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Arcade Tilt Idea For Emulated Pinball Games
M-80:
Hmmm...
1.) Needs to feel authentic and natural even though it's video pinball.
2.) Don't want to ruin the cabinet with excessive rocking. Tearing away at the screws and joints and making the cabinet creaky over time.
Maybe come up with some sort of shock absorption technique for putting together a cabinet where the panels of the cabinet (especially around points where the most stress would be) don't actually touch because of intermediary coushions between the panels. So if exaggerated to show what would go on the cabinet would look like it's bending and twisting without ill effects. But obviously would have it stiff enough where during normal play the shaking wouldn't be perceptable. So if you tilt the cabinet or jostle it in anyway there's less chance of wearing the cabinet out at the screwpoints. Maybe some sort of rubber bumpers between the panels and around the screws that absorb the shock. You'd need L-braces though to screw the panels together...
And then for the tilt mechanism. Maybe some sort of spring action double switch?
Or
RandyT:
That's an interesting idea for saving wear and tear on the cabinet, but there's no real need to re-invent the tilt mechanism.
The real deal is amazingly simple and inexpensive:
The cone slides on the shaft to adust the sensitivity.
RandyT
Rasher2k:
Sounds like a nice authentic feature to have and all, but how heavy are your cabs? It's takes a fair bit of muscle to shunt a solid cab (unlike pinnies, which are on legs), meaning you'd have to set the cone deeper for more sensitivity. Then you're looking at a full-on tilt when it eventually does make contact. It'd probably work better on the lighter cabinets though.
Something to remeber if you DO install one though, every second other non-pinball game has the tilt feature. It's gonna suck when your game tilt's out on the last level during a hectic battle! Authentic, but irritating! ;)
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Rasher2k on May 07, 2003, 01:36:11 pm ---Sounds like a nice authentic feature to have and all, but how heavy are your cabs? It's takes a fair bit of muscle to shunt a solid cab (unlike pinnies, which are on legs), meaning you'd have to set the cone deeper for more sensitivity. Then you're looking at a full-on tilt when it eventually does make contact. It'd probably work better on the lighter cabinets though.
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I think M-80 was addressing that with the "floating CP" idea. Could be cool for someone who likes pinball sims.
--- Quote ---Something to remeber if you DO install one though, every second other non-pinball game has the tilt feature. It's gonna suck when your game tilt's out on the last level during a hectic battle! Authentic, but irritating! ;)
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Ok, I'm lost :)
What video games have a Tilt mech in them? Slam switches, yes, but normally no tilts. Besides, you can disable it for anything but pinball if you were worried about it.
RandyT
Aceldamor:
Isn't there another method on BYOAC? Is that method not good?