So I'm craaaaaaaazy late to the MM party, and it's because I was an idiot. People have been asking me for a few years now for a 3D start button for MM, but I hadn't made one, for what I thought was good reason. Read on.
The original MM, and MMr, use smaller start buttons, while my 3D start buttons are 1.5" (the size used on modern Stern, JJP, AP, etc.) For most games with the smaller button, this isn't a problem -- I provide the larger housing which fully replaces the smaller button and covers up the counterbore in the cabinet. This does mean, however, that a little bit of artwork detail around the start button would be covered up by the new housing.
Medieval Madness has artwork (the shield & swords) around the button, and so I had dismissed the idea of a custom start button because I didn't want to cover any of the artwork on the shield.
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Admittedly, I wasn't intimately familiar with MM. Sure, I'd played it here and there over the years, but never looked too deeply -- until recently when I had to play it in a tournament and had to really pay attention. Before long, I realized what an idiot I'd been for disregarding the start button, because right there in the game's animations, there were knights with shields charging at the screen -- the very same shield around the start button, which had a SKULL in the middle! Then I looked more closely at the artwork in the game, and there it was too -- that same shield, with that goofy cracked skull! For example:
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(I just heard you MM fans facepalming.) And so -- duh -- my 3D start button has to be the skull, to finish off the look of the shield on the cabinet!
Obviously, the design is inspired by the goofy cracked skull but transformed into 3D and manipulated & reconfigured to conform to my button design. I present Rocket City Pinball's 3D Start Button for Medieval Madness! As with my other buttons, it requires a mid-print filament change which permanently fuses the button base and skull together.
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The button base is translucent and lights up (including through the eye sockets, nose, and crack in the skull), and finishes off the complete shield design and matches the lightning in the artwork around it on the cabinet. The installed pic shown below is photoshopped, using an actual photo of lit button shopped onto a separate image of the game cabinet. to give a preview of the finished appearance. I will be visiting a friend with a MM later this week to take 'actual' pics.
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Now available in my shop! https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1282-rocket-city-pinball/08897-3d-start-button-medieval-madness-original-amp-remake
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