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New virtual pinball machine

By Luckydogg420

4 years ago


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    #13 4 years ago

    I am really excited about virtual pinball.... it was visual pinball a long time ago that helped me get back into this hobby. I know this will be unpopular opinion here, but it really is just a matter of time before the physics in visual pinball equal real pinball machines.... and once they are close... the reality is you can do some really cool virtual stuff.

    I made a virtual pinball machine that had a CRT in the cabinet (it was before flat TV's were even close to affordable). Good concept... but the stuff they are doing now is just amazing.

    Someone here was selling a cab with a 4k display in it and I have to say it looked really impressive (at least over video). That got me back in the mood to build one for real this time.

    the Zen Williams tables are pretty good on the XBOX One. It would be so nice if they allowed a vertical mode for the XBOX.... could start building a pretty reasonable cost virtual cabinet if it was based on an XBOX ONE and nice TV.

    #16 4 years ago

    Maybe someone from Zen can weigh in on if they would ever enable vertical mode for consoles here.

    Xbox makes the adaptive controller which allows interesting ways to hook things up...
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/xboxadaptivecontrolleraccessories

    I would think there would be a way to give some sort of feedback as the normal controllers all give feedback.

    I would totally build a cabinet if we could do one console based...

    I think you would want to keep it an economy build though as there is no potential for two monitors.... so no live active backglass which would be a bummer.
    Hmmm... maybe scrap that idea, if I am going to trouble to build a cabinet, it has to have a backglass.

    Maybe just make a custom pinball controller for the xbox instead....

    3D has been done . Playstation 3 has pinball in 3d you can play, pretty cool, I tried that at pinnburgh a year or so ago and it was pretty cool. I think the 3DS has some pinball, but I have not tried. And then there is BAM for visual pinball (I think that is what it was called, it did not look simple to set up though).

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