Xpin made pinscore displays for Marco. Xpin was their brand name for the displays they sold outside marco. I have had great success with both. I'd go with the cheaper one or whichever has the longer warranty

I just installed Xpin Taxi displays a month ago. They work great. I wish they would include some generic nylon standoffs as their mounting holes were smaller than my original standoffs, but a trip to Lowe's fixed that.

Pinscore is the Marco brand that Brett designed for them several years ago. He split from them and made his X-pin brand and has updated all of his designs/boards since then, so if you want the most up to date revisions go with X-pin.

Good to know.

Or you could save some money and buy rottendog displays from Ks Arcade. I put a blue one in my whirlwind. For $150 I couldn't go wrong

I got some Xpin displays for my High Speed project. They look fantastic.

System 11 games are crazy when it comes to how they mounted the displays in the games. I have seen as many as 6 different methods from blind-hole pcb standoffs to t-nuts with plastic spacers. I wish that I could create a hardware kit to cover every possible mounting, but that just isn't practical. If I increase the hole size for one type of standoff, then the screws will be the wrong size for another game. Tough calls...

Concerning the XPin™ warranty, everything has a warranty for two years against any manufacturing defect. I can't warranty though against a problem where the game itself causes the damage or defect, i.e. mods or hacks in the game that bypass normal operation.

Unless something has changed, Rottendog quit making the Taxi displays a couple years ago.

There's a little more to the story than that.

I have X-Pin in my Firepower and Hot Tip.
Both look and work spectacular.
The ribbon cables take a bit of work to get around the back box bulbs. But if you take your time and flatten them in the right spots it will work.

Hmmmm. It appears that you are correct.

Yes, but it's not my laundry to air. What I said is factual and to the point.

It's your opinion.

Nothing more.

I know Brett. He lives here in the Phoenix area.

good lord the drama on this site

Hmmmm, no Rottendog Taxi display? If there is one, that's the way to go. Their Customer service rules!

Kris, ignore the Troll, he's just trying to stir up some shit....It's none of anybody's business what happened, people should just be happy that we have products to purchase....

I would absolutely go Xpin over anything else. Top notch customer service, and great products.

I have Rottendog boards in 4 games. Two of those had parts fail inexplicably. That's not a stellar track record in my opinion.

I have no opinion on pinscore vs. x-pin, but I did find this bullet item from the x-pin site humorous

"Professionally assembled in USA for top qualit"
from http://www.xpinpinball.com/shop/product/xp-wms12739-o

Not the best place for a typo!

Yep...cut and paste error on my part...thanks for pointing it out. For the record, all of the assemblies are made in Phoenix, AZ.

X-pin is a superior product to Pinscore.
I've had both. Yes, it's my opinion.

Pinscore is OK, but Xpin is just top-notch.

I've had several brands of displays in many different games, Rottendon, Pinscore, Xpin, etc. and so far I can easily say that Xpin has the best looking displays, and top notch customer service as well.

I've got both and I'm happy with both. I do like the padding around the numeric displays that comes with XPin better though. I will buy XPin the next time because of the tireless support you get from Brett.

To all my supporters, thank you for your kind words. Knowing that I can make a difference in keeping this awesome hobby alive and thriving is a big part of what keeps me going!

Brett

Get back under the bridge there Troll. Who took that Duck Tape off anyway? lol

I bet you have never bought one. Do you even own a pinball machine?

My point in my response was the person was only stating an opinion on which product was better because he neglected to include any real facts on why he liked one over the other. If he would have clarified his answer with some facts I wouldn't have replied the way I did.

It was like me saying Chevrolet is better than Ford because Chevrolet has upgraded their drivetrain. Or like saying CPR playfields are better than NOS because CPR has upgraded all the colors to what they think they should really be. Those statement are opinions not fact. Go back to school and take an English class or two if the concept is over your head. But after reading the statement again, he really never said which one he thought was better so I might have been off base.

But as to the original point of the thread, I've bought both too and as far as the models I have they are both good. They were both designed by the same guy. Can't go wrong with either and if there are differences, they are subtle. (That's my opinion).

I Do 95% of Brett's Beta Testing, so yes you clown I DO have them ( in most of my machines even! ). And yes I do own pinball machines, 73 of in fact. And I have been collecting for over 25 years.....God I hate the idiots that think they know everything

TROLL

Learn to read and comprehend the English language. I actually did not state that I liked one over the other.

"updated all of his designs/boards since then, so if you want the most up to date revisions go with X-pin"

What that statement says, is that the X-pin boards have been revised since the pinscore designs and if that type of thing floats your boat then get the X-pin boards. This is all FACT, no opinion interjected into that statement.

And if you want my opinion, yes definitely go with X-Pin.

Stu I've tried to be nice to you in the past but I have to tell you that you are a 100% asshole and everyone on this forum knows it.

You are a detriment to CPR and the pinball community as a whole and should be banned. You remind me of that guy on RGP "Frank Fuhrter". A foul-mouthed bastard who never has anything to add to any conversation. A smart-assed punk and an instigator. Pretty-much the textbook definition of a troll.

I don't know you kbliznick so I will refrain from grouping you in the same category and apologize if you feel I insulted you earlier. I can come off that way sometimes but really only wanted to hear your real reason for preferring the X-pin to the Pinscore because I can't tell much difference and it appears by the lack of anyone adding anything of substance here that there really isn't a whole lot of difference.

I have friends in the industry too who were on the other side of the story for these displays. That's why it irks me a little when I hear a bunch of BS on this particular topic. The bottom line is I have purchased both and think they are a wonderful product and will continue to buy them. As someone stated earlier though, since I can't see any major difference between the two and no one on here apparently can either... I'd probably go with the least expensive option.

Gatecrasher placed on IGNORE ( I hate these trolls & their BS )

That's OK with me Stu.

Take care.

The prices is $259 now

No, $150 from Big Daddy. I also have a blue one in my Whirlwind, looks great.

Do the led displays have the ability to show dim characters? For instance, in rollergames when you spell a letter in Williams, the letters remaining are dim while then letters you have collectewd show up at normal brightness.

Yes they do.

The brightness of the display is dependent on how often they put it up there. For example, you have a row of 16 characters. The game firmware is going to put all 16 characters up there at such a rate that it seems that they are always on, even though it turns 1 character on, then off, moves to the next, then on/off, and so on. To reduce the brightness of a character, it would skip it every other cycle or however many times needed to give the dimming effect, which would give the impression of dimming because it was not on as much as all of the other characters if they were to be on all the time.

Thanks johninc,

I'll have to get that for my Whirlwind.

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This is the one I bought from K's Arcade. Looks awesome. Like previously stated they do not have one any longer for taxi but I have no complaints with mine