Just curious, going to MicroCenter tomorrow to pick up a class 10 micro sd card. Just in case it matters, what exactly are the differences between a HC & a XC Micro SD card?

Also, the directions from CGC say use a 8gb or greater card. Anything concerns about going big rather than just getting a 8gb card?

Bit of a warning. I tried to use an 8gb card and got an error saying the card wasn't big enough when I started to burn the image. It worked on the other 32gb card I had though.

I just installed the update and it seems to work fine. The sound seems clearer to me but nothing else seemed different.

My iMac dual boots to windows 7 so I was able to use the windows imagine utility recommended by Chicago gaming, but the .7z file required some research and a download of a utility to decompress the file to the .img file.

Obtained a 64gb micro sd card with sd adapter from Costco today for ~$20 on sale.

Took about 90 seconds to do the update per the progress bar on the game display.

I picked this one up this morning, worked great.

http://www.microcenter.com/product/431733/16GB_microSD_Class_10_-_UHS-1_Flash_Memory_Card_with_Adapter

LTG : )

Did you format your sd card to fat32 prior to writing the image file to the SD card? If not try that first then follow the imaging steps and see if it installs. I had something similar happen on my game when I tried to install the beta code a few months back and reformatting the sd to fat32 helped.

Yup, tried fat 32. And NTFS. Nothing works.
Filed a ticket. I think my beagle board must be the issue. Because it just sits blank. Then finally boots normally.

I purchased a 8g card only to find out it was really 7.8g so back to walmart to get a 16g.
Seems 8 really isnt an 8.

The brand of SD I bought was a Pony cheap brand from walmart it was a 8g* after failing to load three time I checked the space and it was 7.8 usable too small.

Yup, binary 2-bit math is hard. You always format less than the overall capacity.

So far I've tried 3 16 GB cards and 1 64gb card.
I give up. Now extremely pissed off. The long wait. Now this!

I bought a 32gb card, it was like 10 bucks more than the 8gb card. What a pain in the ass to figure this one out. Got it to work though....

You would think there would be an easier way....I know....pinball is hard.

Sorry man. Contact CGC and see what they can do to help you.

Marc

CGC's webform has been up and down (mostly down) for many months, usually they are totally uncontactable and even if you can email them they will just ignore you anyway. I would not be surprised at all if they disabled the contact form this time on purpose just before releasing the update so they didn't have to put up with customers asking questions.

It's time to stop, rat. You're really insufferable at this point. The release of this code is a good thing. I think you need to take a break from MMR threads since you cannot seem to help yourself. There is no great conspiracy.

Marc

didn't find it crappy at all

I had a dickens of a time. Scott Tiesma helped me. Downloaded a 7z unzip thing - http://www.7-zip.org/download.html used that and then the rest was easy. Took maybe a half hour to install on micro sd card, a few minutes to put in the game.

I started with winzip, and couldn't get the whole thing loaded to micro sd card.

LTG : )

So glad this is finally here. Any first impressions anyone?

Yeah you are right, not all my posts are negative though, I have been helping people with answers to their questions when I can here and at the PPS forum. But CGC have obviously got under my skin and when I see others having trouble with them also I can't help but join in. I will try to back off a bit and tone it down.

Thanks but tried that too. Nothing is working. It just sits blank then boots normally.

So far 3 different SD cards WinZip, 7zip.
And also tried on my win7 and win10 computers.

Same results every time. NOTHING!

OK -- lets work through this. You're doing this from Windows, right? Which app are you using to burn the SD card?

Marc

Of what? We're locked out of the color animation until we buy the security chip.

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Win32diskimager.

I tried unpacking with WinZip. And 7zip.
Formatted in FAT32 before burning image.
All 16 GB or higher formatted class 10 SD cards.

Tried in win 7 and win 10 laptops.
Downloaded the Mmr2.0 file a few times and checked against each other. No corruption in download.

Game off insert SD. Turn on.

Every time it's the same result. It sits blank for a couple min. Then boots normally.
No update screen etc.

Like this for 2-3 min IMG_20160626_140339269_(resized).jpg
Then this.IMG_20160626_230345691_(resized).jpg
Then this.IMG_20160626_230502111_(resized).jpg

It's insane that you can't understand the simple concept between buying a new physical product and owning a product already and receiving support.

You may have pride in being bent over, and while I and others may buckle and take it - we won't pretend to like it. It will be the last dollar PPS and CGC ever see from me. Shame, they made a great product. Too bad they can't be bothered to respect the customers who've spent a lot of money & had an unbelievable amount of patience with them.

You do not need to format the card. The .img is a bitmap for an entire OS and laying it down will format the image. Can you try a different program to burn the image? Other than that, I am not sure what could be going on here other than something funky with your bbb.

Marc

Agree ! I will never buy another product from them again. To have a physically capable color display in my machine, then told I need to pay to enable it via software, is BS. I am done with PPS and CGC as well.

The first time I burned the image I just used a new blank SD card and used the disk manager to burn the image. So are there any programs you can suggest I use besides the one the instructions say to use. I honestly feel like I've tried everything that tech support would suggest.

I would love to try a known working card. But I think it's more of a problem with the micro SD slot on the beagle.

I am not a Windows guy at all

Try this: http://support.jerseyjackpinball.com/downloads/utilities/unetbootin-win.exe

Should also burn .img files.

I'm holding off installing until I see what is happening with the lighting issues that people are starting to report with 2.0 on PPS forum.

Hopefully it is a couple of isolated cases that can be fixed somehow, but if not I might stay on 1.5.5 until 2.1

I hate to say it, but I hope this doesn't further delay the colour update release.

Just thought it was worth posting a heads up for people who are about to install, fingers crossed it turns out to be nothing to worry about.

Should it be an ISO, or floppy? That's the only things selectable

NM tried both that program doesn't work.

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Like did it introduce any new issues, did it fix the date&time and other known faults, can the insert brightness or catapult strength be tuned down, did the menus change etc.
I know it's only a few days old but I'd think it's been tested quite extensively by pinsiders by now.

Bummer - that's not going to work.

PM me your address. I'll send you mine which I know works on Tuesday.

Marc

I thought your comment was dead on. People here expect you to be NOT negative towards this company after they *knowingly* sent you a factory second PF in your 8k machine? I know you were one of the "losers" in the PPS crapshoot lottery. That sucks.

It's easy for people to call you "negative" when they dodged a bullet. Yeah it's a *fantastic* company all right

Oh yeah. Well the tearing is gone. I'll assume the date and time thing is fixed - but that didn't happen to me initially for a few months, so who knows besides CGC's testers. Insert brightness is an option now, but I haven't tried it. The menu has an option for Colorization, but it's faded out and unselectable (until you install the security chip I guess). All the other options are the same. Shaker defaults OFF for some reason, so be sure to turn it back on after updating!

a 16gig also, is not really 16gig either. : )

I wouldn't bother updating yet. There is definitely a problem with the lights and the flipper buttons changing the insert lights.

I really hope MMR owners get the peace of mind they deserve soon. In every MMR thread, there's always an issue or stress point experienced by owners. Not what anyone expected on an $8,000 remake. I hope they get their act together, fix all the bugs, get you guys the colored dots you deserve and finally finish this pin properly, once and for all.

As far as future remakes from these guys go...Who knows now. They didn't instill much confidence on the first go.

I'm wondering if the color chip will be held up to fix this led issue (and possibly any other bugs that are found) or will they release the color chip and fix this bug after the color code has been out for a bit and confirmed to be issue free or not. and if so will the 2.1 code fix be addressed before game 2 ships in 2025?

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Does the system hold power on so the computer can shut down safely/properly? If not, it's probably not fixed.

What are you talking about? I havent noticed this on my game. Do you have a video or a link describing the problem?

Wow, I just reproduced the issue on my game. When you press the Left flipper the lights blink faster than when you press the right one....what a clusterfk!

This game is a total fail thanks to PPS and CGC. Wish I never bought it and put a single dollar in their pockets, they have totally ruined their reputation in the pinball community.

All ... CGC confirmed that a dev tool (the flipper 'issue' that is used for testing the light mangement) was included in 2.0, and it shouldn't have, so something of a human error in the compile process. So, not so much a bug but a compile flag that was not turned off.

SO - do not use 2.0, and CGC is expecting to have V2.1 this afternoon or tomorrow.

rick

They need to 'accidentally' make a human 'error' and enable colorization on our color screens instead of trying to get us to pay more for it!

Why wasn't there a changelog or readme included?

Hey Rick's back.

So...August timeframe?