Both Tim and Delt spent a ton of time on their part, Tim for audio and Delt for video. Tim once told me he personally had hundreds of hours into the audio work. I suspect Delt has similiar investment of time. They do this because of passion for the game. An opportunity to be creative and affect in a very positive way the lives of a ton of folks around them. Doing something that feels good and has tangible results and makes people smile.

I tip my hat to both of them...

The new mod code includes the full 1.02 software. When you download the mod, and then write the SDCARD, you have the new software and the mod already combined. Just swap the SDCARD to the mod'eed version, and the base Stern software goes with it.

Jump over to the Stern JP Custom Audio project thread and look at note #452. It explains how to save scores to USB, swap the SDCARD, and then restore scores from USB.

I just realized that all 8GB cards are not created equal. Not just in performance, but in size. I tried a SanDisk 8GB Class 10 and it was a tiny bit larger than a Off-shore 8GB card. Not sure how that is, but the actual size of the two cards side by side are slightly different. Both sold as 8GB cards, but one is 6000 bytes garger! Weird. As Tim suggested 2 months ago, get the 16GB SanDisk Class 10 and be done with trying anything else. And for Windows users, just follow his instructions to the letter, using Win32diskimage and don't touch the card before or after you run the tool. Just get the ZIP image from Tim, UNZIP the RAW file, insert the card, run Win32DiskImage, find the SanDisk as the target and the RAW file as the input, and then burn it. When completed successful, just pop it out of your PC and into the CPU card in JP.

No, it will not work. The entire software is on the card. When you swap the old 1.03 AV card back in, all of the features introduced in 1.05 will be gone.

No, it will not work. The entire software is on the card. When you swap the old 1.03 AV card back in, all of the features introduced in 1.05 will be gone.

Yes, you can SAVE high scores to USB before you swap the SD CARD, and then load it back in when the new card is up.

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Keep in mind that Stern doesn't distribute 'updates'. They distribute new versions of 'gamecode'. The whole shebang is contained in the image you download from Stern's website! If you change the SDcard, you change the entire software gamecode. So when Stern releases new game code, it entirely replaces the software that was installed. None of the software stays on the Pinball machine when you swap the SDcard.

I would check with the author of the movie code on current status regarding 1.05 (which supports IC)... timlah79

One of the subtle points the creator referred to was his compliance with the Fair Use copyright terms. As I understood his distribution process, each person that downloaded AND USED his custom code was attesting that they had already licensed the original content themselves (owning the JP DVD for example), and were merely using it in another format. The Fair Use laws provide for this.

Remember that PinballBrowser first needs to support new version images from Stern before anyone can make edits to those images….

Check with oga83 on his planned support for newer software images for many machines. He updates PinballBrowser one or twice a year and he may already be working on an updated version… but check with him for details.

Yes, when you load ANY version of gamecode, each time it will update the machine's firmware on node boards if different than the version the image contains. You will likely see the node boards updating message each time you swap to a new gamecode version.

Search this thread or the other JP main threads for how to write an sdcard using win32imager application on a windows PC. It’s been covered in detail perhaps a dozen times so you’ll have no trouble finding all the details on the steps needed. It’s very simple and just needs you to have a brand name 16GB blank sdcard and a card writer connected to your windows pc.

To be extra certain that the 1.05 code will work with your May23 build, what color are the node boards in your machine (Blue or Green)? The GREEN boards are the original and will work with ANY version of gamecode firmware. The BLUE boards shipped in some games after Sep2022 *may* only work on newer firmware.

https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stern-NodeBoardUpdate.pdf

The custom AV code is version 1.05 game code. Wifi and the rest of the features was not supported in Version 1.05

On machines with the original Node boards, you can swap versions of gamecode up or down at will. Nothing breaks, and microcode re-loads the node boards at powerup. For *some* machines with REDESIGNED node boards (rumours of these produced in 2021) then you can only use the newer code supplied with the machine or later.