And at 5k there isn't enough profit to make it worthwhile. I have the original BOM and the code, where it was left. No one would want to use the existing code base. It would have to be mostly re-written. I tried to make it happen but in the end it would not have been a fun or profitable venture at the time. Of course people are paying silly prices for machines now. If you could sell playfield kits for 6500 it would at least be a profitable venture.

^ absolutely true.

We love Neo but he's a financial idiot when it comes to pins. Plus he's a bit of a hypocrite as he preached no pin is ever worth >3k then proceeded to sell his whole collection off for a stupid amount of money. So, arguing pin economics with him is like arguing geo-politics with a 2 year old. A lot of slobbering and no good info. =)

Plus Neo the wizard blocks code is not nearly done. And no one in their right mind would use the existing source to continue the project.

I have the source code Neo...

Contrary to what Gene may have said there are massive volumes of cds that are backups to everything wms had on their servers before the place went under. Gene had a copy in shoeboxes, literally. Don and I along with a few other pinball vendors were looking into reproducing wb a few years back. The price was too high to make any profit, at the time and it wouldn't have been smart to reuse the old software given the advances in technology over the last 14 years.

Is it possible, sure. Likely? Who knows. But until anyone sees it I wouldn't believe it.

Back before Rick bought the rights from Wayne, Don and I had a green light from WMS, Wayne and Gene to create wizard blocks. We also had the original BOM and supplier list. I ran numbers on the whole thing and with everyone involved there was little to no profit and a high probability for cost overruns. I killed the project because I didn't feel like funding a losing deal. Maybe with the crazy prices people are paying for pins now someone could pickup the project and make money. I doubt people would want to pay based on my estimates but who knows. No one would love to see a finished wizard blocks more than me but it's just not cost justified.

I would say building the cabinet is the easiest part.

No offense but the fact the you say all of this is easy shows you really have no idea what goes into making a pinball machine. It's anything but easy.

This I agree with. Although again, you are really underestimating the scope of everything else.

Good pinball programmers should easily make six figures. On the low side but six figures.

you could live off of 100k for the rest of your life?

I forgot Neo has no concept of real economics

The released version of Nucore does not run Wizard Blocks. There's very little point in enabling it to do so. The software is incredibly shallow and currently there are only 2 or 3 playfields (one working and two close?) that could even use it. If Rick, or someone else, decides to actually produce WB they would want to start the software from scratch and not continue the existing (very old and outdated) project. Some are chasing this like its a holy grail but honestly it's really not. When you play the working prototype it gets really boring very quickly. Killer playfield though =)

There is nothing you can enable or change to make it run in Nucore.