DP THE BIG LEBOWSKI User manual

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OPERATIONS MANUAL
This manual is written for rmware release 0.54

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CONGRATULATIONS WITH YOUR
THE BIG LEBOWSKI™
PINBALL MACHINE!
Launch the ball and enter the world of The Dude!
More than 200 quotes and clips from the movie
Brunswick™ Bowling Alley with 10 controlled pins
3 Flippers and multi-level playeld
We hope you will enjoy this game. Our mission is to bring fun to the world, and we believe we have
succeeded in designing and building the best pinball machine ever, using high quality animations, music,
light and SFX, immersive gameplay and love for the details.
We hope you will love it as much as we do.
Team Dutch Pinball
CONTACT DUTCH PINBALL
If you have any questions, you can contact us via our website www.dutchpinball.com.
For support requests you can use [email protected]

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DISCLAIMER
• Dutch Pinball B.V. is not liable for damages resulting from non-compliance with the instructions in
this manual, or from modifying the machine.
• When setting up the pinball machine, the backbox must be secured with the backbox latch and the
two provided wing screws as described in the Game setup instructions further in this manual.
• Repairs, maintenance, and electrical connections must only be carried out by a qualied technician.
• Never remove warning or information stickers from the machine.
• Never use the machine during a thunderstorm. In that case, immediately disconnect the plug from
the power supply.
• Do not leave pieces of the packaging lying about (plastic bags, carton, etc.), keep this out of reach of
children as it poses a danger to them.
• Do not insert objects into the air vents.
• Do not expose the machine to shocks and vibrations. Do not use excessive force when installing or
operating the machine.
• Do not turn the machine on and o in rapid succession, this can shorten the longevity of the machine.
• Only use the machine indoors and prevent contact with water or other uids.
• Only use the machine if you are familiar with its functions.
• Prevent exposure to re and do not place the machine near inammable uids or gasses.
• The housing must remain closed during usage.
• If the machine is not in use or when it must be cleaned, you must disconnect the plug from the
power supply. Always use the plug to disconnect the power cord from the power supply.
Never remove the plug from the power supply by pulling the power cord.
• Make sure the machine is not exposed to extreme heat, moist or dust.
• Make sure the power cord does not get entangled and do not use the cord if it is damaged.
• Do not immediately turn on the machine after it has been exposed to large temperature uctuations
(such as after transport). Condensation can damage the device. Let the machine gradually reach
room temperature before turning it on.
• For adult use only. Children can only use the machine under supervision of an adult. Never leave the
working machine unsupervised.
• When replacing the fuses, only use fuses of the same type and class.
• The user is responsible for correct installation and use of the machine. Dutch Pinball B.V. is not liable
for damages resulting from misuse or an incorrect installation of the machine.
• WARRANTY: valid until one month after purchase date.
• If this machine is used in a manner not described in this manual, the product can be damaged, and
the warranty will be voided.
• Any other use can lead to hazards such as short circuit, burns, electrical shocks, constriction,
jamming, etc.
• Do not place objects, food, or beverages on the pinball machine.
• Do not kick, push, or hit the pinball machine. Playing pinball is a lot of fun but can be frustrating and
trying too. Not everybody is as cool and relaxed as The Dude.
• The pinball machine must never be tilted. There is risk of crushing and even death!
• The pinball machine can only be connected to a grounded power supply. Any other use can lead to
hazards such as short circuit, burns and electrical shocks.

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SAFETY WARNING
• In general: use your common sense. Do not experiment. Do not be a nihilist.
• The maintenance of this machine or the replacement of parts can only be carried out by a qualied
technician.
• Always use utmost care when maintaining the machine and always consult the manual for replacing
or maintaining parts. The manufacturer accepts no responsibility for injuries caused by unauthorized
operation.
• Use only original spare parts. Modications may only be carried out with prior written permission of
Dutch Pinball B.V. The use of unauthorized parts voids the warranty.
• Never tilt the machine! There is risk of crushing and death!
• This product is protected by copyright. Do not copy the Dude, be original!
• Keep long hair, ngers, jewelry, etc. away from turning parts of the system.
• The power supply shall be installed near the equipment and shall be easily accessible. The main plug
shall be connected only to a power supply provided with a protective earth contact.
• Do not allow liquid to get into the machine.
• Always unplug the machine before you open the playeld because of the high voltage and/or
damage that you can cause to the system.
• Do not install or store in rooms subject to extremes of temperature and/ or humidity. The system
should always be transported with the backbox DOWN.
• A small percentage of the population can be prone to seizures when exposed to certain images, such
as ashing lights or patterns. Also, persons without any medical history of epilepsy can have an
underlying condition which can cause an epileptic seizure when exposed to ashing lights.
• Also, people with epilepsy and/or balance disorders should stay away from this game.
• Do not play this game too long. It might cause pain in your arms, hands, ngers but also in your legs.
In fact, in your whole body including your eyes and other senses. Also, people with heart or brain
problems should not play this game. Dutch Pinball will and cannot be held liable for any harm or
damage. Play or look at this game at your own risk. You may enter a world of pain.
• For adult use only. Children can only use the machine under supervision of an adult.
• This system contains explicit and sexual language. The factory default setting mode is family. Do not
change this setting unless you want to be oended.
• When people under 21 years old are within 100 meters of this system, the system must be set on
family mode.
• People under 21 years old are not allowed to play this system without explicit permission and gui
dance of one of their parents.
• The manufacturer accepts no responsibility for any harm done to children, adults and/or seniors nor
to any pets or objects in the house or from outer space.

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WARRANTY AND RETURN POLICY
Warranty terms
• The electronic system, the mechanical parts, and the software of this Dutch Pinball B.V. pinball
machine are designed to work with original accessories and machines of Dutch Pinball B.V. Any
alteration, reparation or modication with parts not produced by Dutch Pinball, the warranty will be
voided. Also, any alteration, reparation or modication by a non-authorized person will void the
warranty.
• A warranty period of 1 calendar month applies to most parts, unless specied otherwise in the
description.
• The warranty does not apply to wearing parts, such as rubbers, silicone rings, stickers, and the glass
plate. The sole liability of Dutch Pinball B.V. concerns the replacement or repair of parts which have
been returned during the applicable warranty period.
• Open the packaging and inspect the pinball machine immediately upon receipt. If the packaging
shows obvious signs of transport damage, do not accept the package, or only under strict reservation.
• When returning the pinball machine, use the original packaging. The shipping costs are at the
expense of the buyer.
• Unless specically agreed otherwise, no other warranties, either explicit or assumed, apply to the
pinball machine.
• The maintenance of the pinball machine or the replacement of parts can only be carried out by a
qualied technician.
• This document and the information contained therein may not be reproduced or used, partially or
in its entirety, without express written permission of Dutch Pinball B.V. The products in this manual,
the company name and the designs are protected by design registrations, trademarks, and
copyright. In case of infringement or imitation, legal action will be taken. Dutch Pinball maintains the
right to change specications without prior notice.
Return policy
• Only new, unused, and unmodied parts and accessories can be returned or exchanged. The parts
or accessories must have been purchased with Dutch Pinball B.V. or one of its authorized
distributors. Parts or accessories which have been used or show wear and tear will not be accepted.
• All return requests must be submitted within 30 days after purchase. This can be done by sending an
email to [email protected]. You will then receive instructions for further processing.
• All shipping and additional costs are at the expense of the buyer.
• If the complete machine must be returned, use the original packaging. Parts must be properly
packed. Dutch Pinball B.V. is not liable for any transport damage or loss of shipments during
transport.
• A purchase receipt must be submitted.
• If it is determined that a restitution will take place, it will be done with the same payment method as
the original payment.
• Exchange options depend on availability.
• Dutch Pinball B.V. reserves the right to reject the request to restitution or exchange.
• Dutch Pinball B.V. reserves the right to change the provisions of this policy at any moment.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Before you start enjoying the machine, you should be aware that TBL comes with a protection
mechanism which takes o the High-voltage (48 VDC) and the 12 VDC from the playeld when the coin
door is opened. This will, for instance, disable the stepper motors and coils. This is to ensure your safety.
The switch responsible for this protection can be found on a bracket at the left side of the coin door.
If you want to disable this protection during testing, you have to pull the pin on this switch till you feel it
click. The protection circuit is now disabled! It is important be aware of this when you touch parts at the
bottom of the playeld. If you close the coin door, the protection is re-instated for the next time.
ABBREVIATIONS
TBL – The Big Lebowski
MPF – Mini Play Field
MMB – Middle Main board (the big PCB under the playeld)
FMB – Front Main Board (the smaller PCB at the front near the ippercoils)
DP – Dutch Pinball

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE BIG LEBOWSKI ............................ 8
GAME SETUP INSTRUCTION ..................................................11
GAME CONTROL LOCATIONS ..............................................26
Cabinet Switches ......................................................................27
Coin Door buttons ..................................................................28
MENU FUNCTION..............................................................................29
Test Menu .........................................................................................31
Switch test ........................................................................................31
Solenoid test ..................................................................................32
LED tests .............................................................................................33
Flasher test ......................................................................................36
Stepper motor test ................................................................37
Bowling Opto test ....................................................................39
Adjustment Menu ................................................................... 40
Standard Rules............................................................................40
TBL rules .............................................................................................43
Bowling ................................................................................................43
Character modes .....................................................................44
Light lock diculty .................................................................44
Nihilists.................................................................................................45
Rug modes ....................................................................................... 46
Timers .................................................................................................... 46
White Russian Targets .......................................................47
Miscellaneous .............................................................................. 48
Pricing/Awards ............................................................................48
Coil strengths................................................................................50
Toys ..........................................................................................................51
Sound .....................................................................................................51
Display ..................................................................................................52
LEDs .........................................................................................................53
Start Button ....................................................................................53
Live ............................................................................................................55
Euro score format ................................................................... 56
Attract mode .................................................................................56
Audits menu...................................................................................57
Coil Audits .........................................................................................57
Game Audits ..................................................................................58
Player Proles ..............................................................................58
Install Presets ...............................................................................59
Software menu ...........................................................................60
Current version .......................................................................... 61
Version Select ...............................................................................61
Internet update ..........................................................................61
USB update .....................................................................................62
PLAYER PROFILE IN DETAIL ...................................................63
GAMEPLAY RULES.............................................................................67
Game rules: quick overview ........................................69
Skill Shot .............................................................................................70
Kickback ..............................................................................................71
Scoop ......................................................................................................71
Mark it zero .....................................................................................71
Multipliers ......................................................................................... 72
Multiball ..............................................................................................73
Character Multiball ................................................................74
Car modes ........................................................................................ 75
Bowling Alley .................................................................................76
Rug modes ....................................................................................... 77
Nihilist mode ................................................................................. 78
Extra ball ............................................................................................78

INTRODUCTION:
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 crime comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen,
starring Je Bridges as Jerey “The Dude” Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is
assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, after which The Dude learns that a millionaire (also named
Jerey Lebowski) was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski’s trophy wife is kidnapped, and he
commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release; the plan goes awry when the Dude’s
friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) schemes to keep the ransom money. Julianne Moore, Steve
Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro and Philip Seymour Homan also appear in supporting roles.
PLOT
In 1991 Los Angeles, Jerey “The Dude” Lebowski, a middle-aged bachelor with a penchant for cannabis
and bowling, is assaulted by two goons hired by pornographer Jackie Treehorn, demanding money owed
by the wife of another Jerey Lebowski (the eponymous “Big Lebowski”). Realizing they have the wrong
man, they leave after one of them urinates on the Dude’s rug.
On the advice of his bowling partners Donny Kerabatsos and Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak, the
Dude seeks compensation from the other Lebowski, a wealthy, disabled philanthropist who refuses his
request. Leaving Lebowski’s mansion, the Dude takes a valuable rug and meets Bunny, Lebowski’s young
trophy wife.
Days later, the Dude is told that Bunny has been kidnapped, and Lebowski wants the Dude to deliver the
ransom money to nd out if the kidnappers are the same people who soiled his rug. The Dude informs
Walter and Donny about the kidnapping and suggests that Bunny may have staged her own kidnapping
to use the ransom money to pay o her debts; Walter is immediately convinced of this and becomes
incredulous at her greed. That night, another pair of thugs knock the Dude unconscious and take his
new rug.
The kidnappers arrange a meeting, and Walter accompanies the Dude. Still convinced that Bunny
“kidnapped herself”, he enacts a plan to give them another briefcase, containing Walter’s “dirty undies”,
so he and the Dude can keep the ransom money. To the Dude’s horror, Walter gives the kidnappers the
fake briefcase. After another game of bowling, the Dude’s car is stolen with the real briefcase inside.
Lebowski’s daughter Maude calls the Dude, explaining that she took the rug and inviting him to visit her.
She plays him a pornographic video revealing Bunny was one of Treehorn’s actresses. Conrming the
Dude’s theory that Bunny staged her own abduction, Maude asks the Dude to recover the ransom which
her father withdrew from the family’s personal foundation. Lebowski confronts the Dude, angry that
he failed to deliver the ransom, and shows him a severed toe presumed to be Bunny’s. Three German
nihilists threaten the Dude, identifying themselves as the kidnappers, however Maude says they are
friends of Bunny.
The Dude’s car is recovered by police, minus the briefcase, but inside the Dude nds the homework of a
high school student named Larry Sellers. Walter and the Dude confront Larry at his family’s home, and
Walter uses a crowbar to wreck a new sports car parked outside which he believes Larry bought with the
stolen money. The car’s real owner rushes outside and wrecks the Dude’s car in revenge, thinking it to
be Walter’s.

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The Dude is forcibly brought to Treehorn, who is seeking Bunny and the money she owes him. Treehorn
drugs the Dude’s white Russian cocktail, causing him to dream about starring in a Treehorn lm about
bowling with Maude. Awakening in police custody, the Dude is assaulted by the Malibu police chief. After
being kicked out of a cab for hating the Eagles, the Dude is unknowingly passed by Bunny, revealed to
still have all of her toes. The Dude returns home to nd his bungalow ransacked by Treehorn’s goons.
He is seduced by Maude, who hopes to conceive a child but wishes him to have no involvement in its
upbringing. She explains that her father has no money of his own, as her late mother left everything to
the family charity.
Having had an epiphany, the Dude has Walter drive him to the Lebowski estate, where Bunny has
returned, and the truth of her disappearance is revealed: When Bunny left town on an unannounced
trip, her nihilist friends faked her kidnapping to extort money from her husband; Lebowski, who hated
his wife, withdrew the ransom from the foundation but kept it for himself, instead giving the Dude
a briefcase containing phone books. Walter and the Dude confront Lebowski, who refuses to admit
responsibility, so Walter picks him up and throws him out of his wheelchair, thinking he is also faking his
paralysis.
The Dude and his friends return to the bowling alley, where they are confronted by the nihilists.
Learning there was never any money, the nihilists try to rob them but Walter violently fends them o.
During the scue, Donny suers a fatal heart attack and dies.
Some time later, after delivering an informal eulogy to Donny at the beach, Walter accidentally scatters
Donny’s ashes onto the Dude. They go bowling, and the Dude encounters the lm’s cowboy narrator,
who tells the audience that Maude is pregnant with a “little Lebowski” and hopes that the Dude and
Walter will win their upcoming bowling tournament.
“A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about,
fella by the name of Je Lebowski. At least, that was the handle
his lovin’ parents gave him, but he never had much use for
it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude...”
THE STRANGER

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GAME SETUP INSTRUCTION
UNBOXING THE BIG LEBOWSKI™ PINBALL
Safety regulations
Please make sure you set up the game with at least 2 persons. A pinball machine is an extremely heavy
machine and not setting it up correctly may result in injuries.
Tools needed

Wire cutters or scissors

Bubble level

5/8” wrench, or 16 (metric) wrench

Utility knife
Box contents
After opening the box, check if all parts listed below are in the box. These can all be obtained after the
box has been opened at the top.

4 Pinball legs

4 Pinball Leg levelers with tightening nuts

8 Leg bolts

The ‘Rug’ (rolled up)

3 Plastics for key chain

 6Steelpinballs(5fortheplayeld,and1fortheBowlingAlley)

1 Line power cable (based on your country)

 2Butterybolts

2 keys for backbox

2 keys for coin door

1 Plumb Bob (for the tilt mechanism)
Envelope contents
The envelope in the box contains:

Letter with information about software updates and support.

2 Score cards

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STEP 1
Remove all shipping bands and identify the
“TRUCK THIS SIDE ONLY” side of the machine.
STEP 2
Open the top of the box by carefully
removing the tape and/or staples and
fold the aps to open the box.
STEP 3
Remove accessory box, cable and
envelope.

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STEP 4
Use a utility knife to cut along the dashed
lines on the “TRUCK THIS SIDE ONLY” side
of the box.
STEP 5
Let this ap fall on the oor. You can
also choose to completely remove
this ap by cutting it o, but it’s not
necessary.
ATTENTION: Don’t cut the strap that is
holding the backbox!!
STEP 6
Carefully remove the carton xation on
top and remove the legs.

PREPARE THE LEGS AND LEG LEVELERS
STEP 7
The tightening nut on the leg levelers should be all to the bottom for the
two front legs and approximately two-thirds from the top of the leg leveler.
Thread the leg leveler into the legs until de tightening nut is against the
underside of the leg and tighten it with a standard 3/8” (or 10 mm) wrench.
STEP 8
Mount the two front legs with two bolts for each leg.
Front legs Rear legs Mounted on the leg
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STEP 9
Carefully tip the game
on its front legs and
remove the carton
bottom xation.
STEP 10
Lift the rear of the cabinet with at least two persons and hold it in place.
Mount the rear legs with the remaining four bolts.
Carefully lower the game on its legs.
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STEP 11
Cut the nylon strap that holds the backbox down
and remove the remaining packing material.
STEP 12
Lift the backbox in its upright position. Please be
careful with the wires so they don’t get pinched
between the cabinet and backbox.
STEP 13
Lock the backbox in place with the backbox latch.
STEP 14
Remove screen protection (including the blue tape).
Remove screen
protection
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STEP 15
Use the keys to open the backbox lock.
STEP 16
Carefully lift the Backbox LED Panel, and take it out of the H-channel. ATTENTION: The Backbox LED
Panel has a wire attached to it to power the LED’s. Disconnect the connectors to remove the Backbox
LED Panel, or carefully place the Backbox LED Panel on top of the cabinet (see picture).
Open backbox lock

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STEP 17
Carefully lift the Speakerpanel out of
the backbox and carefully lay it down.
STEP 18
Tighten the two buttery bolts in the bottom of the backbox to secure it.
STEP 19
Put the Speakerpanel and Backbox LED Panel back in the backbox and close the backbox lock
(don’t forget to re-connect the cable).

STEP 20
Use the coin door keys
to open the coin door.
STEP 21
Pull the yellow lever to
the left (1) and lift the
lockdown bar (2).
STEP 22
Close and lock the coin door to prevent scratches
on the playeld glass.
STEP 23
Slide the playeld glass forward and
carefully set it aside (don’t put the
glass on a hard surface to prevent
the glass from breaking).
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2
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