I can second this. I did not want to build a virtual pin two years ago, the software was lacking then. Now however I spend the last two months building one from scratch and I just was able to play my first game on the fully completed cab tonight (Monster Bash it was), and I love it. Gamechanger is to use contactors so you have real feedback from the slingshots and popbumpers and flippers. Also a real plunger was used with an optical sensor. Works great.

I took measurements of my TSPP and copied the cabinet so I could use all real pinball parts like the hinges, coindoor, siderails and lockbar and everything. It houses a 40 inch Sony television with only 17ms lag, a 27 inch backglass monitor and a RGB LED DMD.

I use Visual Pinball X. The physics are different with every table you load, but the designers of the tables are only just getting to know the differences. This month there was another big update which incorporates the decay of the coils, so you can tip the ball to the other flipper for instance. That has to be programmed again in the tables to make the best use of it.

This is very true. It does NOT compare very well to the real deal. It is and always will be a simulation.

But it is nice to be able to play games that I want to play sometimes, but not enough to own. Every real machine takes up space and money. For instance I really like to play Whoa Nellie sometimes, but I would not buy it at the current price (6500 euro over here). To be able to fire it up on the vpin is very satisfying. Also no worries about insert ghosting like on SMVE or GB PRO

I run mine on 10. Works great. Reason why people do not want to upgrade is fear that something will go wrong that they have to try to solve it.

edit: btw there nothing wrong with that, not everybody likes solving PC stuff