someone said some guy gave JJP a hard time at his WOZ launch and kept asking where his machine was etc, this is why Stern release products in a timely manner without the code being a million percent, cause u can easily upgrade the code later, and its best to ship the machines to people who have paid monies.

When i prepaid for my AC/DC BNIB, i was happy to get the machine straight away, and do my own code upgrades which is soo simple to do, versus waiting and waiting and waiting for my machine that i have paid for, then to be kept getting told we havent finished the code yet so u cant have your machine.

Updating code later and sending out machines that still play excellent with early code anyway, is the smart move. People can add code, but if the machine isnt in your home, and still sitting at a factory, that would annoy people more than having the choice to take a machine now, and upgrade your own software. Also, because it takes 30 days on seafreight, by the tiome the Stern machines get here from the USA, AMD can do the upgrade anyway so everyone wins. Also some people forget, its joe public who helps Stern with code updates via feedback, and Stern cant possibly do everything without imput from the public etc.

The next Stern will need a code upgrade like all the others, but no big deal. Also, people forget that even Williams, bally, Sega, Data East, Gottlieb all did the same thing, so why all of a sudden is this code upgrading a big deal ?