Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Pinball Re-Releases?
ArcadeDunce:
I just checked out virtua pin. If they really do re-create the play of a live machine even 95% as good as one could hope, $4,000 for a full game would be a neat idea. you even get a real dot matrix display to add to things. How accurate does it re-create the live experience?
ChadTower:
The DIY kit is interesting. Finding a partout level donor candidate is tough when you want to rescue every ---smurfy--- pin you encounter.
nickbuol:
Agreed. I'd have a hard time killing, even an almost dead pin to make it a virtual box. I'd start from scratch and make the cabinet.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on September 19, 2012, 04:01:22 pm ---Agreed. I'd have a hard time killing, even an almost dead pin to make it a virtual box. I'd start from scratch and make the cabinet.
--- End quote ---
The cabinet is the easy part. That's not why people gut a real pin. They do it for all of the pinball specific hardware on the cabinet. Lockdown bars, siderails, coin doors, legs, that stuff all costs a ton to buy or you can buy a trash game and get it that way.
nickbuol:
Never thought of it that way. I was just thinking that a full on, DIY cabinet would allow for the most precise fit of the TVs without needing to use artificial bezels and the like. Of course, I live in the middle of Iowa. I don't see much of any kind of pinball around here, so finding a junker is REALLY rare.
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