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[37"/24"/15"] - '77 Bally Power Play "Donor" Visual Pinball Build
mwong168:
--- Quote from: njay on June 09, 2010, 04:57:39 pm ---Nice work !
how did you adjust all the tables in VP? was sens?
i did manage to get it right most of the times but i get double nudges sometimes so i am looking towards the u hid
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Yeah I have to go one round and adjust in the script but for most of the tables I frequently play it doesn't double nudge except for a few but remember which one now. I hardly nudge anyways and don't really want to encourage it to my friends cause it does put extra stress on the cab and legs. Maybe I am just being paranoid but the cab is pretty heavy to lift once all the stuff is in there. Right now if I can just figure out my HyperPin woes without having to resort to getting an IPAC then I will be a happy camper. This was my first time using an IPAC in my MAME'd cab and it's great.
Burn4Evr:
I find myself kinda saddened, you killed a pinball machine that had so much blackhawks art on it.....not because I'm a fan of the black hawks, but because the current bhawks fever right now if you sold it, you could probably pay for your entire project =D
mwong168:
--- Quote from: Burn4Evr on June 10, 2010, 08:16:04 am ---I find myself kinda saddened, you killed a pinball machine that had so much blackhawks art on it.....not because I'm a fan of the black hawks, but because the current bhawks fever right now if you sold it, you could probably pay for your entire project =D
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The machine was DOA anyways and the artwork was not is the best of shape. Also very doubtful anyone would have paid me more then $150 which is what it cost me. I have heard stories where people have made a pretty decent profit off buying a donor cab. One person on another forum picked up a Williams Taxi cab for like $75 and ended up selling off the stripped parts he didn't need for over $300 on ebay :applaud: Buying this old cab was the best thing I did since not only did it save me money but it allowed me to go at a much more rapid pace in getting to finishing it. All that is left to do is artwork and messing around with AHK program for Hyperpin otherwise the cab plays like a champ on tables in multi-ball for games like Monster Bash, Guns n' Roses, South Park and The Simpsons Pinball Party.
Also an update on my Dynamo MAME cab shown in previous posts. All done now and drilled a hole up top by the toggle switch for the computer power button. Here is a shot of the ebay Lepai amp which is easily accessible behind the coin door. I got to drive some new Quest car speakers I got free from my friend who sold me this Dynamo cab although I do wish the cab had a bit more "thump" so might add a sub woofer later. There was a wiring diagram of how some guy wired one in with this sort of amp.
I was so happy when I took this picture but sad cause this brings my game room and arcade obsession close to the end. I might pick up another Dynamo HS5 Jamma with 25" screen and MAME it as well since this one only took me 5-6 hours worth of work to MAME. Could have been faster if I just straight up wired my controls to the IPAC and didn't care to re-route some wires and move some existing PCB boards around.
This weekend should be fine when I tell my friends to line em' up like the good old smokey pool hall days :)
mwong168:
I thought I would share a nice and easy way to create Hyperpin instruction cards instead of waiting for someone else to make one or release it as part of their media pack. I will be using Flight 2000 that was released by jpsalas a few weeks ago as an example.
First thing you need to do is download the Inkochnito Reproduction Score and Instruction Cards from ipdb.org.
http://ipdb.org/search.pl?any=flight+2000&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#887
Extract the file after download and there will typically be a Word DOC and Acrobat PDF file. Open Adobe Photoshop and load or import the PDF.
Some instruction card PDFs will contain multiple pages with revised rules or multiple languages, so you might want to open it up first and see which page contains the one you are looking for.
Here is what it should look like once it is loaded into Photoshop so cut out the card you want and paste it into a new window on its own and should look like the image directly above if done correctly. Go to File -> Save As and make sure you use PNG and keep the file name simple that follows the old DOS 8.3 format for now and I will explain why later.
Now you could use Adobe Illustrator to convert or export a PNG to SWF but the problem is the program is a huge hog and unless you are into desktop publishing it is pure overkill. I found a FREE program which seems to work pretty well and fast called SWFTools. I downloaded the latest version, swftools-0.9.1.exe from the link below.
http://www.swftools.org/download.html
I tested this at work in Windows 7 and complained when I tried to install it in C:\Program Files but probably cause I forgot to select Run as administrator so I put it on the C root under a folder called C:\SWFTools.
Now open up a command windows by hitting on Start -> Run and then type cmd to bring up the black DOS box above. Type in exactly what I have in the DOS box and your SWF will be done in literally a blink of an eye. For my example the PNG I named as flight2k.png and created a SWF called flight2k.swf. This is why I mentioned earlier to keep the filename simple since DOS doesn't like longer file names with spaces in it. It will probably work by putting quotations so it takes the entire string but all that really matters in the end is you get your SWF file. Once that is generated you can rename it to whatever you like in windows explorer.
Hope this helps and if you got any questions feel free to post them here or shoot me a PM. Enjoy!
Silas (son of Silas):
--- Quote from: mwong168 on June 11, 2010, 09:27:53 am ---There was a wiring diagram of how some guy wired one in with this sort of amp.
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I have the same amp wired to a Yamaha SWT sub and it really thumps hard. I posted about it a while back.....