Just listening to the end of game audio now, clippity clip! It's like a 'pop' sound.

Try to unplug the headphone jack connector on the mainboard. My audio is perfect since that

Try to unplug the headphone jack connector on the mainboard. My audio is perfect since that

I had exact the same and did it the same way. Other way is shorten the post itself a bit

I'll try the audio connection. For the post, I did both, took down the top of the screw head and grinder down the plastic post a bit as well. The post alone would have helped I supposes

That solved the clipping! Thanks for sending that suggestion back into the thread, in response to my issue. Man, it was frequent and very annoying! (Simple fix)

I hear a drop out in the audio on the last game I tried but this is not a pop or clipping etc... I expect that the drop might be a software fix in the waiting. Completely cool with that.

Can you bend it a little ?

LTG : )

Too fast a reply unfortunately. A couple games later I am hearing the clipping again. I will play and try the audio jack thing (re-seating) and see where it takes me.
UPDATE: it is still way less than before, that's a start!

I can try that. I'm trying to keep an eye on the successful shots to chest VS misses. See if there is any relation or just crappy shooting

Did you unplug it from the mainboard (bottom Right corner, black 10 pin connector) ?

No actually, just unplugged the 1/8' audio cable and reconnected it. I have since opened up the area to the main board and reset that connector (pin was off). I also re-seated the 1/8" jack as well (again, while I was back there). Still clipping but less than this morning.

I first unplugged it at the headphone jack, but then the clipping was still there. When I unplug (not reset) it from the mainboard it was completely gone. Not sure what it is, but I think there is something wrong with the cable.

A red insert means that you have collected one of the pieces for At World’s End multiball. The blue light indicates that the shot will advance On Stranger Tides multiball. So in the case of the inner loop, if you have already shot it once to make it red, it will alternate between blue and red as it should.

A faint red light indicates partial progres on collecting that shot for At world’s end (So after the first multiball).

Everything is color coordinated to match the movies. Alternate color blinking isn’t something special, it just means 2 things going on at once. Hope this helps!

This clipping issue, is this affecting the callouts as I described in previous post or am I the only one dealing with this?

We just found a mistake that is probably causing some clipping so we'll have it fixed in the next release.

I don't hear the clipping in the call-outs. I am trying to pay attention to that for you.

Just had my 2nd crash and reboot though

I don't see anything in the error logs or system events. Please let me know if anyone is having this issue.

Thanks

The dang center drains on the mystery hole and Star Map are a downer. It looks like you can press both buttons just before the post drop (on the Star Map) and the magnet will toss the ball up. No option for the hole. Maybe a ball save option for a couple of these shots that are draining?

Adjust the coil power on the mystery kickout, or else angle the snubber bracket just slightly differently, or both. I turned mine down so that it kicks more softly and comes to the right flipper most of the time.

I haven’t had many center drains out of the star map and really never the mystery hole. Maybe I’m lucky.

The most common callout clipping I’m hearing is characters on game start only partial names and when their shots are made. Happens less then 20% of the time but it is happening.

I just did the same. I upped the power at first and even tweaked the bracket but the coil power was inconsistent so it was easier to reduce and now no more
drains...

Hogbog

Found a bug with Elizabeth. The photo below shows that no chapters are qualified even though her power is 3 chapters always lit. This occurred right after my first chapter was played.

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I'll try that tomorrow as well, to lower the power.

That makes sense. But why only that shot? The purple shot doesnt blink in a similar manner? I must be missing something.

Does anyone have high res video of the display? I would like to take some stills of the gorgeous art, IE: Tilt warnings and Tilt, Multiball screens would be a good start. I realize that I can take the video out from the integrated video outputs but I don't have a capture device at the moment.

Thanks!

My past streams have direct capture of the display. It's not full screen but you should be able to pull decent screenshots:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/335173498
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/326188054
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/320187411
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/317263952

Thanks Kevin! It's so cool how the Internet (and in this case Pinside) makes us almost neighbours. When I thought of getting the high res stills this morning, I actually when directly to Twitch and to your past videos. It was only because the display is not full screen that I came back here to ask the group. I will look through the links that you've provided, it is a good start.

I’m having a problem where every time I turn on the pin, more and more switches are having issues. It started with the “chapter select right rubber” (which I’ve tried to fix many times). It’s like a cancer spreading. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?

Also the left Malestrom entrance switch keeps falling out of the hole, it’s seems like it was just pushed in there and not glued or anything. Any fixes for that?

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Sounds like one or several of the board plugs in the back box are loose or not properly seated? I would shut it down and reseat everything back there.

How many games are you putting in? I'm not sure what the setting is but typically if switches haven't been engaged in X# of games, they will register as 'bad'. Not to suggest that this is entirely what you have but... Slide glass off, go into switch test mode and manually trigger all of these switches. They will either register or you might have an issue with some.

Regarding the Maelstrom optos, these aren't glued in, JJP seem to have a casing which 'clicks' the sensor into a hole. In this case, into the clear ramp plastic but is hardly visible because of the metal protector on the other side. You can see in my pic that the back is flush where it clicks in but the front (sensor end) is angled out, not good. A little glue would help but you must align both sensors. (Use the switch test to assist)

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Just FYI: My pin is losing it's time constantly, following a reboot. Likely the onboard CR(2032?) Style battery on the mainboard but that is odd that it would be dead already. (Maybe inexpensive batteries?)

Under the 'all event's log option, my events start on May 1 2018, as a 'Dialed In - Version 01.53T. Looks like the system was started up twice quickly and then jumps to July 24 2018 as a Pirates (early software version) and a lot of testing, then to Oct 6 for the 00.96 upgrade. I then received it.

UPDATE: replaced the KTS brand with a Panasonic CR2032 but the KTS tested ok. Need to look into this further

Well, somehow in replacing the CR2032 battery, with the system completely powered off, the pin won't power up now.

I turn on the pin and hear a hum, with the driver board LEDs all lit up.

Is this something to do with the motherboard being turned off/losing power etc...? I recall something long ago with WOZ owners experiencing something.

Nothing else was touched. Any thoughts?

UPDATE#1: It must be the PC as the PC powersupply isn't starting up. I'll keep looking.

UPDATE#2: Yep, I've gone and fudged the bucket
[Do not let your battery go below 3V (like you would know , and also do not remove the CMOS battery with the power off! (as per the detailed instructions under E-3 in the JJP-POTC manual.)]

Here is the excerpt:

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Thanks for posting this as I would have most likely done the same. Normal battery change in a PC has always been turn off the rig and disconnect power etc. Can you post the bios settings once you get those from JJP? It would be good to have that info on a future Motherboard change or for those who removed the battery with system off etc..

The only shots that should blink blue/red like that are the inner loop, right orbit, and chest lane since they all feed to the upper left flipper to combo into the inner loop, which is how you advance On Stranger Tides. The purple shot is the left spinner and that light is only on to indicate a jackpot or the super jackpot. When not in a multiball, that insert is either red (to indicate At World’s End progress) or just off.

Wow, thank you for posting your issues. The battery issue seems really unfortunate... I can see this "bricking" games as time goes on. Hopefully an outside of JJP fix is found, or JJP can fix this themselves.

It goes back to WOZ from what I can see but seems to be settings in the CMOS which get reset and prevents the PC from booting. I'll be fine but sucks that I won't likely get this running until tomorrow evening (after work, if I can get help tomorrow during the day)

The main issue will be power on after power loss will be disabled. You have to jump a couple pins on the front panel header to get it to start again (equivalent of hitting the power button on a pic). The pins are pretty forgiving; TBH I just take the plug end of some cheap headphones and jam it on the rightmost square of 4 pins as I don't remember exactly which pins are the power button. After it boots you can plug in a keyboard and set the power restore after power loss to always on again.

dnaman - it’s some shoddy work on that malestrom switch. I can’t even get a “click” to happen. So I’ll have to glue the switch in.

I went and touched every switch and I think the theory on not being switched for quite a few games is right on all the ship switches could be right. I think the rubber on the mode switch might be tight which is causing that to be “stuck”. Here’s to hoping that’s the problem and this isn’t a larger issue.

Keith, that was it! I couldn't recall the fix and I was even looking at the motherboard header earlier wondering how JJP turns the board on if the headers aren't used. Now I know, by having the BIOS setting set as such.

So, with the power turned on, (driver PCB lit up, but no activity on the PC Powersupply or CPU fan, of course), I shorten pins 3 & 4 on the header (the header is on the top right on the board as installed on my pin, and the pins are on the left side of that header, reset would be on the right side: see the legend). I've included a pic for everyone and you can see the pin config on the white screened legend to the right of the header)

I used the USB connector inside the coin door area, to plug in the USB keyboard. After shorting the pins, the pin powered up, I saw a splash screen, it restarted, saw the splash screen again but then just powered up properly. I could not see which key was to be used to access the config. I shutdown the PC twice and it comes up ok. I'll leave it like this for now and check with support as to what the key is.

Thanks again!

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Most motherboards respond to one of the following

F2
F8
DEL

i usually push these in order until the bios come up

True, true! I was trying to take some pics as it was coming up, both times but missed them completely. Next time! I hope that all of this along with the pics are helpful to someone down the road. Taking it for the Team

Yeah, the 'clip' is essentially just a split plastic post with a bit of extra plastic on the end which is supposed to hold the opto in place. I personally prefer the old two screw method but certainly but a drop of hot glue on there. You can see how mine is angled outward and it shouldn't be.

Good to hear about the other switches triggering. Someone will ring in with what the game count is but let's say it is 25 or 50, doesn't take long to show as 'bad' or maybe we should call it 'switches to be checked, cause you (me) stink!"

Was able to get the forks running perfect with the help of a friend.

Filed some burr's off of the mech that was making the plate catch and found a diode for the micro switch had not been soldered in.

Working great now.

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Great job!

Curious, how long does it take for you to 3D print these (just print, not paint) and do you have multiple printers? When I think 3D printing, I think of the early tech, slow and not that accurate, Clearly you are not using those

Nice mod's. how about a dancing waitress instead of tartoga tom. ?

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First time I've experienced both displays going out while the pin was on and staying out (displayed were powered but lost video/display signal). I was in-game at the time. Restarted and video came up immediately (FYI for any similar occurrences)

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I got my game today, the mini LCD on the apron was upside down out of the box. we fixed
that easily.

Question for any owners when the game takes your picture is there a way to see it later on? When I view the high scores from the day or previous days it just shows our names how do I see the picture again? Or is it only at the time of entering your initials?