Arcade Collecting > Miscellaneous Arcade Talk
BYO... pinball?
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: allroy1975 on December 03, 2003, 01:56:15 am ---
I thought I had a great Idea a while back of building a big pin cabinet with removable playfields. just pull the whole game. have a computer in it that interfaced with the new playfield. you could play any pin, as long as you had a playfield for it. now that I think of it again...maybe it's not such a great idea. :)
Allroy
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Already possible, "The Ultimate MPU board" supports like 30 different pins. I think if you had that you could swap playfields in and out. Although playfields are the single most expensive component of a pin, so it might not make any sense to do so.
bionicbadger:
There was some discussino a couple weeks ago on rec.games.pinball on this and some guys were talking about building a KIT to sell, you can probably look at google for it. The biggest problem is the software. The harware part is easy, but getting a cpu to recognize what happens when a specific switch is closed is the tough part.
allroy1975:
right that's just the MPU though. Youd still need the lamp and solonoid drivers for each game. Since they're not all the same it wouldn't work...I don't think.
Ken Layton:
I've been repairing pinballs since 1976. The main problem I'm seeing lately is tons of connector failures. Pins actually are breaking off inside the connector housing either from metal fatigue, corrosion, or burning!
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: allroy1975 on December 03, 2003, 10:52:51 am ---right that's just the MPU though. Youd still need the lamp and solonoid drivers for each game. Since they're not all the same it wouldn't work...I don't think.
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I think a lot of them actually are the same. My Victory (Gottlieb System 80 B) and my Force II both use the same driver boards, I can swap them between them, and the victory still works, and the Force II still doesn't work the same way it always didn't work.
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