I just joined the club! A location near me has a SW pro I’ve played a bunch and really enjoyed the speed of it. I only have room for one pin, & I’ve been thinking about trading my current machine towards SW for over a month. It took me 3 weeks to get through the 150+ pages of this thread as my “research”.

My comic art SW pro should be delivered this Friday. So excited!

Somewhere back in this thread was a link to a site that had sort of a table guide, that was interactive with a screenshot of the playfield that changed to illustrate which shots to hit in which mode. The pictures make it easier for a beginner to understand, as opposed to just reading a rulesheet.

I've been trying to search through the thread and find it again without any luck.
Does anyone know what i'm talking about and where to find that link again?
Thanks!

Thanks so much, that explains why I couldn't find it in this thread.

Wow. Just finished playing a couple games on my new comic art SW Pro. On my first game I got over 700 million, better than any of the previous games I ever played on a location machine.

The playfield art is so vibrant that I don’t think I’m going to install any of the toys I had been planning on. It just doesn’t need it.
It also didn’t seem to need any tweaking out of the box to get the ball to go where it is supposed to. I didn’t even need to touch the outlanes. Wow.

The only hiccup was on the initial setup the machine told me that node boards 1,8,9,10 were not found. I panicked and when I called my distributor he assured me that was common and the game would still work just fine, and he was right. Should I be concerned anyway?

Unfortunately pegs. I was also hoping for rails

Sorry for the total noobie question but is there an easy way to get the balls out prior to lifting the playfield up?
The first time I did it the balls all crashed down and I don’t want to break anything.

I had my best pinball game of all time just now on my new SW comic art machine. At some point after back to back to back Tie fighter multiball, Hoth multiball, and Victory multiball I knocked a screw loose from something. It wound up on the middle of the playfield.

I still had a ball cradled on the flipper and did not want the game to end yet, so I managed to get a one handed picture through the glass of the screw. By the time I finished the ball, it was gone. I assume it fell down into the cabinet. I can’t tell what it’s from, though. Nothing seems to be missing and it’s a darker color than the other visible screws. Does anyone have any idea where it could be from?
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That was my first thought because the tie fighter is the only thing I can see without shiny zinc screws. Both of the wings are attached, though and I can see the hex of the screw head holding them in.

What does the “targeting computer” group of 3 icons represent? I think it has something to do with the empire rollover lights in the top lanes but I can’t figure it out.

Make sure to take the balls out before lifting the playfield up

Lol. Now that I finished my basic sound editing, I'm making a duplicate SD card with a full blown Jar-Jar sound edit. My son is so psyched to play the new machine when he comes home for Thanksgiving and it should be a hilarious surprise.

So far I have replaced ball save dialogue with "Meesa back" & "Meesa busting with happiness seeing you again"
Yoda's ball drains replaced with "Wesa be robbed un crunched", "This embarrassing", Well dat smells stink-a-whiff", & "Dissen berry berry bad"
Tilt warnings replaced with "Ex-squeeze-me" & "How rude"
Jackpots replaced with "Boom!" & "Cawazy"

Any other suggestions?

+1
I have a different thread
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/star-wars-sound-mods-code-version105
where I started keeping track of sound file locations to create your own custom mix relatively easily, using pinball browser.

I haven’t updated it in a few days but so far I’ve identified where most of the key scene related music is.

That being said, if you don’t have the time or are not technically inclined at all, it is nice that pinballmix offers the service he does.

I blew up the first Death Star tonight! I’ve had my SW pro about 1 month and probably played about 100 games so far. The Endor Death Star has been relatively easy but this one was tough. I was on the 3rd trench run and started a Tie Fighter multiball. It was so hectic I think I missed most of the call outs.

I read a post recently on the question of how many multi ball modes there are and don't remember if anyone answered it. The flyer lists as additional features: 16 missions, 1 wizard mode with 9 distinct multiball modes.
I only count 8.
1. Tie fighter multiball
2. Hyperspace multiball
3. Destroy the Death Star planet multiball
4. Escape from Tattooine planet multiball
5. Battle above Endor planet multiball
6. Escape from Hoth planet multiball
7. Victory multiball
8. Jedi multiball / wizard mode
What am I missing?

Today I listened to his podcast comments on the Rick & Morty’s preview, and it sounds like it has a lot of similarities to SW (flat artwork, minimal 3d sculpts, and a ship on a spring). But it’s funny how it didn’t seem nearly as negative on R&M.

The SW code has matured a lot and I think if people weren’t as stubborn it would be much higher rated today. Even the art package has improved with the option for the Comic art style.

I think turning mission stacking on by default initially was a huge mistake. That one decision made the rules seem much more complicated and detracted from the theme.

What exactly are you trying to do? I’m a little confused by your description. I used a Mac to edit the SW sounds using pinball browser.

I agree. I have basic pinball skills so don't expect to beat the wizard mode easily, but I feel like it should eventually be attainable if I'm having a great game.
Given that the game was designed to have modes stacked (and quicker progression), I don't feel guilty setting it up for 5 ball play to give me more time to get through missions with stacking turned off.

Guilt feelings or not it's my game so I can set it for 10 ball play if I want, but at least I don't feel like 5 balls is "cheating"

Same here. The dimples are only noticeable by me when I crouch low enough for the light to reflect off of them. Even my metal ramp flaps are dimpled!

I think it works like this:
You earn bonus points with every ball. If you choose the “Hold Bonus” reward option, the bonus points you earn for the current ball start where the previous one left off.

The end result is if you have two good back to back balls, you can rack up a lot of points

These have worked for me:
1. Make sure the left out lane post is in the lower of the 2 positions.
2. Reduce the coil power in the operator settings
3. As soon as the ball starts bouncing back and forth between the slings I give the machine a good forward nudge

So excited that Pinball Browser supports changing video now. I had already edited the sound clips for several of the end of ball Yoda quotes. Now that I’m staying at home, I had the time to identify and change 2 of the video clips. I’ll post some footage once I install the edited code.

Loving the new update to Pinball Browser!
Thanks again, Oga. I was getting really annoyed by Yoda.
Your software helped make the game so much more enjoyable for me!

Yes. In previous versions you were able to edit the audio. In the newest version there is support for changing the video clips as well. It is moderately challenging from a technical standpoint, as you get the best results when you substitute clips that are the exact same duration.

Edited out another annoying Yoda clip, and put in one of my favorites...

It depends how technically challenged you’re talking about.
1. You need the Pinball Browser software
2. You need a computer with an SD card slot
3. You need a source of SW related alternate sound files or music to sub in
4. You need a digital copy of whatever alternate video you want to sub in
5. You need to be able to do basic editing of the sound and video files to make sure the length matches up perfectly with the original files you are replacing

I’m not sure, because it’s hard to pay attention when it’s happening, but I think that’s already included at one point in the Death Star 1 multiball mode.

Yes. I downloaded the SD card image from the Stern website and edited that, then use Balena Etcher to copy the edited file to a new SD card.

Impressive.
Most impressive.

My final video edit, and my new personal favorite. It doesn’t come up as often in the rotation but puts a smile on my face when the ball drains.

It replaces them.
When the ball drains it triggers a script in the code that chooses from several matched pairs of audio .wav files and video .mp4 files.
The replacement files have to match the duration of the originals.

The same thing applies to general audio callouts. I was always bothered by the fake C-3PO when video mode starts. I tried to replace it with the original line from the movie, but it was something like 8 seconds longer.

Very nice!

Nice! I love the we’re all fine here, how are you..
definitely going to add that one in today.

I agree. Personally I liked the cabinet art better on the Comic Pro, plus I don’t have an unlimited budget to work with. I added on my own Millennium Falcon mod and that was good enough for me.

I can’t speak to the difficulty of the DS shot on the premium, but I assume just like a lot of other things about this game, once you tweak a machine to be just right I assume the shot has to be doable.

I can also say that even on the Pro, without the hyper loop, making the left inner loop shot to hit the captive ball during Hyperspace Multiball is one of the best shots in the game. So satisfying.

I think the answer is no, but is there anyway to backup and restore saved High Scores from one SD card with code to another?

Anything you’d like to see in particular? I can try to make one tomorrow.

I wanted to have some fun and try something different with my kids, so we set it to 10 ball play, no limit on extra balls, and the 3 of us took turns on one shared game to see if we could get to the Emperor.

We played a 25 minute game yesterday and had a ton of fun but kept failing on Lightsaber Duel, and wasn’t even close to Boba Fett (I only completed it successfully twice before).

We tried again today and crushed it. Started with Han and on ball one I completed all of Tatooine, Hoth, and all except for the final shot of Lightsaber Duel.

On my next ball I managed to complete Boba Fett.

We got to the Emperor and it was awesome. The actual animation is a little cheesy, but the UV glow flashers on my Pinstadium during the force lightning attack was the single coolest thing I’ve seen on the game so far.

Battle over Endor is all Lando

Maybe try loosening the 3 screws securing the ball return, shifting the position a bit, and tightening again?

Yes, there are some who have used Pinball Browser to modify certain assets, like adding more original music, changing out the annoying Yoda videos, etc...

Wow, what an easy fix to make that shot smoother! That shot is usually rejected a good third of the time, but not anymore.

On my first game this morning, I blew up the Death Star on both wizard modes.

Post #6077 in this thread has a handy shot chart to help visualize what to do. I would definitely recommend starting with mode stacking off, pick one character to start with, and get used to the different missions they have. Since the game was designed with stacking on, I set mine to 5 balls to compensate for the slower progression.

I’ve had my SW for just over a year, play several times a week, and finally get the mode strategy well enough that I’ve started to stack modes again.

Mine is comic art, but I assume the hardware is exactly the same. I removed both screws, gently and nervously pulled the wires up a little to get some slack, and repositioned the gate with only the 1 back screw secured into the previous forward screw position.

It’s all relative. I moved it deeper into the machine, so it is further into the Death Star channel .

Relative newbie question:
I changed out my slingshot rubbers for clear titan silicone.
It was an immediate improvement in gameplay as I no longer have to aggressively nudge to break the slingshot to slingshot to outlane cycle.
The problem is one of the slings is now occasionally self-activating, or after a legitimate trigger it keeps hammering for an additional few seconds before stopping.

Is that because the silicone is a tiny bit too tight? I’m assuming I need to stretch it a little bit, or slightly bend back the metal switches it activates.

As I’m writing this, I’m remembering that when I initially stretched it in place one of the metal switches was accidentally pinched outside the rubber, I probably bent it forward unintentionally.

I did a little bit of both, and the sling is much better now. Thanks!

Definitely get a new SD card to play around with, you want to keep your default card alone.

SanDisk Ultra 16GB Class 10 SDHC UHS-I Memory Card - currently $6.49 on Amazon

I wish I had known about ordering the factory Falcon from stern, with the bracket and light hook up. I play the X-Wing Miniatures game and had a spare MF, so I just drilled two screws into the bottom, and bent a stiff paper clip into a loop around those screws, and some holding the ramp.

I know it's not "canon", but I miss playing X-wing with both models and being able to have Han and Lando work together in 2 Falcons.

congrats and welcome!

I like the Magic Kingdom poster in the background, too!

That used to happen to me too. On my machine there is a brief moment when I can catch it with the right flipper, I tend to keep the right flipper extended after I hit the left orbit hard and that deflects it back over to the left.

I just reviewed the readme file on what's changed. Very disappointing that they only added insider connected, and corrected a few egregious spelling mistakes.

This is a game that is crying out for some bug fixes regarding audio/video priorities when missions are stacked with tie fighter or hyperspace multiball.

I think code version 1.10

Even though I’ve had my SW Comic Art Pro for years, it’s my first NIB machine and I’m a total noob from a maintenance and repair perspective.
Question- I’ve noticed my flippers starting to “stick” a bit. In the past I’ve had metal dust in the coin tray. How do I know whether I just need to order new coil stops, or an entire rebuild kit?

I probably have a thousand plays over 3 years.
Thanks!

Yes, I have noticed this too, but never made the connection with the 1.05 code. It’s very disappointing. I am on 1.10 and it’s quite noticeable during planet multiballs.