Well I have gone crazy. I recently went on a little road trip to Niagara Falls and picked up a pretty nice Party Zone.

Playfield is pretty solid, ramps are mint. Dancing dummy intact. All plastics unbroken and in good shape.

Cabinet faded to death. Sound was funky but swapped some resistors on the soundboard and sorted that out. GI power from the transformer was borked pretty good but I repinned and replaced the molex connector.

So anyway I have decided that this game is going to be restored to the best of my ability.

I have installed a new ColorDMD, I have brand new cabinet decals that are UV reactive, pinball pro speakers and sub installed, wired in stereo and connected to a Pinsound+ that arrived today. I am on the list for a repro playfield and plan on powder coating the game once I finish the swap in the future.

I have gotten to work on a custom audio mix to replace all the shitty music and will be working to re-record all of the call outs. I am also thinking to replace the supersonic robotic comic noises with short clips of 90s era comedians and adding additional phrases for the female character to speak to keep things fresh.

In just under 2 hours I changed out almost every song with what I feel were appropriate selections.

Chicken Feet = Chicken Dance Club Remix
Pinball Wizard = Pinball Wizard remix
De-Funk = Daft Punk Around the World
Safe Sax = Safe Sax by Dax
Crash Dummy = I Like to Move it or Macarena Remix and I may add Cotton Eyed Joe or cmon Ride it (shuffles through however many tracks I put in the folder)
Ozone Rocket music = Intergalactic
Game over = Ice Ice Baby, cut to start at “will it ever stop? I don’t know, turn off the lights and I’ll glow” because the game does indeed.
Feelings = actual recording of Feelings
Come Fly Withe Me = remastered Sinatra original
Purple Haze = Techno Purple Haze Hendrix remix
The main game music and multiball are tracks I will buy from PremiumBeat.com once I decide on the options I am considering.

Volume leveling will be a bit of a process but once my new MacBook Pro arrives I can drop my tracks in to Logic and knock this out way faster than with Audacity on my Windows tablet.

If anyone has additional ideas for the custom audio let me know and I will be more than happy to share the work once I get it to a respectable place.

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I have always liked the game but absolutely loathed the audio. It is grating and keeps you from wanting to keep playing it.

My new laptop arrived today so the editing will commence shortly.

Maybe as a fun Pinside forum thing is someone wants to be the voice of the Captain Or other characters from the game let me know and I can do some sort of audition.

The audio quality is so poor on the voices that I don’t think there is any reason to try and mimic the exact voice. I do a lot of radio advertising and was thinking to reach out to some local on air DJ talent.

OK, So after doing some additional playing and getting some feedback from a few friends I updated the music selection a bit.

Party Zone Thee = Groove Is In The Heart
Waiting for the Big Bang = Hotstepper
Game Over = Ice Ice Baby
Safe Sax = Good Vibrations (marky mark)
Purple Haze = Purple Haze Remix
Chicken Feet = Chicken Dance Remix, but may become Cotton Eye Joe
Dummy Dance Contest = I like to move it
Pinball Wizard = Pinball Wizard Remix
De Funkt = Around the world
Laff Attack = Move This, Technotronic
Multiball = Fantastic Voyage, Coolio
Fan Fare Football Drain = NFL on FOX Theme

I spoke with a voice over actor briefly today who has a great on air radio DJ quality to his voice and he is reviewing the source material to come up with a price for the project and I should know more in a few days.

So some annoyances I must now deal with on my pursuit of audio rehabilitation for this game.

The older Pinsound studio program had the ability to create a PSREC file on the USB drive plugged in to the board while you played the game and then you could use that file to play back the audio of the game you just had as it happened on the computer making it much easier to diagnose why certain audio is or is not happening as expected.

The new "PRO" version of studio doesn't seem to have this capability and is really slowing me down, upside I will probably design some trigger shaker effects for this: https://www.pinsound.org/shop/index.php?id_product=55&controller=product&id_lang=1#/pinball-party_zone.

I have all the music files cut and normalized and I was fairly sure I had them in the right spots but alas, some issues will need to be sorted out.

Also I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend a GI OCD for this game if you converted over to LED as well as patching the latest game rom to better support LEDs and correct ghosting.

Video of very early work in progress of the music replacement only is uploading here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnr9266a7k6rb5x/img_6862.mov?dl=0

Again some audio is triggering for unknown reasons but I am sure I will figure it out eventually.

I have moved my Party Zone Audio Improvement Project to its own topic and linked to a Beta of my music conversion

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/party-zone-audio-improvement-project-work-in-progress

Mirrored CPR Backglass arrived just in time for the holidays.

It’s color is really deep, I plan on changing out the LEDs in the backbox.

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Tonight I had a little help while fixing a short on my Party Zone.

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