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HolomodSP - Group Buy (Creature from the black lagoon LCD mod)

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Hi all,

I've been in contact with HolomodSP about the CFTBL mod he developed. My lagoon is gone and I was looking for replacements. IMO this is the best mod replacement out there (unless your a purist).

I have negotiated a group buy discount for the mod.

This is an expensive mod. I have attempted to reduce the price but will require 5 people to get to the new price point.

So far myself and @Matt Vince will be buying one each. So that leaves 3 people.


How much does it cost and what is included?

Normal sale price is €695 (Euro's).
Group buy option with the optional extra power supply is:
€675 (Power supply is normally charged at €21)
Total saving of €41

How will payment be made:

So to protect everyones money, payment will be made via PayPal Goods and Services which will incur a 5.5% fee. Unless the group comes to consensus that we would rather just pay via bank transfer and trust the machines arrive safely.

This will add an additional €37.13 to the order.

This would bring the total before UK shipping to:

€732.13

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS HASN'T YET FACTORED IMPORT DUTIES!

We should expect UK VAT of 20% plus an admin fee from the shipping courier my experience of stuff from Europe since brexit has always meant import should be expected.

Etimated import cost of
£115.60


OK, OK So what do I need to pay at the moment?

So at present the mod comes to £601.61 (currency conversion fluctuates so this will be subject to change)

This covers shipping, PayPal fee's and the mod itself to my UK address.

To reiterate this EXCLUDES SHIPPING FROM MY ADDRESS TO YOURS AND THE PREDICTED IMPORT FEE'S


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The product consists of a 11.6-inch high resolution screen (1920*1080), electronics to interact with the game and the necessary wiring. The product is upgradeable to add new features, correct bugs or increase the number of video animations. Right now the Full package includes 24 videos of the highest quality,

The following extra is being included in the cost as its recommended for anyone with mods to stop over stressing the machines PSU.
External Power Supply €21

Shipping has yet to be quoted but expect €15 each to cover shipping to the UK and a further £15 (approx) to ship it to your address once (unless you collect from me)


How long will it take to produce?

Estimation is 5-8 working days per product however efficiencies of performing the builds at once should reduce the build time. I will ask for an estimation once we have 5 people commited.

Do I need to consider anything else?

Yes! The LCD screen will add strain to the existing Capacitors inside the Driver board on your machine. If your machine hasn't had these replaced in the last 5 years you should consider replacement of these capacitors:

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The recommentation is to replace them with new Capacitors which are 22,000uF rated. I have sourced some online for about £7 each. (you will need to order and fit these yourself)


Web site:
https://www.facebook.com/Pinballsp

Github to download firmware Updates and User Manual:
https://github.com/pinballsp/Creature-HOLO-ModSP

Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/PINBALLSP/videos

Video of the mod in action:


Once we have the five people i'll reconfirm the price and shipping so we know the exact total to pay.

Cheers,

Scott
 
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Yes! The LCD screen will add strain to the existing transistors inside the Driver board on your machine. If your machine hasn't had these replaced in the last 5 years you should consider replacement of these transistors:

The recommentation is to replace them with Transistors which are 22,000uF capacitors.
When you say transistor you mean capacitor, right?
 
pinballSP is a crook, i wouldn't send him any money personally.
I take it, thats in referance to the unfinished DMD?

Funnily enough its inside this machine 🤣

I get it though he did abandon that mod. Were there other reasons however?
 
I take it, thats in referance to the unfinished DMD?

Funnily enough its inside this machine 🤣

I get it though he did abandon that mod. Were there other reasons however?
Pray it never goes wrong as he wont help you fix it lol

He's just a turd, just copies everyone's **** then writes a 10 page essay whining about how everyone copies him (when he releases a product like 5 years later so how does that work....) Does not give a **** about copyrighted material or stealing other devs idea's firmware etc.. he's been caught out so many times stealing other dev ****. Guy just cobbles together other peoples work basically. Not a dev id want to support personally.

You wait a 5 page essay will come in a few days about how I am the devil! :D
 
Holy **** that's a good mod. I'm very much a new pin type but Creech is one of my favourite games I've owned. I'd absolutely love a minter
 
I pretty sure you will only get the basic visual package, you have to pay extra for certain extra video for the screen.
 
I pretty sure you will only get the basic visual package, you have to pay extra for certain extra video for the screen.
That's correct.

We get 24 Videos

The extra videos pack is priced at a discount of €289 euro's each.

The option is there if people want it.
 
Buyer beware, I'd say - if you're happy with potentially NO support then go for it.

He promised to update his DMD to full colour support once work on the Holomod had completed. I see he's on to his next project now (and it's not the colour support for the DMD!).
 
Absolutely love that mod and could well be interested for my Creech but have concerns about the aftermarket support or lack of
 
I get people have there reservations myself and Matt will likely proceed at any rate and report back any problems.
 
hmmm - wouldnt get involved with him at all.

Sadly he doesnt help you out with any issues.

Bought a load of pin2dmds off him - some failed in a few months.

He used to be on this forum but he doesnt show his face anymore.

He made his own rip off of pin2dmd (I think your creature has one) - promised lots of way of colourisation - nothing came about.

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL.
 
hmmm - wouldnt get involved with him at all.

Sadly he doesnt help you out with any issues.

Bought a load of pin2dmds off him - some failed in a few months.

He used to be on this forum but he doesnt show his face anymore.

He made his own rip off of pin2dmd (I think your creature has one) - promised lots of way of colourisation - nothing came about.

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL.

Well that sucks. The mod looks so good. Will discuss with Matt..
 
His first DMD was a pin2dmd rip off and actually was first released running pin2dmd firmware until lucky1 got funny. His second version was actually a rip off of another open source DMD called rgb.dmd but like others said got bored of it and stopped developing it with zero support.

I hate to think how much stolen code is in this project, almost certainly all cobbled together from various other peoples work.
 
All chip in copy the SD card build your own, runs on a pi shouldn't be hard at all to reproduce.
 
He spends most of his time locking his mods down so almost certainly the sd cards are locked to the hardware via the pi unique serial number or something. Not sure just cloning the sd card will work.
 
Well I've just looked on GitHub you can download from there. I guess it's the blue board that would be the issue.
 
The man is a total scam merchant he is selling videos for 289? Did he create them? Or is he selling pirated content?
 
The man is a total scam merchant he is selling videos for 289? Did he create them? Or is he selling pirated content?
He had an artist draw them from scratch but I seriously doubt any of them are licensed
 
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Call me old skool but when I've played a creech with a screen in I've found it awfully distracting and out of place.

Ain't nothing like that original hologram!

To be fair the one in this thread at least seems to tie in with the gameplay
 
Call me old skool but when I've played a creech with a screen in I've found it awfully distracting and out of place.

Ain't nothing like that original hologram!

To be fair the one in this thread at least seems to tie in with the gameplay

Original holo is ace ..... the only problem is you don't get to enjoy it enough ! Only appears properly once the multiball is running .... which is fine but Creech has one of the most b*stard hard multiballs - being just 2 ball it's so easy for it to be over in a matter of flips :rolleyes: My neighbour loves playing Creech but he isn't much of a player , and he is always 'Where is the Creature , when do I see it ! I wanna see it ! ' ...then his multiball is over in seconds 😂
 
I thought he showed up randomly also?

I dreamt about creech last night oddly enough 😆
 
I thought there was another option in the pipeline from the guy that developed the animated TZ back screen.
 
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