Sorry to bother your small talk but I have a serious problem. Received the machine yesterday. Having a party tonight and my Black Pearl stopped moving!

It’s hanging to the left. My girls were playing so did not see what happened

First thing the machine says:
Switch#48 Target Ship is stuck closed
I solved that problem by moving the English ship a bit. They are good in switch test now

But. The Black Pearl is still not moving!!

Did also the ship test but no luck. Since I cannot reach the Pirates manual from the JJP website (dont know why yet) I’m stuck now

Can someone please assist

Thanks so much!
Peter

It moves a bit in the Ship Test
It moves left. Then moves right. Also center.
Then it stops doings test. Now its stuck again

Also did Force Recalibration.

The Black pearl Motor inner opto is black. I saw it green as well when it was working in tests just a minute ago

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I did a restart and now it is in Full left position when I look at the screen.

In the picture
It show the right (motor inner opto) in green now as well.

Still no luck to move the ship again in testmode nor in gameplay

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Thanks for the feedback. I got it up and running after Lloyd tip. I just moved the rod and after it it moves again!

Thanks so much!!

Thanks. This happened to me as well yesterday. I cannot find the second screw but Im happy to read that removing the solonoid is enough to solve the problem.

Tech question.
On the Pearl, the left flipper does not raise like the right flipper does. Is this normal behaviour, or not. Do I need to get the pearl removed to resolve this?

It was good untill this weekend I suppose. I changed the pitch of the pearl a bit to the right to resolve the mech touching the wood in the back but making the cannon shot became way more difficult. Then I noticed.

Thanks!

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Left up, right down

XtraNice!!

Tech question.
I have these switch errors on the Pearl. Doesn’t look good, think I have to remove the pearl. Any first ideas?

Thanks

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Thanks. Yes they are stuck open. Also the eos switch left flipper is mentioned. Will remove the ship and resolder.
Thansk for the feedback! Appreciate it.
Peter

I removed the Pearl today to solve all the switch problems and found out that the wires
Were broken off. I soldered them on and gave the wirelooms some space by cutting the tie-rips(?). Everything was pulling on the movement of the ship so the wires had no chance.

It took me some time but with the help from the video I felt I could do it. Its not easy and I found the rearranging part at the end the most difficult. When everything was off I took the moment to attach the Cliffy’s! After I had the Pearl back on and realized I forgot about that, so I could take all the wires out and start over again
Thanks for the protectors Passion for Pinball!! Great fit!!

Other problem:
The right spinner on the pearl was not registering and I found out that the black opto holder was broken so the optos did not align. I had no spare so I cut of a swich blade and with some strong glue I managed to make it work and strong enough to be able to align.

I hope I can get an new one somewhere but I have never seen these before.
Anybody know where to get them?

So, attaching the Pearl was a bit harder because of the ramp. But at the end all switches are working!! Really happy about that!!

Game on!
Thanks for all the tips and guidelines!
Peter

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Loose wires.

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The color changing RGB GI is the best! I would really consider an LE only for this feature. It really makes the modes feel like you get drawn into the machine and the story! I love it when it goes all blue or red etc. What a game!
Thx HogBog for tour amazing creativity!! I will buy your next game for sure
Peter

Such a pitty to hear ‘the mini wizard modes were semi disappointing. Not coded with much excitement.’

I once understood that Keith hates a buy-in because you can reach the end with just some extra coins and afterwards you never want to play the game again.
Knowing this feels a bit the same to me. I’m flippin every day to reach all that excitement just to hear now that it’s not really worth it.

Looking forward to that code update!!
I have pre ordered all JJP’s except Wonka and GNR just because I was tired of waiting. And yet, feels I am still waiting.
Cheers

Wow. Had such an amazing game again yesterday! Still love the action and everything that is happening. Gibbs is the best with all the callouts to me! Thank you so much for all the work that has been put in this game!

Can you show/tell some more about this? Looking forward to the update!

thx!!!

Is the new code already released? Thank you!

Thats great! Can you share the Amazon link and maybe show where you got the power from (noob qustion )
Thank you! Merci Bien!

Great! Thank you very much for sharing!!
So you think this will work on Stern as well?

Could you suggest another power source or save setup?

Would love to hear what the talk was about!