Die hard Homebrew coming to pinfest 2026

[painterboy21]

Over the past two years me (building) and matt carr (coding) have been making a homebrew table that was designed by the vpw team for virtual pinball (check them out)
We are far from finishing but would like to share some progress pictures, we will also be bringing it to pinfest in beta format so people can test it out and give us feed back.

 

[MattCarr]

Welcome to the party pal

 

[Steve Hawley]

Looking forward to seeing it in action matey. You've worked hard on that!

 

[broomstick]

Looks amazing well done

 

[Big Phil]

Wow, brilliant work! Looking forward to seeing it.

But why did this post disappear then come back?

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Fantastic!

 

[Kaufmanised]

Looks awesome

 

[AlanJ]

Wow! look fwd to seeing that at pinfest!

 

[Bobbdobalina]

Great work, looks fantastic. Looking forward to infest even more!

 

[M4carp]

“Welcome to the party, pal!”

Nice work

 

[lukewells]

Nice work, that looks awesome!

 

[Arv]

Nice Data East / Sega looking play field.

Most excellent work!

 

[Poibug]

Great work. Can't begin to imagine the amount of hours put into it

 

[Epotech]

Look forward to playing. Looks fantastic.

 

[MattCarr]

Nice Data East / Sega looking play field.

Most excellent work!

Nice eye, that was the style era the table was designed for.

 

[steve brum]

Brilliant to see a Christmas pinball !

I always wanted to know why it's the British plane that gets smashed into the runway in the second film . A niggle that

 

[MattCarr]

@painterboy21 You’ve done an amazing job building this.

 

[Doggard]

To see it go from this digital creation, to a fully working actual machine is truly awesome, tremendous work guys

 

[russdx1]

Deffo a DE vibe going on, looks like a production game, really good attention to detail.

 

[Pinslot]

Awesome! Every Christmas I watch DH with my wife and I always wondered why they never made a licensed game for this fantastic theme.

 

[replicas]

Great work, look forward to seeing this at Pinfest 26.

 

[myPinballs]

Now build/finish timeshock

 

[MattCarr]

Now build/finish timeshock

Has anyone made a homebrew of that?

 

[myPinballs]

Has anyone made a homebrew of that?

There were some guys who started it but then it fizzled out into obscurity years back. Would b awesome to play a real one on them to.

Great work on the die hard game. I know first hand the effort it takes to make something decent like this, so i salute you!

What is the driver hardware underneath and what code framework?

 

[MattCarr]

There were some guys who started it but then it fizzled out into obscurity years back. Would b awesome to play a real one on them to.

Great work on the die hard game. I know first hand the effort it takes to make something decent like this, so i salute you!

What is the driver hardware underneath and what code

The hardware is Fast Pinball and the code is Mission Pinball.