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[37"/24"/15"] - '77 Bally Power Play "Donor" Visual Pinball Build
Pinball Wizard:
Thanks so much for your guide. I used it to set up a pc with 2 monitors. Currently downloading Hyperpin and grabbing a few tables. I even thought of giving the computer the finger when I ran into the "cannot create offscreen texture" issue. Might finally be investing into some displays and a more permanent computer than my mame pc.
njay:
Hi ,
about those mercury switches
wel i got them installed on is on the top left and the other one top right under my lockdown bar
but i am having major headaches adjusting them
usually left nudge works ok but the right one usually give me left and right nudge together
do you have any tips on adjusting? when you install them?
let me know i think we can help eachother out on this !
mwong168:
Now I am in the home stretch and my cab is pretty much nearly 100% done. Here are some pics as promised of my custom made metal pieces for my cab.
Here is what it looks like from behind and did a test fit on the backglass box. Fit pretty snug but I will have to do some touch up but it's ok.
He also made two other custom pieces for me, one of them was a metal apron for the instruction cards and a metal frame to cover the ugly LCD bezel once de-cased.
The fit for both monitors is so pricise and tight but I removed them for the next step.
This stuff is amazing and dries in 10 mins or less. So after I did a quick blast of Krylon glossy black I went downstairs to mount the speakers.
Since my Logitech X-540 has a center channel speaker I mounted in between the cabinet and backbox as you can see from the first two picture. The two main ones I just lined up behind the speaker hole cutouts with mesh. The remaining rear I just mounted near the coin door area facing each other.
Now my original idea was to have the Belkin power box inside the case next to the sub but that would force me to turn the sub the otherway effectively blocking one of the exhaust fans so I decided to mount the Belkin power box outside in the back of the cab. This is fine since I would never have the cab right up against the wall anyways and also gives me access to one since switch to turn off all three of my monitors. I was also pleasantly surprised that once they are plugged in they turn on automatically and I didn't have to re-connect the control panel for the power button control panel.
First boot up into Windows XP since 2 weeks and launched HyperPin. Everything works just great and played a quick game of The Simpsons Party Pinball. The last few things I had to do now were tidy up some cables inside the cab and level the playfield LCD.
Final money shot with my custom made instruction cards :)
I still have to figure out the keys because I am using a GPWiz which is essentially a USB gamepad controller along with Xpadder. Seems to work fine on some tables and not on others. For example in The Addams Family and Guns n' Roses when I hot both flipper buttons together it tilts the table even though each button is mapped to left and right shift respectively. I also have my plunger and the "Launch Ball" button mapped to the ENTER key and sometimes it works fine in Hyperpin and sometimes it brings up the Generes menu?? So not sure what to do about this, anyone have the same issue using Xpadder or can suggest another program?
Pinball Wizard:
Is it just the pictures or are the DMDs out of proportion? Otherwise great, thorough work!
mwong168:
--- Quote from: Pinball Wizard on May 24, 2010, 07:17:40 pm ---Is it just the pictures or are the DMDs out of proportion? Otherwise great, thorough work!
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Yeah the opening for my DMD isn't the standard size and I wanted to make it a bit bigger then normal. I could resize it to the proper proportion and leave parts of the screen blank but right now I have all my DMD sized to fill from border to border. Stretched full size for the older DMDs looks really bad and I might go back and make those a bit smaller.