Been thinking about getting a virtual pin on and off for a while now.
But one thing that was a concern was the space a full size pin was going to take up with not really any room inside for one, and not wanting to put it in the garage I shelved the idea for a while.
Pinfest got me thinking pinball again and I found this little gem of a virtual pin.
This one is about half size of a full size cab, and already comes built with flipper, sling and pop bumper knockers for sound feedback, and an accelerometer for nudging though I don't think it works too well.
Has a DMD built in and a static image back glass.
This one is the Marvel variant that comes with 10 tables from Zen pinball.
1080p screen but running at 720p which is not fabulous but is very playable.
Where this gets interesting is with modding. You can flash this and load up the other 2 pinball versions, so gain another 10 star wars themed tables, and another 10 Williams tables.
Williams tables are: Attack from Mars, Fish Tales, The Getaway, Junk Yard, Medieval Madness, White Water, Red & Ted, Funhouse, Tales of the Arabian Nights and No Good Gofers.
On top of these you can add Zen Pinball android APK and load games from there also, such as Jaws, Back To The Future, Skyrim etc. But, you can also load the Farsight Studios The Pinball Arcade android APK and there are a bunch of original pinball tables there to load up as well.
I loaded: The Adams Family, Cactus Canyon, Champion Pub, Cirqus Voltair, Earth Shaker, Elvira Party Monsters, Fathom, Harley Davidson, High Speed 2, Judge Dredd, Junk Yard, Monster Bash, Party Zone, Safe Cracker, Scared Stiff, Space Shuttle, Starship Troopers, Star Trek Next Generation, Tee'd Off, T2 Juddgement day, Theatre Of Magic and Twighlight Zone.
I've still got room on there to add some more though.
For anyone looking at this the mod for these is the A1Pinner 3.9 mod. Version 4 is looking at making storage available from external source like USB etc.
Not a bad little pin, and cost me $870 used. Or around $1400 new.
Future plans are to gut it at some point, put a PC in there, replace the playfield monitor with a 32" screen, backglass monitor, replace the solenoids, replace the accelerometer, replace the plunger for one that works with PC pin software etc.
It's going to see a bunch of use over these next 2 weeks of school holidays thats for sure.