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multipin ultrapin can anyone give me a bit of advice ?

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That's for sale in here for £1400. Proper factory build so I understand.

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blobby said:
seen this on ebay
are they any good chaps only for my mancave to go with my no fear and fishtales
dont really know anything about them
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Multipin...027862?hash=item3d54b31656:g:zYgAAOSwRbtaPEjQ
thanks
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As many will tell you, they aren't pinball.....However, the better the build then the better the experience. The seller has built them before so knows what he is doing. This one has been upgraded, so will definitely be one of the better ones available for the money.

They are good fun and give you the chance to play games you normally wouldn't get hold of. If Part of a pinball collection then I would have another.
 
You could install visual pinball on a PC to get some idea of what the visuals and ball physics will be like.
 
I wouldn't say no to having one, but not at the prices commanded for a decent model - they're just not close enough to the real thing to pay real-thing prices, in my opinion. I'd personally find the money better spent getting the range of software + table DLCs for the various games out there, as I find that they teach the game well enough for me.
 
I have a self built one and it gets a lot of use, but mine is smaller than a real game and is my only option in this house (I tried getting a real one and it wouldn't go up the stairs :( even in bits )
They're good fun, and certainly better than nothing and much better than just the software on a standard PC.
Miles better than PinballArcade, but steer clear of any of the pre- VPX stuff, its old now and not worth it any more in my opinion.
 
It would also be pretty awesome if you could get Timeshock! on there, it's by far the best pinball simulation, even if they did stop development and fail to deliver some of the promises. I also enjoy the Zen Pinball FX stuff on my mini cabinet.
 
This is my table on ebay (and on here) - its emulation but it is a hell of a lot better than what it used to be. The good thing is I can play Big Bang Bar/Cactus Canyon Continued/MM/AFM/CV/TAF anytime I want.

The original ultrapin was okay 11+ years ago when first released. It worked on a dual core processor with a 2.8ghz chip. 1gig of ram with a 512 meg graphic card.

Nowadays its a lot better - the games LOOK better and you need more power to run them. My graphic card is 8 times more powerful than the original game. Plus mine runs in HD and the original was much lower resolution, and old visual pinball had serious flipper lag. Ultrapin gets about 40 frames per second. I get between 200-300 on my game.

I have built 5 'visual pinball' cabinets and 2 of them have gone to keen pinball folk (one of which is on this group). Two others have gone into 'man caves' and I still get messages helping those guys out with any questions. The visual pinball software does change now and again. Just like a real PC we are on VP10.4 now (original ultrapin was VP8).

It was my plan to keep this one, as I love the cabinet but I am having another real pinbal. Visual pinball will have to go upstairs in a much smaller cabinet. If I could get this cab upstairs then I would probably keep it.

The software is all out there, you can build your own cabinet but it is not easy as the software. It will take you a few months to get your first machine working 100%

I had the original game from John B on here and basically transferred across all the guts from my pinball coffee table.

Original ultrapins do come up - there is one on ebay now that I sold the owner an updated hard drive but the games are still VP8 and run on XP with not very good graphics and physics - plus it uses Future pinball which is rubbish. I gave mine a go for a whole 30 minutes before I stripped the guts out when it arrived from John to start the upgrade.

If you want to ask me any questions then drop me a line. I have had a few positive enquires the last three days.
 
ChrisH said:
I have a self built one and it gets a lot of use, but mine is smaller than a real game and is my only option in this house (I tried getting a real one and it wouldn't go up the stairs :( even in bits )
They're good fun, and certainly better than nothing and much better than just the software on a standard PC.
Miles better than PinballArcade, but steer clear of any of the pre- VPX stuff, its old now and not worth it any more in my opinion.
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I still play some of the old VP9 stuff but VPX is so much better! Pinball Arcade sucks big time.
 
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