Chairman Tickles
Banned
So awesome in fact I will be building my own shortly. Been sourcing new components and seeing how much material I will need to build the cabinet.
Typically, you need 3 screens (back cabinet display for marquee, digital video display for the dot matrix score/in-game missions and the play screen for the pinball table itself. I'm going to use a 43inch 4k tv for the main play area, and 27inch + 19 inch screens for the back cabinet stuff. Not using a real dot matrix they are stupidly expensive. Will use a surround sound system with subwoofer and shake speakers, as well as nudge sensors. I will just use cheap light up arcade buttons for the ball launcher and some usb controllable leds, the actual ball plunger is too expensive. Coin op door is rather cheap though, will install one of those. Hope to get it all built under <$1500. Most pricey things will be the tv ($500) and gpu (need 1060 or above) Typically these tables with aforementioned specs and features cost $4,000 pre-made, over $6,000 with real DMD and plunger etc.
Examples:
There are over 1800 pinball machines to emulate. For free. Courtesy of Visual Pinball X and the amazing community around it. It is by far the most impressive pinball emulation software, and even uses real pinball machine roms to drive the tables.
Many tables come with 4k textures and 5.1 surround sound.
Example of the table quality:
I will commence my build in ~2 weeks. Will share some of my pitfalls and findings.
Typically, you need 3 screens (back cabinet display for marquee, digital video display for the dot matrix score/in-game missions and the play screen for the pinball table itself. I'm going to use a 43inch 4k tv for the main play area, and 27inch + 19 inch screens for the back cabinet stuff. Not using a real dot matrix they are stupidly expensive. Will use a surround sound system with subwoofer and shake speakers, as well as nudge sensors. I will just use cheap light up arcade buttons for the ball launcher and some usb controllable leds, the actual ball plunger is too expensive. Coin op door is rather cheap though, will install one of those. Hope to get it all built under <$1500. Most pricey things will be the tv ($500) and gpu (need 1060 or above) Typically these tables with aforementioned specs and features cost $4,000 pre-made, over $6,000 with real DMD and plunger etc.
Examples:
There are over 1800 pinball machines to emulate. For free. Courtesy of Visual Pinball X and the amazing community around it. It is by far the most impressive pinball emulation software, and even uses real pinball machine roms to drive the tables.
Many tables come with 4k textures and 5.1 surround sound.
Example of the table quality:
I will commence my build in ~2 weeks. Will share some of my pitfalls and findings.