You probably are thinking about Suzanne Ciani, an electronic musician, doing the Voice and the music for Xenon in this documentary:

You don't want to spoil the surprise.

Just like you never want to see the WH2O win on video - experiencing it for yourself is like getting your first blowjob.

Just like Stephanie did not go to Williams to record her lines (her boyfriend recorded them on to a DAT recorder), I doubt she is going to ever meet up and record with Dutch Pinball in person.

Every musician has a home studio nowadays.

Ohhhh, nice!

You upped Williams on that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Williams owns the BOP IP.

They don't want it devalued in any way.

So even if you write all new code, they still want to approve your use of any likeness, voices, artwork that is based on their property.

(they don't want the Bride to say "Lube me up with 40 weight and slam it up my interface port...")

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If you re themed the game to something entirely NOT based on the Bride, Babymetal or something, then there would be nothing they could do about it.

Take a 40 year old game, tug on every wire & socket and I'm sure you will shake loose every cracked solder joint in the machine.

Just like when someone puts a new MPU in a machine and suddenly a problem they've never seen comes up. They instantly want to blame tne new board, rather than the fact that they just yanked out 20000000 connections in an ancient game.

We should all take a deep breath......

Get yourself a lighted magnifier lamp and carefully examine the solder joints. If you see a board that has had tons of work done to it on the back, it may have been taken in and out many times.

Look at the male pins. Are they still shiny? Are they grey with oxidation, or even turning black? Any brown connection points that have seen high heat?

Look at power supply. Is the big capacitor 25 years old? If it is, it's 17 years past it's expiration date.

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I think what he is worried about is that the BOP 1.0 mode has the wrong ROM image in it.

Agreed and I see what you are saying.

OK, it's the wrong image for many collectors.

Yeah, there was a Pinbot at the OH show a few years ago that had inserts so bright it left spots in my vision. Awful.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/24/broken-video-games/#continued

It's a trend apparently, with all the major video game releases broken for the holidays.

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It's just as broken, either way.

If I bought my TronLE and the Recognizer did not move, the disc did not spin and the wall did not move down, I'd say THAT was very broken.

The face metamorphosis in the Bride is kinda the whole focal point of the game.

I look forward to seeing the whole game working.

You should at least one time defeat the Mother Cow!

I don't know about calling him a friend, but I've definitely done some drinking with your buddy.