1.0 is the current.

LTG : )

If your talking about game software (Displayed on DMD when game is booting), 1.0 is current.

If your talking about MMR firmware 1.5.5 is current (contains Date/Time, sound and LCD tearing fixes), playfield firmware 2.0 is current. You get to this screen by holding the escape/service credit button on the coin door for 5 seconds.

If your MMR displays a progress bar while booting up, you have the original shipping firmware. If you have the update, you will not see a progress bar, it will just say "loading".

Where can I find the latest firmware?

Where can I find my MMRLE I ordered on day 1?

I'd love to know as well, mine is at 1.0(MMR firmware) Probably explains my time/date credit dot and shitty sound. Hopefully

I've been reading about MMR firmware update. From what I read, the only way to get the firmware update is to create a ticket with CGC and they will send you the firmware update.

Guess that would explain my screen tearing.

Opened a ticket today too. Let's see what happens.

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Good luck with that. Been waiting a week for a response. Maybe thats not long enough, but at least an acknowledgement that its being looked at would be a nice touch.

My understanding is that everyone will need the update to fix the tearing and sound issues before anyone can get color. CGC will have to figure out a way to distribute that other than mailing out SD cards.

Maybe they're to busy working on the next remake to address problems with the MMR. I have been waiting 22 days for a response to my ticket.

I doubt it is the next remake yet. As soon as they announce the next game MMr sales will dip.

Most likely the resources are going into getting all of the bugs out for screen tearing and audio level and cut issues before the color package is ready. This reduces update distribution but not having to update color buyers twice. Why address your firmware issue now if it is going to come with the color.

I believe they're working on the next machine, since it's being announced in March at the Texas Pinball festival. Rick stated the next remake was operational. I have already received one software update last November, but did not fix the problem. It took a month and numerous emails to get it.

does CGC have a direct line or so you have to contact through email?

Let us know what you find out. I have a the same build date.

...just keep rubbing it in

See post #60 for a working update.

Where did you get it from?

It's off of the microsd card that CGC sent me with the update.

So,

I think I may have found steps to reproduce losing the date and time. Turn the game off for a week. When I play daily I haven't hit this. I haven't played in a week and I just hit it.

Marc

When you say that you already updated it, did you use this particular file ?

Was your SD card formatted as NTFS or FAT32 ? THANKS by the way, if it works, been waiting since Christmas for this, Ron did not answer me since...

Yes, this is the official update that I upgraded my machine with, sent to me directly from CGC.

Thanks Iceman, could you tell me if your SD is NTFS or FAT32, by checking with your PC, right click on SD CARD in FORMAT...

Basically, whats the action, power on than put SD card in, then wait ?

I'm on a Mac, it says fat16.

Put the sd card in, then power on the machine.

Ok, that's help me, if its not working, i'll change it to FAT32 but I doubt it. On stern's, you need to have your USB to NTFS...

So the process is power machine on, then put the SD in board ?

I'll try it right now...man I hope this works....

The reason I'm not sure it will work is I didn't look on the sd card before I updated. I don't know if after the update, the update file was erased, because the latest file on the sdcard now is dated January 15, 2015. My MMR says the latest update is August 15, 2015.

I've had the self erase date and time happen to me too. It's been a while and it hasn't repeated itself. And like many others, I am looking forward to the color update.

I'm somewhat convinced that I'm going to have to fork over a couple bucks to get color. If it meant they sent me a chip rather than "allow" me to access the code on a site, it sure would make things easier for those of us that are especially skilled at screwing stuff up. I guess I look at the color dmd stuff and figure most the money that goes there, goes there to cover the guys writing code.

I guess there best way to not miss a deadline in the pinball industry is to never have one to begin with. Every one that does promise something gets raked over the coals no matter what they do. Hopefully something breaks soon and if there is cost, it's a reasonable one.

Do you see anything from the screen as proof of updating... do not see anything

I tried it as well but everything has just stayed blank. guessing it didn't work?

Doesn't work at least there was hope...thanks Iceman

Tried it in NTFS and FAT32 but nothing on screen..

I've looked and I can't find the original directions for updating, maybe someone else here can fill in the details.

It seems like the files missing a .exe for setup running. Damn I was hoping for success.

Did CGC provided you with some kind of instructions or directions on how to do the upgrade ?

To update - turn the game off, plug the micro SD card into the slot on top of the board in the head. Turn the game on and it updates itself. When done the screen will let you know. Turn game off, remove micro SD card, turn game back on and you are good to go.

I don't think you can copy a micro SD card and use it on another micro SD card to update a different game.

LTG : )

If it's like JJP's ISO update, the card may need to be configured to be bootable. Still, a card that updates one game should work on others, unless CGC has deliberately configured it to erase the update from the card upon completion as some form of copy protection. OTOH it may also create a flag file on the card to show an update has been run, in case people leave the card installed in the game by mistake.

Well, there goes my hopes...

there are SD cards with an write protect switch on them. As for booting does it boot from the card or does the hardware just look for files on a card at power up.

That wouldn't prevent the card from being re-used. It WOULD prevent the card from being disabled, though.

This update has been imminent since last spring, hard to believe that it takes almost a year to figure out how to make it available to customers. It contains many useful fixes so please hurry up CGC

Sending firmware updates on SD card via snail mail? Are we in 2016?

The bigger question is why they are not updating the firmware/software before shipping the games? I received mine this month and it has the old firmware/software.

I have been wondering the same thing.

My SD card is formatted as FAT (MS-DOS) with a 67.1MB partition. I don't think there are missing files as there are setup shell scripts on the card, etc. My guess is that the formatting of your cards isn't correct, or something didn't copy correctly.

Marc

Doing a bit of research on this and creating a bootable Beaglebone Black image is not super simple unless you're pretty comfortable with UNIX.

As prehistoric as mailing SD cards sounds, it actually appears to be the simplest way to get software to MMR users until they can figure out an easier way. Keep in mind that the majority of pinheads aren't tech savvy and BBB is still very free-as-in-beer hardware and not at all for the great masses.

I'll keep digging in, but here's some basic info:

http://blog.logikonlabs.com/how-to-create-a-custom-microsd-card-image-for-the-beaglebone-black/

This is an excellent point. Once it comes to downloading and updating games many are lost. And surprisingly in tech support, I've run into quite a few that don't even own computers.

LTG : )