After making the magic Merlin Mod, I have more ideas in my mind to realise with my beauty mm.
So here is the standard Archer Mod for it.
For the new archer is a new plastic needed cutted with a laser…
The plastic need a little modification for the arrowhead but no problem
Here you can see the blank plastic
left the original one, right the empty plastic
here you see both new archer on the plastics
left one zoomed
right one zoomed
After month of using my virtual pinball cabinet with „only“ two Solonids for the flipperfinger and getting a real MM Pinball in August, I realised we are in need of more „ForceFeedback“ for our virtualpinball Cabinets.
After talking with chriz99 about this we posted in differnet forums and found Manofwar (the programmer) with Ext2k as betatester. They will release it when it will come out of the betastate…
I presented the new rumble feature last Saturday here in germany at the flippermuseum.eu and it was great.
So here are some infos about the upgrade I done.
To get Solonoids to work we choose the ledwiz32 from www.groovygamegear.com.
It can drive 32 Outputs and have the ability to make RGB-Colors with PWM dimmable.
It can drive up to 4 different Voltages for each of 8 Outputs. And the max is 50V per Output @500mA.
As the planed highpower Leds and solonids pulls a lot of current, I done some extra wires for the positive site like this. I don’t know if its needed but I want to be sure nothing goes wrong…
To see what we want to upgrade look here (Thanks to chriz99 for the picture):
In my first step I added 5 more Solonoids. So we have a total of 7 Solonoids
I have four with 24V from Gloeckner Moeller and three Siemens like chriz99/Ext2k.
Here you can see where I place the 7 solonids (marked red)
I used a power supply from a german electronic store with 12V and 5V like this
Make sure to use separate fuses for the powersupply, so nothing can’t go wrong!
We planed to use for the main flipperbuttons in transparent with RGB-Leds, so we can make it lite up in every color. It is planed to make them light up in the original color of the selected Pinball Table. So we have the same color of the Button as in the original Pinball Cabinet.
I am using a 5mm RGB-Led for this. The problem was if I put it to the site of the transparent button the color was not bright enough. So I tried to put the Led into the flipperbutton.
The original hole must be 5mm and I done it like this:
I added a replay knocker, but at the current time its not connected, because it takes a lot of current and an higher voltage (50V). So it will be connected later.. with the help of a separate relais that can handle this.
Missing at the moment. But it will rock the system later…
For „Flasher Effects“ I am using High Power RGB-Leds with 3W.
I done it for a first try this easy way
after adding all thes hardware it was time to test it.
For the first try I used the STNG Table and uses the config from Ext2k/Manofwar.
I added the slingshots via the Solonoid Documentation of the original STNG Pinball.
And the Autoplunger to the 2nd right Solonoid. As you know the table shots 4 Balls at startup into the table.
And I added the Bumper to Solonoids.
And added the flasher to the slingshots for a fast test.
So it lights up, when the ball hits a slingshot.
I haven’t so much fun for years with this rumble upgrade!
Thanks to Manofwar! and the betatesters… Virtual Pinball is coming more real as you can imagine.
Today I have to make a switchless mod for the good old Mastersystem in its original form.
No problem for me, after changing sebs code for Mastersystems few months ago.
After opening you have to go under the mainboard and cut 3 wires of the mainboard
The parts site is holding the pic as usual
I am using the same code I done for the mastersytem2
You have to remove the original 5mm LED and replace it with a RGB-Led with common plus like this one.
The resistors of the LED: 220Ohm. You can use higher ones, if the light is to bright.
Usage:
You can change the Modes via pressing the reset Button of the Mastersystem
If you press the reset button very short -> The Sega Console will do a reset
If you press the reset button longer the Led toggles between red and green.
If you let the button go at red the Mastersystem is set to 60Hz
If you let the button go at green the Mastersystem is set to 50Hz
Video:
I wasn’t happy with the Merlin standard Mod and I have some ideas in my mind.
So the deluxe Edition was born…
If you want some you can buy it at wolfsoft.de
Or look here for the attack from the merlins – a funny – link
The deluxe have to more features:
a) blue Color replaced by yellow. So it fitts better to the medieval Theme.
b) a flasher effect of the ball in red
Step a):
I done some modifications on the Merlin Mod. As blue is not my favorite color, I decided to make yellow for the Merlins Magic Insert instead of blue. This color fitts better to the MM theme.
Therefore I need more Leds. I found some SMD-RGB Leds and put them on the 5mm LED as you see in the following pictures.
So I have to add 8 wires to the „combo LED“.
Step 2:
I wanted to integrate a flasher effect. So I added a 3rd SMD-Led for this, because of the different Voltage Supplys in the pinball. The Led is connceted parallel to the right down flasher.
And all 8 wires must go through the little arm of the Merlin:
Its very small and you need a lot of soldering experience…
In the last state I was in search for the needed molex connectors and found them.
So its possible to make these Mod complete solderless. You have only to connect the Merlin in beetween Magic Hole Insert and the flasher right down.
Here you can see howto add the wires to the playfield:
connect the „combo“ to the Insert PCB
add the flasher molex here
Some picture of the final merlin
Video:
As there is a livetime competition between Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness, we found finaly the winner:
The Attack from the Merlins!
Today I done some Text for the Buttons and here we go and it looks a lot better as before:
Hi Folks,
last week I tried to illuminate a Merlin with a blue Led.
If you want a Merlin including this magic RGB-LED you can order it right here
This works good, but I have a better idea in mind. Put a RGB-Led into the Magic Ball.
The hardest part was to get the hole into the glass. A lot of Balls was destroyed during the making…
I am using a powerfull 5mm RGB-Led and reduce the size so it fits into the glas ball:
Now Its time to make place for the wires into the merlin
And here some wiring:
The LED:
First Impressions: Red,Green,Blue
Be on wire:
common plus site of the rgb LED (Pin2):
shematic:
In the final Version we will use shrinking tube and Molex Connectors so you have only to connect it in between to molex parts.
Look here for the molex Version, no soldering, only some doublesided adhesive needed
At the final place:
Video:
Today I take a blue Led 5mm with 39Ohm Resistor and connected it parallel to the Merlin Magic Lamp.
It is flickering to much, so I will add a Capacity to reduce it.
First I use some head shrink tube to reduce the angel of radiation and connect it to the merlin magic lamp (here you have to check the polarity).
way of the wire…
I am using double sided adhesive for position the led
Soldering:
Video:
Today I got the Capatult Led mod from pimpmypin.com
The documentation told me to remove the catapult ramp.
Oh no, so much work … There must be an easier way..
I opened the pinball like this and put in the led pcb:
The tricky part is the screw on the left site…
I used bothsided adhesive to get the screw at the right position:
and screwed this way
Hi Folks,
today I have done some easy mods for my mm.
I started with a Merlin and replaced the original fire with a magic ball 🙂
Here you can see some pictures (easy going…)
With the help of some hot glue the magic ball fits.
