VERY excited about this mod also..... any projection on cost on this thing? Is this going to be a $500+ mod? Any guesses of Fiber costs who knows what.... custom PCB, brackets, and a PIG too? Wowzers. Maybe Stern wasn't too far off in their pricing on the LE after all if it ends up being in that neighborhood...

Crazy impressive stuff here..

That's a good point too, about the PIG being able to do other stuff. I wasn't trying to rag on anything. If I get my hands on a Pro, this will be THE mod I have to have!

Cripes....

SOMEONE BUY MY STAR TREK TNG SO I CAN GET TRON!!

Think the LE's were signed by Stern under the clearcoat down in the outlanes...

I'm sure I already stated this WAY earlier in the thread, but I'll buy a kit when it's available, regardless of whether or not I have a Tron yet.

Considering the PIG is like 100$, that's some pretty useful added functionality in there.

*Edit* For the record, I don't know how the hell you're pulling this off without a game to test it on yourself. That's just bonkers. People here should band together to buy you a machine like was done for Robin, because that's CRAP!

ALL RIGHT! That's what I'm talking about!

Customization + polling for any insert? Holy crap!

Shoot....I offered to buy one way before I was even going to have a machine.

There is only Zool.

Sorry...couldn't help it.

All I can say is that Eli better have one heck of a bulk order when he's ready, because we gonna BLOW IT UP.

Shoot, if he wants that info, I can go through this thread and compile it for him. No problem.

You guys are killing me, lol.

I am going to spend as much time tinkering with the config files as I will playing the game it sounds like. I'd be happy to have one now, just because I know that is exactly what I will end up doing anyways. I'm hoping I can get it on my game before TPF.

1 soul for sale, immediately. Your cost? 500$.

Bump to get everyone's hopes up again to find out that it's not available yet.

Seriously, praying that somehow this gets out in time for me to slap it on my Tron 2D for use @ TPF.

Think he was talking about the code in Tron itself, not your code.

It's amazing what you've been able to do, we're all just chomping at the bit...not that you don't not that. lol.

Oh my god. That's not nice, man. That's like taking 40 pounds of cocaine to a rehab center...

I'm game for early too. If the code is easy to update once you guys finalize, I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to be able to tweak my own effects as well!

This is like sitting on chair that you're tied to, with a huge ass boulder over your head held up by some clearly insufficient yarn. You just sit there watching thread by thread PLINK. PLOINK. TWANG. 1 by 1 until the thing drops and at last you recieve the sweet, sweet ecstacy of DEATH.

Ain't it fun doing tedious stuff like building harnesses? LOL. I would bring all my wire and stuff with me to work and cut and measure wire and crimp connectors during my breaks when I've sold those splitter harnesses.

LOL...I just used a length of wire to measure with, then used the strippers to cut them to same length. Thankfully, I'm only dealing with 2.5" sections.

So who's the 10 lucky turds that got in?

Just want to point out that even though I sold my Tron, I'm still interested. Like several other doofuses that have made this particular mistake, I will likely be picking one back up in a while, and I don't want to have to rely on finding a Tron that already has it installed.

I'm still waiting and I haven't even owned a Tron for 4.5 months. I'm not buying another one unless it already has this on it, or unless I can get one of these beforehand. So yeah.

I find it hilarious that so many people on this thread say that this mod was part of their reason to buy a Tron Pro, but then yet we have other TP owners bashing people for that choice....but it seems like a fairly large majority of 'recent' purchasers at least partly decided to get it based on this mod. This is why I SOLD my Tron Pro, aside from just being bored with the gameplay (Sorry, but when you get to Portal like 15-20% of the time....yeah.). I would've kept it hands down if this mod had been in my hands, but without it...Tron Pro just playing second fiddle to LE's IMO. =\

Nice.

We had it from October last year to may this year. It was set up factory, waxed to hell and back, with the disc cleaned, and transparent rubbers on it that made the slings SUPER powerful.

Case in point...... we went to one of our two locations today to play in a tournament. I got stuck on Tron for my second match, which I actually wasn't too happy about, because this one has all the typical "location issues"....U target blocking Quorra, tilted to one side, very hard to make GEM shot and when you do half the time it goes STDM, etc. Just basically not fun.

I still put up 80 million on the thing, and was ONE SHOT from Portal. Went into SOS with Flynn, GEM, Quorra, Lightcycle, TRON, and ZUSE all lit solid. I haven't actively gone out of my way to play Tron since we traded it in May. I've put MAYBE 10-15 games on one since then, and this is the FOURTH time I've been one shot off Portal on these two location games. =| I'm ranked Mid-400's right now IFPA, for the record. Was a 100 higher until they killed my Metallica launch party points last week, but the database doesn't maintain any record of that since it was completely retroactive. =|

Wow, so Pinbits got some for sale before all the people on this thread even knew about it, and we've been sitting here supporting this for over a year?

AWESOME?

And furthermore...why does pinbits say "based on Eli's" blah blah.... how is it their light boards don't require the huge heatsinks and brackets that Eli's did? Are they substantially dimmer or what?

I'm okay with overkill... I'm not okay with spending 400$ for something that doesn't have the same visual impact... mods of mods incoming, I guess...

Hm..interesting. That's a pretty bad failure rate, especially if they were croaking with those huge heatsinks.

Hm..interesting. That's a pretty bad failure rate, especially if they were croaking with those huge heatsinks.

I was posting on page FOUR of this thread, Don...where were you posting? Just saying...

I did sell Tron, I'm interested in getting one back, and yes, selling it because it was too easy was part of it. The other part was becuase I'd pretty much lost any faith that these kits were going to be available for real. Considering I sold my Tron 6 months ago and still don't have a kit in hand, I can't really say I made a bad decision necessarily. I made bad decisions about what to replace it with. But I've been playing Tron in the arcade again, and it's not the same as playing it at home. It's not nearly as enjoyable frankly. And my kid really REALLY wants it back. We're going to have four pins. My wife has STTNG. I have Future Spa. My older kid wants Jack-Bot (And so do I for that matter), and the little one wants Tron back.

Sounds fair to me.

"LE ramps use a frosted wire and Eli's doesn't "

Was wondering about that too...guess that answers that. I would've prefered to stay with the original look. Can't please everyone I guess. Still looking forward to owning one. And at least in theory, if I can source the original fiber style in the right diameter, it shouldn't be that big of a deal to just replace it!

Yeah, and the uniformity and the fact it looks like neon attached to the ramp is part of what I like about it. Like I said, I'll order the kit as-is, but will be keeping an eye out for the "genuine article."

Makes sense why people are saying it's brighter than a LE too....because it is. It's not getting diffused across the entire surface.

I just passed on ordering a kit, so one more out there for you guys. I couldn't find a Tron at anything approaching reasonable, and it's too late in the year to magically conjure 6 grand outta nowhere...

Awesome idea on the fishing line!

Zip ties *cannot* be perfectly clear. There's too much refraction from the nubs and 'zip' part of the tie. That, combined with the ultra-cheapo plastic they're made from = optically bad.

You do realize that I totally want to see it after you get it hooked up, right? I ain't afraid to grovel.

FWIW I passed on my "spot" when I was contacted because I don't know when I'll have a Tron back....I'm gonna buy a kit after people have a chance to get theirs.