For Sale Judge Dredd - with Deadworld Mod, Crane replacement, DMD Extender and monitor, various lighting upgrades, plus spares - £2500

[Ross Hamilton]

Hi everyone!

After toying with selling this on and off for years, I finally decided that having only played it once or twice in two years it was time for JD to make way and let me put a grand piano in that corner of the dining room instead, which I'll convert to play itself (long story, if you don't know and are interested please visit my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@electricplayerpianos and see what I'm up to there).

I'm not great at describing games so instead I've taken loads of pictures and a fairly long video of me playing it. Of course, I got self conscious and started playing like a complete muppet, but later on I got into the swing of it and got through a bunch of modes, even managed to get 3 balls held in the Deadworld, so in the end it was a fairly good demonstration of the game. I'm happy to take other specific pictures if you want to ask for them.

What I can tell you straight away...

• The stock Deadworld ring is included but I swapped that out for the proper one with holes rather than slots, so you can play the game as originally intended and the balls stay locked in it rather than just falling onto the playfield.
• The stock Crane has been replaced with the rather cool one you'll see in the pics.
• Most of the playfield lights have been swapped from the original incandescents to LEDs - but I didn't like the way they lit up the translite so much in the backbox, so lots of those are regular bulbs.
• There are some lighting upgrades - an LED strip under the backbox which lights up the rear of the table, and spotlights mounted in various locations in the playfield.
• I bought replacement "Pursuit Ramp" plastics, but didn't get around to fitting them, they're in one of the pictures.
• There are some parts of the topper. This was broken when I got the machine and missing some small bits. I cobbled the rest together with some plastic resin, but at some point it fell off. Then we offered up rooms in the Homes for Ukraine thing when the war started, and our Ukranian guests thought they were junk and threw them out. I rescued some bits but suspect the rest went to landfill :-(
• There's a DMD Extender - this is a little board which intercepts the DMD signal and relays it out to anything that can connect to an old Raspberry Pi - so HDMI and composite video, I think. You can see this connected to a monitor on top of the backbox. I'll include the monitor too. The DMD Extender itself could do with fixing in place properly, the sticky pads on the feet that it shipped with have apparently given up being sticky.
• Some years ago Dave Langley replaced the battery with a Dallas NVRAM, so no more battery leakage fears ever again!
• Erm, that's all i can think of right now.

The bad points -

• The side art has faded, like all the ones this age it has lost its red tones. Interestingly the red still shows on the backbox side art.
• The legs are a bit pitted and untidy - they could do with rubbing down and polishing again.
• There's no lock for the backbox.
• There are the occasional cracked plastic and a few assemblies that wobble a bit more than you might desire when they get struck hard - it just wants someone to go to town on it, finding any loose screws and pillars and tightening it all up.
• I seem to recall that one of the leg plates isn't in great shape. Having said that, I might have got around to replacing it. I won't know for sure until it's time to take the legs off. I have a handy metalworker here now though, so if it's just a case of welding a new retaining nut onto it then I can get that fixed easily.
• I can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

I'm in Lincolnshire, between Horncastle and Skegness. Martin has been here many, many times. Lots of the group know me, indeed lots of them have played this machine when we used to often host the Christmas Cracker tournament and league meets.

Oh, and here's the YouTube video:

 

[Ross Hamilton]

Oh, and there's an entire spare motor assembly for the Deadworld too, see pics.

 

[Ross Hamilton]

Oh, and I'll throw this in

 

[Bertychewster]

My replacement eagle came today from Planetary Pinball . I thinks it's pretty good.
Glws

 

[Ross Hamilton]

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My replacement eagle came today from Planetary Pinball . I thinks it's pretty good.
Glws

Very nice! I always coveted one of those... or a set of Dredd figurines like these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=hiyato...oys+judge+dredd+figure,aps,102&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

[mac49uk]

Hey Ross - love it, will drop you a PM.