Hi, Chad. Say, would you mind reformatting the guide as a printer friendly pdf and posting it on the site? Printing out the page as is results in a mess and a lot of wasted paper. Thanks!

Maybe a downloadable PDF?

Picked up a DE Star Wars 10 days ago or so...placed order for new code today. Need to get some cliffy protectors for those now more important scoop shots that have some wear.

Anyone having luck getting a 2nd or 3rd super jackpot in a single multiball? I'm finding it incredibly hard to keep multiple balls active for very long.. more so than other machines I play regularly.

It kind of goes something like this..

Yay, TRI-BALL!!
Pew, pew, pew!
Clang! *double outlane drain*
Yay! Restarted TRI-BALL!!
Pew, pew, pew.
Slingshot ricochet! *outlane drain*
Nice.. caught a ball on the left flipper!
Oh no! Ball in Sarlacc Pit! *ejects and drains under the cradled flipper*
Sigh.. back to single ball with no lit moons.
(This is usually followed by a stream of profanity.)

A really great game with one super jackpot caps out for me around 150-245mil which means I've yet to break into the top 3 high scores on the new ROM. Still trying.. every day. =) Curious how everyone else is doing.

It takes a minute to dial this game in, but when it's in it's a blast. I hit double most games I play, triple here ad there.

Is there a video out there of the new code?

http://www.arcade-hunters.com/2013/08/data-easts-star-wars-20th-anniversary.html

What is the safest way to hit the Death Star target? I haven't figure out a way yet that doesn't result in an SDTM on every other hit.

From the left flipper, if you go from the right it is almost always SDTM.

Hrm. The game I play on location does it from the left too. Maybe if I stop hitting it cleanly and let it knock around in there a bit.

Hi Chad,

I was curious about the frequency of the stormtrooper shoot out with the new code as opposed to the old code, it seems to happen quite a bit. No complaints though, I still love your 20th anniversary rom.

Thanks again

I don't know if the following is a bug, or if it is a carryover from the previous code that handed you Tri Ball on Ball 3.

Background: If you realize that Data East likes to set up Tri Ball on Ball 3, when draining on Ball 2 you can cash in the 5 million points for the Death Star Hurry Up that is available when you spot 5 moons. You get the 5 million, then on Ball 3 the Death Star is open and stays open.

The bug: If you spot 5 moons on Ball 1 or Ball 2, you can cash in the 5 million points when draining, just like before. On the next ball your moons won't reset to zero, you'll still have all 5 and can either cash in another 5 million on the next drain, or you can start the Death Star hurry up and go for Tri Ball.

On the original code I'm not sure if cashing in the 5 million when draining on Ball 1 resets the moons on Ball 2. I thought it did. Someone with an older version will have to check this as I have the new code installed on my game.

Cashing in the 5Million without a reset has always been there, it doesn't have anything to do with what ball you're on. I remember having multiple balls in a row where the only points I got were from that 5 Million thing. (I curse the side drains!) What might have been happening is that you were at 5 moons on your first ball and when it gave you two more you still had one to go before it was open, but on a typical ball 2 you would have been at 6 bumping up to 8 and an open DS.

Okay, I couldn't remember on the previous code if the moons reset if you cashed it in right before draining. Sounds like it is behaving the same as before?

In competition the knowledge of how to get a free 10mil can change everything. That's probably ~15-20% of the average score I see in our league.

Same here. Right flipper backhand is more reliable on my machine. Super quick backhands to C3PO/Yoda lane are also possible.

I'm curious if anyone has witnessed this Yoda bug.. I'll hit the lit Yoda shot and get a choice — say, AT-AT vs Death Star. I'll hit the right button to select Death Star.. nothing happens for a couple seconds.. then the machine selects AT-AT. Happens very rarely but I've seen it a few times.

Perhaps that the button press isn't registered and it's defaulting to the left side option? I don't usually button mash when selecting Yoda.. I just hit the flipper button one time. The flipper is activated, so not sure why the system wouldn't register the Yoda selection. I'll try button mashing next time I see this happen.

Is that flipper button a dual switch stack? If it is then you're probably not getting the second switch closed on the right flipper.

They're not upside down, that is another bug in the code you need to fix.

FYI: We'll have this game and some ROMs at the Pinball Life open house in October.

Hi ChadH,

Congratulations on the amazing work you've done on the DESW 20th Anniversary ROM. I've become addicted to the machine here at work, and will be ordering the new ROM.

We're encountering what may be the same, or a similar problem. Occasionally, the machine will enter a state where opening then entering the Death Star does not trigger the animation. (Also, in this state R2D2 does not respond to being shot.) You wait without pressing any buttons and after a minute or so the ball is ejected out the up kicker into the left ramp.

Can't seem to establish what triggers the problem; it might be opening the Death Star manually, or claiming the 5 million before draining, or opening it with all 8 moons then draining before completing.

We can't figure out how to reset the machine when it enters this state. My powers of Googling have failed me, too.

Any tips would be most helpful. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, ChadH. Will see if we can locate the key to get access. Should be somewhere in the building, only six floors.

To upgrade, is it just the EPROM C5 that is required?

Thanks Chad. I'll get one as soon as I get my game. Thanks for all your hard work, seems as though it has really improved this game, from reading this thread.

Thank you so much Chad for all your work. I got my Star Wars on the 11th, and my chip upgrade today. You rock!

I hadn't played mine much on the old rom but definitely love Chad's better. Death Star/ tri-ball is much more satisfying to achieve. I still don't try to get At-Ats but it is at least more reasonable to complete. Ball save is awesome!

I don't really have a set strategy in any game or ball. Sometimes go straight to lighting moons for multi-ball and multiple jackpots, sometimes try to light star wars right away (once I get the 10mil i tend to ignore center ramp except hyperspace and deathstar jackpot), sometimes try to get force-awards all knocked out. Every game seems to be different and take on its own life.

I have some switch / matrix issue I have to track down as I can get R2-D2 reward by hitting inner (habit trail) loop (c3po eye) again and some other weird stuff.

Anyway basically love the the code Chad. Glad I bought this game. Thanks!!

Great stuff Chad! Have you posted details of how you accomplished this? methods/software/tools you used to reverse engineer all this?

Great work Chad. Pretty impressive

I have been using the 20th Anniversary Neil Falconer tribute ROM from ChadH for over four months now and love all the updates. It's a lot more challenging and skill oriented, much better suited for competition play now. I sent Stern my compliments on allowing this to happen.

Will there be a 25th anniversary ROM DESW update???

Hi Chad,

I've had my star wars for 2 weeks. It arrived with the new code and love it. My previous high score was 241,000,000 but I had a Christmas day spectacular tonight and pulled off 461,000,000. Featured 3 Jackpot/Double Jackpot combos during tri-balls.

Love the game so far... and one thing especially great about it is the wife and kids are actually playing it too. Wife wouldn't lay a finger on the last pin I had.

Chad I played the machine with the new code in the pinball convention in S.FL, have to say you're a genius man, great job! It's was so much fun. I bought a DE SW a couple of days ago. I will order the roms for this as soon as I get the machine in my house. Not sure if you answered this already but any chance you can come back to the speeder mode for a revision later..?

Chad,

I've had the new ROM for over a year and it really makes the game more balanced. One issue I've found is that when I drain a ball early and it says "Freeze" for the ball save, the death star and R2D2 stop rotating until the ball is drained. Anyone else having this issue?

If you haven't found this thread yet, I would recommend it to the people reading this thread:
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/data-east-star-wars-clubmembers-fans-welcome

Is anyone else having trouble opening the URL for the ROM download?: http://www.sternpinball.com/USB_SW12.html

When I click on this link (on the http://www.pinballcode.com website), I get a page not found error (see screenshot).

Where else can I download this ROM?

Best,

- Travis

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