Alchemy: Video Pinball Shmup Table

[rablack97]

Damn that's where she's been....send her home please and ill go get you mom off my Atari 2600 in the media room....

Dammit griffin your gonna get us banned...

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[griffindodd]

Lol.

Parts are all in for the braaaaaiiiiinnnnzzzz

[griffindodd]

Got the garage organized so I can move and work better, clutter drives me insane

[Nephasth]

Rearranging the garage does not constitute a satisfying update.  Get thee to work.   

[griffindodd]

Ahhh so you've been down that road too... I guess we all do, why do families keep putting all their crap in my arcade building sawdust dungeon??

Meanwhile, in other news...

[Malenko]

as much as I love all the over engineering going on, why not just a stand alone controller with suction cups or something that sits inside the coin door. When you wanna play something that require the controller, open the coin door, take it out, and put it on the lockdown bar. 

[griffindodd]

as much as I love all the over engineering going on, why not just a stand alone controller with suction cups or something that sits inside the coin door. When you wanna play something that require the controller, open the coin door, take it out, and put it on the lockdown bar. 

You Sir are in the wrong thread for practical, sensible, economical well thought out and executed ideas. Now go sit in the corner with the sensible cone on your head, think about what you have said and wait until someone throws a custard pie at you before you come back to play.

[jmike]

   Hey Griff how about something like this?
I know you have the coin door there but I'm sure you can come up with something. Just an idea.




 

[rablack97]

as much as I love all the over engineering going on, why not just a stand alone controller with suction cups or something that sits inside the coin door. When you wanna play something that require the controller, open the coin door, take it out, and put it on the lockdown bar. 

You Sir are in the wrong thread for practical, sensible, economical well thought out and executed ideas. Now go sit in the corner with the sensible cone on your head, think about what you have said and wait until someone throws a custard pie at you before you come back to play.

 

Dude have you lost your mind, you just asked a man who open doors with his mind to use a door knob....

Where's the icon for pie.....you dear sir will be drawn an quartered at dawn....bring in the beer and wenches let us celebrate this day....

[Gamester]

There are a handful of folks on this forum that are just in another stratosphere when it comes to these builds.  griffindodd, my friend, you are there.

I consider myself fairly handy, but I can't help but feel utterly inadequate when I read threads like this one.  Kudos! 

[Gamester]

And ingenuity mixed with all the witty banter....makes for quite an entertaining show. 

[griffindodd]

  Hey Griff how about something like this?
I know you have the coin door there but I'm sure you can come up with something. Just an idea.

 

Holy crap, that is pretty impressive, although I'd like to see him pull that off with a Tron stick, steering wheel and Paperboy handlebars lol.

[Malenko]

You Sir are in the wrong thread for practical, sensible, economical well thought out and executed ideas. Now go sit in the corner with the sensible cone on your head, think about what you have said and wait until someone throws a custard pie at you before you come back to play.

ok ok , a bi-folding arm that extends from inside the coin door and holds the controls up or something, s second set of controls for player 2 extend up from under the cab. 

[griffindodd]

ok ok , a bi-folding arm that extends from inside the coin door and holds the controls up or something, s second set of controls for player 2 extend up from under the cab. 

And the cupholders?

[Yvan256]

And the cupholders?

They just materialize on the sides, since the cabinet should have a built-in Star Trek replicator.

[rablack97]

And the cupholders?

They just materialize on the sides, since the cabinet should have a built-in Star Trek replicator.

Chad don't do it, i know your tempted...

[mcseforsale]

Wow.  7 pages and you haven't even sorted the cupholders yet.

What's up with that? 

AJ

[Yvan256]

How about Robocop-style cup holders? Bonus points if they're motorized and you end up with a sound similar to the one in the movies.

[Le Chuck]

Why not build a filling station into the cup holder using a bottoms up system?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUvDO2tTB3JZ3eFDRKHxfjDA&feature=player_embedded&v=K9hMwT4tG00#t=122s



You're welcome America!

[yotsuya]

I wonder how much the special cups are? You have to contact them for pricing, it seems.

And can someone just tell me if this thing will be able to play Galaga?

[Le Chuck]

The cups are plastic with a hole in the bottom and a flat magnet that's held down my water/beer pressure.  They run about 50 cents a pop.  The home filling station is $1400ish     

[griffindodd]

[griffindodd]

How many internetz  points do I get for RAM heatsinks shaped like gunz?

[griffindodd]

Every Mac owner's nightmare.

"But where do I download my apps?"

[griffindodd]

Now we are having fun

[Drnick]

Such a large machine, Such a small Motherboard.  Not gonna have issues finding somewhere to install that 

[Gamester]

That keyboard have a scroll lock key?  If not, you're gonna run into some problems if/when you try to set up FP tables...    Hopefully you've got a backup that does...

RAM shaped like Gunz.  Mmmmmm.  Not very PC these days is it?  (pun only partially intended) 

Pardon me while I go clean my Glock...

[griffindodd]

Such a large machine, Such a small Motherboard.  Not gonna have issues finding somewhere to install that 

Yeah should be able to squeeze it in there, BTW that is a worktable in that photo not the frame lol.

[Yvan256]

Every Mac owner's nightmare.

Actually the only thing that scares me in that photo is the mechanical hard drive, the unsupported PCI/etc cards and the ergonomic Microsoft Keyboard. And the fact that I'd rather use MS-DOS than Windows.

I can't wait to see this thing finished, you're making good progress!

[griffindodd]

Actually the only thing that scares me in that photo is the mechanical hard drive, the unsupported PCI/etc cards and the ergonomic Microsoft Keyboard. And the fact that I'd rather use MS-DOS than Windows.
I can't wait to see this thing finished, you're making good progress!

Yeah this is all just for basic software testing and install, proper mounting to come later on. Had an SSD from work but it was DOA and I have a few of these server grade 1TB mechanicals laying around so I figured I'd just go with them.

[dandro]

Actually the only thing that scares me in that photo is the mechanical hard drive, the unsupported PCI/etc cards and the ergonomic Microsoft Keyboard. And the fact that I'd rather use MS-DOS than Windows.
I can't wait to see this thing finished, you're making good progress!

Yeah this is all just for basic software testing and install, proper mounting to come later on. Had an SSD from work but it was DOA and I have a few of these server grade 1TB mechanicals laying around so I figured I'd just go with them.

I just had several SSD drives come in,.. thought the envelope (apparently they ship these in envelopes now) felt like it was empty,.. crazy light!...  Back on subject, do you sleep at all? man this thing is building itself!!! 

[wp34]

Every Mac owner's nightmare.

"But where do I download my apps?"

 

I'm a Mac owner and I find that funny.

Awesome build.   

[griffindodd]

And so the software headaches start. But its looking purty that's for sure

[Felsir]

That keyboard have a scroll lock key?  If not, you're gonna run into some problems if/when you try to set up FP tables...    Hopefully you've got a backup that does...

Indeed, I ended up adding a PS/2 connector on the back of my cabinet (basically an extension wire to the mainboard) just for that. My wireless keyboard didn't have a scroll-lock key.

[Gamester]

And so the software headaches start. But its looking purty that's for sure

Real purty!  Setting up HP is a task I've been putting off.  If it's anywhere near as 'fun' as it was getting HS working well on my Arcade cab, I'm not particularly looking forward to it...  But man it sure is a super-slick FE.

[griffindodd]

Yep fortunately that keyboard does have scroll lock, although its a function shifted key.

Going to have to mess more with my video drivers as I am seeing odd behavior. In the NVidia CP it doesn't let me rearrange the monitor positions and it's not allowing me to rotate displays for some odd reason. Also all programs are having trouble finding my secondary monitor, so there's some bug mashing to be done.

[Jigenjuke]

Hey there Griff,

I was recently thinking about your Joystick issue.  Hiding the joystick until needed is a great idea.  for me I would think that having the joystick always visible would be a bit of a distraction. 

Maybe build a push down release panel that could be rotated back into the top of the cabinet and then slid down to lock into place revealing the the Joysticks and buttons would be pretty cool.  You could even make it moterized.  I am not sure if I can explain this so that you can understand but half of my idea would be like the picture below, the other half of my idea is not to have the flip panel on a 45 degree angle but it would need to be built with the ability to slide down and lock into place so that it was parallel and flush with the top of the playfield glass. 

Anyway just an idea to wrap your head around.

Jigenjuke

[griffindodd]

Thanks for the idea. I think I know where I want to go with this for now, but until I start to build it out and see if it's going to work well it's hard to say.

Been fighting some monitor issues these past few days, typical buggy Nvidia crap with monitors not reporting properly and other niggling annoyances. Making progress though, I have the back glass at 1280 x 720, ultra wide at custom 1280 x 480 and play field at 1920 x 1080. The projectors will be set up as one monitor and I'll just split the signal to both of them, that monitor (#4) will be set to mirror either the back glass or ultra wide for now. Later on I'll see about making it it's own extended desktop and play with sending unique art to it.

Having a weird issue with HyperPin where the back glass won't go to the secondary monitor, it sits under the main play field on the main monitor. I have the settings set to display the back glass on the secondary monitor in the settings.ini but for some reason it doesn't want to go there.  Maybe it's a Run as Administrator issue as I'm using Windows 7

[Drnick]

how have you set up the monitors in windows are they side by side or above main monitor  (Do you send mouse right/left to get the 2nd/3rd screen or are you going up/down).

I dimly remember something about having them side by side not above and below and that the order they work depends on the order they are plugged in and not necessarily the order shown in windows.  I could be going mad as I have read one hell of a lot of pinball builds on Hyperspin.

I need to get a real life 

Found it
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?6549-Back-Glass-above-Play-Field-monitor-doesn-t-work&highlight=configure+monitors

[griffindodd]

Got the monitors set as extended desktop with #2 on the right hand side of #1 and #3 under #2.