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Star Wars: FotE by Stern Pinball. Unboxing Uncut. Streamed from Raccoon City Pinball.

DRI374·video·1h 28m·analyzed·Oct 8, 2025
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TL;DR

Star Wars Pro unboxing reveals manufacturing shortcuts, toy reuse, and playfield design concerns.

Summary

A detailed unboxing and initial setup stream of the Stern Star Wars: Fall of the Empire Pro pinball machine at Raccoon City Pinball. The streamer documents assembly, playfield inspection, wax application, Spike 3 hardware exploration, and commentary on game design choices, toy quality, and manufacturing decisions. Mixed sentiment regarding the game's execution despite appreciation for artwork and overall value proposition.

Key Claims

  • Star Wars game uses the same Millennium Falcon toy from the 2017 Star Wars game, just repainted

    high confidence · Streamer directly compared toys and showed visual evidence of identical molds with different paint

  • Pro and Premium models use the same playfield with cost-saving measures like drilled holes instead of molded features

    high confidence · Streamer observed putty-filled holes on the Pro model where wire connections exist on Premium

  • Star Wars was built on original trilogy instead of original story set in 'fall of empire' era like Mandalorian

    high confidence · Streamer expressed disappointment about theme choice: 'I my hopes up so high that this was going to be kind of like an original story'

  • The Death Star toy has multiple ledges causing ball rattling issues

    high confidence · Streamer observed: 'People are kind of complaining that the Death Star is sort of like kind of rattling balls' with visible ledges on playfield

  • Jabba spinner uses thin plastic with no sticker applied

    high confidence · Direct visual inspection during playfield walkthrough: 'This Java spinner jar here, it's just a thin plastic. There's not even a sticker on it.'

  • TIE Fighter is plastic shim, not molded toy, and could break easily

    high confidence · Streamer observed: 'Not a TIE Fighter on a spring, but a little plastic shim' and 'that can easily break off'

  • Spike 3 uses same LVDS interface as Spike 2, enabling backwards compatibility with capture devices

    medium confidence · Streamer tested Pinsound line-out cable from Kong: 'It fits' and confirmed technical compatibility

  • Game lacks mylar on inline switches, dropping ball directly on switch slits

    high confidence · Streamer expressed concern: 'I didn't get any mylar in my inlines. Seriously. And they drop in the ball directly on the switches.'

Notable Quotes

  • “I my hopes up so high that this was going to be kind of like an original story. Original story Star Wars is based on the actual era in Star Wars which is fall of the empire kind of the aftermath after the second Death Star exploded”

    Streamer (unidentified) @ Early in unboxing — Expresses core design disappointment: game is based on original trilogy rather than original post-ROTJ story concept

  • “And I was just 100% convinced that they were just pulling pulling our our legs so to speak right and uh that we were actually going to see something completely different...I'm pretty convinced it [Millennium Falcon] is from Star Wars 2017”

    Streamer @ During playfield inspection — Confirms toy reuse from previous Stern Star Wars game; skepticism about designer's claims

  • “People are kind of complaining that the Death Star is sort of like kind of rattling balls and you cannot get a bunch of half-seas and this, that and the other. I can totally see that happening here because there's a bunch of different ledges here.”

    Streamer @ Playfield walkthrough — Acknowledges known quality issue with Death Star toy design

  • “This Java spinner jar here, it's just a thin plastic. There's not even a sticker on it. That could have been something that went into the Jabba's temple thing there. That feels a little bit raw there.”

    Streamer @ Playfield inspection — Documents unfinished design element; suggests incomplete manufacturing

  • “I kind of like the art, to be honest, on the cabs. I think they kind of represent the era pretty well, I think. I really dig the comics from that, from the early, mid-80s.”

    Streamer @ Early assembly — Positive sentiment on artwork and theme implementation despite mechanical concerns

  • “I think that is just one of those things that they're going to have to adjust a little bit. I wonder, do we want to look underneath the playfield?”

    Streamer @ Final assembly — Notes design friction (glass seal too tight) requiring adjustment

  • “Yeah, so Spike 3 people, what do we think about that? new hardware platform and we got a new rinse and repeat theme.”

Entities

Stern PinballcompanyStar Wars: Fall of the EmpiregameJohn BorgpersonSpike 3productRaccoon City PinballvenueSpike 2productPinsoundcompany

Signals

  • ?

    product_concern: Millennium Falcon toy confirmed identical to 2017 Star Wars game with only paint variation; other toys (Jabba spinner, TIE Fighter) using plastic components instead of molded pieces; thin plastic spinner lacks any applied sticker or finish work

    high · Direct visual comparison of toys; streamer showed identical molds painted differently; observed thin plastic construction on multiple playfield elements

  • ?

    product_concern: Death Star toy has multiple ledges causing ball rattling and jam issues; inlines drop ball directly on switch slits without mylar protection; AT-AT walker arrives misaligned with wobbly assembly

    high · Streamer observed ledges during walkthrough; confirmed missing mylar; physically demonstrated walker wobble during initial inspection

  • ?

    product_concern: Right ramp doesn't feed to inline switch, eliminating rollover collection possibility; odd ball routing design documented during walkthrough

    medium · Streamer noted: 'So the right ramp doesn't even feed to the inline switch. So I guess you can't collect that rollover'

  • ?

    design_innovation: Spike 3 maintains LVDS interface compatibility with Spike 2 capture devices despite generation change; dual HDMI ports for mirror and auxiliary displays

    high · Pinsound line-out cable connector 'fits' in Spike 3; streamer tested and confirmed physical compatibility; diagram visible showing CN17 HDMI 1 mirror and HDMI 0 auxiliary

  • ?

    product_strategy: Pro and Premium models use identical playfields with cost-saving measures: shared mold with drilled holes/putty instead of molded features; identical plastic component reuse between game iterations

Transcript

youtube_groq_whisper · $0.266

0:00
All right, folks, welcome to the stream. Got my Star Wars Fall of the Empire Pro here delivered today.
0:08
I wasn't expecting it today. I was thinking I was going to get it before the weekend and kind of set it up on Saturday and whatnot, but it's just like, I'm just a little bit of an eager beaver. I kind of want to get it out of the box and set it up and get some play in. And that also means that this kind of unboxing is very badly planned. I just now pulled out my escalera and I need to go find tools and get my gloves and whatnot. But at the end of the day, not doing anything kind of special today besides kind of hooking up.
0:47
I'm going to try the HDMI out and I'm also going to see if the line out cable from Pinsound for Spike 2 fits in this game as well. So hopefully we'll be able to see some gameplay once we kind of get there. I'm just going to get some tools here and kind of get cracking on this.
1:15
And we got HOV Pinball in chat. still waiting for that very special capture device for a very special game I have in my collection, FYI. So I wonder where it is.
1:36

Streamer @ During setup — Characterizes Spike 3 as iterative platform with familiar licensed IP approach

  • “I kind of prefer the pro game because it shoots so fast right you kind of get that genuine kind of Richie feeling on it”

    Streamer (regarding Led Zeppelin) @ During assembly break — Commentary on Pro vs Premium game physics and player experience

    • Kong
    game
    Stranger Thingsgame
    Led Zeppelingame
    Medieval Madnessgame
    Benjaminperson
    HOV Pinballcompany
    Cliffy Guardsproduct
    2017 Star Warsgame

    high · Streamer observed: 'they use the same play fields for Pro and Premium. So they don't have to do different ones' and noted putty-filled holes vs. wire connections

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Game built on original trilogy rather than original story concept set in fall-of-empire era; streamer expresses disappointment with safe IP licensing choice versus creative direction

    high · Streamer stated: 'I my hopes up so high that this was going to be kind of like an original story...but as you know i never get my way'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Spike 3 includes moved amplifier position (bottom of backbox vs. original location); repositioned power supply and outlet for better weight distribution; upgraded speaker panel design

    medium · Streamer observed: 'they kind of moved the whole kind of the power supply and kind of like the outlet on the back box' and 'The speakers are different'

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Game will require Cliffy Guards due to unsafe ball drop design on inlines; backglass seal (window gasket) installed too tightly, requiring adjustment for removal

    high · Streamer noted: 'Cliffy is going to be busy' and 'I completely forgot what it's called...like a seal...it requires a lot of force to pull it out'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Game features Jedi ball save mechanic accessible via action button; magnet-based ball save questioned for implementation details; optical spinners noted for unique sound effects

    medium · Streamer reviewed phone rules: 'use the action button for Jedi ball save. When there's no magnet there, is there still a ball save?'

  • ?

    product_concern: Glass backlight (translight) has manufacturing seal friction requiring excessive force for removal; ramps contain excessive dust from manufacturing process

    high · Streamer struggled significantly with glass removal and noted: 'requires a lot of force to pull it out'; observed dust in ramps during inspection

  • ?

    content_signal: Streamer documented audio capture challenges with Spike 3 HDMI audio (latency concerns); testing compatibility of Pinsound line-out cable as solution; noting video display scaling compared to previous platforms

    medium · Streamer explained: 'if you've been doing this as long as I have, you know that that is like as useful as sending this sound over Bluetooth. Because it will have something called latency'

    • Don't want to call out what it is because you might get curious people your way. I only had one hole in the box today. that was kind of a record, right? But it was kind of just punctured.
    2:01
    Oh shit, what happened there? Yeah, it was punctured at the kind of, well, it's just air anyway, so it doesn't matter.
    2:14
    And I'm also going to do a very fun comparison of the pallet sizes. probably on my Instagram or something.
    2:26
    My rackety stern pallet versus the pristine jersey jack pallet was pretty funny. So, Benjamin is getting his Led Zeppelin Premium in the end. That's exciting.
    2:51
    Alright, so what do we want to do here? Right now I just feel like, how do I unbox a game? What's the best way to approach this?
    3:08
    Yeah, let's just get the Escalier right in here. Get this out of the way. I'm just a little bit confounded here right now. Let me just get some straps out as well. Yeah, I'll just pull out the game. So it's flat. I can reach. There we go. You probably shouldn't deal with this in your socks, but that's just how I do things. around here. So this is based on Return of the Jedi, the artwork. And I can't stress enough how disappointed I am that this is actually built on the original trilogy. I my hopes up so high that this was going to be kind of like an original story.
    4:57
    Original story Star Wars is based on the actual era in Star Wars which is fall of the empire kind of the aftermath after the second Death Star exploded which is sort of where Mandalorian kind of resides see some original characters some original voice overs kind of like a little Star Wars story on its own but in pinball but as you know i never get my way so that was just that all right we got it all right let me just i don't even know if this is charged oh it's charged oh my dickhead I did it the wrong way this is just what happens when I don't have things planned I just like how did that go that goes there and that goes there Because you kind of need to extend this first and then strap it. Because otherwise weird things happen like they did just now. At least I saw it. noticed it.
    6:53
    Also, Benjamin also loves games people hate on. I'm a little bit like you in that regard. And I don't think Led Zeppelin is a bad game. Like, honestly.
    7:08
    It's just not my theme. I think I told you this before I kind of prefer the pro game because it shoots so fast right you kind of get that genuine kind of Richie feeling on it and that kind of thing in the middle the pop up spinner I'm not quite sure what it will do to me There we go. Now we can raise... Oh, I should have charged the batteries. Yeah I haven't charged this since Avatar and this escalera. of got a sense of where the limits are I think that's enough right let's save that When everything comes around, I think I would rather have a Led Zeppelin than a Rush, if that counts for anything. is a proper dog game that is I did download a new code and I got a micro SD card adapter and all that good stuff so hopefully it won't take too long to kind get the game up and playing. I was kind of thinking about dealing with that while the wax is drying.
    9:27
    Won't be that much of a wait time hopefully. Yeah, so Spike 3 people, what do we think about that? new hardware platform and we got a new rinse and repeat theme.
    10:05
    Yeah, framing is not the best here in this house. I wonder if I should get one of those PTC cameras that just tracks you. I've been eyeing one up.
    10:22
    Then I don't have to hire somebody to run the camera for me. I kind of like the art, to be honest, on the cabs. I think they kind of represent the era pretty well, I think. I really dig the comics from that, from the early, mid-80s. the comics were basically the cheapest Star Wars stuff you can buy as a kid right so I had a lot of Star Wars comics and everything with Star Wars on it was obviously an insta buy right very exciting for little Michael yeah that's the thing with games there mentioned in chat like on location games that you need to dial in, they don't play as well and you cannot judge the game on that. That is obviously all wrong. It's like playing Stranger Things Premium or LE on location and thinking that the telekinesis lock is going to work. Let's just forget that.
    12:26
    Or hit the demo gorgon for that matter as well that's just another thing it's just can't just forget that because that requires a lot of alignment and a good good amount of bending i don't know even i managed to fix my le so it's kind of worked the demogorgon shot pretty cleanly from a trap and then i was going to fix somebody someone's pro by doing the same thing that i did on my premium and then i realized that there's no coil underneath there's the bracket is not the same
    13:04
    that controls the tilt of the damn thing so that didn't work how we do in chat are we excited exciting excited about store worse and say I'm just excited for new pinball regardless what it is really nothing I think that's my jam and I think this is a pretty good value for money Pro based on what I've seen so far and I wouldn't I wouldn't compare it with Kong because that is just an absolutely phenomenal pro game
    14:11
    it has more metal and and stuff than any other store probably naked and I also love the... It's so weird, right? I mean, your eyes kind of deceive you a lot, right? On Kong specifically, right? You kind of see the Gong mech, right? On the pictures and everything, and you're just like, wow, that is just such a cool mech. I love it. And then you kind of... Then you play it, and it's just such a doggy kind of like, you know, it just rejects. you get stuck balls and you know you get the center drains that are completely unfair right it's just like and the pro is just like so smooth
    15:11
    like you nailed the shot you nailed the shot and that's it just makes it a completely different game in my book
    15:26
    Yeah, so I'm sort of I'm plus one in the garage At the moment, so I can't kind of Slide the game in Anywhere I'm going to put it right here by the store replace the store gate with it while I work on it I think that's going to take some time so I'm not going to deal with that today because it's really difficult to kind of move things around in here when I have one game too many
    16:25
    yeah we got some corn pro owners in the chat yeah here I can see the Death Star and the Millennium Falcon in the back here and I was just one of those people that like when Jack and John Borg were kind of starting to stream Star Wars games and they sort of like reveal the toys in the game and it's just like they're full of shit they're absolutely full of shit they're trying to trick us and they're showing us previous Star Wars game toys right I was just 100% convinced that they were just pulling pulling our legs so to speak right and uh that we were actually going to see something completely different like that glow up Jabba is just like yeah I mean I just didn't think it was real and then the Death Star another Death Star every game has a Death Star including the home version and that Millennium Falcon I actually I'm sorry isn't it the same one that's in the it's in a 2017 one. I'm pretty convinced it is.
    18:14
    And the thing is, I think I have one of those here somewhere. Like, yeah, I wonder which bin that would go in.
    18:28
    Yeah, I'm just going to check here. But I actually still have them because they sent me a bunch of those for a Stern Army thing. Oh, look, here it is.
    18:43
    We can compare. So this is the Millennium Falcon I have, right? This is from... I don't know where this is from, right? I think this is from Star Wars 2017, right? I think it kind of goes on the habit rail, right?
    19:05
    Okay. And if you look at it, it's the exact same. Yeah, I mean, that's why I just thought they were absolutely full of shit. I'll just show you here. Let me see if I can unbuckle this thing here.
    19:26
    I'll tell you all about it. Look at that. right all right what one is one is white and one is grayish right and yeah but I will see if I can replace it and have the white in just just terrorize it might be a different bracket underneath it whatever I don't know we'll see we'll see we will see
    20:06
    Yeah, I mean, the thing is, Borg has done a couple of real bangers, right? Like Tron, Walking Dead, and Metallica, right?
    20:21
    And then he has a pretty long repertoire of dog games, right? I mean, there are some real questionable games in there, right? And sometimes he just doesn't get paired with the right programmer, and I give him that, right, Munsters.
    20:40
    And that's just how it is sometimes, right? So when are we going to see Borg's next Walking Dead or next Tron, you know?
    20:53
    Am I just going to put this on the cardboard? No. Yeah, let me just see if I can get the kind of the box temporarily out of the way here. I'm not going to do any sophisticated cleanup here because I want to get started playing and fiddling with the stuff that matters like the video capture and sound capture and all that good stuff that matters to me right now. Oops.
    21:32
    So I'm just going to fold this back. Deal with this later. Laters, laters. All right, there we go. Let's see here. I got some cups as well.
    21:57
    Oh, I need a beverage break here. um Something like that Oops. All right, all right. I do realize the angle is not the optimal here. Let me see if I can just... There's you. All right. Yeah, I should have had a different lens for this, but here we are. Pinball basics for the shop. We're not going to care about that today. Okay.
    24:39
    So, yeah, okay. I need the... I need to cut the keys. I need the back box bolts Hey Cammy, what's up?
    25:05
    We got new pinball day today It's always exciting Interesting, they put both keys on. Oh, they zip tie this thing here as well. ties on everything making sure can't have anything fun blind as a back here I'm just like this looks good all right cut it there we go so there's still hooks here yeah look at that good stuff you got a power cord and balls and yeah I want to get this done before the taco place closes Tuesday is kind of becoming my pinball streaming day so it was sort of like good timing that it showed up today
    26:58
    I'll deal with that later. Where is my bolts? Back box bolts. We got Mr. Tilt Bomb. Alright, are we ready for this?
    27:56
    Let's tighten that up a little smidge here. Oh, that's right, I need to get the glass swapped out as well. I'm just going to toss everything here at the moment. I haven't even prepared wire to plug this thing in so let's let's do that
    29:24
    Yeah, I'm not going to power it up just yet. I need to get the SD card out. Need to get the playfield... Get some wax on the playfield. My gloves off now.
    29:58
    Where's my corners? My glass corners. T-Exceptor keys. Where's my T-Exceptor key? Here it is. I can deal with that later Let's just get some wax on here
    30:42
    why didn't I put them on Jesus Christ I'm just completely eager beaver here there we go this is a really dirty glass I'll tell you that much I'm just gonna put that there for now. Deal that later.
    31:15
    Alright, alright. Here we are. Star Wars. Yeah. Spinners are spinning. Oh, that's funny. The walker is all loosey-goosey. Is it supposed to be all wobbly? Probably.
    31:38
    So apparently there's a lip here that kind of is misaligned. Oh yeah, I can totally see. There are so many ledges here. People are kind of complaining that the Death Star is sort of like kind of rattling balls and you cannot get a bunch of half-seas and this, that and the other.
    32:00
    I can totally see that happening here because Because there's a bunch of different ledges here. And I don't know where the ball goes after. Okay, so it's like a... Is it a sub?
    32:18
    Does it feed to the buck? Or where does the ball go? Interesting. Wow, that Jabba thing. it's really barren.
    32:36
    Let's just do a walk around the play field here and check things out. See what we can figure out. What the thought process was here and a couple of things here. This Java spinner jar here, it's just a thin plastic. There's not even a sticker on it. That could have been something that went into the Jabba's temple thing there. That feels a little bit raw there.
    33:17
    As I said, with the Death Star here, you can see that there are so many ledges here where the ball can find a little nook and just start rattling, doing things.
    33:31
    And I guess this kind of like, it's not a TIE fighter on a spring, you know. It's an AT-AT on a spring in a way.
    33:44
    And otherwise then it kind of looks pretty good. Got mylar around the pops here and the Vader scoop there. signature Borg scoop, but on the left this time, just to shake it up.
    34:10
    That's an interesting kind of... They made a big sandwich here. I don't think this is what it looks like on Pro and Premium. I think there's a big head here, right?
    34:24
    Or is that kind of popped on top here? I don't know. I have no idea. There's a bad shine from the top there. Let's attack from the other side here and see.
    34:43
    We've got a TIE Fighter. Not a TIE Fighter on a spring, but a little plastic shim. I'm not asking for molded toys or anything, but that can easily break off. an air ball and that's it.
    35:04
    We got the long version here. Oh, of course. But the, yeah, you know, on the Pro and Premium, the kind of like the wire here kind of goes in here and the hole is still there. I mean, I don't know if it's drilled or it kind of looks like they just put some putty in it or something, right?
    35:28
    Because they use the same plate. I mean, it's a money-saving thing, right? They use the same play fields for Pro and Premium.
    35:36
    So they don't have to do different ones, I guess. What else? Is there anything fun here? Like, this is a really funny kind of little LED that just sits there on a metal bracket. Like, John Wick is full of these, right? I don't know what I think about those just yet.
    36:11
    Yeah, this is Star Wars for you. Very basic kind of home edition near enough, I'd say. But I like the art. I like the art. It's really good. It's really cool. It fits the original trilogy really well. I like the back glass on the Pro the best. And here we got the mega big display.
    36:50
    And it's definitely bigger. Kind of looks a little bit ginormous in comparison. So it should be cool to experience. But it feels like the graphics, like I haven't seen the latest code. but the launch gameplay videos that we saw the videos like I mean the UI wasn't very it wasn't very well thought of it kind of feels like they used some kind of stock art kind of text effects you know kind of when the text kind of goes away there's like two frames of animation and it kind of just goes off and doesn't look very didn't look very nice very cool, very inspiring but I guess those are the things that they can fix afterwards but if they got bigger fish to fry, we all know that is not going to happen alright, alright, right, yeah, let me just stop gagging here and get the camera back here and I'm just going to put a coat of wax on so actually it's actually pretty this is actually pretty smooth they do but I mean in the in their in their defense they kind of they do some to do some buffing which is which is good but I just I just love my one pound yeah thanks for hanging out Benjamin I guess you're gonna play Led Zeppelin soon.
    39:12
    This is a very wax friendly play field I say. Just one big surface. Oh there is actually a stand up there. I didn't see that. Wow. That's big. Stand up target on a pro. Getting a bit spoiled here. Not stand up, drop target. Always makes those two up for some reason. In my head I know exactly what I mean but it doesn't come out right.
    39:54
    You want to make sure you don't jam it in somewhere so you get big chunks of wax lying around. That's never nice. It's not nice at all. It doesn't look very good. That's why you just do the big surfaces and then the wax will travel with the balls where it needs to be. The added bonus is that it's really easy to clean and wipe down with nafta. That's the main reason why you would do this in the first place.
    40:37
    Because one thing that I don't like is cleaning games. It's really boring. All right, so now while we wait for that to kind of finish, let's figure out what we're going to do in the back box here. We need to... I need to get the SD card out. What is this? Why is the translight jammed?
    41:05
    Hello. Did they add another lock for this? or am I am I am I dumb or no no there's just nothing there or did they somehow change how you take this out oh shit this is gonna I'm gonna fling this across the room do I need to look in the spike 3 manual for this seriously
    42:07
    yeah it doesn't say anything I mean these are the same ones that they've always sent with them earn more money with pinball and this is old as well Well, this is not updated with spike 3, is it?
    42:41
    No. Well, fair enough they don't explain how to take the back glass off, so. I guess. Anyone in chat have a Star Wars? Tell them how to do this. Keys for the back box. Yeah, I locate the lock above the LCD. Yeah, you're just supposed to lift it. I must be... What am I doing wrong? There's like something jammed in there. Something jammed in the bottom here. I'm not making it up. Seriously. Okay, I'm getting one out.
    43:59
    Okay, here it is. I need to figure out what that was. Jesus Christ. It almost felt like I was going to... It going to crush the glass Don want to deal with that Alright the infamous Spike 3 The good thing is that they have these lids on top here so we can just pop our cables in there. And the lid fits perfectly in one of the cable retainers there. So I'm going to use that and now I need to figure out where the SD card is. It's right there. It's a Raspberry Pi card. Interesting enough. Enough. Alright, I'm just gonna... I'm right here.
    45:08
    Gonna use... Balina. Or Buleyna, what is it? Balina, I'm not sure. Yes, open. Select target. system drive oh don't say my adapter isn't compatible that will make that will make me sad oh there we go 64 gig
    45:49
    flash all right password All right, 70 megs per second. 15 minutes. Jesus. All right, so that leaves ample time to leave the wax drying. they said that the updated speakers they kind of look upgraded but still very simple one trick they could have done and just like put a sticker on them and that just makes them look more expensive it's a dumb idea but a lot of people think that the more decals you have on things the better they are the faster they are and like all that good stuff alright so I forgot what I came here for yes I have my capture kit here that I ripped out from Kong I'm just going to use this, I'm not going to use it verbatim I am going to unplug the the HOV. I have the each of the pinball daughter board here right that you use for spike 2. This will undoubtedly still work. Undoubtedly because it's still the same LVDS interface right. But since HOV pinball doesn't ship to the US anymore I'm gonna put that on eBay for $500 $500 and here's another this is this is another litmus test here I'm gonna perform this is the this is the little pin sound harness to do line out it says spike is there says spike to CN yeah I won't be able to focus their dumb camera that's me there we go spike to CN 5 and I think is that this board has a CN 5 as well and let's see if it works yeah so there's for the headphone jack yeah so you got yeah just looking at the pin out here oh it doesn't look like it's the same
    49:03
    We'll see. We'll see. It fits. So it fits. It doesn't have to mean anything. And I know all the haters in chat and people on YouTube, they like to know stuff, right?
    49:27
    And I also want to say that I also know stuff. I know that they are sending the audio signal in the HDMI cable. But if you've been doing this as long as I have, you know that that is like as useful as sending this sound over Bluetooth. Because it will have something called latency. When you do the analog to digital conversion that you need to do to put that on the HDMI cable, there's a delay. And that delay, it will turn into a...
    50:15
    I don't know what the effect is called, but it's like a delay. There will be like a reverberation. like a slight delay so the sound from the speakers will leak into my microphone my player microphone because I still want the sound on the game and then on the stream it's just like oh I'm going to capture HDMI my audio and send that out to the stream, right? And the thing is, like, if you're not monitoring that, you don't know that your audience is basically listening to a big reverberation or echo or whatever you call it, right?
    51:06
    And it's pretty terrible. I've sort of mistakenly done, captured, like, sound from two different kind of devices accidentally, like having a mic in one camera and having an audio interface.
    51:25
    And it does not mix well. It doesn't work. It's just not how you do things. So with this now, with this line out, I just plug that into my mixer with my player mic, and the sound is perfect. Perfect because the line out is the same that goes to
    51:50
    the amplifier here and to the speakers. So everything will play on the same hertz so to speak. All right, so that was easy. We still have another eight minutes to go here on the flash card. We can do a glass swap here while I'm dealing with this.
    52:20
    So my TX sector is currently my placeholder. Not placeholder, but my expensive glass placeholder. and I can't stream this game with my current rig so it's the bane of having the layout that I have on the garage at the moment that some games will just have to suffer where's my two other I'm going to put them in here
    53:01
    Oh, shit! It held, I think. That was the glass. If you heard that big bang, that was the glass, the back glass, the trans light, whatever. Because I was clever putting it against the It actually looks like the glass is still whole. Well, good thing it didn't break because you don't want to end up on the degenerates website now do you? and good thing nobody heard that because that was pretty loud oh let's see but oh yeah it looks like it's still in one piece Well, there's two dirty fingers on the back glass. Look at that. Whose dirty fingers are those? I kind of just look so whited out. there's some real dirty dirt in mittens there all right what we got five minutes 30 seconds to lift off how's the wax coming along here yeah it is drying it's drying just fine how's everyone doing in chat are you playing pinball So here's another thing. I'm not quite... I don't know the rules on this game, right? Let me see if I can get my phone in.
    55:44
    I'm currently busy with my other hand. Here we go. That one there, use the action button for Jedi ball save.
    55:55
    When there's no magnet there, is there still a ball save? So you can just kind of jam the button and get the ball back? Like a guaranteed ball save? How is that going to work?
    56:06
    Who knows? You can kind of get in a little bit closer. You can see my wax here. So this Stormtrooper is just a stand up. Is that a drop target? No it's not. Here is my drop target. Just fill that with wax. This one actually needs to go down a little bit here. anyhow alright the wax kind of looks dry enough
    57:08
    I might as well just wipe that down see if I can see how many minutes I left here three minutes ETA and I'm almost losing my pants and you should use a nice clean microfiber to just wipe it off and do a little bit of buffing. Yeah, those optical spinners, very good invention I must say. And I haven't watched that many gameplay videos, but I heard somebody say that they have a pretty cool sound effect. attach to them. Appreciate that. Oh, is this another cost-saving measure here? Like seriously, I didn't get any mylar in my inlines. Seriously. And they drop in the ball directly on the switches. Like seriously.
    58:52
    They need to send me my Mylar. Yeah, this thing needs Cliffy's. Cliffy is going to be busy. Because I kind of thought that we had stopped dropping balls in the switch slits. But here we are. Star Wars 2025.
    59:22
    But yeah, I guess it's really compact, the slings and such. another drawback to kind of like drop the ball like too high. But this doesn't make sense. So the right ramp doesn't even feed to the inline switch. So I guess you can't collect that rollover I mean because there's I mean didn't know there's no opt or bullshit there that is just really odd there's a lot of dust in the ramps here why is it it's really dirty
    60:43
    Oh wow, it's set up really steep right now. I need to adjust that. I can adjust that while it's loading I guess.
    61:19
    Oh shit, it's validating. That's going to take a... Oh, I can skip that. But I might as well validate it to make sure the file downloaded and burned. It is a 64 gig image after all.
    61:34
    All right, there we are. Let me just do some adjusting of the legs. be fairly fairly flat. I think it's flat in the back. Yep. I'm just gonna do the lazy leveling and just raise in the front because that's what I have access do at the moment. Oh shit my lift is on.
    62:37
    Yeah we're gonna see some gameplay soon chat. Hold it there I'm just downloading the latest code. Put that in the SD card get the game hooked up to to Stern. But from what I understand there is no achievement on this game yet, or did I read that wrong? Yeah, I kind of like to have the bubble just touching the upper black line.
    63:43
    A little, a smidge more. All right. Looks good. Might as well tighten the back as well. The game is not going to be here. The thing is my garage is kind of like all garages. They just lean outwards. So I'm going to have to redo the legs entirely when I move it in the lineup. All right chat, we're getting closer. We are getting closer. I just need to clean my balls. We got six balls and they're all smudgy. I use alcohol. I do with all my problems You also want to inspect your balls for dings and dents and stuff like that Make sure that they are not from the bottom of the pile so to Make sure they're all grease and smudge free. I'm using the worst type of wipe for this, like the blue shop stuff from Home Depot. just disintegrate but they clean really good.
    67:24
    So I'm a little bit excited getting a new display in you know and see if the sound works. I wonder if this they must have increased the sample hurts for Spike 3, I'm hoping at least. Like Strangier Things, it's just really screechy, which wasn't very pleasant compared to a different spike to game but I haven't heard any other game as bad as that one so it might have just been a one-off does anything look really different inside between spike to spike three yeah I mean not really they can I move the power supply somewhat. That's one thing that's kind of different. Let me see if I can just
    68:39
    get you in there while I clean up the balls. That's what it looks like currently. They kind of moved the whole kind of the power supply and kind of like the outlet on the back box. So they kind of did some work on the back box, right? Because everything has moved to the left and kind of have that centered. And I guess that makes sense. You kind of want to have the weight of the machine centered.
    69:07
    I don't think that's a bad choice at all. And since they don't really need any other boards than the Spike 3 board, I think that's a good choice.
    69:22
    At the end of the day, there's no need to change something that kind of works. I appreciate that the line out cable from Pinsound just clicked in and it's moved. It was here before, just where the amp is right now. But now it's at the bottom there and like I can live with that.
    69:52
    And then they have what else is new here? Oh, wait, there's two HDMI ports here. I wonder which one is the actual HDMI I'm going to use. I'm going to have to test that.
    70:07
    What does it say here? So they got a diagram here. ah it's just actually CN17 HDMI 1 mirror display then they have HDMI 0 which is an AUX display I had such problems getting the glass out they put some smudge not smudge they put a I completely forgot what it's called. You know, like the things that you put in windows, like a seal. There's a seal there, like a beer seal, but it's at the top. And I appreciate that because, you know, the glass kind of rattles, but it requires a lot of force to pull it out.
    71:02
    And I think that is just one of those things that they're going to have to adjust a little bit. I wonder, do we want to look underneath the playfield? I think I want to look underneath the plate before I put my balls in.
    71:16
    I need to put in the tilt bob anyway. So no cheating. Yeah, the speakers are different. I think they're...
    71:28
    I don't remember them looking like that, right? And obviously they've redesigned the whole kind of speaker panel entirely.
    71:42
    I'll give you a little fly-by of the pro playfield. There's nothing exciting in the goodie bag, I think. one thing I liked with Jack's games is that he put in like flipper toppers like stickers for the flippers if you wanted to put them on they were in there I think that was pretty neat oh come on
    72:28
    I'm just gonna show you what it's oh my god watch where you put your feet so it actually looks pretty busy underneath for as kind of bland and mundane it kind of looks I mean King Kong had less things underneath it almost felt like because all the hardware is on the top there but this kind of so this is an electric motor here okay so that's the death storm mech here it sits on springs here and I guess that motor kind of like pulls it down and I wonder where you can adjust the height here usually you have like a little a bolt there that kind of like adjusts the height of things like this when you want to get things flush. But it does not have that, so that's interesting. Interesting design.
    73:42
    What else was I asking for before? Yeah, that's where the ball goes, but it probably just goes into the popper here. So there's a popper inside the Death Star and there's a popper for the waveform interesting I guess we'll figure that out once we start playing where all the balls go Okay so this is the Vader scoop here, very standard kind of spit out
    74:26
    yeah and that's it and then we got some note boards and two note boards for the play field yeah that's it I'm my own cameraman I'm a one-man production here all right so now we've Oh yeah, Tilt Bob, Tilt Bob, Tilt Bob.
    75:07
    And I guess I need an earplug for this as well. And I'm pretty sure that... Yeah, so why can't they just center these things? Like, isn't it that difficult? they're always like hanging all over the place. yeah I think I'm run out of the earplugs so So, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that.
    76:03
    Is that an earplug? Oh, that was a bulb. Check. I'm not going to have to deal with that later. Alright, flash complete. We are ready to fire it up. such a tiny tiny tiny all right let's uh let's do this
    77:13
    ... Version 85. ... Shite. Oh, balls. We're going to need some balls.
    77:51
    Yeah, that one feels like shit. Alright, there we go. That doesn't touch the switch. It's really odd. Okay.
    78:08
    Free play. Yes. If you ever come near my house you can steal my Wi-Fi password. Connected. But the...
    79:25
    No. It's not connected. Oh there we go. That's at least my... RFC 1918 network. Need to log in. Since you're not doing this every day, you kind of forget how to do it.
    80:27
    New machine registration is pending. You do realize it didn't say table here. Complete. Raccoon City Pinball.
    80:54
    I only have two Stern games, two inside a connected game. All right, save and exit. So I want to put on the alternative
    81:10
    There's an audio menu somewhere. Oops. Yeah, somehow it double clicks pricing. Streamer friendly. There we go. When enabled, licensed music tracks will not be heard in the game. Knocker off. I think that's good enough. All right, let's see if I can get the glass back in. Yeah, I don't want to deal with this again.
    82:07
    But I will have to. All right, so I need to get this down first. Well, they have put like seals a little bit everywhere, not here. But so I guess that will stop a lot of the rattling. And I appreciate that, especially when you kind of put in bigger bass speakers and stuff like that. Yeah, this does not feel good.
    82:38
    But I guess it fits snug there. Maybe you just need to take it out and put it in a couple of times. Standard game mode. I guess I'm going to play with the home-friendly settings with randomness and stuff like that, just because.
    83:00
    I hope I don't short anything. That's the back box keys. Oh, we're so close to flipping now. We're so close to flipping. All right. I should probably just play one test game before I set the rig up on it. I will move the camera so you'll see some action going on here. But I will roll the rig over and get the whole experience once we get there. I'm probably gonna blow the game to smithereens on game one and kind of get it on a weird side angle.
    84:24
    This game is full of Kong spits. That's the glass. That's the game this glass was in the last time. Oh shit.
    84:46
    And with all the HD glass and Invisiglass and whatever It's important to do what I just did there You need to have one wet and one dry Otherwise you will have smear to fight Till kingdom come I have no idea what the streamer friendly music sounds like This is going to be an experience it is going to be an experience.
    85:28
    I probably need to crank up the ISO to the ceiling here so you can see something. Okay, we're just going to hit start to see what happens.
    85:47
    And I'm just going to turn off the processor because it does not like music. Alright so. Yoda's eyes are just so trippy. Like, yeah, you can't see it there. So what am I, what am I should lit character shot start mission? Oh shite. Alright, it's a fast game. I appreciate it. Long ball save. Yeah, I like that lightsaber kind of... well, Stormtrooper is flashing here, what is that?
    87:31
    So that... So that, like, it feeds straight into the slingshot. Is that how it's supposed to... Nah.
    87:50
    So far I don't think I've hit a single shot. I would advise you to aim at one of the lit mission lights. Alright, let's see if I can hit a shot. No, stand up. No! I mean, did you see that? I did not hit a single shot. That is just ridiculous. I feel terrible. You feel terrible, I feel terrible. You should know better than to trust a strange computer. Yeah, I'm just gonna go with it. Let's assume the game is working. It appears you have a bad motivator.