Hi folks... I did a bunch of DIY mods to Stern POTC to share. All of them can be seen in the linked movie clip.

Enjoy.

MOD VIDEO(5min, 300MB)
MOD Code(28M)

1)Movie Characters -- On Ebay you can buy used Disney Infinity Characters. Barbosa, DJ, and Jack.... you simply cut off the clear plastic disk on the bottom of the character with a dremel cutter and drill hole to mount with an existing playfield screw. Super easy and cheap, about $20. I then got some spotlights on them. You can see this in pics attached.

2) Red LED Strips under Treasure Chest. This wasnt too hard.. basically bought two red 10 led strips from www.cometpinball.com... . soldered them together and extended the wire and clips a couple feet. I stuck them on the underside of the chest down bothsides side, inverted. Fit perfect. Then clipped wires to GI circuit.

2) This one was hard. Purchased a resin cast POTC picture holder on ebay of the Kraken. I cut away more than 50% of it to fit behind the Kraken plastic. The whole base, pirate skull and some of the tentacles... put a bunch of hi power green leds on it and clipped the wires to the existing Kraken light. This took alot of trial and error.. but the finished result was cool. Got LEDs from COMET Pinball... good team there. You can see this in pics attached, and video.image1 (1) (resized).jpeg

3) Code update: I bought all the original soundtracks to the movies/ride and updated the code. This is probably my one complaint that Stern didnt license the music to the movies. You will see from the video that it makes the game better... and adding the ride music in the outro is cool too. I went through the soundtracks and tried to find similar music clips in tempo and feel... seems like the pin designers created their music from the soundtracks... it wasnt hard to find good matches... specifically the main game music is the main movie theme.. and I took music from the Kraken fight, Tortuga, and DaveJones scenes to match to those items in the game. Sword fighting too. I used the Pinball Browser software to edit the code. Super easy to do... only hard part was editing the audio files to tempo that i did outside with a different app, www.audacityteam.org. I could probably polish it a bit more with voices and other items... but its pretty good so far.

-BG

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Yup.. its linked above on OneDrive... you may need a Microsoft account to grab it... but its out there for everyone....