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?

Drop targets

Coming soon?

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Nice - Now the "Bond...James Bond" Multiball has a "Nixie Tube" style timer

Couldn't it launch a ball on the pro?

Wouldn't be too difficult to keep the animation and change the call out from "Ball Saved!". I'm going to try to go with "If that's his original ball I'm Arnold Palmer" once the code is near final and pinball browser supports it.

Cycling through them on a tank target or rocket hit would at least make it so you have some control over what is selected.

I'd do a slow-motion recording of the ball coming out of there and see if anything is causing it to deflect at the end of that lane. On my Lebowski I had SDTM drains coming off the left ball guide and no amount of adjusting it worked. It turned out that when the metal guide was cut, there was a very small imperfection at the end of it that deflected the ball just a bit. I just needed to file it down and it has been perfect since.

This is how I'd like it to be:

--Manual selection of a movie (select a mission) when qualifying at the villain ramp and you face the henchman first - no starting of the henchman, Q mode, or spectre weapon independently for a random movie.
--Villain starts after henchman is defeated or times out and is easier if the henchman was defeated. You can keep trying to defeat the same villain if you drain or timeout by re-qualifying and selecting the same movie again.
--Q modes (hit a couple qualifying shots then right scoop), Spectre weapons (hit letters), and bond girl (a few loops?) for the movie can be enabled while in it and make things easier or give you extra points. Q mode can be cancelled if you don't want his help.
--Defeating the villian moves lights the center insert and moves on to the mini-wizard for that movie. For the movies that won't have them (YOLT and DAF) defeating the villain is just a qualification for the final wizard mode.

I'd just prefer to be able to play through a movie vs. the all over the place approach of the current code.

Yeah, I know, maybe he'll change his mind. Deadpool and Godzilla both have them and it doesn't seem to be a problem there.

The other issue, and it's been brought up many times here, is you don't really need to complete anything. You can get a huge score and make it to multiple mini-wizards modes without actually defeating a henchman or villain.

My rambling tangent was only 192 words. Coherence is open for debate.

You can stack either Bird One or Jetpack on top of the 2 Q modes that don't have their own multi-balls: Q's Ring and Radioactive Recon. That's been there on the recent code.

There's just too many shots you need to make to complete the modes. Maybe hitting certain combos can clear off some of the other shots for you to make it more do-able? I still think progress should be saved for the villains if you don't finish their modes to let you come back to them with a decent bonus at the end.

And probably waiting for the final 1.0x code before doing anything on a large scale. Each code update requires some re-work. I might look at those static video screens for the Bond girl multipliers and see if anything can be done with those. Video clips seem to be easier to swap in after code updates than the music/callouts since they are stored as individual files.

How about you get to jump right to the final wizard mode (when available) if you can do 6 any 1 thing without accidently starting 1 of anything else?

I had a game where I got through all 6 villains and played a mini-wizard before I even started a Q mode. No idea how, I guess I had the villain ramp dialed in.

Ok, so we aren't going to get a pick your assignment unless a miracle happens.

Could a compromise be to have it lock in on a particular movie for the duration of a ball once a villain, henchman, Q mode, or spectre weapon is started? That would at least allow you to play through a movie and light its insert, and that's what would trigger the corresponding mini-wizard for the 4 movies that have it.

Q mode qualification would need to be adjusted somewhat to allow for an equal chance of starting any of them first. Doesn't seem like to big of coding change to me from where we are at now.

Still not exactly linear because you could take out the villain first, then take out the henchman, then the spectre weapon, and then Q shows up to help with a gadget for no reason...

The order could be part of the strategy. Q or henchman first makes the villain easier with less shots required.

There are IC achievements for playing all 4 modes for a movie in a single game. But getting any of those is more luck than skill.

The Vegas car chase would be a good choice for the DAF mini-wizard.

They've already used up most of YOLT (volcano lair, little nellie, piranhas, car magnet, space hijack). Maybe the scene where he gets trapped in the plane and the pilot bails out or when he fights the guys on the ship?

I got tired of waiting for the bond women to show up so I added them through pinball browser. Just 3 second video clips of each replacing the multiplier qualification static images so far.

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The bond girl icons that come up when you aren't in a mode are all 3 second videos. I replaced those in .98 but didn't bother putting them back in .99. There seems to be a lot of duplicate videos in the code for High Stakes, so plenty of opportunity to change them up with custom stuff. I'm going to change out that Moby song for the the instrumental version of You Know My Name. "If that's his original ball I'm Arnold Palmer" needs to be added too along with some other custom callouts.

I got 5.1 billion last night with no inserts lit. Ahoy, Mr. Bond at 7x was 3.5 billion of it. I've only managed to light a couple, but my brother got all 6 a couple days ago. Getting all the Spectre weapons is tough, but it does let you wrap around on those after getting all 6.

I hit 7x first and then fired off all my missiles right away while letting the ball drain. Then I went after the shots. I think the flashing shots are double, so I was probably getting 14x whatever the base jackpot was for those.

I was just looking at the game image and I think I could get it to copy the video asset files around when it starts up. That would open up the possibility of having every bond girl included and it would just pick 10 from the list when it boots. I need to test it out and see if that works.

I think defeating the villain should light the insert, and OHMSS should be qualified by defeating all 6 villains. Villain difficulty can be reduced if you complete the Q mode, henchman, or Spectre weapon first, but you wouldn't need to play those. Maybe have a 2nd way to get to OHMSS if you complete everything for a movie?