My virtual pinball cabinet build for VPX
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- The story of building my virtual pinball cabinet. Starts with testing Visual Pinball software (VPX) which I just learned about. After successful test, I'm moving on to building the actual cabinet, setting up the PC and upgrading the system a few times. Big thanks to the VPX community for creating such a fantastic piece of software and all the amazing tables.
Love it, turned out awesome. I really want to go the DIY this time around (still love my modded ALP), but stuff like this gets me going. I don’t have any wood making skills, so I may get a flat pack and handle the internals myself.
Enjoy that little vpin!
Great job on the build. Looks very clean. Always fun to upgrade to the best equipment for performance.
Thanks!
Funny, how we can clearly see you got bitten by the pinball bug, and how the itchy for upgrading it more and more developed . I am the first stage. Just did a controller with flipper buttons, now I want solenoids, soon I will want to build my cabinet . I already have w spare screens here. 😂 Amazing project !
Kumdot, first defintly go for SSF, mean 7.1 sound with speakers, exciters and bass shaker, you wont regret it, promise 😊
Thanks! :) Yeah, I always liked pinball and even considered buying a cabinet but the size was a bit of a problem. Plus new ones are quite expensive and buying an old machine would be full of challenges. The I saw ads for Arcade1up which is nice at first glance but pretty shitty if you look into specs/reviews. The I discovered VPX early this year and thought that I can do it. The rest is history ;) All the best with your build! :)
Awesome.
Way better than I could ever do. I suck at woodworking. Great Job!
Great work! Takes me back to my build days during Covid.
Nice work man! Looks great!
Did you install "Solenoids"...a lot more wirings and work if you do though but you'd get almost real rumble feels or vibration like in the real pinball?
I didn't go for solenoids. I was thinking about it but really the 4 exciters and relatively big speakers in the bottom do a great job in this smaller cabinet. You can feel the ball rolling and the vibration/sound of the flippers, etc is very realistic. Also the space in this cabinet is limited so I decided that it's enough :)
what is the song playing in the beggining
Md Moinul Hasan - Enjoy Journey
virtual pinballs aren't exciting anymore, now that Zen Studio's pinballs are so awesome.. Zen Studios (creator of Pinball FX) did a conversion of a "Attack from Mars". It's 10x better than the original and it puts the visual pinball version to shame. Once you're played pinball conversions by Zen Studios you wouldn't want to play the same pinballs on visual pinballs anymore.
Nah i disagree, the VPX versions of the "real" tables will always be better for most pinball lovers. Zen is fun but i like realworld tables replicated overall.
Most real pinball fans would disagree with you , sorry.
I'm not an expert on Zen but what I saw in the past was nice but not that realistic. VPX seemed perfect also having read various reviews before starting the build. Since I have IT background and like tinkering, VPX ticks all the boxes for me. But I'll have a look at Zen and maybe decide to install it too. Thanks!
You must be referring the VPX 9 or something, because everything in VPX 10 blows Zen Studios out of the water. Table authors the likes of g5k, flupper, JPSalas, VPW - just to name a very few - are the showcase Visual Pinball wizards.