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Digital Pinball
- Thread starter ChrisH
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Hi
I've been busy on this - got it very nearly finished,
95 tables, all present and correct with PinballX as the front end.
I gave up properly hinging the backbox so it's in 'EM mode' (you can detach it, but with care- its just held in with 4 leg bolts into cross-braces in the main body.)
Few issues with the analog nudging going out of calibration and giving phantom inputs
(I think this may be heat related as I 've not installed the rear fans yet)
But its dialled in other than that, although I'm not a greatly skilled nudger so would need to get someone who actually knows what they're doing to really tell me how good/bad it was.
Still got to sort out the artwork printing (will be TAF as I have good quality scans of this)
Also got to clean the legs and sort them out abit, so I have to kneel on the floor to play it at the moment.
Other than that a bit of cable tidying, install the fans and its done
I've got a load more pics - I'll upload them later on when I get home
Been playing a lot of CV on it as its one of the most recently done VP10 tables and looks fantastic
That's the problem with making a WIP playable, suddenly all the little finishing off jobs get put to one side for playtesting!
Edit: Also got to sort out some form of cover/rails for the playfield screen - probably just use a Perspex sheet and some right angled aluminium strips held on with double sided tape as it does need to be removable.
I've been busy on this - got it very nearly finished,
95 tables, all present and correct with PinballX as the front end.
I gave up properly hinging the backbox so it's in 'EM mode' (you can detach it, but with care- its just held in with 4 leg bolts into cross-braces in the main body.)
Few issues with the analog nudging going out of calibration and giving phantom inputs
(I think this may be heat related as I 've not installed the rear fans yet)
But its dialled in other than that, although I'm not a greatly skilled nudger so would need to get someone who actually knows what they're doing to really tell me how good/bad it was.
Still got to sort out the artwork printing (will be TAF as I have good quality scans of this)
Also got to clean the legs and sort them out abit, so I have to kneel on the floor to play it at the moment.
Other than that a bit of cable tidying, install the fans and its done
I've got a load more pics - I'll upload them later on when I get home
Been playing a lot of CV on it as its one of the most recently done VP10 tables and looks fantastic
That's the problem with making a WIP playable, suddenly all the little finishing off jobs get put to one side for playtesting!
Edit: Also got to sort out some form of cover/rails for the playfield screen - probably just use a Perspex sheet and some right angled aluminium strips held on with double sided tape as it does need to be removable.
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Few more pics as promised - 3 screen testing after swapping the GTX580 for a GTX660 as noted earlier
The time consuming work software wise is firing up each table to let it write out the NVRAM and then setting volume in the ROM and correctly locating the DMD.
You also need to set the script to uses the DB2S backglass (espically on alphanumeric games where this drives the displays)
So you have to go through each table.
That and making PinballX play nice took about a day, but its not difficualt so I just stuck on a few podcasts and did the lot in one hit,
Few ingame shots too - CV and MM are both in the new Visual Pinball 10 engine, whereas RBION is in the older VP9.
I need to take a few more - I've wired up the lights in the buttons at the front now.
I'll do a video at somepoint where I can show how the nudging works.....
The time consuming work software wise is firing up each table to let it write out the NVRAM and then setting volume in the ROM and correctly locating the DMD.
You also need to set the script to uses the DB2S backglass (espically on alphanumeric games where this drives the displays)
So you have to go through each table.
That and making PinballX play nice took about a day, but its not difficualt so I just stuck on a few podcasts and did the lot in one hit,
Few ingame shots too - CV and MM are both in the new Visual Pinball 10 engine, whereas RBION is in the older VP9.
I need to take a few more - I've wired up the lights in the buttons at the front now.
I'll do a video at somepoint where I can show how the nudging works.....
Nearly there - I'll do the artwork when I can be bothered to do some Photoshop work and I'll grab some acrylic and a couple of metres of 1x1cm right angled aluminium for the 'glass' and 'side rails'
But I've been allowed by my wife to put it up on its new legs for a few days to test, but I suspect I'll need to get pretty good at taking them on and off as even this machine is a bit of a squeeze in our tiny flat.
One slightly amusing aside is that with the accelerometer installed you do actually need to level the table as you would a real one, so a spirit level is required to set this one up
Apart from the above and a small bit of sanding and touching up (which will never happen as its on the back of the machine) I'd say I'm pretty much done
Any specific questions - I'm happy to help where I can
But I've been allowed by my wife to put it up on its new legs for a few days to test, but I suspect I'll need to get pretty good at taking them on and off as even this machine is a bit of a squeeze in our tiny flat.
One slightly amusing aside is that with the accelerometer installed you do actually need to level the table as you would a real one, so a spirit level is required to set this one up
Apart from the above and a small bit of sanding and touching up (which will never happen as its on the back of the machine) I'd say I'm pretty much done
Any specific questions - I'm happy to help where I can
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yeah that would be good, hopefully be at that stage in the new year.
Good to see you have it finished (well as finished as you need it anyhow)
Good to see you have it finished (well as finished as you need it anyhow)
