Post #796218 by SassyPonyPants on Fri, Jul 12, 2019 1:07 PM

Thanks for the compliments! I'm thoroughly enjoying the process, as I enjoy arts & crafts and this is essentially my biggest arts & crafts project ever.

On 2019-07-12 11:00, Philot wrote:
The VPC cabinet is a new one to me, though I've been aware of various arcade emulators for a long time. I checked their site but didn't see much specific information. Is that just a specialized arcade emulator or does it have additional stuff to emulate pinball machine hardware? Like tilt/shake sensors, knocker solenoids, or fancy surround sound to simulate the sound of the balls rolling around?
[ Edited by: Philot 2019-07-12 11:03 ]

My husband understands all of this way better than I do, but I'll attempt to explain, haha.

So the full size VPCab that looks like a pinball machine I believe has sensors and reacts to nudges. The games contain all the sounds, and they install decent speakers, so your realistic sounds are dependent on those things. Like anything, the realism is also dependent on the programming and design. There are sims that have the perspective figured out – it's kind of crazy and I don't know how they do it, but it really makes the monitor look like a three dimensional playfield.

We purchased the Vertigo and it came preloaded with hundreds of arcade games and VP games. You can't physically nudge this thing, you use secondary flipper buttons to nudge. My husband is in IT so of course he immediately started tinkering the day we got the thing. He removed unwanted games and installed a bunch of open source pinball games (some much more realistic than others.) We got all the upgrades on ours which includes a subwoofer, and it sounds amazing. Overall, a solid purchase and everyone enjoys playing it. But with all the tinkering hubs did, my opinion might be a little skewed because I've never played it un-tweaked!