I'm looking to upgrade my SW comic art pro speakers and then swap the old speakers into my JDJP. Can anyone point me to where I can purchase this connector so I can hook up the cabinet speaker to the board on my JDJP?

It's an 18awg female 2 pin connector with these numbers stamped on.

MXN 34
41895

Thanks in advance!

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Yeah I agree with some of the above comments. This game is very fast even
at 6.5. Took me a little bit to adjust but I'm hitting +20 million on good games with the factory outlanes. You may want to move those to the lowest position if you haven't yet.

Also focus on dead bouncing as much as possible to slow things down. Trap up on every shot so you can focus and you'll start bricking less. Backhand the right orbit for a safer shot.

Try those for a week and see if you improve!

To Preface, I've been enjoying my game and everything has been great for the most part. I just wanted to point this out in case this happened to anyone else's game.

Some time ago I noticed that part of the front cabinet panel had some damage on it. I have the tilt bob set pretty tight on this game as I anticipated the cabinet not holding up to long term nudging.

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Well as I dug deeper I noticed the reason the cabinet fractured in the first place was that the factory forgot half of the corner brace bolts on my game! They even left the sticker cut outs still attached

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Anyways, I contacted my distributor and am waiting for a resolution. I have yet to hear any word from Stern. In the meantime I repaired the cabinet piece with wood glue and clamps.

I also ordered replacement bolts from Amazon. They are a few mm longer than the factory ones, but work just fine as a replacement. I had to order an 18 pack and only needed 2.

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If anyone else needs any bolts, I'll send them out to you if you cover the shipping. I have 16 total bolts available.

Check your game before you get damage like I did!

Thanks bigguybbr !

I guess it makes me feel better I wasn't the only one with cabinet bolt issues.

As I said I have already reached out to my distributor, but I'm not holding out hope based on past experiences. It's unfortunate that we have to take these repairs into our own hands.

Thanks for the offer bigguybbr ! If you do get your replacement cabinet, I only need the front panel piece. It isn't all that large and could be around $40 shipping I imagine.

While I have repaired it, a new panel would be nice especially if I ever sell it as I'd like to pass it on fully rectified.

Keep me in mind when you get your replacement please!
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This is my best score, 35M. I usually just avoid T-Rex multi-ball and go for restore power. I also try to get all paddocks running first then go for Raptor MB via the right orbit to dead flip shot.

I have gotten to Restore Power probably a dozen or so times now and I still can't complete it! I use the mono target to freeze the timer, and I've gotten to 90% completion a few times. Any tips for completing it?

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The mono target I'm referring to is on the left side, also known as the "control room" shot.

It takes 3 hits during Restore Power to freeze the timer for about 10 seconds or so. I usually aim for this, then try and knock out the hardest "sector" shots for me. If you don't fully restore power to a sector, it's corresponding completion meter slowly drains.

I hope that makes sense!

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Nice JordyRamone , those art blades and spot lights look awesome!

Well, I finally did it. I completed Restore Rower and collected the Super Jackpot in it. It was worth a whopping 10 Million points and the mode I think was 18M combined. It was my second Restore Power of the game. What a great challenge and payoff when I finally did it. I just eclipsed my 1 year of unboxing it!

I focused on completing the left jump ramp early, as that shot is tough to complete in the time limit if you miss. I also focused on halting the timer by getting 3 mono target hits whenever I could.

When I first bought this game, I thought it would be too easy to finish. Boy was I wrong!

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Make sure you are on the latest code. I think this was a problem in the old code but was fixed in an update.

The same thing happened to my game.

I requested a replacement opto assembly, but it was taking forever so I just repaired the solder joint and reinstalled it.

I eventually received the opto assembly from Stern. Let me know if you need it I can send it to you if you cover the shipping. Good luck!

Here's a pic!

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bigguybbr Do you need your old front panel still from your cabinet?

I think we talked about it awhile back. I'm still waiting on my replacement, not sure it will ever come...

It sounds like your Trex Jaw opto is not registering. The game doesn't know you made the shot, then the ball save is triggered because a switch hasn't been hit in awhile.

Go into switch test, put a ball up into the trex shot and see if it registers.

Clean the opto transmitter and receiver. It's possible you have a bad solder joint on one of the opto boards though. You can follow the Trex removal guide in this thread to gain access.

Yep, that's almost exactly what happened to mine. I don't think you did anything to damage it, they were probably just cold solder joints that eventually failed.

This is a good opportunity to learn some soldering. I'm not very good at it, but kwas able to repair this board easily.

This soldering guide is probably overkill, but a great reference if you want to deep dive. The most helpful tip for me is - keep applying heat for a few seconds after pulling the solder away from the pad, then remove the iron from the pad.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/terrybs-soldering-guide-part-1

Reassembly isn't too bad overall. If you need I can refer to some pics.

Let us know when you get it fixed!

If you follow the steps in this post, it should cover most of it.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jurassic-park-the-pin-sternowners-club-welcome-home-jurassic-park/page/4#post-6744825

Sorry to hear you lost the screws. I always use one of these when disassembling anything with small parts. You can get them at Harbor Freight and many other places.

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Awesome! Glad to hear. If you want to visualize how an opto circuit works, think of the transmitter emitting an invisible infrared laser beam. The receiver detects this beam. If the ball crosses the beam path, the receiver can't see the beam, and the circuit is now incomplete, triggering an event that can be read by the game.

A cool way to test opto transmitters is by using your phone camera. The camera can detect the near infrared emission.

You can try this on your TV remote control by holding the camera up to the transmitter and seeing a purple light in your camera!

That's awesome, any step by step and parts list for this mod?

Regarding the cabinet speaker, I was hoping someone could help me out.

I installed the second backbox speaker and cabinet speaker. When I have the cabinet speaker hooked up, I get a weird audio distortion during lower frequency sound effects. Especially after locking a T-Rex shot, or the end of ball sound clip.

I tried messing with the audio settings but I can't seem to eliminate it.

I was using a stern factory 8" cab speaker, I've also tried switching it with another Pyle 8" speaker and I get the same distortion. It doesn't seem to matter at 4 or 8 ohm.

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks!

Jon9508 Yes I'm on current code and have the cabinet speaker enabled.

Thanks SlapDrain ! I copied over these settings for the 10 ban EQ and the sound is so much better.

Thanks for posting that!

You qualify an extra ball after completing 2 dinosaur rescues. It will then light at the raptor pen, the next hit to the raptor pen will collect it. I don't think there is a second EB in the game.