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Title: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: Automark on July 10, 2014, 06:43:53 pm

Hi  :cheers:
So I am working on a small pinball cab, low budget. It had to be made from cheap second hand parts.
It started with a sheet of 10mm mdf. A 2 year old 4core amd, 4gb rams and a 2-4 year old radeon video card. I had a 22"
16/9 and a 19" 4/3 screen. So I started with these sizes to draw something on the sheets of mdf.

After a million hours of screwing, gluing and a lot of $#%#$@! I got this:

(http://i.imgur.com/vLeDqsa.jpg)

Painting, vinyl, installing the pc crap and first install of the monitors:

(http://i.imgur.com/OySMmDU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wyv3dV1.jpg)

It's allive  :notworthy:

Because it had to be cheap, there are no knockers whatsoever. I installed a Logitech Z313 and the sub isn't that bad, and actually it makes some vibrations in the cab.

I don't like the 1000 buttons you need for hyperpin, so I made some my own. The coin button is in the coin reject, and the exit button is behind the little coin return thing.

(http://i.imgur.com/UIdLTBS.jpg)

It is not finished yet, I still need to:

- put a glass plate on the playfield and back-box.
- rearrange all the power cables,
- finalize the crappy software, which is a real pain in the ### (kickstarter anyone?? for something simple? send a pm)

But it works and plays nicely, first I thought it would be to small, but it really plays nice.


Tomorrow I;ll make some pictures of the inside for those interested.

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: spoot on July 10, 2014, 06:57:10 pm

IMHO, dump hyperpin and go with pinballx.

Looks like a nice playable cab though.

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: ViriiGuy on July 10, 2014, 08:38:06 pm

Yea, I went to PinballX too. Much smoother system.

I LOVE your exit button idea.. Might have to steal that for my current Mame build... IF I can find a good way to hide the pause button, other than under the CP.

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: Kier on July 10, 2014, 08:43:57 pm

Dude, thats sick.

I havent even played PinballX or any of them. Built my MAME decades ago, well almost 2, lol. Going to have to give this PinballX a try, it looks cool as hell.  Nice job.

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: ViriiGuy on July 10, 2014, 10:18:14 pm

It's GameEX I think for MAME cabinets. Same software basically.

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: njay on July 11, 2014, 03:40:28 am

Hey Mark,

Good to see the artwork worked out :)

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: Superfrog on July 11, 2014, 04:16:15 am

Well done Marc,

Also my advies... Skip hyperpin and go for PinballX.
 :cheers:

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: Automark on July 11, 2014, 01:01:08 pm

Thanks to all, I just installed pinballx, and yes that is seriously much nicer than hyperpin.
Very easy to install

Title: Re: Small low budget pinball cab, medieval madness look
Post by: Automark on July 12, 2014, 10:34:43 am

Quote from: njay on July 11, 2014, 03:40:28 am

Hey Mark,

Good to see the artwork worked out :)

 :cheers:
How's your update coming along?