I’d be interested in that! I believe my mini shipped out from kingpin yesterday so I should have it soon.

BBH discord. Super friendly folk:

https://discord.gg/sZAhrtD3

We can agree that pro should have a fee as there are prize pool contributions and stat tracking

However,

raw thrills is banking way more pro money per play on the non commercial games vs the one in the bars.

1 trek is a 50 cent fee to the operator, vs 2$ to home
1 dollar for adventure as an operator and 5.25 vs home.

It’s not like the non commercial units are any cheaper. You could argue that commercial units bring in more money overall but the ops are also making money selling alcohol.

Home owners should get a bill credit over a certain amount of spend or something.

Or they should just charge the fee and only the fee as the home owner is basically the operator in this case.

Woah, Chris at King Pin got me my game super fast! Can’t wait to play!

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Congrats...please join the weekly Pinside Tournament...its a lot of fun and thanks to Jalpert for setting it up each week!

Ed

Glad you got a mini. The panorama is so dull. Mini is a showpiece no doubt and having the LEDs integrated into gameplay is sweet. Wait till you see that monitor with glass casing, sharp stuff.

Week 50:

1.) jalpert - 41,472
2.) eharan - 31,212
3.) twenty84 - 28,549

Week 51:

If you are new and need a little help, which is a possibility, reach out and we will get it figured out.
1.) Sign into your coinup account
2.) https://www.coinup.com/tournaments/editgamemachines/BBHD/1002085
3.) I'm assuming most of you only have one game, so tick the tick mark and hit submit game machines to add your game
Two weeks this time. My schedule makes it impossible for me to create a new tournament next week.
This is a 3 trek (15 sites and 3 bonus rounds) random from all skill levels. It's a high score tournament, play as many times as you want and the highest score takes it.
A few caveats:
Everything is free from the coinop account to the play. There is no cost to this. Once you add this tournament to your game you cannot remove it until the tournament is over. This tournament lasts for one week so it will be on your machine for one week. Also, I set the costing to it's lowest level, but it still wants $0.25 to play. Maybe run a $100 bill through the machine. There are no actual charges to play, just a quark that it needs some coins in to start. Or you can just hit the coin actuator on the coin mech a few times, however you want to do it.

Thanks for all those that ordered and all the nice words.

Still a few minis left I'm stock. Order now and (possibly) get before Christmas. We allow pick ups 7 days a week from our North Freedom, WI office too.

[email protected]

Thanks and will do, I’m planning to get everything all setup tonight. I’ll check through to thread for details on what all is involved since I have not played much before.

Pretty confused. I just want to do the $40 a month to play the content but these signup menus that have me agreeing to all these prices per game make me feel like I’m heading the wrong direction. How am I supposed to setup?

It’s dumb, all the setup menus are for operators. They haven’t incorporated home games into that process yet.

Get through those menus to the setup screen, then in setup at the top is your cab ID.

Email them your cab ID and they will get you in free play.

I played a bunch before they activated my free play and they refunded all my fees but YMMV on that.

It’s dumb, all the setup menus are for operators. They haven’t incorporated home games into that process yet.

Get through those menus to the test menu via the button inside the coin door, then in setup at the top is your cab ID.
Email them your cab ID and they will get you in free play.

I played a bunch before they activated my free play and they refunded all my fees but YMMV on that.

Thanks! I don’t think I would have figured that out on my own haha. Does anyone not go freeplay and just pay the fees per game? Seems like there would be a lot of times my monthly per game would be less than the $40. I’m guessing you would just hit the add credit button a ton.

I dont think thats even an option. I know I would save a ton if I just paid per play. If it is an option, let me know!

You can buy anything (or nothing) and play the game offline.

yeah I’m no getting 40 a month worth of play out of my game.

When I was reviewing the fine print in the signup for the "Coin up" account it looks like there's also an operator option, but that still has a $30 or so monthly service fee. I assume Raw Thrills would still take a portion of whatever additional money was put into the game...

I'm looking at getting a Mini Offline, they are like 10k...Is it worth it?

Do you get sick of the gameplay?

Even if you don't use the online content, you pay a lot extra to have it offline. My guess is it would take about 8 years to make up the difference in price. The online content is also a lot more fun since you can play in tournaments and it automatically updates the code.

Now. If your having a baby, getting ready for a move, have a large collection, I can absolutely see taking it offline for a few months if you don’t think it’s going to get much play.

You will still have a few animals to play with.

I don't get it, what does Buck Hunter become if you don't have the content? You can only shoot at one type of animal?

Also, do you have to pump the shotgun when playing terminator? Or is it auto fire? That looks like it would get old quickly

Most of the game you have to pump, but during parts of it you have automatic weapons. (it will wear your arms out).

You have a few. Four hunts maybe? It will work offline, and you can play, you lose a ton of functionality but you can still play.

I went with the 42 mini offline for near 10k and while I love it my girlfriend plays it all the time.

It may take 8 years to break even, but I did not want any more monthly bills, and my connection here is spotty anyway.

The game has plenty to do, I just wish Duck Dynasty held our scores, it does not. Everything else does hold our scores.

We were not interested in any tournaments anyway, and I think all we are missing out on is the one extra site for each animal, and the bow, no bow offline, but I think most people really do not care for the bow anyway.

If you go the online route to save money on the game price, you still have to pay for a year of online, but does not have to be all at the same time(best I can remember).

In the future if they add any more animals I plan to buy the software to get those.

I really doubt I would buy any more of the other content though, we do not use it much because too tiring.

If you were to be passing through my area for vacation or anything, you are welcome to stop by and try the game out.

Last I heard Jason at Classic Game Rooms still has them in stock, about a 40 minute drive east of here, and you could pick one up to save shipping costs if you were to like the game enough after you try it.

One thing you get with online are included updates.

Have you considered going online for 1 month, getting your game updated, then canceling?

I wonder how many features your offline will gain just buy upgrading to the latest version.

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It does get a bit tiring. I’m only an hour from you and just got my mini. Shoot me a note if you have a free day and want to come try it out. Mine is the online version though.

I guess someone would have to stop by here, try out my game, and tell me what updates I am missing, except for the extra site for each animal, and the tournament stuff we care less about.

Have they added some different animals now? Those are the only updates I care for, and I plan to buy the software when available. If like in the past it will be like 785.00 for 3 more animals.

In the meantime I am on a dead end street, and if a tree falls over the lines in a storm, sometimes Comcast does not make repairs for 2 months no matter how much I complain, so I try to stay offline with anything anyway.

if you take the game "offline" you will still have the 5 base animals and some of the bonus games.

you can go online for one month if you wish. the year long contract has been eliminated. some of our customers will play "offline" most of the year and then go online when they are having people over that month (4th of July, Thanksgiving, etc).

Fellow operators: I just unboxed my new BBH reloaded and it doesn’t come with a bill validator. Which model do you have installed in your game? Looking for advice on setting this up. Also can you setup the operator registration directly from the game? Thanks

Appreciate any help: I’ve never had a raw thrills/BBH on route before

That is weird, my mini offline came with one already installed.

The minis come with the dba installed, the panoramas do not.

Raw Thrills uses a 12v system at the door for the bill acceptors. you can either use the Mars 12v dc acceptors, or use a 110v ac cable and tap into the coin switches.

As for the operator setup, you can try to get it setup via the on screen menu. if that doesn't work, then you will need to call and talk with Bethany at Play Mechanix. 866-646-1975

I know some guys just have these at their house, If anyone has a bill acceptor they want to sell, let me know.

Also: would an Apex 5400 12v bill acceptor work on Big Buck Hunter Reloaded?

Week 51:

1.) jalpert - 35,163
2.) eharan - 28,475
3.) twenty84 - 27,600
4.) TheBeefSupreme - 14,095

Week 51. The one year anniversary and LAST Pinside BBH tourney! Thanks everyone who participated, it was always a good time!

If you are new and need a little help, which is a possibility, reach out and we will get it figured out.
1.) Sign into your coinup account
2.) https://www.coinup.com/tournaments/editgamemachines/BBHD/1002086
3.) I'm assuming most of you only have one game, so tick the tick mark and hit submit game machines to add your game
Two weeks this time. My schedule makes it impossible for me to create a new tournament next week.
This is a 3 trek (15 sites and 3 bonus rounds) random from all skill levels. It's a high score tournament, play as many times as you want and the highest score takes it.
A few caveats:
Everything is free from the coinop account to the play. There is no cost to this. Once you add this tournament to your game you cannot remove it until the tournament is over. This tournament lasts for one week so it will be on your machine for one week. Also, I set the costing to it's lowest level, but it still wants $0.25 to play. Maybe run a $100 bill through the machine. There are no actual charges to play, just a quark that it needs some coins in to start. Or you can just hit the coin actuator on the coin mech a few times, however you want to do it.

Haha I’m pretty sure I’m the mystery guest. I only got to play once and it did not go well haha.

It doesn't have to go well. It's fun just to have a random option to play, mixes things up a bit.

Joined the Big Buck Club a few weeks ago
Got a routed Pro from a local arcade refurb guy who cleaned it up
Guessing it’s from 2005/2006
Has the basic hunting trips on it that it came with
What kind of software or upgrades can be done to it?? Can you add safari hunts or other stuff to it??

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You can upgrade it to the following

Safari
Open season
World

Each would require its own dongle and restore software.

Week 52: The first time I couldn't make it to the game to play. Besides the two weeks I was having technical issues.

Thanks again for playing!

1.) eharan - 36,579
2.) twenty84 - 29,544

Dang, forgot to get a score in this round

Jalpert,
Are you ending the weekly tournaments? I really enjoy them and gets me playing the game. I hope this is not the end of them. I am sure we can get more people playing.

Thanks!
Ed

I am. I have had a lot of fun with them as well, but life has gone in a few different directions over the past year. Most of those directions away from pinball, all good stuff though.

i wouldn't mind taking it over to keep it going. Here is a link to a tournament I made for next week:

https://www.coinup.com/tournaments/editgamemachines/BBHD/1002087

That’s great. I am signed up. Let’s try and get more people participating! Thanks Jalpert for starting it and Chrome Candy for continuing it!

Happy New Years everyone!
Ed

I agree I posted it on the BBH Discord so hopefully we'll see some interest from there also.

I’ll jump in too! Thanks for setting up and to Jalpert for running in the past!

AWESOME!

My first tournament ended. It seemed to bring in some big guns from the BBH discord. Here is how it turned out

1 Chris Exberger 52368
2 Philip Beaupre 41369
3 Federico Read 31944
4 Twenty84 24321
5 Jalpert . 23820
6 EHaran 20877

Here is the link for next weeks tournament:

https://www.coinup.com/tournaments/editgamemachines/BBHD/1002089