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Build Your Own Pinball Possibilities...?
yugffuts:
That's what I thought, but you had mentioned coding, so I got a bit confused.
I would imagine that futurama pin still has superman sounds, which is going to ruin the theme a bit (at least, if the pin you use has distinguishable sounds).
allroy1975:
BUT!
I want to build an Army of Darkness pinball machine...even if I use an existing set of rules (wich might be fine...) I still have to find those boards, in working condition. That's quite a bit of $ from my experience.
I WANT my pin head to have a LCD screen in it. I want it to show clips from Army of Darkness that go along with what the current goal set is on the pinball playfield.
if I dropped the LCD screen I at LEAST have to have new sound roms burned for the game. I understand what you're saying. if you wanted to do something like the Futurama pin...something like a remake might be fine. But I've seen 2 cabs where people took existing games and tried to make theirs around it. I thought both could have been so much more.
Don't get me wrong, the Futurama pin looks great. It doesn't look like much fun to me though. I think it could have been more. and when I make one, I don't want to think the same thing...I wish I could have done XXX...because I think I can. I think this is VERY possible.
Allroy
97thruhiker:
"Now listen up, you primitive screwheads. See this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You *got* that?"
Army of Darkness, that movie kills me everytime I've seen it.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: yugffuts on March 09, 2006, 05:06:39 pm ---I would imagine that futurama pin still has superman sounds, which is going to ruin the theme a bit (at least, if the pin you use has distinguishable sounds).
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The sounds on that machine are probably not specific to Superman. It's too early a pin to have speech and probably too early to have real sampling, so it's electronic sounds and buzzes of the early SS days that would not have anything to do with Superman out of context.
Allroy... you want to build a complex, LCD capable, completely custom pin as your first design attempt and are complaining about cost of existing boards at the same time? Not only are those directly contradictory but they're unrealistic too.
My advice here is to start out with a reachable goal, that is, to retheme an existing pin and experience the process. Then go forward building something more elaborate. Don't go trying to build an atom bomb when you have never built a molotov cocktail.
yugffuts:
--- Quote ---My advice here is to start out with a reachable goal, that is, to retheme an existing pin and experience the process. Then go forward building something more elaborate. Don't go trying to build an atom bomb when you have never built a molotov cocktail.
--- End quote ---
I'm inclined to agree. Personally, I just want to wire up a couple flippers, slingshots and bumpers to the PC and see how it all works. I wouldn't know where to start designing a DMD (or LCD) display, although I could also worry about that later on in the design process.
I've been trying to get the pinmame-hw application to work, but I've had no luck so far. Their documentation seems to be lacking, although they are very responsive to questions. I'm focusing on getting the switches mapped at this point; I'll worry about the lamps and solenoids later.
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