See this thread

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-official-jjp-gnr-thread/page/331#post-6560130

I also think somebody just stuck a small round rubber sticky on the inner loop guard rail and that kicked the ball out proper

Most all of the august ones are ok as well, friend got 10-15 in, no problems on any of those. early to late august.

Mine will sometimes do that, but not often. Maybe increase your pitch so the ball falls faster or check your level side to side.

Anybody’s upper right flipper ever hang up on metal piece on fat end of flipper?

Is this game still any good?

I’m being facetious, of course.

All joking aside, it’s soon time for me to go after some high scores again.

I've been playing it quite a bit since the 2.00 release. Still love the game.

My NIB LE is being shipped out TOMORROW! This will be my first JJP machine and I’m so stoked! I’ve owned stern, Williams, and data east. I’ve been wanting a JJP title since WOZ. BIG FAN of GnR. I so can’t wait.

Anybody catch the final GNR show in Mexico?

Here’s a clip

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxoUK5Zr9vV/?igshid=OG92dWUzcXBkZGps

Mine did this. Had to bend the lane guide towards the left side of the machine.

You’re in for a real treat. Enjoy!

Thanks a lot

Now this is really awesome to hear, and even more so cause I felt the exact same about wanting a JJP since WOZ & GNR was my first concert.

Right!! Now the waiting begins. The hardest part!!!

I can't remember how long I waited, but it was at least 7 months, may have been longer. And it was so worth it.

11ish months wait here. Once I was told how long I would have to wait that is how I discovered pinside. First pin, never heard of JJP, and couldn't have even told you who manufacturers were except I did know data East because I played GNR a lot in a bar with a friend, pitchers of beer and rolls of quarters. I was never really a pinball guy It was just an era in the 90s and my friend introduced me to pinball via GNR and Jurassic Park. Never played since then.
So when this news bite on this pin release came across my phone that night in December close to 30 years later and I clicked on the promo video, I was sold... At a different place in life, had the $9500 cash, and immediately went to JJP and put a 1k deposit down. Imagine my shock when I called that following Monday to ask when it would be shipped....

Ordered December 30th 2020
Delivered November 18th 2021

I’m going to dig into this tonight or this weekend, but would appreciate any early insights.

My left spotlight only moves left/right and always points down. It does this in diags too.

I’m going to check the connectors and maybe swap connectors with other spotlight to see if problem stays or moves.

But is this most likely a “need new servo” situation?

Very likely. The servos die way more than they should. I finally just started leaving mine not working fully instead of replacing them the second one breaks, and now blame it on the tour manager. Adds a bit more realism to the game.

Same - 1 of mine only moves up and down and the other doesn’t move at all. Still light up and look cool so just leaving it as is for now. No clue how to replace these servos - never tried. Heard it’s a PITA

It’s weird but I’ve had zero issues with my GNR. The only thing is the Axl magnet is sometimes weak and doesn’t quite catch the ball. But other than that, no pooling or post issues, servos work great, Scorbit still works. I must have got a Wednesday build

A cheap lock picking set with practice locks should be in everyone's pinball/arcade tool bag. Watch a few YouTube videos and you're good. Your lock is one of the easiest to pick that you'll find.

It is a PITA. Took me a few tries. I'm still not 100% sure what attributed to the final fix for me. I broke down and bought the more substantial spotlight kit. That and new servos got it working again. I think the new servo gears fit more snuggly into the new linkages than what was happening using the factory parts. I don't know, but I do know that it brings a smile to my face seeing those spotlights work as intended.

Just installed the 2.00 update. LE crashed at ball 2 on the first game after the update. It rebooted itself, and then crashed at the start of the first game post-reboot. Now it's bricked and won't boot at all, but it's still sending power to the speakers with the rocker switch in the on position. Anyone else experience this? Any fix?

I can only guess it’s a bad coincidence and your SSD went bad.

You could try a full install of the original. If that doesn’t run correctly I’d guess the SSD is bad.

FWIW — and I know this doesn’t help you — I’ve been running what is 2.0 for months and have no issues. This is why I suspect hardware issue.

Power supply flaking or SSD going bad are the likely suspects.

Thanks guys. So interestingly I got it to boot after about 10 tries. It still crashes and reboots soon into a game, but doesn't crash at all during jukebox mode. Also, I caught a glimpse of some lines claiming errors at the end of the update installation, but they went away too quickly for me to get a photo.

So I'm leaning toward either a bad SSD or the update got corrupted during download/installation. Sent a ticket to JJP, we'll see what they say. Any SSD replacement recommendations?

These are all symptoms of a bad SSD. They're cheap and fairly easy to replace. Just be sure you have a USB stick prepared for a full installation per the instructions on the JJP website.

This was a first...

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Funny you mentioned that
This just literally happened to me, also a first

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Time for new balls? (Magnetized)

This week I’m going to try the suggested setting tweaks in here. I’m starting to think we’ll never see a balanced scoring update. It’s too bad the system isn’t somehow open source as there’s tons of programmers in the world and I’d love my crack at it if they aren’t going to support anything. Then again I’m sure it’s super complex vs some of the older 90s games that got user code revisions.

I'm still enjoying the SKBDR settings (that what I'm calling them anyway). It's a calmer,v more controlled and objective focused game, allowing the game opening up focus on other areas and causes me to be intentional about getting booster Multiballs, although they do happen "on their own" a bit like stock settings ... But not near as much and it's just just later in the progression of the game as you actually accumulate more hits on the targets. It's nice. It's not perfect, as the song is always ready now on first plunge, I don't know if there's any way to delay that but it really hasn't been a problem I just avoid scoop...but I'm liking them and can always go back stock with a easy USB save and load.. 1 USB stick for modified and another for stock. Anyway.. So far I haven't wanted to go back to stock.
All the chaos that I love is in the songs which happen more often and I love that too. Scoring is different, so you have to adjust your expectations and learn the new way... but I did get 15m the other day which is high for me even on stock and high especially for these settings but it was because I was rocking in the song with band frenzy.
Bottom line is the more I play these settings, the more I like it. I get more album modes now, and I used to avoid those all the time out of habit, so I'm having to force myself actually play them and I haven't gotten used to that yet. I still find myself skipping them but when I play them with the new settings they are more fun so it's just habit I'm skipping..
I'd encourage everyone whose had the game a long time to try them if you can unshackle your brain from the fact it's not stock. If you complain about too many Multiballs, try these settings... see what all the fuss is about!

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One post to rule them all... all three main posts for alternate game settings in one post.

Eskaybee and diablorush posts with screen shots and Chaka made this wonderful online spreadsheet combining and documenting these in one place.....
If you want to try these out and flip back and forth, just back up your stock settings and scores to a USB drive, and label it GNR stock.
make all the edits which only takes about 15 minutes to make the altered settings. Pro tip..Maybe even reset all your scores with the new settings? Why not.
You can then take a second USB stick and back up and save the altered settings and label it, so you can flip-flop back and forth, with respective scoring, very easily. Just an idea.

Note: to get to the post, click the "quoted from" link in each quote above to go to that referenced post.

Would be nice if you could modify the presets to save these, but hey it’s better than nothing. I’ve been wanting to spend some time with the settings and maybe tweak some myself, but I’ve been working on 2 machines that need TLC. Maybe over the holiday. Never enough time for pinball

About a year ago I did a proof of concept and it worked... I didn't post anything about it here because, well, a year ago people were not talking about custom settings very much.

Here's the jist ...

1. All of these settings appear in the backup files
2. We could have backup files with settings reflecting person X's settings or person Y's settings
3. You could simply load the backup and you'd get all the settings.
4. You can actually edit the backup files manually too

So the problem is that you'd lose your high scores -- or you'd load the high scores from the person that created the settings. To solve this, I was thinking of tossing together a simple Python app that would effectively take a backup file you provide and then make the changes per person X or Y's settings. Keeping all of your personal scores, etc.

The above would be pretty straightforward to do, but then ... people would raise the issue that not everyone is comfortable with Python.

So then the next step would be to have a web site that does it for you. You upload your backup, click the named settings you want, and it does the work in the cloud, sending you an edited backup. You then load this...

But this last phase would take a bit more time.

I didn’t think about this. What format is the backup file in?

I was able to extract the backup files but not sure what to read/edit them with

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My new (to me) GNR SE seems to have muffled sound. Any ideas? Already reseated the line out connect from computer to filter and filter to speakers. Just sounds kinda off to me.

What version of the code are you on?

2.0. Updated today

I downloaded the spreadsheet and thanks to Chaka for doing this. It doesn't appear that the spreadsheet has been tweaked anymore since posted. I know some of the Diablo's settings were different from what was posted as screenshots so I changed my copy to what was posted. Anyways, with Google letting one know when a file shared via Google Drive has been edited this idea of one universal spreadsheet could be a great idea!

Good reason to get a pinwoofer to me!

Which settings were off? I believe I grabbed their latest updates, there were a couple. They have editing rights so they can update it

My settings are correct in the spreadsheet. They represent the latest version.

The confusion maybe that I've posted 2 sets of screenshots (v1 and v2, so to speak). v2 is the latest, and the spreadsheet contains that version.

Have you checked the eq settings?

Please clarify for me if I have v1 or v2; Here's a few settings ... Spreadsheet vs. Screenshots

Pyro Qualification > Pyro Qualifying Difficulty = 4 vs 3
Coma Mode > Jets Hits Difficulty = 1 vs 3
Song > Time Needed to qualify album = 120 vs 30

Hopefully this is enough to tell me which version I have.

P.S. I believe the screenshots were from post #26470

Pyro Qualification = 4
Coma Mode difficulty = 1
Time to qualify album = 120 (the most important change I made in the current settings)

All of these are the current settings, v2.

Thanks!

That's the first set. My second, revised and most current screenshots are found in post #26522

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-official-jjp-gnr-thread/page/531#post-7815457

My post earlier was intended to alleviate this kind of confusion. Lol.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-official-jjp-gnr-thread/page/536#post-7865625

It had latest links to the latest post from both eskaybee and diablorush Plus the spreadsheet.