Here are RAD decals I just installed on a TZ.

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I have RADCALS on my POTC LE and my WOZ RR and I think they are great. Wanted them for my HOBBIT BA but could not find them. JJP does not sell them so does anyone have a source for them?

High gloss clear over originals!?

It's about an 1/8" plastic sheet that you aline, peel and stick. Never had done one until now, but was simple to do, but you have to make sure you aline properly as you don't get a second chance. You do have to trim out holes except for the coin door as it was already done.

Is the code ever going to get revisited by JJP ???? Has anyone heard anything ?

Beta Code back in late May/ early June is the last I've seen. Not sure what is going on with it.

Has anyone added the radcalls to their POTC? I have two little scratches(small holes) on each side of my machine. Can I install radcalls over the top of the existing graphics or should I remove the existing?

Also Dan at Pinwoofer is great to deal with. I installed pinwoofer on POTC and the sound is awesome now...

You can probably install it over top, and some have - but if you have scratches it might show through. Taking these decals off is WAY easier than an old B/W game.

Yes. I installed radcals on top of POTC art. It will hide the damage and they look amazing. I posted pics of this like yesterday but here they are again:

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B11GrhkPxG8hK2N

You can see in some of the before pics I had some scrapes along the bottom edge of the art.

I know it's getting the wifi update which they all need other than GnR

Just ... I mean.. basically any update at this point would be welcomed.

Turned the game on today and got “Environment block too small”. WTF. This means the hard drive is starting to fail.

Has anyone successfully replaced their hard drive, or am I going to need assistance from JJP?

Easy to do get at new drive and a full install stick and use the game to make the drive. No need to buy one from JJP

2.5 inch 60 gb or more
My DI has a 500gb drive in it

Gotcha. No problem. What a bummer though! I'm going to try deleting the grubenv first.

Darn it. Yep, SDD is probably dead.

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for the people with subwoofers connected to their game: to what crossover frequency did you set your sub?

Fixed it! Plugged SDD into one of my linux machines and rebuilt the grubenv, then reinstalled.

THE MAN that's what you are. Kudos

Thx! Now to rebuild my high score table...

My Black Pearl hangs mainly to the left... actually, it's always to the left! It rocks, but never gets horizontal, simply rocks from extreme left to very slightly left... is that how it should be? I'd have thought rocking equally from left to right, with horizontal being the mid-point would be normal...

I had the same concern with mine - it's normal. It should go from left to almost level, but never to the right.

Locate the metal bar behind the playfield. Loosen the two screws and adjust to taste. Make sure it can still make the full vertical up/down extents after adjusting.

Oh...and a slight list to port is arguably natural. Mine does this too.

I have the same issue but we are ok with. Never mind your talking about a pinball machine I read that wrong.

My black pearl goes both left and right. The left might go a little bit deeper, but right definitely goes past horizontal.

Maybe I'll make mine tilt more to the right! The way it is now it's too easy - I can get a ball in the cannon nearly every time.

It was written with reading wrong in mind

With a list to port (thanks for adding the nautical terms, good to stay in character!) it's better for loading the cannon and avoiding drains to the right, but it doesn't look right, so I'll probably tweak it so she's more even.

Thanks to all you salty sea-mates for helping this old tar, oh arrrrrr!

That sounds like what the original 3 ring pirates machines used to do.

I'm sure mine goes left AND right also, i did have balls that fall off the right side quite often.
There is a metal protector that even says "man overboard" on it for that reason.

Have you tried the Black Pearl calibration?

I could be mistaken, but I don't think that has an effect on left/right extents. I -think- it just determines the slowest possible rate the motor can run.

Will look into that...

This makes sense, I imagine the rocking is caused by a simple linkage to a cam on a gearbox, which would require physical adjustments to change the angle of the deck... will be having a poke about behind there tonight!

At the beginning of pirates time (back in the prototype days), Eric told me that it should list to the left a bit at the beginning of the game by design. The code will increase the angle and speed the more that you are up on that playing field and for other game related reasons. He did make that angle adjustable for your preference (to make it easier or harder). There is also a post hole adjustment on the ride side of the upper playfield to help keep it in play more if desired.

I'm not entirely positive, but I think by Eric's design intent, the upper playfield should be level (side to side) in attract mode before you hit the start button.

Very interesting. Not sure how much of this intent made it to the production models, will certainly be looking closely at settings if there is a chance that the angle is something that the software can effect! Thanks!

There is a character that you can select that decreases the angle (and speed of angle changes I think) as one of the advantages for the character. I'm not by my game, but I'm sure that someone can tell you which character that is.

Cotton slows the ship. On my game the BP is completely level in attract mode. As far as I can tell, in play, it rocks equally left and right, but at first it is slower and seems to list slightly left to make it play easier. Repeated entries to the BP and time spent up there increases the speed and sway to the right, until BP Multiball is started and completed, which resets the ship speed.

Here's a minor gripe about the code that even my wife pointed out. The chapter colors on the display don't match the insert colors. I mean red = red, yellow = yellow and green = green. The purple is off and the blue is WAY off. The screen is cyan but the inserts are like navy blue.

I know the rgb inserts can do just about every color possible, so this could easily be fixed in code, right?

Asked and answered many many months ago. Keith has no plans to tweak the colors so they match better or are more easily distinguishable

Had a poke about and adjusted the angle by the rod attachment, as zaphX described. There is no way that code can change the angle by the way, it's fixed by the physical stuff.

This is what I was trying to say about code changing the list and angle speed during game play. It's not consistent on purpose via code. Sorry that I wasn't clear enough. See below:

What I'm saying is that I don't see any way that list can be changed by code... I see where betelgeuse is saying that the list SEEMS more to the left early on the game, but then sways more to the right to make it harder after repeated entries, but I don't think this is possible with code, unless there's another device under the playfield that actually moves the motor upwards slightly, that would do it... have to admit, didn't look that closely... I assumed the motor/gearbox was in a fixed position... I guess it's possible that it could be on a metal plate that can get pulled by a magnet into a different position, but that would be some pretty fancy stuff to just change the list during gameplay...

I get what you are saying, and this was definitely based on my short observation and not an in depth review of the ships mechanics. It could just be that the motor picks up speed, and thus hurls the balls to the right edge more.

Cotton minimizes the shifting of the ship, and slows down some of the rocking. It has nothing to do with keeping the boat level.

I think what was up for debate was whether or not the ship could reduce/increase the list to the left/right via the code, or if only the speed of the rocking changed...

There are two sensors that recognize the position of the ship. The motor is a regular DC motor. The only thing that can be done is change the speed and rotation direction of the motor.

Now if this was a stepper motor, the code could count clock pulses to determine how far the motor had turned beyond the sensor. Alternatively, a regular DC motor with a "Clock disk" and another sensor could accomplish the same thing.

But this is neither, so the amount of angle of the rocking can only be changed by adjusting piece #4 with screws #13.

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Just heard DI is getting a full update very soon also heard WiFi to all JJP.... could there be the long awaited PotC code coming too!?

The rocking of the ship is mechanical. You will not get the ship to change its range of motion, it is set. You can change the starting and stopping points but not the range of motion. By default the ship lists more to the left than the right. On my machine you cannot make the ship go as far right as it can go left. I believe this is by default. You can get it pretty close but always lists more left than right. The farther right you get the ship to list the harder you are effectively making it harder to keep the ball up on the ship. Like LOTR_breath said the only adjustment is piece 4 with screws 13.

This may be more of a generic pinball question, but going to start here as this is the machine that is applicable. I've got my flipper strength dialed up pretty high on my Pirates, as I need to, to be able to get up the ramp, chest, etc. It just plays much better. On all of my older machines, there are no flipper strength settings, so when they get weak, I just rebuild the flipper (sometimes all the way up to the bushing, the sleeves and coil stops are always junked, etc), and presto, new again. My Pirates was routed, so it has a lot of plays, and I'm assuming the flippers are just getting weaker, and I'm offsetting the fade with additional flipper strength in the settings. So I guess my question is, should I rebuild my Pirates flippers (as I would an old WPC) and dial back down the flipper settings to default levels? And if so, I've never rebuilt a JJ flipper, but it looks like all the others, is this a generic order or does it have to come from JJ?

I'm interest to understand what dialing the coil strength does in the settings, just adjust the amount of power going to the coil (which would then either be stronger or weaker?)

Thanks!