He could definitely pull something.

Yea, there are some serious lighting issues with the game. Why not use RGB lighting in it in the first place? If you really want to make an "artistic" pinball machine, the first thing to do would be to use cheaper and more-popular surface mount RGB lighting and really accentuate the design. It's as if the lighting was merely an afterthought in the design, and all the LEDs stick out like sore thumbs through the inserts, and light everything horribly uneven.

I'm of the (outsider's) opinion he killed Capcom.

from what I have read about it I can partially agree... the crazy amount of money$ wasted on Zingy Bingy prototype was coupled with their piss poor decision around the same time to go into production with & release flipper football in place of ready to go BBB or Kingpin sealed their fate

That GI lighting can be software manipulated to be as soft or hard as desired. It's far superior to the old 555s and 47s and if done right, more fault-tolerant and reliable. Plus you can put any kind of bezel over the lighting if you want. There's very little thought into the lighting in this machine - it looks like an old pinball machine poorly retrofitted with bad LEDs.

This goes to demonstrate another of the many areas where JPop didn't really know what he was doing, and didn't bring in an expert who could have done a better job.

Back from coaching my daughters tee ball game... what'd I miss?
Oh - and here's what's hiding up top of the playfield under all that stuff...

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For the record - much of the typography here was NOT by me... I did 'Wizard Ball' in this section

Old Chap - classic

I know.... I was thinking Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

Now it's a contest.

John took in roughly 1.2 million by all accounts.

Bill spent 100k to get this to the show and it's still early.

Pinball circus has 2 games and is more complete than this. If we use John's capability of getting this done index, then this is probably another 2 million away from being done. Just sayin yinz

Now it's a contest.

John took in roughly 1.2 million by all accounts.

Bill spent 100k to get this to the show and it's still early.

Pinball circus has 2 games and is more complete than this. If we use John's capability of getting this done index, then this is probably another 2 million away from being done. Just sayin yinz

Someone should check on iceman. I mean seriously.....

Where the pinball? they should be lined around that oasis

Bump to the top for a good seller.

^

Joining in with a Grey Goose and Pineapple...

For rookies.

Bombers are the way to go.
#rollingondueces
#22s

Im sure Max wouldn't dream of designing a "Pussycat Bowling" pin.....and he's a cat!

P.S....I prefer "Poopadeauce".

Beautiful. Seems shameful to cover up any of your art with the workings of a pinball machine. Thanks for sharing.

That Japanese president of Capcom was apparently not amused when he saw it on his tour of the Chicago facility. It wasn't long after that before the doors got locked. According to some, just a matter of a few days.

nice pop bumper caps !!!

that cat is definately cute.

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I've no skin in this game but I will be at the show in the morning. If it'd there and playable, I'll be taking videos.

Ok well since I'm mentioned in this thread I guess I'll post some info that I know. First off I'm the guy that's on the left side of MG in the picture with PDXMonkey, I know a lot of you and am very good friends with guys like Pdx, Fattrain and Rarehero. I've been doing Coinop over 16 years and I work as a tech and operator. Just so I'm clear I have no vested interest in this project, not a dime invested. That being said a bunch of my friends do and some are payed in full on more then MG.

I don't want to make light of this situation it's bad, tons of people have been burned by Jpop and for that I'm sorry.

I myself have not picked sides nor do I want to, example pintasia or the owners who got burned, what I have done is chosen to put whatever I can with my talents to help the game where it currently stands to move forward.

Here is what I can say I'm not gonna dwell on what Jpop did that's not gonna help the current situation, I'm also not gonna comment on my posts in this thread from months back,what will that do to help the current situation? If owners who have been burned wish to dwell on it more power to you, I've got no problem with that and if you are not on board with the current people and what they are trying to do I also understand 100% where you are coming from, losing 100.00 is not fun, losing thousands of dollars is a very hard thing to go through no matter how it happens.

So let me move forward to where I'm at right now, I met Bill at Pin a Go Go and found out what his plan was for the current status of this project. It sounded good from what he explained and I commened him on trying to help.

Yesterday I was scheduled to fly up to Seattle from California on the 8am flight, got up at 5am found out my flight was canceled and didn't get into town till after 4pm. I was getting off the plane when my phone went off and it was PDXmonkey and I found out he was in route to Seattle, currently in Idaho on a 2 day drive from Chicago with MG in a van rented by Bill to get the game to the Seattle show in time for everyone to see it. PDXMonkey had slept a total of 2hrs and 45min in 2 days and said it didn't matter he needed to get the game there. He asked me if I'd be around to help him work on the game to get it ready for the show.

I'm not gonna go into every detail about what the game needed when it finally arrived at 10pm but me and Monkey and a few others worked on it till 5am as the sun started to rise!

The game at this point was shooting well and working, is it a shiny diamond ready to go into production no it's not, does it have tons of working magic tricks no it doesn't but that's not Bill's fault nor Monkeys or anybody else it's the fault of the guy who mislead everyone for many years.

I will tell you all this it flows well like a typical Jpop game it has many representations of all 4 of his previous titles and there is some code there that actually does stuff. Is it finished no it's not does it have a lot of potential in my opinion it does.

I agree that everyone was mislead and that sucks, I also think that going forward I'm on board to help the current team with my experience if they need me and I hope things take a turn for the positive after this weekend. If you see me at the show this weekend and have never met me feel free to come over and introduce yourself. I also have no problem sitting down in person with anybody and telling you what I helped on MG in the short time I worked on it to get it shooting for this weekends show.

I hope this at least answers a few questions on who I am and what I was involved with.

Joe(acejedi)

Heh, come a long way from sharing iPhone pics of the game at Arcade Expo, right Joe?

lol I was thinking too. I'd like to make that work, but I feel it needs something... so close, yet so far ....

Wow I cant Believe I trusted this Guy John that I never even met in person .......but I did & I thought he really had all those tricks in this game figured out? ..& even more for the following games? ....... my bad for BELIEVE in ZAP ....

Bill, PDX, whomever else is working on MG tonight.... I suggest you shoot your best video right now and post it before it goes on the floor tomorrow. If you want to present it in it's best light, then jump ahead of the show and post a video right now.

I agree with Frolic. You won't hear the call outs and music with all the other background noise. You also don't know how well the pin will hold up. If it breaks in the first hour, you are dead in the water.

From day one I never doubted this would be a great looking game. It's the game play I have little confidence in. Nothing about the layout intrigues me. Seeing it lit up it just looks like a jumbled mess with awesome artwork. I'm sure there are dozens of home brew designs in PinMAME that are more polished and deserve to be made more.

I'm waiting for someone at the show to say the layout plays like butter and has some real gratifying shots...not holding my breath, but I would love to be wrong.

Bill/PDX 2016! Heroes and pioneers whose names will go down in history along side the likes of Davy Crockett and Neal Armstrong!

I'd suggest renaming MG LE to MGHE "Magic Girl - Hero's Edition".

As much as I dislike the app pariscope someone should get on that tomorrow and give us a live feed of the game in action.

I heard Capcom was 60 million in the hole.

I want to see those receipts.. I don't believe that. Did he pay off a bunch of shorted suppliers?

There are all kinds of crazy claims here that don't make sense, with all due respect.

Who here wants to make this game and blow a half million to a million of their own money, to ultimately redeem JPop? Because that's exactly what people are hoping for. Someone is going to lose their butt producing a game that, by all accounts is "state of the art" circa 1997.

Yeah, Python can't be the real reason. It would have been cool if they'd put out Big Bang Bar instead of Flipper Football, but it wouldn't have changed anything really. It was just poor timing on their part to try and break in as pinball was dying back. It's too bad, lots of smart ideas.

Most of it went towards the license for that owl figurine.

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mmmm alright sweet 300 posts since this morning and not a single clip of gameplay..and I sure as hell ain't reading them all.

tomorrow? someone please tell me tomorrow?