What happened with the 48v?

Looks awesome. Great choice.

Yet... may still happen.

That’s how the staging of flippers work.

It may have been mentioned before, but I’ve had a situation occur where mid ball, the flippers went dead and the ball drained. It was pretty late in the evening after a few beers so the lead up is hazy, but I believe it was during stacked multiball, maybe TREX Chase and Raptor (if that’s even possible). All I remember thinking was, cool I haven’t had this scenario before, flipped for a lil while during a 4-5 ball multi all and then mutton’. No doubt will be resolved at some point with code updates.

Mine does this also. Was watching a JP stream last night and it became instantly apparent mine wasn't behaving properly.

So I’ve pulled apart the helicopter assembly to get to the post to correct the SDTM issue from bricked helicopter shots, problem now is that the helicopter will not rest in the correct horizontal position. It’s a pretty basic assembly, and I’ve put it back exactly as it was and how the manual states, any reason why it won’t sit right. I’ve tried loosening and tightening the helicopter screw which no change.

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Yep me too. It’s a PITA trawling both, or worse replying the same to both threads.

You’re kidding yourself!!. LE/Prem upgrades aren’t necessary as JP is already a phenomenal game, but they 100% make it a better experience.

Agree! Hard enough going forwards let alone backwards!

Looks sweet!! A single Pterenodon (sp?) with flapping wings would also be pretty cool.

Monster Bash kinda similar with Lymans Lament.

Will go down in history, if it hasn’t already, as the greatest pinball ever. Just perfection.

There have been plenty of reports by JP owners of faulty and broken coil stops. Easy and cheap replacement but still worth a look.

Does the post stick out enough still to deflect the ball to the left slingshot area?

With all this talk about tweaking posts/flippers etc, I’ve been having a problem for a while now shooting the right orbit, the ball used to exit cleanly to the upper flipper, now it clips the truck newton ball. The playfield angle hasn’t changed sitting around 6.5-7deg. Any ideas? Possibly the ball guide shifted?

Has anyone else experienced Chaos MB not starting correctly? Im unsure if the exact circumstances, but qualifying via the smart missile will show a direct hit and score but not start the MB. It’ll often require a further hit of the target in the pops. It may not be relevant, but generally seems to happen when most of the Chaos letters has been hit. Has happened while drunk and sober, alone and with friends

But shouldn’t a Smart Missile Hit immediately start Chaos MB?

Apologies for being one of those people, but can anyone offer a link, pics or details of how people are installing their Pteranodon mods over the upper right wireform? Searching on my phone is killing me. I recall some using a screw lug type thing with wire stuck up the Pteranodons bum

Thank you for the pics, but it doesn't show how you've attached it. Any chance you have any extra pics?

That's the one!!! How did you find it? My searching technique is seemingly quite rusty

You’re my hero of the day!

How have you connected the wire to the Pteranodon? Just drilled a hole in it and jammed some wire in?

Great stuff!! I'm still yet to get close to finishing it.

There’s a thread on Pinside dedicated to it. timlah79 is your guy, he can hook you up. It’s awesome!!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-jurassic-park-2-custom-code-project/page/24#post-5946563

I'm not having any luck in the "Prem/LE" thread, so adding my question here also. Apologies to those who have seen my query.

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Ive never had a problem with my JP, but I’ve now joined the illustrious group of people with TREX issues. I’ve read a bunch of stuff but seem to be getting nowhere.

In game the TREX no longer moves. In the service menu I’m able to get it to move up and down but nothing left to right. Due to this, TREX multiballs typically time out forcing me to disable the TREX.

Switches all seem to register ok ie Home, Mouth, Up, Down. I’m not hearing anything from the motor/any attempt from the motor to engage during the game or on start up.

Has anyone had this??

Thanks Manny, I bought through Zax. Good idea though to email them, I’ve also emailed Stern... obviously an awkward time of year to have dramas. I’ve had a couple of parties at my house recently. Such a shame to have all these pinball newbies not experience the moving Trex head.

Does anyone have a photo of the back of the TREX? ie cables and circuit board? Looks like I have a few empty spots for plugs to fill.

Thanks Manny, will pop out to the garage soon and take a squizz. Whereabouts in Melbourne are you?

Sweet!! I’m down in Mordy.

Well my TREX is plugged in correctly.

What he said

Haha

One led on the top board, none on the lower board (not sure if it has any).

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Can’t find anything in the manual relating to the diagnostic LEDs on the Stepper Motor Board. Im assuming the issue is related to that.

Thanks Manny, yep, nothing in the manual or on the board other than “LED1” & “LED2”

I’m on to it

Does someone know where this has come from?? I’ve been pulling apart my JP to install some fluoro plastic protectors and this metal bracket has appeared seemingly from thin air...

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Hey Manny, appreciate you following up It’s working now as of about half an hour ago. Turns out the stepper motor board was cactus. She’s roaring once again!!

Thank you. I’m installing some fluoro plastics and it suddenly appeared outta nowhere haha.

Prickly Pear Cactus (native South American), was brought to Australia in 1788 on the First Fleet. It became a pest, quickly overrunning many thousand acres of farmland. ... Hence, CACTUS, in Australian slang, means: beaten, finished, ruined, kaput etc. e.g. Jim threw just two punches, and Jack was cactus.

Just installed some fluoro plastic protectors. They look great adding some extra pop. Not a super straight forward install, especially the raptor pit which needs a lot of dismantling. The protectors are 3mm thick, so a lot of washers had to be removed as bolts weren’t long enough. The 2 dinosaur pieces above the slingshots couldn’t be installed as longer bolts are needed. All up, I’m pretty happy.

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Nup... other than needing both on for the TREX to be operational

Besides tightening the out lanes a little, are there any other subtle ways to make JP a little easier?

I'd like to say it's just for my 6yr old son who's really starting to love JP, but I'm stagnating quite a bit. After 1000+ games, my high score is ~650 million (which I set in the first month or two of ownership), I haven't seen anything new in the game for a long time and am yet to reach any of the wizard modes. I've tried the "play better" route, but it seems my JP is set up a little hard, or my skills just aren't good enough.

I play it every day and absolutely love it still, especially with Timlah's code, but my improvement just isn't there.

Any ideas?

I call BS!! You’re clearly taking the piss, are impossible to satisfy or simply a troll.

Jurassic Park was already top 3 pin of all time without too much discussion. The biggest gripe was it’s lack of movie video/callout content, no doubt due to budget constraints etc. Timlah’s code update resolves all of these issues and then some. It’s brilliant. Saying it is boring in comparison to the original code is fkn daft.

If you’re happy with the original code great, but don’t shit on someone who has placed an enormous amount of work into a project that so many here are so grateful for.

Fkn this!!!

So I’ve had a few stuck balls on JP, but this was a new one. A little hard to tell, but 3 stuck there.

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Me too!! I’ve put about 3000 games on mine, yet to make Visitors Centre and yet to get to King of the Island. I’ve added an extra Replay which is getting me closer.

My young son has taken a liking to "streaming" pinball and JP is up next. Aimed towards kids, but you may enjoy also

Still getting my head around the production, any feedback welcomed.

Thanks MBW, appreciate the feedback. The next vid has been shot, but we'll implement your suggestions for the next vid. Thanks for taking the time to give it a look and reply

Melbourne is back in lockdown due rising cases of COVID, so my son and I had a JP comp. Skills were a little off, but the competition was fierce

Please subscribe and make my sons day.

Flipper Kid Pinball
6th Episode
18th July 2021

Melbourne Lockdown 5.0 Competition
Jurassic Park LE

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

My upper flipper is starting to intermittently fail? I've reflowed the coil connectors along with the switch. The lower flippers are perfect. It'll fire sometimes, half fire other times, but mostly not at all.

Switch gap was double checked when I reflowed the lugs. There’s a good contact between them.

Node board!?? Crap, I hope not. Would that be intermittent though?

There is yep

it does yep. I don’t think it’s the EOS switch (working or not) at play here. Sometimes the flipper works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it half flips. Feels like it’s more a switch problem… which is fully operational.

Can anyone advise what a faulty node board would bring? Never had a problem with one.

I'll get out to my JP today and confirm the coil stop. Would a faulty coil stop stop it from flipping at all though?

Took off the coil stop, looks brand new. All switches appear good. I’m at a loss.

Metal shavings from where do you think?

Nup... not sorted yet. I contacted Stern and they've asked me to look for "gold dust", from a failed coil stop I presume. The coil stop is perfect though :-/

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I'll take another look at it this arvo. Was frustrating the hell out of me so threw the blanket on it and walked away haha.

Thanks Returner!! You've saved me some page flipping and head scratching

I can’t be 100%, but I think you were on the money PA. I gave everything a once over again… then traced the wires back to the front node board, reseated all cables and shazam the upper flipper works. Only gave it a short blast but it appears stable!! Appreciate the tips. Fingers crossed it’s done the job . Cheers.

My JPLE has been mostly flawless since day one, however recently I've been having a few gremlins appear. The latest, the truck won't register left/right turns.

I opened her up, checked the onto was in place, re-connected the wiring, rebooted, performed a switch test and it seemed to work again. A few days later its happening again... Any thoughts?

Moves smoothly, definitely not a mechanical issue.

10th Episode
18th September 2021
Melbourne Lockdown 6.0 Competition
Stern's Jurassic Park

What was odd, was truck hits were being recognised for TREX multiballs, but change of states (left to right) weren't. The video above, around the hour mark I believe we make note of the issues.

Mate, he's gone passed me. 7 years old and he regularly smacks me haha, I'm certain I need my eyes checked . I'll open her up again, but the collar was firmly in place and I assume correctly positioned. When the truck is positioned far left or right, the opto is covered, uncovering as it rotates. The manual doesn't seem to show how it works in relation to the opto, but it seems correct.

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I have no solution yet sorry T. Some days I turn JP on and everything registers fine, other days it doesn't. Everything appears to be solid, there must be an electrical/mechanical fault in there somewhere though.

So which direction is the truck facing in the above pic? And further, when the truck is facing hard left or right, did you confirm the position of the metal "piece with the allen screw"? I can get any clarification on this.

Do those having issues going back to movie code after updating to 1.10 have the more recent updated node boards or the original? Is this an issue for both older and newer JP's?

How old is your JP?