If you want a dba on a pin,thats gonna be routed,why would you want a headphone mod on it??Unless its going in a Hospital or a assisted living facility!!!???

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I can see it would be nice to have headphone jack on route so people can hear the game in a loud bar

granted you wont be able to use the DBV slot for both things at once

Best assisted living facility ever.

This.

I have a TNA on route and the location wants the sound fairly low, which misses a major feature of the game. I would love to put a headphone jack on the front for customers. Hoping to do this with R&M too.

Late, but not too late.
I'm in with a Standard and totally happy.
Never thought I will get one. But sometimes dreams come true.
Thank you RS-Pinball in Austria. A little german boy is smiling without end.
Now I have to wait a very long time.
That is ok for me. I think I will get every mod out there, before my pin arrives in good old bavaria/franconia.

Out of curiosity, with the beefed up computer in R&M, is there any chance for more current technology to include Bluetooth headphone compatibility, and then all this talk of headphone jacks and an upgraded coin doors to accommodate said jacks would be out the door? I know I no longer have any headphones in my house that are wired, except for the free earbuds that came with a previous generation iPhone I had? I know this could be a problem on route for sync'ing headphones, but in the home environment where I imagine most of the R&M would be going, this could be a cool "boutique" feature.

Congratulations!

Just out of curiosity... your pinball machine is going to be made in the central United States, get strapped to a shipping container, brought to a boat on the coast, put on a boat to Australia, travel the Pacific to Australia, get off the boat and brought to a warehouse, leave the container and get put in another container, get back in a truck, go to a port, get on a boat, go all the way around Africa, get off the boat somewhere in France, get on a truck and go to a warehouse in Germany, then get delivered to your place...

That is a long run on sentence but it sounds like quite a trip!

Thanks for clarifying. Sounds like i would rather have a headphone jack style like pinsound

LOL, he said Austria.

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but do we think the spaceship toy on a spring is active? Is there a solenoid/mech underneath that makes it shake?

There is.

You can see it shake in one of the trailers.

No no not Australia
Austria right beside germany
Not that long way.

I also got mine from RS-Pinball. Cant wait
I wonder if i'm the only one in The Netherlands with one

I'm in as well. I was able to get a spot through a distributor.

"And then we're gonna go on even more adventures after that, Morty and you're gonna keep your mouth shut about it, Morty, because the world is full of idiots that don't understand what's important, and they'll tear us apart, Morty but if you stick with me, I'm gonna accomplish great things, Morty, and you're gonna be part of them, and together, we're gonna run around, Morty. We're gonna do all kinds of wonderful things, Morty. Just you and me, Morty. The outside world is our enemy, Morty. We're the only friends we've got, Morty. It's just Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty and their adventures, Morty. Rick and Morty forever and forever. Morty's things. Me and Rick and Morty running around, and Rick and Morty time. All day long, forever. All a hundred days. Rick and Morty forever 100 times. Over and over, rickandmortyadventures.com. All 100 years. Every minute, rickandmorty.com."

I dunno. Powdercoated coin doors always seem like a step too far to me. I usually prefer just the frame for the door to be powder-coated, leaving the door black. Another difficult decision, thanks Spooky!!

On the topic of Bluetooth headphones for games: sounds great for a single game in a "collection". But in a larger collection, moving from game to game would suck with the pairing process.

I'm more interested in wired jacks. People can bring their own headphones. "Pairing" is just insert. It also means no requirement for batteries, unless one chooses to use noise canceling headphones.

100%, I'm not a fan of bluetooth headphones at all as it's one more thing to worry about keeping charged and pairing can become a headache. I won't complain if they add the functionality to pins in the future (or is JJP already doing it?) but not a selling point to me at all, would much rather have a 3.5mm jack like on my Hobbit.

Repost for the morning crowd: if you're buying this game, go take the poll!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/buying-rick-amp-morty-if-so-which-category-are-you-take-the-poll

Over 120 accounted for this far and the results are pretty interesting: half of buyers are first time spooky owners and many of those are first NIB as well. Spooky wanted to take care of its previous customers (and I think they did a great job in trying to accommodate everyone) but even so, with a 50% first-timer rate they had an impossible task. And regardless of which company or title is involved, 50% first-timer sales from an established company is surely almost unheard of these days.

There are pros and cons to both wireless or wired headphones. I'm a pretty animated player when I lose. And if I get a cheap drain, I throw my head back and storm away from my machine.
I'll let you visualize the results of a 3 foot wired headphone set when that happens. Plus my secondary insult.

Yes he did... that makes a whole lot more sense.

Relevant:

Wish I could post GIFs

It's even easier to put a 3.5mm to BT transmitter on the headphone jack and just use that

I didnt know that. Learned something new today.

Have you tried emailing spooky directly or calling them to find out?

YES!

Please, for the love of god, no fucking bluetooth on a pinball machine.

A cord is still 10x easier with 10x better sound you jerrys, and yes I've thoroughly tried (and returned) airpods...

Side note, and I know Danesi would be a fan of this....1/4" headphone jack AND 1/8" jack.....you know this is the way...

Your problem is you used airpods....

on this topic, I highly prefer bt, but really having both options is a no brainer.

BT headphones vs wired headphones....welcome to 2020 technologies.

So IF there is any type of Internet connectivity, should we not look forward to WiFi and use a 56k dial up modem in these machines? Asking for a friend...

I did this to my garage stereo and my ford focus, works great as a receiver to play music from my phone. Although not sure how the transmit portion would be able to pair with headphones/earbuds.

Thx. Guess I missed that.

Its one thing to mod your game but...

rick and morty tattoo?

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAEURD_enUS883&sxsrf=ACYBGNRDK2PEUyfhVGQDP0zw4DC70y6IuQ:1579109450162&q=rick+and+morty+portal+tattoo&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQlNqOkYbnAhWdJzQIHV24A3AQsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1366&bih=609

I don’t think the dbv door is aesthetically appealing. I want the regular coin slot door for home use. Is the game wired for a bill validator if you don’t get the door upgrade? Something I may add in the future but for current home use I like the look of no bill slot.

Very important question for anyone who is planning to route the game.

The non-bill doors definitely look better, but for the option of having a spot to install the headphone jack and volume control, it is a sacrifice that I will have to make as I would rather have that than centered coin slots. Now just waiting for confirmation from Pinovators that they are designing the Spooky compatible system to fit in that spot.

What do you mean? Despite the hype, if you still want one, you can still order through a distributor today, a month after sales started.

Or do you just mean you don't want to wait so long? Probably right, likely to get one sooner by resale than to jump in line now.

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funny, I much prefer the DBV style! Looks way more appealing to me.

Plus it gives you a nice place to add some custom themed headphones art.

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^this...I don't even have wired headphones anymore.

Games are still available from distributors, is that actually confirmed?

yes, try nitro

Did Nitro get more pins? It seems that they seem to have more remaining from what I see on this thread.

I'm locked into a standard but was under the impression the game sold out, due to the whole "SOLD OUT" thing. Spots sitting at distributors =/= sold out in my opinion, and seems misleading. Makes zero difference to me one way or the other but I can't believe that #440 spot on ebay has been bid up $1000 over value when spots are still available (I wonder if the guys bidding on that are aware?)

Some distributors had commitments from buyers who didn't or haven't send in payment.

Some distributors have been posting availability since sales opened up and have never stopped.

For a home environment, if you want Bluetooth just buy a cheap Bluetooth transmitter and plug it into the headphone jack. If you want to switch to standard headphones, unplug it. Problem solved.

I use one of these to sync audio from a projector to a pair of Bluetooth outdoor speakers for movie night on the patio. Works perfectly.

https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-TaoTronics-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Headphones/dp/B07W5S2WVN/ref=asc_df_B07W5S2WVN/

My suggestion, instead of speculating whether or not there are spots available, is to reach out to Spooky distributors and they will tell you if there are spots available or not. Not anything anyone says outside of the distributors should be taken as yes or no.

With that said, as noted in the prior post, there may have been some people that "committed" they may or may not have sent in their deposit.

There would be zero benefit for a distro to have spots, but have the hype call it "sold out."

If you have the standard then maybe, but I know there will be a Bloodsucker in Brabant