sleeve.

EDIT: checked and in hand the up post moves really well. It seems that if I fasten the screws tight that fasten the coil bracket to the playfield, the up post gets stuck. But in the other hand if the said screws are loose, the up post moves really well...

EDIT2: I think I found the sweet spot, it was a matter of adjusting the coil bracket of the up-post and the rope bridge.

It seems that when one fixes one problem, other one emerges. The path of adventure works ok now, but all of a sudden, when playing, I lost all sounds and instead there was a low humm -sound only from the speakers. I am using Pinsound and had just installed the Jedi remix of EndProdukt's track.

Anyone else experienced the same and what might be the problem? I have just had the power driver board checked and repaired.

My shooter lane switch was not responding to the ball and the automatic shooter was not launching the ball onto the playfield and that's why I adjusted to shooter lane switch. After that I get two error-messages: 1) err. drop bnk bad, chk. switch/coil and 2) er. sngle drp. bad chk. switch/coil. I had noticed before that the middle target in the middle had kept banging up and down and I have therefore ordered already a new opto-board for the three-bank. The single drop target seemed fine to me by eye, no loose wires etc. there.

Even with the 3-bank error the game functioned ok before. However, now with the both errors present, I cannot start the game. Also there is one ball stuck in the subway and the game does not seem to know how to eject it from the subway to the idol.

Your help would be most appreciated - what might be the problem here?

For me its more serious, first I did now manage to start the game at all, but when I finally got the game started, the pinball machine did not feed any ball to the shooter lane and even though there was a ball search, it did not fire any balls from the trough to the shooter lane. This situation continues. Also one ball is still stuck in the subway and the ball search does not seem to find it either. Really strange.

EDIT: according to the manual, LED 3 should be off, but it's on in my game now. Would this help in narrowing down the problem?
EDIT2: posting the question also onto the tech forum

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Its so strange, I had my power driver board serviced a month ago... If that would be the culprit behind the missing 12v.

Solved: Fuse 105 had blown. Still LED3 is on, but the game works ok!

I had something quite similar a page ago. For me, one fuse had blown:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ij-williams-you-cheat-dr-jones-club/page/219#post-7825480

Maybe worth to check it out?

Strangest thing - I have the 3-bank target error and I went and replaced the opto-board, but still the error continues and the middle target keeps banging up and down at the start of a new ball... What might be the trouble, since it apparently isn't the opto-board after all?

Thanks for any info!

I replaced the middle drop target. The new drop target had a much bigger plastic tab on it. Also I noticed that one washer was missing behind the middle drop target that was giving headaches. To me it looked like the middle drop target was banging up and down, but the problem apparently was that it could not stay up. Once I had replaced the drop target, the problem went away - played a few games and it seems to work ok now. I even put the old opto-board back. Thanks for the tips!

EDIT: never mind this question. Pulling the connector and connecting it again a couple of time resolved the issue. Unknown are pinball machine's ways!

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Really strange problem occured. I had powered my Pin2DMD HD previously from J116. Now I started to power the Pin2DMD HD from an external power source and when I connected J116 connector back to its place, the pinball machine does not boot! When I disconnect the J116 connector, the pinball machine boots ok (although it seems some lights on the playfield are not operational - that I had noticed before and as I thought it was a power issue, I got the external power source for my Pin2DMD HD.

I was playing a game and got to the Path of Adventure. Well, I tilted the path during game with flipper buttons and the path remained tilted after that during the whole game until I went to miniplayfield test via the coin door where I tested the path and in the test mode the path seemed to work ok. Also when exiting the game menus, the path straightened itself automatically. Could this be an opto problem (new opto board needed) or a power problem or what? I have pinsound with shaker consuming power from the game at the moment.

Thanks for any help!