Well I have given the idea much thought and I decided I may have a go at designing and building my own pin. I am not going to make something that rivals Stern by any means. I simply want more of a modern EM type machine. No multi-ball, no huge jackpots, no mini playfields, etc. Just a simple, albeit more modern playfield.
I am also going to purchase on in the next 6 months or so once I save the money so this will be something to wet my whistle so to speak.
I have the tools to build and design this and I think I have many things figured out but I am a bit stumped on something. Since this machine will be simple in operation scoring should be simple as well. I am hoping to interface the playfield parts to a PC via an I-Pac. What I wold like to be able to do is assign each playfield item (bumpers, drops, etc) a numerical value and when the item is struck or activates it accumulates the score on an LCD PC monitor behind the backglass. I am not sure how I would go about this.
Would PinMAME do this? Or would a more custom program be better? Any ideas on how I should make this work would be appreciated.
John