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ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Tim N. on February 14, 2008, 08:40:21 pm ---I am finishing mine up now. I started it back in September, and then my wife and I had our first kid in October, and I am just now getting back to it, I will post a lot more pics soon, I am using three tilt assemblies for nudging, L, R, up, and I have modified every single table to work nicely on my 42 inch LCD and 15 inch LCD. Scott at mamemarquees is printing my artwork as we speak, he had to order a special wide roll of the backlight film for the translite as this one is really wide. Pictures/writeup can be followed here- http://www.ralphwiggum.net/multipin.html

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Wow that project really looks sweet.  Congrats to have the vision to see it through.  :applaud:

I would start small and get bigger with skill.  With 19" widescreen LCDs coming down in price, one can see how inexspensive it can be.  But if you have a family and a lot of outgoing, then its still a dream until the prices come down.  :cry:

The tweaks and the error issues on exit have been resolved, and yet a great deal of modifying the tables to give it the depth is very time consuming.  I would have it for Funhouse and Addams Family only, which are the pins I play the most.

I still think Demon-Seed can show us his craft and make one of these beauties, and that I do look forward to. 

I also would like to see a knievel's pinball cab (if he has made one).   As his talents show you the extremes of what you can do to a cab.  ;D

Tim N.:
I am only loading the dmd/display on the second monitor that is in the cabinet head. I wrestled with the idea for awhile of getting a second full size display for the head, but I decided to keep to a set theme for the entire cabinet including the backglass. Directly below the center logo in the translite, I will be doing a cut out large enough to accomodate just the screen of the second LCD and nothing else, so the display will look pretty integrated into the backglass.

I think the main reason I went this route was not really cost (but it does cost a bit less to go with the smaller lcd in the backglass), but the fact that I have 7 pinballs lined up on my wall in the basement and this one will be at the end of the row. I wanted it to look as similar to a normal pinball as possible when looking at it next to the other pins. While I think the full LCD backglass looks pretty impressive, it just doesn't feel right to me lined up next to my pins. As soon as I get the artwork from Scott, I will post more pics to go along with everything else that is already done...

Demon-Seed:
Hey
Yea that project looks interesting....keep up the good work...keep us posted. I am wondering how one can use the 2 screens..I would like to have the top screen change the marquee and house the scores....kinda like ultrapin does...

also I am not familiar with this nudging thing?? any one advise how it works/?

rovingmind:

--- Quote from: Demon-Seed on February 14, 2008, 11:26:31 pm ---Hey
Yea that project looks interesting....keep up the good work...keep us posted. I am wondering how one can use the 2 screens..I would like to have the top screen change the marquee and house the scores....kinda like ultrapin does...

also I am not familiar with this nudging thing?? any one advise how it works/?


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its the equivalent of giving the pinball table a "nudge" to bump the ball off course, or onto a different course.  Visual pinball and pinmame give you three possible nudges equivalent to bumping the left side, right side or front of the pinball table.  As in a real machine, if you nudge to often the machine goes into "TILT" and you forfiet the game.

Kangum:
i have not had much luck with the nudge in visual pinball. usualy you can use the left and right nudge to prevent drains on the left and right lanes. center nudge sometimes you can actually pop the ball back up from a center drain and catch it with the flipper bringing the ball back into play. future pinball has a much stronger nudge so it tends to work better.

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