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Worth watching Bowen's tutorial video on youtube - its excellent - bowen is a cool guy and quite funny during that video! 
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Quoted from Pale_Purple:Really hard to get a feel for it in that video, the dmd capture is very poor.
Any one else have a LED colorDMD in their game they could film?
Also is that video related to Domino records? Neon light looks the same...
Yes, its not great, and no i just knicked their logo 
The LED is hard to film, you lose a lot of detail. Will see if I can use my canon 5D to film it. Have a look on my Youtube page, I have LED one in TWD and in my ToM. https://www.youtube.com/user/neilmcrae1
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Quoted from BillySastard:Are these Cliffys even needed? I thought that the metal around the magnet core protected the playfield? Cliffs around that metal circle seems a bit overboard to me.
I had them on and took the prison one off as it puts air on the ball and the prison opto's won't register.
Quoted from rawbars:I had them on and took the prison one off as it puts air on the ball and the prison opto's won't register.
I'm afraid I am gonna have to do the same. This game is too difficult to give away prison hits. Starting a multi ball can save your ass. And if that is delayed due to ball jumping over optos it sucks! What method did you use to remove it safely?
Fingernail - then sticky goo remover sparingly.
Quoted from rawbars:The head registers fine. It can't be a really weak hit. But I'm ok with that. It's frustrating when the doors take a direct hit but the ball skipped above the opto because of the Cliffy and doesn't register. The harder the shot the more likely it is to skip. It happens way too often.
Yup that's what happens!
Also I prefer stock music and effects - they match the gameplay better than any of the other sound updates.
Quoted from waspinat0r:Okay, so I thought I knew what hard pinball was. Then I got my TWD tonight. What the hell. My butthole actually was *NOT* ready.
Stick with it Wasp - when you get into the zone on TWD - nothing really compares to the pinball high you get. When horde starts throbbing it's insane!
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Quoted from PiperPinball:I have about 9 people interested. Another plus is getting the Thriller song into the game during well walker mulitball. And some MJ call outs when hit. (Example: Hehe, Oow!).
there is a guy with moonwalking dead in Boston who's done this... search.
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Quoted from crwjumper:The code for the Premium that I downloaded was named “TWD160LE_bin”. I had to rename the file to remove the underscore and replace it with a period so it was called “TWD160LE.bin”. It worked correctly after that.
I use a Mac and it didn’t have that hassle - downloaded the file for premium which has LE in the file name and then copied to stick and worked fine.
Quoted from Pinzap:Just installed Cleland 1.60 on my prem and played 1 game after to test. Put up a 498mil GC, my best score to date. Don’t think the new code had much to do with it, but I could be wrong. Had like 93mil in Riot and a 7x multiplied wellwalker multiball jackpot for 63mil. I’ll have to read again, but don’t think those were affected by the code update. In any case, still my favorite game and won’t be leaving anytime soon.
I think the scoring is more generous than before, not sure by how much but I seem to always have more walker kills than before.
Quoted from crwjumper:If you just updated the code, it resets all of your settings and you'll have to adjust to your preferences again.
yeah - I get that I've done that. But when the machine is powered up, it sets the volume super high, all other settings are fine.
Neil.
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Quoted from Jason_Jehosaphat:*** Can't Hit Tunnel Shot to Save My Life! ***
I'm a novice player. I bought TWD because I'd read how fabulous it is and because I'd enjoyed playing a hundred-or-so sub-twenty-million-point games on one at my local barcade. Now that I own one (my first pin of any kind), I'm really struggling to be play it well enough to actually advance through the game.
In ascending order of difficulty, I rank the shots as follows:
6. CDC
5. Barn
4. Riot
3. Arena
2. Woodbury
1. Tunnel
Tunnel, as you all know, is a "Borg" shot. It has no margin for error, as even grazing/activating a pop on the way by deflects the shot. You can't "rattle" your shot through there. It has to sail through without touching a thing 'til it finds the corner at the very back/right of the PF, etc. I first experienced a shot of this kind on KISS, and I thought it was absurdly hard there, too.
I hit Tunnel by accident far more often than I do aiming for it. When I aim, I hit it perhaps once in twenty attempts. This is a problem. To help me avoid total frustration, I have set the game to settings that allow me to make at least *some* progress toward scoring goals. I still find it murderously hard. (Believe me, I don't advance all that far, despite all the gimmies!) I typically spend most of each ball trying to clear a single bank or drop targets to earn a shot at starting a mode. I rarely get to the mode as I more often just drain trying to clear the target bank. Clearing the target bank keeps you down near the deadly slings, and once the ball gets to ricocheting around between them, it will all too often find its way into the outlanes in a flash, etc. Still, on rare occasions, I have actually started Horde. (I count four times at this point.) Being resolutely unable to hit Tunnel, this a problem, as it's just a matter of time before I'm "bitten" by an advancing walker on the middle-right. Really, my skills are not up to Horde in general, but in particular because I can't hit Tunnel.
Oh, if you're thinking my pops have switch gaps that are ultra-tight, making them ultra-sensitive, I actually got in there already to *expand* those gaps to make the pops *less* sensitive, as all that pop-bumping on every plunge was driving me bananas.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
J
man up soldier! - it will come and when it does you'll be ecstatic!
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Quoted from TheRookie:Just purchased my 1st NIB and its the walking dead PREM and i couldn't be more excited. it was between TWD and GOT and finally pulled the trigger on TWD this morning. Should be shipping out today and was wondering if most people play with the stock sound or with the other sound packages that are available? What did you guys do?
nothing beat stock. But try it and see for yourself!
Quoted from J85M:Is there a list of mods for TWD anywhere?
Stern art blades are a must imo and I’m not usually a fan of lit speaker grills but the ones with Rick on the right and the zombie getting its brains blown out on the left are cool.
Who does the best crossbow?
Is there much other than those worth having?
ColorDMD, Speaker Lights. Topper and the blood armour. The latter two I'll get soon. A few of the signs that mezel do.
Neil.
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Quoted from Concretehardt:Thought on color DMD for this game? is it a no brainer?
yup, I'm the only guy that seems to buy LED though. Nice and bright but not so good when streaming, camera doesn't pick it up so well.
Here is my stream of the new code just after the released it.
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Quoted from JamesUK:Silly question, but on Barn does each shot always count as a walker kill? I didn't think it did and as in the show and on the DMD each shot is supposed to be killing a walker coming out of the barn, you would think it would.
alternate with CDC
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Quoted from Multiballmaniac1:I think it’s time to start modding out my LE. Bone stock except the Bicycle girl light.
Thinking of:
Color dmd
Burning barn
Art blades or mirror
Any other suggestions?
colordmd and anti-reflective glass is all you really need.
but Artblades over mirror
speaker lights
on premium check that the ramp fix is installed (adds an improved airball protector, mylar and padded feet for the ramp so it doesn't damage the playfield).
bicycle girl mod.
Quoted from Lostcause:We had a group buy for low reflective ultra clear glass here in the uk for only £85 a sheet. Well worth it.
yeah the guy who organised that is a fucking legend
For me on a pin the top mods are:
1: ColorDMD if its a DMD game.
2: Low Reflection Glass
3: new speakers if the ones in the game suck.
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folks - managed to find a nice LE to upgrade my premium from - just wondering those with LE's did you all get the upgraded harness? Not sure this has it - what does it look like and is there a part number for it?
Thanks,
Neil.
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Quoted from Lostcause:Hi Neil, are you talking about the one that goes to the board under the playfield?
I remember something about this and sure mine was done, was Phil’s machine.
M4
yeah just not sure the game I've picked up will have it. It doesn't seem to have the bike girl ramp mod which I've got by the photos. Need the part number.
Quoted from Vimtoman:Theres a bicycle girl ramp mod here if Phil has none.
https://www.stern-spareparts.de/en/zombie-girl-ramp-modication-kit-502-6942-00_1297_1102
Maybe ask this company about the loom
yeah got it thanks just wish I'd found this:
Quoted from Lostcause:Is it the UN11 power cable? Mine looks to have been changed, think the original one gets too hot.
Can’t find a part number, simple cable though.
EDIT. This is the cable I think https://www.stern-spareparts.de/en/stern-pinball-eu/power-supply-kit-twd-502-6952-00_1291_1096
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ordered it thanks
Neil
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Folks,
just changed the code on an TWD LE that had Cleland on it and now I've lost all sound - anyone got any idea? Tried downloading the code again and refreshing and still nothing. Putting Cleland back on to see if that makes any difference.
anything else I should be looking at?
Neil
Quoted from Vimtoman:Col makes those ramp plastics Neil.
Not had any issues with the Cleland regarding audio.
Did you transfer using verify?
yeah something else happened - think I might have turned the game off and on too quick or something.
Quoted from Lostcause:I have a few spares from Col, I can post you one of the plastics if you like?
Off and on too quick shouldn’t blow anything should it?
it shouldn't but nothing else done to the game! Col is looking for them now but if he doesn't find them then yes please.
Neil.
Quoted from punkin:FUCK! the fucking store wouldn't let my paypal process for hours and i had to contact Randy, i had the standoffs and brackets in my cart the first time and fucking had to redo the cart and must have missed the fucking things the second time.
What a shit system that sells something you need separately. Like fuck! So now wait weeks again, pay stupid international freight again for something that should have been in the kit as i had to specify the fucking model i wanted. I have three of the stupid fucking things that don't fucking fit now.
This totally sucks.
Edit; I totally suck. Randy told me to have a better than blokes look and i found the shield under the packing in the box.
Totally me and a fantastic product, i worked out how to lower the display on the screen with the menu buttons. will pull it all to bit's again and install the perspex, should i just get some foam to go between the perspex and the display or not worry?
lol a better than blokes look
I used some black insulation tape to block out any light bleed on an older game that had LCD
but now I use the LED version, fits better and looks better.
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Quoted from PinMonk:I like the fit of the LED screens, but I can't do them. The brightness always seems to be not quite enough or too much, I can't get the brightness just right with them, so I prefer the LCD screens, fit-challenged though they may be.
so I'm using a tinted plastic screen that makes them spot on.
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Quoted from NeilMcRae:yeah thanks YeOldPinPlayer I had narrowed it down to those also but I've found some 530-5332-01 and I've ordered a couple from pinballife. if that isn't the right one I'll order the other one
so can confirm that 530-5332-01 is the post by the bicycle girl.
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