ok, thanks, I was the 2nd person to report an issue so yeah...

Please be patient with me if you haven't been responded to yet via PM tonight and need a new link. I will get back to each and every one of you tomorrow morning/afternoon.

First person we can straight away interpret, had software writing issue due using Etcher. I was pretty much on it an hour after Tim posted the update. I reported back within two hours with confirmation the update worked. Sometimes pays to spend a little trying to troubleshoot first up. In a lot of cases it will allow time for others give a go and report back, especially depending on time of day which may influence how quickly it and widely the software gets tried out.

I had a good 20 mins of playing today and found the whole experience brilliant . Really makes the stock software feel dreary as all get out.

Is this update going to come out for thee pro?

Fingers crossed you and Delt can do a Pro version, when you get time. Beer tokens waiting

Tried Win32DiskImager instead of Etcher and it worked flawlessly! This won't work with Balena Etcher.

Only played one game so far but I love what I see so far! Thanks guys!

Apologies if this has been asked before. How do you backup your high scores before doing this?

Thanks.

Same here. Great look!!!

Go to the top of this page and look at key posts. It’s the first one.

I believe I've now responded to all emails that came in since yesterday. If I haven't gotten back to you, please PM me again.

To answer recent questions/issues...

PRO Version: I definitely want to support this but it's going to take some time. Also, ironically I am blocked from importing or even viewing videos in PBrowser at this time. This is some issue specific to my PC that I have yet to figure out. I'll post again once I make some progress.

Balena Etcher & Win32DiskImager flashing issues: I'm dumbfounded as to why Balena creates an SD (specifically/only from this video edited version) that flashes successfully but upon putting the SD in the machine, you get a restart loop. I've had much better success with Win32DiskImager. But I also had a pinsider email me today saying when he used it, he got the restart loop. At some point you need to try to format the SD (as FAT32) and give it one more shot. If that doesn't work, toss that puppy in the garbage and use a different SD.
Secondly, it sucks that Win32DiskImager is only supported for Windows/PC. If anyone knows of a reliable app for Mac or has any insight into working around these issues in general, please chime in!

Whow the presents just keep coming, and it ain't even christmas yet! Thanks for a ll the work. Now downloading.

Just installed and played a few quick games. Great work!

Only suggestion I would have is to have the audio match the video. Sometimes there is a quote that takes place right before or right after the actual scene played

Glad you're enjoying it! Would you happen to have examples of what videos/sequences don't match? I think the only ones that are supposed to line up really well are the intro Welcome to JP and almost lined up perfectly, Geoffrey raise the gate (that was a tough one b/c the original scene transitions into Muldoon at the "ffrey" point). Also for video specific questions/suggestions, I'd recommend posting on Delt's thread. He's taking notes! https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jurassic-park-stern-the-ultimate-code-w-movie-clips

I will say that lining up callouts to videos is never going to be perfect. In most instances there are multiple different callouts that can play during a given video, and there's only one video replacement option. Perfect example being the first paddock you enter when JP SYSTEM FAILURE SPEECH is turned ON. Delt had to use a clip that didn't show people's mouths moving since there are about 4-5 callout long scripts I've replaced there, but only one stock video that the machine ever plays.

Overall I appreciate the feedback! If you think you're seeing a timing issue that was intended to line up, let Dr. Delt know. I can help out as needed.

Used Balena Etcher on Mac and worked great.

Had a couple quick games.... and wow! Just when hoy think the games can’t get better, all these legends get together and create this artwork! Thank you!!!

From the couple of games I played, it all seemed to work fine.

Ok I updated my key post to say that Mac Balena Etcher is good. I hope this remains a fact. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-jurassic-park-2-custom-code-project/page/12#post-5834474

Oh and you're more than welcome!

I get this from time to time on my PC. Balena Etcher in general seems very unreliable. Your system thinking the .RAW is a Photoshop file is normal b/c supported camera image files for Photoshop can also be .RAW. That shouldn't be in play here.

This is going to sound stupid, but try rebooting your Mac and giving it another shot. If you still get the same error I bet you it's b/c your SD is not formatted as FAT32, so you'll need to reformat the SD as such. I know that Mac's in general do not like FAT32 so someone else may have a better idea. Hopefully reboot and try again works...

Mac Balena Etcher didn't work, went into reboot loop, but using command line 'dd' did. This is dangerous if you don't specify the right device, so beware and be careful. Basically following:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md

Bug issue...

Started t rex multi ball. Game froze and said it needed to restart. Restarted and working fine but odd for sure

I was about to say after the reported Mac successes that perhaps that's Etcher's one reliable platform. Quite possibly it's not after all. If I operated my PC more on it's Hackintosh drive than I do at the moment, I might have had a look at Mac writers out of curiosity. But I haven't booted up now for quite a few weeks.

I have also had this happen twice.

This code has made this game even better than it already was, thankyou!!!!!

Hello,
I just saw the video on the update that Tim just made. He sent me the previous version. It's an amazing job. Big up to Tim for his work.

Interesting..... When exactly on the video did this occur? Was it right when the Trex screams and it says Trex MB? Never experienced that but interested to understand more. Thanks

A few seconds after it says t rex multi-ball. The clip of it coming through the sunroof at the kids had begun to play

Mine crashed and rebooted at the same spot. Just once though. Odd.

Thanks guy. If it continues lmk. Seems like it happened in transition to that video. Not sure what would cause that but keep me posted.

You guys on LE or Prem just curious

LE for me.

Premium for me. I've only seen it once. I powered cycled afterwards, haven't seen it since.

Premium

I'm working with Adam directly to get his issue sorted. We'll post what the ultimate (pun intended? ) resolution is. Many of you Mac guys are just having a hell of a time getting this flashed properly, and I'm so sorry for that. There's even Mac folks that are getting blocked from downloading the .RAR file due to either Google or their Mac itself thinking the file is malicious or "too large" to virus scan.

I also have a suspicion that Mac users are running into a) their Mac not properly extracting the .RAW and/or b) blocking the flashing of files to their SD card reader as a whole. I've been doing a lot of troubleshooting with people. To try to quell 'a' I'm uploading the .RAW itself. For Mac people who run into any issue, please PM me. I'm just going to share the .RAW directly with you to and see if that helps. Would be nice to save the drive space but it's already a pain in itself for any one of us (myself included) to flash SDs properly and have them work. Trying to help in any way I can.

Total uninformed speculation here, but could this be a read speed/reliability issue with the SD card? Would you guys with the error mind sharing your SD card brand and info? It might be helpful too if people who do not have the T-Rex Multiball freezing issue share their SD card info too.

That's a very good point. Curious what SD as I still haven't seen this yet.

That's probably why, aside for no real reason to and missing too much on the PC side, I rarely worry about operating on the Mac side of my 'Hackintosh PC'. I like the IOS account integration for some things, but other than that, I don't find myself really compelled to stay in the MacOS environment for long.

As has also been said, you want to ensure the SD card being used is known to work and not causing the issue itself. But then again, I'm more suspecting the Mac scenario as Tim points out. I'm sure you'll get a resolution soon with Tim on the case

Over in the Beatles custom software thread some of these SD card/writing issues have been discussed as well.
twenty84 mentions some interesting stuff related to Apple/Mac setups that may be useful.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/beatles-sgt-pepper-s-lonely-hearts-club-retheme/page/2#post-5745276

For the Windows folks, I had really mixed results with Balena. The Win32DiskImager got the job done for me with both JP and Beatles custom images.

While I haven't tried this, I've read about it while researching general SD flashing issues with Mac. This may be the ticket for Mac users and I think it's what bobzilladev was referring to earlier. twenty84 gives pretty much exact instructions, awesome! I wasn't aware of this post DudeRegular , THANK YOU both! But to Bob's post, this is sketchy since if you make one wrong move I imagine you could brick your Mac HD. If this is the only reliable solution for Mac owners though, that's sad but is what it is. Take a look adamross . I've pasted twenty84 's exact steps below for good measure. Try at your own risk I suppose?

1) Open terminal prompt

2) % diskutil list

3) Find the drive that represents the SD card. For this example we will say it is /dev/disk4

4) % sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4

5) Copy the image to the SD card: For the if= part use the path to your actual file and of course the output file (of=) should match your SD card address, note that it now has a 'r' in front of it:

% sudo dd bs=1m if=/Users/username/Downloads/jurassic_park_le-1_02_30TS_D31_FINAL0903.raw of=/dev/rdisk4

This takes about 10 min

6) % sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdisk4

7) Then remove the SD card and use it.

Given all of the latest issues above...

The video edited PREM/LE version IS still available upon request. However, moving forward is going to be an "at your own risk" share (for now) for anyone who pings me for it. I'll share it with you but it has too many issues that I can't resolve. I've spent my entire holiday weekend troubleshooting people's issues (mostly Mac users) with both flashing successfully and it ending up in the game doing a restarting game loop or them having flashing errors in general. I didn't create this video version (it was created from my latest working audio-only version) and it blows my mind that delt31 was even able to create it. These type of problems have NEVER occurred with ANY of my audio-only edited versions. I have issues with PB video import on my PC alone that I have yet to overcome. Also, while I own a Mac, I don't have a SD card writer on it so it makes it difficult for me to help.

Basically, I really can't keep helping troubleshoot when there PB video import, Balena Etcher software, local machine and / or SD card issues resulting in corrupted firmware and/or bad SDs. I have a full time job beyond this and as much as I want to keep helping people get this latest video edited version up on their machine, I'm also losing my sanity a bit.

So, in summary if you have issues flashing and/or playing this latest video edited version, please ping on the PB app thread. While these issues are not necessarily all PB specific, there are much smarter people than I (folks in IT and such) on that forum that know far more about importing and flashing woes who can help (and have helped me a ton throughout all this time). The more information you can provide there, the better we'll be able to create more stable versions in the future: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images

I still have the latest audio only versions for all PREM/LE and PRO models so ping me if you want those. Thanks for understanding and I'm sorry.

Totally with you there Tim. Like much stuff in the software modding community from Pinballs to Intel Motherboards (something I'm currently doing!), it all comes with the 'at your own risk' disclaimer. Sorry it's caused you so much grief after all your good work from people wanting to be spoon-fed solutions to particular platform based, media based, etc issues.

Same thing here on my Premium. Froze up and rebooted during early stages of Trex. Only happened once out of about 10 times.

Props to you for spending so much time trying to help people this weekend! I personally hate macs myself, and they definitely aren't user friendly once you get into the weeds. I have to deal with them in an enterprise environment, where they have no business being.

Thats completely understandable. You've put so much work into this project and its just unrealistic that you would need to do this much IT support for numerous OS's and version numbers and applications. Take a break and know that we appreciate everything you've done!

In case this helps.....I strongly recommend getting this card

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Class-UHS-I-Memory-SDSDUNC-016G-GN6IN/dp/B0143RTB1E

Only use win32img to flash.

I have yet to have any issues with the ultimate code using the card above and the win32 and I've played many many games on it. PC user so can't comment on MAC. Good luck and enjoy.

Check that link, just points to your “buy again”

For what its worth, my NIB end of July manufacturing date Premium shipped with a SDCARD made by ADATA and labelled "MLC 8GB"

Thanks I adjusted

I just wrote the image to a brand new Sandisk 16GB card and verified it without issue using Balena Etcher on Mac OS Catalina 10.15.16.

The latest code with the movie videos is just about the greatest MOD ever. Love it!