The added April animations are the only new changes on the (April mod) I downloaded the April mod and played one time, went right back to 1987!
If you like the original animations from stern then the April mod will be great.

Ok thanks that’s what I wanted to know. Now yours is just not April right it’s got more to it or am I wrong.

Alright so u like the 1987 better gotcha thanks for your help.

I did looks great I see we’re u said you were going to try and update so I’ll wait for you to let us know what u came up with. Thanks for what your doing fantastic job.

Is the 1987 code going to be update with the new stern code?

yes, it will be out soon.
hopefully beginning next week.

Thanks for the update daveyvandy !! Project for today!!

a quick question, has anybody ever tried a sd-card adapte cable?
will this work in pinball machine, with all this electronic stuff going on.
https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B07ZZ6897R/ref=sr_1_9

60 cm is not that much, i am not sure where to route it, maybe on top throught the topper cable part.
would make so much easier, to switch sd-cards without the need to open the backbox.

there seem to be a switcher:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32704101580.html?spm=a2g0o.search0304.0.0.344d4a7aSrvp15&algo_pvid=707fe094-dc39-43dc-b94a-4588e18e021d&algo_exp_id=707fe094-dc39-43dc-b94a-4588e18e021d-28

but it's from aliexpress and it will not help the backbox still needs to be opened. Maybe with some soldering to get the swtich out, with longer cables.
another interresting idea

sorry for hijacking the thread a little bit.

Awesome, will download today.

sorry wrong thread

Has anyone played with insider connect with this code installed yet? I know people have with the custom jp code and dont seem to have had issues

Ih have a Problem with insider connect with the 1987 code. Insider connect is installed and wokring on my turtles LE machine, but when i change the sd card to the custom code all my insider connect settings are gone. I tried to get it back up running, but with the custom code my machine cant find any wifi network. to scan the settings with the qr code is also not working. i tried the whoe setup multiple times but i cant get it connected to my wifi. can someone give me some advice or did anyone have the same problems with the custom code? Thanks for the help

most settings are stored on the sd-Card if you change the sd-card you have to do everything again. Set up Wifi, enter the wifi password, the other settings are stored on the old sd-card.
Insider connected will only work if wifi or cable network is available. i think 1st thing is to setup the wifi again.

also a reflashing may help, maybe something went wrong there, but if it starts normal i guess the sd-card is ok.

I will try to Set Up a New SD Card with the custom code installed. I already tried to Set Up the Insider Connected with the custom code several times. With the custom code SD He can't find any WiFi Networks and i have 3 different WiFi Networks in range...

I installed a New SD Card and was now able to Set Up WiFi and Insider Connected. I still dont know what the Problem was, But ist solved now.

new code 1.52 is out, let's see if it's modifiable

in code 1.52 there seems now to be a validation process checking for custom code. If it detects custom code, i think you are unable to log into insider connected.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-insider-connected/page/72#post-7059980

there you can see a screenshot, but how much this is preventing something i can not say.

to update the code you will need to do the SD-Card process. The image on first page in this thread is the 1.51 code (please read 1. post). You download this code and unzip it.
if you want to to be save you can get a new SD-Card for your machine instead of overwriting the existing one.
Next step would be to plug in a USB-Stick go to menu -> utilities and save your settings.
Remove usb stick.
Plug the new SD-Card into your pc/mac and write the image to it (balena etcher, win32diskimager, Pinball Browser)
change the SD-Card out in the pinball machine, boot up.
plug in the usb-stick ->menu ->utilities -> load, to recover your settings.

if you would update the machine with the code provided on the stern site, either 1.51 or 1.52 this would overwrite all custom modification.
As i know the 1.52 may be soon released, but there seems to an issue with combination of insider connected, were custom code is recognized. So the new images are held back until tests are through and they are save to use. Changes in 1.52 are only minimal on gameplay, i think only little thing was changed.
Most changes are to insider connected, that may not be used with new code, but we will have to see.

Ok so fresh TMNT owner here. Mine had the 1987 code already in it.
Im just trying to play catch up here. So to my understanding from what I read, I can’t update the game code and install insider connect cause it’ll do what we all hoped it wouldn’t do, and stern brick you machine possibly. Kinda sucks cause I was starting to like IC
But you can download the 1.51 code and it’ll work just fine still? Or can install that and use IC (don’t have it yet, will avoid if I can’t) currently has the 1.41 in it.
I’ll pass on IC if I have to, rather not go back to the first Tomb Raider of animations this game came with from the factory

Probably a stupid question, has anyone tried to combine the April code with the 1987?

1.51 should be ok with insider connected. But you need to disable autoupdate if you want to keep the code, else it would update to 1.52 what would overwrite existing code, then give out a warning about custom code.

combining both codes does not make sense in way. 1987 code has the old series sequence in it. April mod has changed out the april videos with a new april but still in the style of the original game. Putting both together will ruin the 1987 experience and will not give the april mod credit
Best procedure would be to have different sd-Cards with the different images, best all with the same code version -> 1.51

for easy change of sd-cards you could have a look here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/moderns-stern-easy-sd-card-switching-or-how-not-to-break-the-backglas
there i tried some methods for easy changes, but in the end only the cables worked.

See lol I said it was a stupid question haha. I haven’t seen the April code so yeah that makes sense why not to.
I’ll download the 1.51 tonight in another sd card and give it a go. Thank you!

Agreed.

Any chance of this making it up to 1.52? Love the home team feature but I love this code more

thank you brother

Awesome! Looking forward to trying the new code with the PROPER visuals

Thank you for your amazing work! I flashed the pro version to an sdcard using dd (which has worked in the past). It seems to play just fine, but is displaying a 'Game validation error, Update SD card' message in red during the turtle selection screen. Is this anticipated, or should I try to flash it again?

Thanks!

I got that as well, and am pretty sure that's inherent with custom code on newer software revisions. See this post (in another thread):

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-insider-connected/page/72#post-7059980

Got it installed, and it works beautifully! Thanks as always!

daveyvandy I'm not online and don't have IC; I purchased mine before it was standard and never bought the kit.

Collin Thanks for the link! I searched for the error phrase, but since it was only in the picture it didn't show up.

As I re-read NeilMcRae's post, it's looking like (at least previously) on AIQ at least originally they were only getting that when trying to connect to Insider Connected. But given that we're both getting it, it seems like that may baked into the code in general. (My machine doesn't have SIC installed... only other thing I can think of is if it's auto-running some sort of 'SIC-auto-connect attempt')

It looks like the game file is just a standard elf binary? I don't know if they are always unsigned or just as a byproduct of the mod, but the 'Game validation error, Update SD card' string only shows up in a single location and if you patch that string the message goes away (ie, change the 'G' to a null byte.) I'm not planning on using IC with this code nor do anything 'evil', but I'll delete this message if this breaks the rules or is otherwise frowned on.

With some further testing, there is a small red rectangle, but much less pronounced than before. The game appears to play fine.