Yeah I think I'll indulge a bit here, put some blades in on the weekend and shoot these two again. Might even do an extended gameplay vid now that all the modes are finished. I still have a tiny bit of lockup whenever coffin mb and grave mb are stacked but that will be fixed shortly. We are nearly there folks.

Well here it is. Just got the last of the big bugs ironed out. There are still some tiny things annoying me, but they are very, very specific and you probably won't notice. So, for those who want some weekend viewing, eighteen minutes of gameplay with the glass off and one ball going through pretty much everything it does. DMD is in shot so you can see the modes. Mirror blades in place. Enjoy.
note -- the biggest problem with this is the video quality that ends up on youtube. All the flashing effects are perfectly uniform, but some of them appear to be a a bit uneven and clunky. Lady Justice especially is dissappointing on the final posted video. That is a really sharp, rapid flash on the ramp and loop hits that just doesn't get caught properly through the upload process.

haha. I appreciate it, but sadly, no. If I was a genius I would have had it done a lot quicker. This is weeks and months of work. It looks so simple at the end, but this has nearly driven me mad. If you ever want to get turned off a game for the rest of your life, build a mod for it! lol. You don't want to know how many times I have taken this thing up to and through the CIU modes.

Here is a link to the original 1.37GB video file if you really want to see it at full resolution and frame rate.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzLghkiXiLQoalAxSXBuMG9CNnM/view?usp=sharing

You are now! There should be no problem getting in. I am going to start a market thread shortly when I start getting pieces back from manufacturers. The main board manufacturer has me on a six week turnaround from when I placed the order last week.
The for sale ad will ask you for an email address to which I can issue a PayPal invoice. That will be how orders will be taken. I am estimating I will have stock left over from the first run so no one need worry about missing out. I am going to try and keep a bit of stock available. If it takes me a year or two to sell them all then I am ok with that.

Thanks for the bump Hoaky. Seek and destroy, oddly enough, is so lame a lighting effect on the Premium that I didn't bother replicating it. I will probably do my own interpretation of it so it will actually be better than the Premium. But to the topic of code updates, there is a chance generally that I do have to tweak my code if there are changes to lamp behaviour in the machine's code update. In that case, you would update the code on my board via the USB. Owners of the board will have access to a download area where they will always be able to grab the latest code.

The thing I did have to change was the sparky MB super jackpot. They actually made it easier to trigger. But at the same time caused my old trigger to fail. Five minute re-code job for me. So if you already had the board you would now just go to my download page and grab the new version. Easy peasy.

I really like the clear bulbs from Comet (or CT) that are a direct replacement for the Stern twin SMD bulbs in the Prem/LE, but maybe that's just because I've spent so long looking at the LE. These will also match the whites that are already in the Pro LED version.

Wish I could return the bump favour with some decent updates, but just waiting for production to complete. I am taking delivery of the first batch of socket strings on Monday, and all my GI Interceptors are done. I spend most evenings making matrix cables, lol. Living the dream.

They are included and are the exact same wedge sockets used by Stern. That's buried in the thread there somewhere too. I sourced them directly from the manufacturer in Taiwan.

As always Broken, firstly thanks for your interest. AC/DC is officially to be released alongside Met. I am waiting for the first production run of boards to come back so I can dedicate a board to my test machine, polish the code and check the installation procedure of the sockets. AC/DC will include a bonus of a Fade to Black type effect during Back in Black that fades out the GI as switch hits are accumulated.
Tron is currently fourth in line. It requires the completion of the porting of the low level led strip drivers from my custom strips across to commercially available strips. This is almost finished by the way, and it also allows me then to work on the single bulb RGB GI solution which is also coming along nicely. The single bulb solution is required for machines that are not driving separate Blue/Red/White GI strings in the same way that Met and AC/DC premiums do.
Which brings me back to ST Pro, which is next after Met and AC/DC get out the door. ST will see the kit in full flight. Colour ramp lights as first shown, plus single bulb RGB GI.
After these four are done, if interest is sufficient, I will move on to other machines that are appropriate. I don't think this is necessarliy a mod you can force onto every machine successfully, and once the machines are not replicating a Premium lightscape, then the whole package needs to be created from scratch, which will take a while and will certainly need a feedback cycle from users. IM would be cool, yes.

Things are arriving..

Socket strings..
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Really nicely finished..
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With socket connected..
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Some GI Interceptors..
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I'm just going to throw a small delay into production here, but I think you'll find it is worth it. The microcontroller is doing a lot. The switch reading in particular is very precise and demanding, and I am finding that I have to make compromises to get the pwm on the power outputs to work to the level of control I want. To that end, I am creating a type of hardware pwm bus off the main controller, so that all the pwm outputs will act as if they are hardware pwm rather than software. There aren't enough hardware pwm pins on the MCU anyway to connect them all as hardware pwm. This will allow the pwm control to be very smooth and granular. In effect, giving buttery smooth fades that I think will be up to factory standards. At the moment, even though you can't really make it out on the videos, there is some small stepping and flicker if you really look for it, and I'm just not satisfied with it. Should only throw things back by a couple of weeks, but totally worth it in my view.

And just to clarify, the outputs in question are the 6.3v power outputs that drive single devices including the strings for the GI replacement. The SPI outputs that drive the LED strips and addressable LEDs are fine.

Good question. They are unscrewed, pulled away from the playfield (but not separated from their wiring) and taped or cable-tied out of the way. My replacement sockets, which are an exact match, containing a coloured bulb are then screwed back in their place. My sockets are then connected together with their own wiring harness that feeds back to the controller. I am planning on putting a short video up of this exact procedure. Picture worth a thousand words and all that.
Thanks for reading...multiple times!

Another good question from the front row. That's the one spot I don't go. And it's because of mounting issues. The sockets in there are underneath the flipper mechs. Now while most people are fine with a bit of tinkering to get something like this installed, I didn't think anyone would want to go to the extent of removing flipper mechs to get it in. That takes the installation up to a pretty hefty undertaking.
Now a point to note here is that you could put them in there if you wanted to. You can put bulbs anywhere you want to. There is already one user looking to drill into the front of his apron and have reflectors throwing the lights forward onto the playfield. I am doing up a custom harness to facilitate this. I could also do an optional custom harness for those wanting to go into the ball guides. Extention harnesses would clip into the main harnesses the way I have shown that I get the spotlights included in the circuit. You would drop out the factory whites and put in a red and a blue. Or you could get hold of the premium ball guides for the extra hole.

What are you taking your photos with? I like the colour balance and find it hard to get images that clear ( taking shots of LEDs I mean specifically). I'm no photographer so rarely get off automatic.