HOW-TO MOD: Custom Music in your Classic Pinball Machine
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- There's likely a million different ways to achieve adding custom music, speech and sound effects into your classic solid state (SS) and Electromechanical (EM) arcade pinball machines. ... here is the way I successfully, reasonably and not too difficultly added custom Data Deluxe music in our 1977 Bally Night Rider pinball machine.
Note:
We've also done this mod on our:
Williams Tri Zone pinball
Bally Star Trek
Bally Future Spa
Most all parts were sourced from Amazon. The sub woofer was from Monoprice and the two micro switches were donated from a parted out Bally Judge Dredd pinball machine.
I gave the awesome DJ Mike from Data Deluxe some framework and direction of how I'd like the songs and like a tater chip, he let her rip!
The Sparkfun MP3 Trigger that handles the song triggers has plenty of online data (manual) of how to name your MP3 files and other important information for the first time user.
If you plan on doing this mod to your machine, please take a lot of time to evaluate the locations of the switch triggers to have reliable starting and ending of the music.
One other beauty of this mod is that at any time I want I can swap in different music on a Micro SD card and have a different game vibe on the same machine. (I do this semi-frequently on our Future Spa as I like the different songs that I had prepared while modding and testing it-- As for Night Rider, I love the package DJ Mike built and I need nothing more)
10-4 Good Buddy!
Sound is one of the biggest factors of why I like or dislike any machine. Now, outside of pinsound, I know how to make any older machine so much better. Thank you so much for the video!
I highly recommend doing this mod. Cheers!
Nice vid. I'd like to add some custom music (70's vibe) to my Bally's Strikes and Spares.
However, I'd also like to add some custom female sounds that say, "Oooh! a Strike!" (Think Dragons Lair Daphne type voiceover).
I'm thinking an Arduino controller of some sort with wires directly to the switches.
Cool ideas! I’ve tried using original switches connected to the MPU and had conflicts. Maybe some kind of isolating may work. I’m interested if you can pull this off. Please let me know as I’d love to do the same. Cheers!!
Looks like someone did what we envision on a Bally Paragon. The guy used an Arduino in conjunction with the Wave Trigger.
ua-cam.com/video/VDeCThowUhI/v-deo.htmlsi=aM8LNXCBh1k8suFU
Hello my friend, nice to meet you! Amazing job for the custom music on your machine. I want to do the same for my Gottliebs James Bond from 1980, can you please tell me which MP3 Trigger did you buy/use and where do you recommended me to purchase from? Thanks for your time and help! Have a great day!
Purchased them on Amazon. I kinda feel like they were about $20 bucks cheaper... but everything has gone up in price lately.
Cheers!
www.amazon.com/SparkFun-4334427041-MP3-Trigger/dp/B01BHHBJ4K/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=sparkfun+mp3&qid=1707761384&sr=8-3
By they way, I think you're going to love your James Bond with its new sound mod!
It’ll be really fun if we did Harley Davidson third edition
100%. And it would likely be more fun as well. 👍
Great job! Love what you did, hate the song you picked, but I am very old school, and would probably pick a CB trucker themed song, like Convoy, or something else from the 70's, like this! ua-cam.com/video/jAG4XXCOj48/v-deo.html