Pinball Dreams (32" 19" )

[mikekim]

Looking good so far..

Nothing wrong with budget builds ( from the man whose pinball project costs more than most people spend on a car ) sometimes they are more of a challenge getting the parts you have to work, and probably far more rewarding.

The black screen issue might be down to the video card, a gtx 610 is not the ideal card for a pinball ( vastly underpowered), also the 2 gb ram probably is not helping

[monkeychunkuk]

Cheers Mike

It seems to ok with most programs

I think it's to do with screen resizing when it switches from the program it goes back to black screen then it's fine I'm crossing my fingers for RAM solving the problem

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[monkeychunkuk]

Oh and here's in inside the cab ; )

It's not pretty

So tonight I was gonna just put some black paint on the side walls but I poured to much out

I bought this at a carboot too for 50p

It great stuff I hope they still sell it

Black is the new black

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[monkeychunkuk]

Must be my lucky day I found this "broken tv" at a job I was on

And after changing the power supply fuse it worked ?

Shame it's 2mm to wide otherwise I with wouldn't have to decase it ; )

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[monkeychunkuk]

So my ram turned up one of 4gb was bad so I'm sending it back but the table run loads betters on 6gb

And I fitted the new screen I had to decase it but I'm really happy it's like it was made for the back box

I had to adjust the screen using the scroll lock is their a option or a config I can copy to all table?

And the dreaded screen flicker is still around when the game starts after the ball drains any thoughts ?

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[monkeychunkuk]

Well flicker problems still around but except the plexi glass and artwork I'm done with the back glass

Removed a metal part of the monitor and cut a T-molding for these spare pieces I had.

And added a few more coats of paint

Really need to think about a theme

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[monkeychunkuk]

Woooo I figured the screen the flicker the monitor was not set at the right resolution so it kept having to change !

Once I set it to the exact size

It made the game speed up and looks even better than before

[monkeychunkuk]

Ok Mike you win Vp maybe the way to go no one told me they had a hulk!

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[mikekim]

Lol.. I just find vp is a more realistic simulation..

There are a couple of stunning fp tables, but I just stick to vp now.

[monkeychunkuk]

I'm gonna do a fresh install of windows 7 on a new hard drive the one it's running is slow and way to big

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[mikekim]

If you can pickup an ssd you will find it runs far better.

You can squeeze vp, fp and hyperpin onto a 60gb disk (my install of the three runs to under 20gb) just don't go to mad on the number of tables you run.

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[monkeychunkuk]

Yup that's my plans in the future

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[sky8]

Monkeychunkuk,

I am planning on building a pin cabinet with the same size screen as your play field screen. I really like how your cabinet has come out so far and was just wondering if you could post the dimensions for your cabinet? I saw that you had a few dimensions in your first post, but I know that you cut it down a bit after that. The dimensions I am most unsure about are the front dimension and the back dimension (front as in height of the cabinet itself at the front of the play field portion and the height at the back of the play field portion). Also, the back box height.

Thanks in advance!

[monkeychunkuk]

Sure thing I'll grab a tap measure and get back to you

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[32assassin]

Ok Mike you win Vp maybe the way to go no one told me they had a hulk!

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Rascals HV tables makes me want to buy a MS Surface tablet just so that I can play VP on the go.

http://vpuniverse.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=downloads&mid=8

[monkeychunkuk]

So I normally I use a ipac 2 for the keyboard encoder but with them still at £32 I was looking for a alternative,I've had hit a misses with the Xbox controller

So I thought I'd bust open this

Ps/2 pin keyboard,

I know this isn't great for full arcades because of ghost key presses and limited to 6 keys at once,but for the pinball I'm only using 2 keys at once

So I ripped the keyboard apart

And I ripped this off

And did a shitty job soldering onto the connection

Very tricky as the connection where lead covered so I scratched it all off to get something to solder to

And then I coverd the sins with my glue gun ; )

And amazingly it still works

All I have to do is figure out the wire cross connections to get the keys I want

It's really slow work

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[monkeychunkuk]

hmm sooo i put in a new hard drive and im trying to config future pin etc,

and i noticed the table plays better that cant be the different hard drive right????

new 80g laptop hdd ( of course the table has flicker with screen tear becuase it not set up)

BUT dies it look likes its running smoother?

old 500g drive (with everything set up)

has this got flicker/ball jumping or am i just seeing things?

sorry about the crap cam

[mikekim]

the different hdd wont affect the game once the table has loaded. it will only affect the loading times of the tables and front end videos etc..

[monkeychunkuk]

the different hdd wont affect the game once the table has loaded. it will only affect the loading times of the tables and front end videos etc..

Thanks Mike maybe it's just the config do you noticed any different ?

Last night I found the Frame rate option I'll video them to see if it's running quicker

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[monkeychunkuk]

Yup see this is the frame rate on the small Hdd. 33fps

Old Hdd 19fps

Same setup differ hard drive?

Wtf?

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[sky8]

Just wondering if you were able to get some measurements of your build? The rough measurements are ok too. Hate to bother you again, but wanted to get started this weekend.

Thanks

[monkeychunkuk]

Just wondering if you were able to get some measurements of your build? The rough measurements are ok too. Hate to bother you again, but wanted to get started this weekend.

Thanks

Ahhh sorry my bad ill grab them as soon as I get in ! Come back here at 4

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[monkeychunkuk]

Got the Hdd running glitch free

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[monkeychunkuk]

Just wondering if you were able to get some measurements of your build? The rough measurements are ok too. Hate to bother you again, but wanted to get started this weekend.

Thanks

Here you go sorry it's a bit crap and in inches but google will convert for you

So a few things to take in count measure how wide your play field screen is after decase mine is slightly wider because it would not trim done any further,and I've got a job ahead if me to hide it

The part of the machine that sits under the back box I would adjust to match the actual size so in my case 8 inches

Notice my back box is equal all the way up

Most increase as they get to the top like wedge shape maybe consider that for your build ?

The room between the bottom of the play field screen is very tight on my machine " it has a inch from the top of the graphics card and buttom of tv that's not great so maybe add a few inches to yours?

Mine is based on original plans my advice would be layout all your components and change to suit your setup

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[monkeychunkuk]

Hmmm maybe decision time I was just comparing FPS

with my gaming PC and the pinball PC

And it's miles apart, is it time to go back to my original idea?

The games take a while to loads on the pinball config

And I'm noticing a slight effect on game it's a lot smoother on the arcade but nothing "game breaking

Pinball setup

Arcade setup

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