Any idea whether this will allow things like per-user high scores or per-user game settings? I remember Predator was talking this up in their design. It'd be awesome for each player to be able to have their own high scores on the game (or last 50 players or something), and to set it up so that if my kids scan, the game will go to extra easy or something (without having to always change the audits).

Also, if you're just scanning a QR code to ID yourself to the game, wouldn't that be easy enough to print out and have on a card or something if you didn't have a phone? Again, could be a way to set it up for the kids.

Is the price going to be the same across the board? If a pro needs a whole new apron, but a premium doesn't, those would theoretically be cheaper, right?

Has anyone transferred an IC game from one owner to another? I just got a used Godzilla pro, and there doesn't seem to be any way to register it to my account. Do I just have to get the old owner to delete it first?

So far I haven't had much luck with the canakit wifi adapter. Signal strength is garbage inside the backbox. With a usb extender it seems a little better out in the open, so I might see if it works any better with an extension cable to the front of the game JJP style. Otherwise, if you want to run off ethernet, does it just connect to the open port on the bottom of the CPU board?

I like the setup with the switch too-I'm guessing you can't just use a standard n-port ethernet switch on there and keep everything connected at the same time? No idea what the protocol is on those lines, but probably something custom. I like the idea of a central sign-in location for all the games though-maybe even a way to drive sign in remotely for tournament play?

Update-I messaged the last owner last night, and he unregistered the game. I was able to go in this morning and add it, so now it shows up under Machines in my profile. Good thing too-I was worried for a second that Stern would come back with "IC can only be registered by the original owner of the game", kind of like the old "online pass" thing that EA tried with their games. Glad they took this into account. Now to fix the signal problems...

Strange-that Panda one looks to be at least double the price of the canakit one, but they're sending it out in some of the kits? I'm assuming signal strength would be better on that one too.

If it helps, I was able to get more reliable wifi reception by relocating the dongle from the metal backbox to the front of the cabinet. I just ran a USB extender down the cabinet and put the dongle by the coinbox, kind of like JJP did on Hobbit and DI. Seems to work better than it was at first.

Contact the old owner and have them unregister it from their account. Then you can register. Worked just fine when I got my used GZ Pro in Dec.

So I bought the same wifi adapter as mattosborn did (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B008IFXQFU), installed the SD card, and ran a cable from my Gozilla to my IM pro. Game won't recognize the wifi adapter. It also won't recognize the TP-Link one in Godzilla, so I don't think it's compatible with IC. I checked and the Canakit ones are $18 shipping on Amazon Canada, so would rather not have to pay for that.

So I ended up finding a workaround by using an old powerline ethernet kit that I had around. I've never found those things to be very useful, but given how little data IC needs for the basic stuff, I figured it'd be worth a shot. Ran cables to my Maiden and Avengers, and everything worked. It does seem a little strange that IC needs the QR reader in place to even get online, but once it's registered booting without the reader attached doesn't give any grief, but it does mean that a solution like this works. Still waiting on the switch to arrive, but cabling is done, which means getting 2 more games connected cost me a 4 port switch, a couple of SD cards, and a bunch of cat5e cable that I already had lying around, which is much more reasonable than $350 CAD per game

Finished off my IC hack to get the Godzilla reader onto my other two games. Overall instead of $700 ($350 CAD each) in IC kits from Stern, I was in for a $25 switch, 2 $12 microsd cards, and some recycled ethernet cable. I also designed/3d printed a bracket for the switch to go in the bill acceptor hole on the coin door. I didn't have a problem leaving the reader in the apron (art is there for it anyway), and this means being able to access the switch without opening the door:

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Thanks to everyone else who already worked out how to do this. I ended up going wired ethernet (using a powerline adapter that I had lying around) instead of messing with finding a wifi dongle that worked.

If anyone is interested, I uploaded the STL here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5275178. It's sized to fit this bracket https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07F65L4RG with the cover removed.

Why not just hook the game up to ethernet? You can plug that into the backbox and ignore the wifi dongle. Unless the wired network requires auth of course, in which case your solution works as long as the travel router can authenticate.

I just went through the vents at the bottom of the game. There's a mesh piece stapled on there, but that's easy enough to bend back. Topper hole is also an option.

I like having the score/play trackers on the website (things like high/avg personal scores). The Percentile measure they added is neat, but I'm not sure I believe that my 840M high score so far on my JP is 100th percentile (that's either a low number of games with IC, or a lot of people without their best games scanned). Achievements are neat too, as are things like tracking daily streaks. As something that came with the game (on my GZ and JP), it's a neat addon. I don't think it's worth the price for the upgrade kits, but I'm also happy with my scanner sharing solution for IM and AIQ, since 95% of the time it's me playing my games using Home Team. Not the easiest thing to share with a whole lot of people, but for home use, it's great.

Code updates online are a nice bonus too. I didn't think I'd care as much, but when they did new code for everything because of the latest IC update, that saved some time for sure.

Yes, standard cat5. I made my own cables for my IC switch, and just used the ethernet cable I had lying around.

One thing I did on my GZ that seemed to help a bit was use a USB extension cable and put the wifi adapter near the coin door like the JJP games. Figured maybe the wood cabinet would let more through than the metal backbox? I wasn't able to find a good replacement adapter for my IM/AIQ, so I just hard wired them with Ethernet and an old powerline adapter I had.

I was actually thinking that being able to generate/save a log of a game would be kind of neat. If you kept track of switch hits/timing etc, you could reconstruct a replay of a game. Would be a cool tournament feature, but could also be a huge help in development, since it could give you more data for bug reports, indications of where scoring was broken, or telemetry on what people are and aren't achieving (the kinds of things that are in most modern games). Probably way more work than it's worth though.

Dead simple. Pop the PF out onto the supports, and the QR reader is right there under the apron. Standard RJ45 pinout works just fine, so as long as you have a long enough cable, you're good.

Not sure about the wifi dongle though-you might try putting that in FF first to see if it connects?

Interesting-that's more people on the GZ one than I expected. I got 11/12, but tapped out on the 25B. Just took way too long, with either a bunch of OK games in the 250M range, or multiple monster games in the 2.5B range. The JP 30th one also required a bunch of days, but it wasn't as high a score threshold, so more people earned it:

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