Is Virtual Pinball worth checking out? 

"Black Knight" had the Magna-Save.

Perfect analogy!

Don´t have the mola for the real thing - dummie -.That´s the real issue, including me. Nothing beats the real deal. Ever. Period. Nostalgia????? Do you know what does it mean in first place? S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G first, please?

@@acespades8747 I have games from both worlds and enjoy playing in both worlds. Nostalgi is personal and not for anyone to decide over others.

The best thing with a Virtual Pinball Machine, it doesn't need Maintenance . Also , U can lower the noise way more compared to a normal Pinball Machine. Makes it more suitable for playing at home ,after 10PM... I am really thinking bout buying a Virtual Pinball Machine for some time.

Night Mission Pinball rocked, you could adjust the physics of the ball, loved it!

Thanks, Scott! I would love to do a Skype interview when you get your next table ready for release!

@@DigitalPowertrip sounds good. I just want my next table to be ready for release... so . much . code

From both of those were pretty decent versions for PC's too (DOS version of course because back then Windows wasn't the thing yet). Nice thing was, all the original songs for each track were unhidden in installation directory as a .MOD so it was easy to play them with your favourite modplayer and enjoy that incredible music...

Patrick Waks me to

yeah, I manage to rip the music from the Amiga versions as well. such great music! you could really feel the roots the developers had in the old demo scene. pretty amazing that it was DICE's first game ever, and now they do AAA games like Battlefield and Star Wars: Battlefront :)

Patrick Waks amiga 500 had those tracker programs so youcould make your own music with samples.. and the other system even before amiga was amstrad schneider they had stereo and over 3000 games. If you download the emulator. Serach for a game called antirad and listen to that intro...

never owned an amstrad. I had the c64 before the Amiga... the sid chip was amazing, created the best sounds out there imho :) check out the music for The Last Ninja, totally holds up to this day! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FXtk0Tn7hDY.html

how much did it cost you

Me too i built one for $400

Wow, I’m rather envious. I’m not mechanical at all. My greatest achievement was building a gaming pc. Only sliced open 1 finger.

You would be much better off with a PinSim and a VR headset. Trust me. Used to have a cabinet with flat screens and that can’t conpare to VR

You are the best! Going to get you on the channel for an interview soon!

@@DigitalPowertrip just Call me ;)

as318917 search for Kinect and virtual pinball. It works and it’s great for single player, but if anyone else is hanging out, it makes a mess!

@@DigitalPowertrip Of course if a dummy like me can think of it someone way smarter has already long ago figured it out lol. Thanks, I did search for it & it looks awesome. Have you considered including it in your setup in the future? Or is single player only a killer for you

For what it's worth my brother has head tracking on his racing cockpit setup & it can be easily disabled when people are watching or for people who don't like it, which I personally don't the way he has it set up in that racing implementation of the technology but somehow I think it'd work more convincingly with a pinball table

@@Charlie_Fucsard - Finding a connect at a reasonable price is hard... I'd like to give it a go, but have so many other projects that have my attention right now. Would love it if someone would just do Visual Pinball in VR. We could make a controller that was just a bar with the buttons and plunger that had force feedback. That is my dream pinball setup.

www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=11573

The pool for resources on Android is going to be pretty shallow. Most front ends are built for windows. Let us know if you get it working!

Check the junkies page on FB... they have some trusted vednors.

I have two cheap 19 inch monitors... the lower one (DMD) is behind the play field and halfway below it. In this setup I have a total of 3 screens.

its probably got a modern fan recreation on pinsim

It was Cyborgirl :) You can mess around with your dosbox and add some pixel shaders that can make a huge difference. It makes it look less pixelated, especially in fullscreen if that's what you're looking for. Edit : The only problem with this game is if you take the time to go through the pain in the ass that is installing and setting up Gravis Ultrasound correctly with PPL161 *and* the percussion looping fix on DosBox, it consistently crashes the game after a short amount of time on Enigma(only) My favorite was the classic Android shareware table because my parents were too cheap to buy the rest of the game. It was the *old* Android table, not "Super Android" with that eye thingy and that sinkhole on the left side that could be accessed from the left flipper ramp. No music, only the exquisite and soothing sounds of the PC speaker ;) I often checked the other tables because you could look at them but not actually play them. I remember wanting to play Enigma so bad... The good times.... Back when my biggest worry in life was what kind of crap my parents would try to make me eat for dinner

Both of the back glass screens are just salvaged, 19-inch monitors. The one on the top is 1080p and the one on the bottom is just 1366x768 - Only half of the bottom monitor is visible as the bottom half is down in the body of the cabinet. Be sure to join the Pinball Junkies page on Facebook. They have the best resources for getting started.

twp 19inch monitors (the middle one is just sunken in to the cab). both are running at 1920 x 1080 and I only use the top half of it for the DMD or videos... I set that up through Pinup Popper.

I'm pretty sure the source (video) would have to be encoded for 3D and to my knowledge it is not.

Sweet! Let us know how it goes!

Not a dumb question at all! Yes you can! Desktop mode is available.

@@DigitalPowertrip SWEET! I have always wanted to try some of these tables. I am a huge pinball fan from back in the days of the electromechanical ones (used to go to Seaside Heights during the 70s and 80s and for the start pinball is pretty much all we had!)

@@thomasriccardi8561 - Check out the Junkies page on Facebook - they keep an up to date listing of the VP tables... and list the ones that have Desktop mode. Also, Pinball FX3 from Zen - all tables work in desktop mode.

Came here just to say that. I had them both on the Amiga. The hours I wasted playing those games.

Thomas Wright yes google virtual pinball and SSF. There’s also a way to do it with a pinscape controller. SSF is the poor mans method and they sell the exciters on Amazon.

I built it... check out visual pinball junkies on Facebook for the best guide on building your own!

Promopinball.com offers you a cabinet kit for home pinball digital & Arcade . Look at Instagram @promopinball thanks

Thanks! We just subbed back! Will check you out when we get a chance. Add us on instagram if you have any questions when you start your build, you can message us there.

@@DigitalPowertrip thank you so much for interacting with me and double thank you for the sub! I'm only a year in and struggling for my thousand. You have great content and production value. I want to take a lot of inspiration from your work.

@@levelbylevelgaming2833 We had partnership after 500 in less than a year, then RU-vid up and changed the rules to 1k and we struggled to get from 500 to 1000. It took another year for us to get there. Just keep putting out content. You'll get there!

www.tested.com/tech/gaming/569647-how-build-pinsim-virtual-reality-pinball-machine/

they already have vr pinball got it on my psvr and some of the table are pretty sweet looking .. only downside is your stuck using the ps4 controler but its totally worth it

To be honest with you, the guys that pre-load tables are making money of the work of the table authors and that is highly frowned upon in the community. Add this to the fact that if a table does not work properly, you will have no idea what to do to fix it. There are some good guys out there however. You can get a pre-built machine that has no tables loaded. you can go to the FAQ at Pinball Junkies on FB and have all the resources you will need to get your favorite tables up and running in no time. Then you will have a good base of knowledge to work from. Check out the Junkies page and they have a list of trusted vendors. Good luck and enjoy this hobby! It's quite rewarding and you will meet some great people along the way!

Not personally, but it looks cool. Most of that tech relies on the old kinect and it's hard to come by and our setup does not support it. It would be a pretty expensive undertaking.

Never got around to it. Maybe one day when the moon is full???

Theatre of Magic just came out in Zen's latest table pack, along with The Champion Pub and Safecracker.

...And I can report that it seems pretty accurate. All of Zen's pinballs have a "Zen" mode in which you can play with earned power-ups that affect scoring, timers or the passage of time itself, and a "classic" mode without that stuff. For the Williams tables, which are based on real machines, the classic mode also swaps in a different physics model intended to be more realistic. Zen's ToM feels very right to me in the classic mode, and the other mode is also fun. The Zen mode also defaults to including flashy visual enhancements, like flaming balls and animated characters standing on the table, but for the Williams packs they are optional--in either mode you can turn those on or off during gameplay. (Theatre of Magic *had* been one of the original launch titles for Farsight's "The Pinball Arcade", and you could play it there for years--but their loss of the Williams license means you can't buy it there any more, I guess.)

@@MattMcIrvin Thanks for all of this info. I make custom Arcade Cabinets, and although I have a huge Videogame collection, I have always been more fascinated with the tactile feel of manipulating a real ball and the physics of the table that Pinball gives. I really like the table designs of John Popadiuk and Pat Lawlor, and *Theatre of Magic* to me, was (pardon the pun) really quite magical in the experience it gave and enjoyment of accomplishing all the table had to offer. So, I really want to venture out and try making these Virtual Pinball machines, because they are looking really good and seem to give almost the same experience with their HD graphics and realistic ball physics, and some even have tactile vibration and physical 'tilt' interaction. And I'm grateful for all those who have built these machines before me and have uploaded videos on how to make these tables, so someone like me won't be too confused when I begin to tackle a project like this. So where do I start? I have the talent to make the physical cabinets no problem, but I don't know where to find the Pinball programs or where to download specific ROMs, and what are the good games out there for the money. I see you mention *Zen* and *Farsight,* but do you have available links to trusted sites for anything you'd recommend? Thanks again for all the info you provide. I'm sure it helps a lot more people than just me that are trying to get into this Virtual Pinball cab making. Here's a video of my custom Arcade Cabinets that you might appreciate-- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBCYo9Kn1B0.html

@@SwankeyMonkey I don't know thing one about cab building, I'm just a guy who likes real and simulated pinball...

theatre plus about 150 others are good in visual pinball

Still is, and also Night Mission pinball. 80s machines like Commodore, Atari, and TI99/4A. Good times!!!

you've got to try a machine with DOF... all the sounds and feels of a real machine, only you can have tons of games on one table.

they dont make plasmas any more, and they have great movie viewing qualities, if you have a decent plasma, cherish it.

Ivan The Dude ahh ok didnt no that got a lg 3d plasma about 6 years old and mint lol took it apart and was like wow

Ball physics has been important from the beginning in the Visual Pinball program. Randy Davis created a great piece of software. The physics are at least 95% accurate, and I may be low on that number. The created table in VP has a lot to do with it as well. If the flippers aren't set to the right power/height/speed or the ramps and other playfield items aren't laid out properly, the recreation will not feel like it's playing well. There were some bugs (ball going through the flippers now and then), but they've worked out those bugs over the last 18+ years! You don't need a cabinet to play these games. Download VP, PinMAME, a few tables and their ROMs for PinMAME, and just play it on 1 screen (it will look like the PinFX3 table layout in this video). You don't have to invest anything to try it other than a little time setting up the software. After that, I think you'll be hooked and want more. In a cabinet, there are many real-world enhancements you can build/buy/add to it to make it feel more real - flashers, contactors that will thump the cabinet when you hit the bumper jets or flippers, spinners and shakers that will rumble the game (think Earthshaker), I have a light on the top of mine that flashes when certain things happen, especially in Getaway: HS2 when the chase scene activates the police light. You have to think, spend $3k-$10k for 1 real pinball machine, or $1k (basic) to $4k (extreme bells and whistles) for over 800 fully playable, faithfully recreated pinball tables in one virtual cabinet!

I'll bet you could do it... If you can follow directions, the FAQ on Visual Pinball Junkies on Facebook can guide you!

DICE games are older.

Same here, but Pinball Dreams / Fantasies were released in '92.

Scragglewaggle - Awesome, can’t wait to see it!

How's the project going? I'm just in the planning phase myself, considering using my main PC and hooking up the table screen to it as a secondary....Avoiding having to build a new machine

@@independentmind1977 its going really ridiculously long.. I have too much to do and it will take another year or two to finish the software portion alone. I have a very ambitious build coming up but I will release all my custom work that I made to the community. If I were u go big and slowly order parts one at a time.. Look at "mame in a box' channel and study hard.. Go 4k and invest 500-800 dollars in the gpu alone. Buy a cheap but somewhat strong pc as a way to get it all going then transfer it all to your main pc you will use. I am using about 10 different editing software including: sony vegas pro, wondershare filmora and many others.. I am using about 20+ different programs to get it all going for various purposes. If you need help with anything ask me I am getting better each week. Plus there are so many forums to help u. I will be making a video soon to show my progress. Whatever u do make a video showing off your finale build or better yet your build process to motivate others. Good luck on your cab! I wanna see it in all its glory.

@@independentmind1977 also invest in a external hdd and backup all your progress every now and then to prevent you from punching yourself in the face if u lose all that data.

It requires a specific (and older) emulator called BAM and a Microsoft Kinect. It kind of died off as it has issues when there are more than one person around the pinball table. Here is a video on that tech from 2013... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-89AnFISP7k4.html

go check out Visual Pinball Junkies on FB. There's lots of great resources there. We'll do a new video soon. Thanks for the feedback!

You should do it! It's the best trick at the party for sure. When people are over, most start at the arcade machine and end up staying at the pinball machine.

We've had good results on the videos we've promoted with them. But like anything else, if the content is not good, the results won't be either. Sprizzy is a tool for promotion that gets eyes on your content. So, if you have content that is interesting to your audience, they will hang around for what you do next, if not... they will go elsewhere.

Yeh theres a massive untapped market out there for home arcade machines. Id buy one of these.

If I didnt have anything on hand already its roughly $1200. You can cut that significantly if you already have a PC and 2 19 inch monitors. Playfield TV used is a 32 1080p 32 inch and it was like $140. You can really increase cost with size and 4K, but for me this turned out just fine.

In all, I think I was like 350 out of pocket.