Same here

Same thing on the one I just set up - node board 1, 8, and 9 not found. The CAT5 on the cabinet node board wasn't plugged in all the way.

In a bold move, Blofeld got plastic surgery to look exactly like Mr. Henderson, who Bond saw get killed in You Only Live Twice.

Add mine to the bad GI bulb and/or socket list. I didn't notice any power loss while playing or any lights going off/on, but I kept seeing node 8 overcurrent tech alerts. The alert message listed everything connected to CN7 and CN8 under both drive and light, so that wasn't very helpful, and running the test cleared it. Since the GI bulbs are most often the cause, I disconnected CN15 from node 8 and played a couple fairly long games and the overcurrent message didn't come back, so at least I've got it narrowed down.

The overcurrent error showed up with CN15 unplugged so it isn't a GI bulb. The game starts up and plays without issue, but if I just open the coin door it will trigger the overcurrent error about 50% of the time. Most of the time it's on node board 8, but not always. Sometimes it shows up on board 1 or 9 and occasionally on 2 at once. The errors clear immediately when running the node board test. And I can easily reproduce it by closing and/or pulling the interlock switch. So my best guess is something is up with the power distribution board, specifically the circuit that cuts and restores 48V. Has anyone ever seen something similar? I have a Godzilla pro with a similar issue, so I'm guessing I'm not the only one seeing this. I'll try emailing stern support and see what they say.

The easiest solution is probably to just keep the coin door closed I guess.

Power is solid. Godzilla actually reports one of the GI bulbs intermittently but I haven't fixed that yet. The reason I brought it up is on that one I never get the 48v disabled message or the beeps when opening the door, but it does cut 48v and pulling the interlock restores it. Just wondering if the power distribution boards are known to be flaky. No issues at all with either Jurassic Park or Mando.

Thanks, I'll test that resistor when I get a chance. At some point I saved a bunch of stern schematics and have one for the PDB, but it might be for an older rev.

I've only had it for a week now and don't have a shaker on it. I've got aftermarket speakers running off an amp connected to the CPU CN5 connector and powered through its own power supply connected to the service port, and a PinMonk silent fan in the power supply, but I saw the overcurrent errors prior to installing that stuff.

New version just came out.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/104#post-7349554

Sorry, didn't look back that far. I'll check it out sometime soon.

Since the current code uses the main theme a lot, you could replace that with Goldfinger, but then you'd just hear that all the time. There's a 5 minute sound clip with the Bond theme at the beginning and the end, with some generic music in the middle, but it doesn't seem like that middle part is used anywhere yet.
And there's a ton of movie clips in the image that aren't used in the game yet.

There's around 10 shorter sound scripts that play the main theme, from 1:37 to 4:06 in length, but I think those just reference locations in that longer 5:00 minute clip. So if you replace all or part of the 5:00 minute clip you might step on those shorter sound scripts. It's possible some of those are independent locations as placeholders for adding in additional music in future code releases though.

Even outside of PB you can explore some of the stuff that isn't implemented yet by extracting the files on a linux platform. For example:
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*edit - pending licensor approval

From what I saw in the assets a DB5 multiball is in the works, and some Q branch stuff.

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And I'm hoping they can make the scoring look like this:

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So from an IP standpoint it's ok to jump around between 6 different movies during gameplay with scenes that are not in any chronological order as long as you don't intermix scenes from 2 movies, or different parts of the same movie, at the same time? Makes perfect sense.

I think it was a bug that it "stacked" in .80. The shots were the same color between jetpack and Fiona Volpe and you didn't know what shot to hit sometimes.

Q's ring should stack with either Wint & Kidd or Mr. Henderson and Bird One with Blofeld too if same movie stacking was allowed.

They should embrace the theme of the game to get the code in shape quicker. Fear is a good motivator.

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Completely agree, and to add to this Mr. Henderson wasn't even close to a major character in YOLT, certainly not insert worthy. Bond meets him at his house, makes sure it's him by whacking his fake wooden leg with his cane, and then he's dead with a knife to the back in about in minute. They should have went with something like Blofeld Lives, Blofeld Returns, or Blofeld Again.

The only way this makes any sense is if the Blofeld that escaped at the end of YOLT decided to get plastic surgery to look like Mr. Henderson.

Good thing they didn't use "aka Blofeld" for Professor Dent since that actor, Anthony Dawson, played Blofeld in From Russia with Love and Thunderball.

Back to the code, there's a couple things I don't see in the assets folder that I hope get included at some point: the downtown Vegas car chase from Diamonds are Forever & the golf match from Goldfinger.

"If that's his original ball I'm Arnold Palmer" would be a good callout for a ball save.

Can anyone explain why they have this connection between the neutral and ground on the EMI filter? I don't remember seeing that before on other games, but this one seems to have a different EMI filter type.

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For the currently unused assets on the 0.86 image we have:

--Dragon, Reactor, and Honey Rider intro sequence from Dr. No
--Helicopter and Boat chases from From Russia with Love
--DB5 car chase (looks like it will be used as part of a DB5 Multiball) and Fort Knox battle from Goldfinger
--Underwater fight and ending Disco Volante fight from Thunderball
--Little Nellie sequence from You Only Live Twice

Honor Blackmon and Pussy Galore's flying circus are MIA. And this is new:

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Yes, the StarTech one that came with mine was crap. Even extending it outside of the backbox with usb extension cable didn't help. I replaced it with a spare TP-Link adapter I had and the connection is now solid. There's a list in the IC thread of all the adapters that work.

I started getting achievements I previously achieved last night while still on 0.86.

I didn't have any issues working with him to get a couple bad IC scanners replaced last week.

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Me either! I figured the .36% of people that completed Prof. Dent just cranked up the time in the settings.

There's also this in the achievement list - "Freeze all the roving Professor Dent shots before collecting any". No idea how to do that.

Thanks, that's what I need to get that shifty bastard Dent. Was it like that in the earlier code too? I don't remember ever seeing the yellow shots freeze, and I had to have hit the tank by accident a few times.

That's unbelievable!!!

Exactly, everything is mixed up and random currently. Ideally the Bond villain, henchman, Spectre weapon, and bond girl would be tied together somehow. Maybe starting a Villain mode requires you to play through the corresponding henchman mode first, with bonuses for saving the bond girl and/or dealing with the Spectre weapon from that movie?