Ha! That’s pretty cool. Picked up another lp last weekend. Having s hell of a time keeping them in tune though. Last guitar photo, then back to Pinball

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Damn, been longer than I thought since last posting here. Project is not dead — I spent the last 8 months renovating my garage and finally wrapping it up — straight into a rewire project on my house

The garage partially was for fight club though — with some help from a fellow pinsider, I have moved it from my game room to the garage.

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It’s fc 20th Anniversary this year.
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I obviously won’t finish this in 2019 but plan to start working on it again after the rewire in a month or two and this still tentatively be fc,20th Ann.

Happy new year, and 20th anniversary of fight club!

Oh man that is awesome!!!

I would like to — but realistically it’s only comin if I can get it off the rotesserie into a cabinet— and that will happen after I finish the design elements. This month is shot.. probably have April and May to work on it. We’ll see...

Thanks Aaron! I’ll need more help softwarewise for certain at a minimum hope to get back in slack soonish as well, just haven’t had time to keep up

Raised from the dead! I fired fight club up in its new home in the garage last night. Booted right up after I looked up how to boot mpf again. Everything is working other than a pop that dropped out of the Playfield.. apparently there was a reason you’re supposed to screw them on all 4 sides lol.

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After testing shot geometry for a while, I think I have a few changes to make. Before that happens though, wanted to diagnose why my 2nd led chain has been out ever since I burnt them up when the pinball dropped on my fast board and did some frying.

Take a look at the underside:
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Did some multimeter testing to no avail. Gotta find the bag of extras..

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Ah ha!

New chain made up:
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Aaaaand same problem. Friggen frick! Could these all be broken from the factory?!? Suddenly it dawned on me. The signal through them is directional, did I connect them backwards???

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Yeaaah ok so now I see why the arrow is there. Had both chains connected on the tail end so there was no way they were going to work.

Need pin extractor from a buddy that borrowed it so I’m done for tonight. Nice to (hopefully) have that solved and I can get back to wiring up switches and mechs.

Thanks!!! Me too it’s been a long change-over.

Let there be light!! Issue fixed. We can move fwd.
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Lookingmore at layout and what shots are gittable from each flipper. I think I need to tweak a few things.. still trying to figure out what and how. D965B3F2-E203-40DF-A12C-A8F44E640CF7 (resized).jpeg

Spent some time trying to decide how to make the left ramp line up slightly better so it’s posdible to back hand it, and some other issues.. will upload ideas on paper soon. Going as-is to nw show if it gets a ride there.

Today I added a start and launch button, and pigtailed out some coils.
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Wiring takes forever but it’s satisfying to see the mechs work. I have a ton of switches to wire up once the coils are done. Gonna start with lower Playfield first.

Also got a reed switch working (for the top “soap” lane changes). Took some testing but finally realized it matters which way you wire these to ground. It’s sensing thru 1/4” ply. I think it’ll do a bit more, but not the full pf. Gonna have to route holes for them on my second prototype pf.
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Lol, I’ve been wondering what I’ve gotten myself into as well. I spent hours yesterday trying to find parts I stashed away a year ago and remembering how the basic mpf scripts worked. Prototyping has been fun — there’s a lot of questions about how I’m going to tackle ‘final’versions of stuff like art, wireforms, plastics, 3d parts... I need to get a welder, 3d printer, and graphics program and learn how to use all of them hahaha oh man lots of learning ahead.

Little testing to find a way to lock the Xmas led lights in. Grinded down an old incandescent socket bracket since I have a ton of them.. works ok. 3d printed ones would be better for final game of course.
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Spent Saturday pigtailing all the switches for the lower pf to Molex. Hoping to work on it some at the show. Just a couple topside ones left and the trough opto.
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Today this came in — I should have bought one years ago.. multi-tool for cutting chunks of wood out w/out predrilling and using the portable jigsaw which doesn’t fit well on populated play fields..

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All wrapped up for the NW show debut — a very early dev Fight Club 20th anniversary Ed. DA8ED162-72EC-4318-A3C2-982BEBBF95DE (resized).jpeg398EC721-84FA-413A-9C55-43F473DC4F0C (resized).jpeg

Aaron at fastpinball is awesome and just drove up and picked it up an hour ago in his trailer. Thank you Aaron!!!

Some pics from the show. Lots of questions and got some people flipping it. looks pretty janky next to mikes proto1 lol but nice for people to see what developing a game is like. Next year though — in a cabinet

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Yeah that’s a weird illusion lol. I probably should have started with a zizzle version - would have made life easier hahaha.

Good observation on the kids — on the one hand I do like being able to show the guts but cabinets are great for keeping balls on the Playfield and protecting those guts .. I am hoping next year it’s fairly obvious that it’s Fight Club

Well it survived the show and made it home. DE450D46-90D3-4CDF-A71A-EADE4392B554 (resized).jpeg

Test fitting the support prop brackets to see if I still have room for these when the time comes.. seems to be ok
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I ripped the movie to my hardrive and am working on getting some clips to work with. Tomorrow I will hopefully have a platform with speakers and (soon) a display in the more proper location.

Still working on getting some clips to work with, in the mean time— added to the work station.

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I got some speakers!
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Grabbed an old Dmd to mock up until I can get ahold of a fast display 400C3760-7B37-433B-8BDB-744AE1995A2F (resized).jpeg

And found this panel by accident- forgot I had bought this for this project. Tossed it up with some tape for fun. 63CD4AF8-99FC-4926-8353-1B173EE8BAFA (resized).jpeg

Here’s progress thus far —

Attract mode

Start, launch, and 3 ball cycle

Will get a longer video with some gameplay showing shots when I have 4 hands

Spent 1/2 the day today getting a single gif to play in attract mode and upgrading to mpf 0.52 ..

6 hours later fight club is running again

Thanks! Never gets old.. at least to me

Thanks MJR8peanut

Started shifting ramp positions. I know why I’ve been avoiding this — on the r ramp to make it backhandable easily it turned into grinding the underlieing guides, shifting the shadow divertor mech, adjusting Optos, moving targets, and adjusting mounts on the wireforms. Pita for sure. About ready to reassemble I think, and the angle (adjusted 1 or 2 degrees ) is much better

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Packages from RS components, based in England.

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I guess they have warehouses in the states too, cause these got here in a couple days. I was offput by the $20+ shipping for a very light package until I tried finding similar items elsewhere and quickly the cost per piece much outweighed the additional shipping. I would recommend this company if you need. a lot of these:

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Ton of molex housings and pins. Enough for fight club and probably 1/2 another pin. No excuse now not to finish wiring switches and mechs, other than that I need to finish the ramp repositionings first

Side trip this weekend — 1660 miles to Salt Lake City. Did a trade for the p3. Couldn’t work on fight club but I had a lot of time to think about modes, inserts, design, layout.. 30 hours of thinking lol.

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P3 travels one way

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DI-LE arrives back

Some work this weekend. Been doing a lot of redesign after the nw show. It’s not nearly as fun as design.. but it must be done.

I’ve shifted the left ramp angle to make it better for backhanding and lowered the attack angle.

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Moved the left scoop to the right, where it’s been working well. Replaced the empty space with a ‘mini-jsckpot’ Target. Main super jackpot hole will still be the gobble hole behind the 5 bank targets , with the middle target dropping to allow the shot.
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Added a spinner - these will eventually have a Tyler/narrator image on the two sides.
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Then spent a while fixing issues these changes caused. It’s amazing how this blows hours away.

Also got 48v on the left underside to finish wiring up coils and wires the mayhem lock vuk.
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Shot a video with progress so far, most of the current shots shown — with the left wireform ramp off and it lifted for the mayhem lock shot. I need to shift the angle of that ramp a couple degrees before reinstalling wireform and continuing with wiring.

Some stuff in— more inserts to play with, sample rubbers and a few odds
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Try #2 on the camera for the lower pf: adjustable focus, Fstop and zoom:
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And triangle stock to build the rotating billboard. Unfortunately it’s not an equilateral so I need to shave off two sides..
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Got the camera setup to test, just about where I want it (screenwise). There’s a bit of lag but it’s not unplayable by any means. I need to finish wiring switches on it to test it some more. 1468424B-EA61-4EDF-A51D-CA088F7D5D7D (resized).jpeg227513FC-6492-489B-8175-DD77FCD3DD8A (resized).jpeg

Weeellll.. unfortunately with only so much time in a day I have been side tracked with playing and recording music.

I’ve bought a bunch of parts for the game and done some shot adjustments after I brought it to the NW show. I have almost everything to build the 3 sided rotating billboard including servos and stepper motor.. just gotta get going on it instead of playing music LOL.

Bought the Playfield LCD for this as well so I can fully test the concept. However, while I thought of this on my own I can’t take credit for originality because it’s already been executed really well on The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy homebrew, which I found out later. He’s way smarter than me...and has a super cool pin if you haven’t already checked it out I highly recommend it!!

Up and running in the new year. Time to make some changes and charge forward.

Right ramps been adjusted, got a number of other items on the list.

This may turn into 21st century fox edition? Also fits the movie I think.. the commentary on branding.

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Let me dig around and find a picture. I'm going to re-orientate the LCD in teh middle 90 degrees so you get the long view --> The lower PF is done pretty much. You will lock a ball in there when the left ramp flap opens up. I can hold a ball so it looks like it goes downstairs. LCD comes on (with florescent lighting effect, blinking first then lights come on) and you play a quick 20-30 second 'mission' downstairs or a fight and then the LCD goes dark and the ball kicks out up above on teh backboard in front of the billboard and into play again.

Right now I am still contemplating removing the captive ball and moving the whole 5 bank drop system back and rotating the angle so it's better suited to be hit by the lower flippers.. I'm comparing it to stern SW which has the same -- but SW's is set farther back which I like. Having a hard time pulling the trigger though.. removing mechs.

actually -- basement is just a couple posts up. posted it a while ago just above I realized. It will be concrete looking, with concrete pillars on the sides where the grey PVC tubes are. blood splatters here and there.. grainy, dark looking