Oh My this looks like it'll be totally cool and fun if completed!

Following this thread.

With the DMD ramp. Are there optos or anything to detect ball position? I wonder if there is supposed to be ball interaction with the image on the DMD of if its just running cars up randomly.

The right ramp with the wheel on it. What does it do? What are the choices on the wheel?

Neat but I do not see anyone doing all the work for you.

Right now you need someone to wire it up, put a system in it, program it, create sound, and create the dmd animations. You are not going to pay them anything approaching minimum wage to do it either.

Keep at is it is, a neat piece of pinball history or sell it to someone who has the skills and time to do it.

My advice, leave it as is, there isn't enough there to justify it. You have no playfield inserts, no rules, a rudimentary idea of how the dmd was supposed to work, and end of the day its a failed prototype twice over. If this were further along like say the brooks and dunn that was being worked on during expo there would be a lot more incentive to get it running.

Is there any wiring at all? Is there any mechanism attached to the wheel?

What is that upper flipper for?

It's easy enough to get the flippers flipping, etc, but it'd definitely be a weird game since there's no inserts. You'd have to put all the info on the DMD

If I owned that I'd totally be hacking some code together...

If you truly only want it to flip, it's actually pretty trivial to do that. I'm brand new to electronics, soldering etc, and I accomplished the same amount of work with FAST hardware pretty quickly. If you have any skills at all, you can get it flipping in about 2 hours. If you have zero skills, it could take you 20. Most of that 20 hours is getting comfortable soldering stuff together and understanding how to connect the items properly.

Add in some animations on the DMD unrelated to gameplay and flashing lights (like an attract mode that flips) - add in another 40 hours depending on complexity.

If you want a very basic working and scoring game, if you have switches installed already, it's MORE work, but not crazy work. You could certainly have this done in time for Expo.

It looks like there are slots for inlane & outlane rollovers, but not switches. Those aren't terribly difficult to install. Maybe another 6 hours if you're new. The main challenge would be adding switches where they do not yet exist.

Depending on your expectations, this doesn't have to be a major project. Even getting a backglass and cab art done from your existing drawings would be pretty trivial if you use someone like these folks: http://www.gameongrafix.com/customer-designed/pinball-translite

It simply depends on how badly you want it up and running, and to what extent. Simple game = not much time. Time increases significantly with every modification you wish to make.

My chief concern would be any areas designed to hold a ball (like a scoop) that doesn't yet have the hardware.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like your preference is to sell it. If that's the case, put up a FS/FT in the marketplace.

Looks like if the ball were traveling fast enough down the outlane, it could come back into play via the other side. pretty cool.

I would suggest P-ROC for sure. Not only is it a superior system (IMO of course), but their community and the help you would get along the way via the P-ROC forums is completely unmatched.

Looks like it wld be one fast game...very cool thanks for sharing

Looks like similar to Nascar that when plunging the ball it goes around like a track and enters via right outlane?

Do you have any coding experience? If not, you can still do this yourself but I would suggest looking into the Mission Pinball Framework and P-ROC working in conjunction. With MPF you really don't need to have experience with coding and the docs are easy to follow. To just get it flipping would be pretty easy.

Interesting design. FAST + MPF and our new FAST RGB DMD would be pretty sweet in this game.

Take some pics under the playfield and I could help you map out what it would take to bring it to life. Then you will know what it would cost for switches, coils, RGB leds, power, etc.

Aaron
FAST Pinball

P-ROC forum: http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/

Like I said, you will not find a better/more supportive/helpful community than with the P-ROC guys. I would suggest posting there.

MPF website: http://missionpinball.org/

The FAST Community is pretty great. This isn't a FAST vs PROC thing, because I've seen the PROC forums and they're pretty great. I just know that if I can get as far as I have with FAST, then there is nothing lacking in the FAST community support area. I don't think you'll go wrong either way.

MPF is awesome too, and the basis for most of my answer about scoring. It's not tough to get a simple game up and running and their tutorials basically walk you through it step by step.

Overall, becoming a part of the homebrew pinball community is fun. Take the plunge!

A dmd ramp is pretty clever for its day. No one else tried anything like it. I can just imagine cars running up the ramp.

Agreed. Don't want to make this a FAST vs P-ROC thread. I am sure that both will work fine. Just in my experience I much prefer P-ROC for several reasons.

Just do your research and decide which will work best for you. As Brewin said, I don't think you'll go wrong either way.

Ohhh, this is a trifecta for me... fan of pinball, Python, and F1. Would love to see this get completed!

I'm a buyer if you want to move it... will go well with my Grand Prix...

How can you make a game without inserts? I would think this is a showstopper.

What was your original intention in buying this? Believe me, if I saw it, I'd do the same... but did you have a plan?

OPP might be a less expensive approach, and it still uses the MPF:

http://pinballmakers.com/wiki/index.php/OPP

In any case, that DMD on the playfield is going to be tricky to implement.

Too bad you didn't have more info on how the game was supposed to work/rules. Looks like a cool game, hope you get somewhere with this project.

You live down the road from me. I used to live in Watertown. Let's tak via PM. You can come over and play Buffy.

What does the underside look like? Is there a trough?

Cool. I love finding projects like this. When we started FAST I always thought it would be cool to find the projects from our favorite Pinball designers that never saw the light of day. Whether they be in white wood form or just sketches, even just ideas in the head, I love seeing this kind of stuff come to life. I would have loved to have the opportunity to work on Pinball Circus, but that project was already well underway when we came around.

I mean, who thought the Brooks and Dunn pin would ever come to life? Lol...

Aaron
FAST Pinball

Good work keeping the stuff together!

I live down the road from you also. I know the road crosses state lines but, but, but, you know. Buffy!

If any custom mechs need to be completed I would be happy to help

Not to hijack this thread, but yeah... I'm working on trying to be more sociable.

Maybe we can find a way for me to have Buffy on location for a little while before Pintastic. Not unlike Lin did with Haunted Cruise at Lanes and Games

Am I the only one twisted enough to think the game should be written in Python?

And it most likely will be! Both mpf and skeletongame are python.