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Virtual Pinball and Real Life Pinball Side by Side Comparison

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MTPPC:
I recently picked up a gottlieb Pioneer in a mild state of disrepair. I got it working good and now the only problem is an occasional lighting of two different match numbers. NBD. I put it up next to my simulator and loaded Pioneer Table on Future Pinball 2.5. These are my conclusions:

1. The rubber on the Future Pinball flippers and posts is not bouncy enough. It makes bouncing the ball from one flipper to the other without touching the button almost impossible. This is easily done in RL.
2. The direction of a caught ball is very difficult to control on the Future Pinball simulation. This is common to most FP tables.
3. The ball speed is very well simulated and accurately represents the RL ball movements.
4. When catching a ball on the RL pinball with an extended flipper, the dead rubber on the FP flipper is almost exactly the same.
5. The sounds of the simulation are almost dead on. Although my loose chime box was a little more clangy and marginal 10 point bumper hits often to not register a chime.
6. The simulation has a slight flipper delay when compared to the real table. This is easily adapted to in the simulation and it was easier to switch back and forth than I expected.

The play of the real life table is clearly superior, but the simulation is extremely immersive. I rotated back and forth playing one ball on each table for an hour or so and I found myself shaking my simulator and looking for nudge buttons on my RL machine. My conclusion is that while the real table is slightly more enjoyable to play, the difference is little enough that the opportunity to play nearly every table on the simulator greatly outweighs the difference in quality of play. It's really too bad that SO76, Pioneer or NYC isn't available in Visual Pinball, or I could have reviewed that as well. I would recommend a simulator for an addition to any real world pinball line-up, but if you only have room or $$ for one machine, that machine should be a sim. I'm saying this from the perspective of having neither force feedback or a real DMD, so I can only imagine how much better that would play.

drventure:
Nice. I'd always wondered if anyone with a vpin had ever compared side by side with the real table. I always thought the simulations were pretty good, but it's nice to see an actual comparison.

Superfrog:

--- Quote from: drventure on May 30, 2013, 04:36:05 pm ---Nice. I'd always wondered if anyone with a vpin had ever compared side by side with the real table. I always thought the simulations were pretty good, but it's nice to see an actual comparison.

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I was thinking the same about that.

If you see the vp first you think that's almost the real deal, but now i see why people like the real pinball more.

But one Day I build a mini pinball my own  >:D

smartbomb2084:
It comes down to what you prefer...

Cartoon animation or real life...

brad808:
I thought I really wanted a virtual table but after getting a couple real ones I don't think I would be happy with virtual. It would be really nice to play all the tables but the randomness of the real thing will be too hard to replicate in the virtual world.

Sent from my Nexus 4

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