wraggster
May 29th, 2012, 00:08
http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/pinmame.jpgA huge collection of pinball machines in your basement is one of the crowing achievements of a geek, but what if you could have a huge library of physical pinball machines at you fingertips? [veriix] shared an imgur gallery (http://imgur.com/a/tAId9) in a reddit post (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/u5vvb/a_build_project_i_finished_warning_lots_of_pics/) documenting his wee little pinball machine he built from scratch.
Inside the pinball cabinet, there are two monitors. A 4:3 Samsung monitor serves as the backglass for the machine while a 23″ HDTV provides the playfield. On the software side of things, [veriix] used PINMAME (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpinball/) and Visual Pinball 9 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpinball/) running on an old motherboard he had lying around. The result is impressive. The HD monitor playfield provides the right perspective to fool [veriix]‘s brain into thinking he’s playing a real pinball machine.
We’ve seen PINMAME builds before (http://www.minhembio.com/Tordyvel/301314#389811), but those were encased in full-size pinball cabinets that took up far too much room. [veriix]‘s machine is much smaller, and perfect for the garage, den, basement, or anywhere you’d like to set up an awesome game room.
You can check out [veriix] playing his mini pinball machine after the break. Thanks [Johnny] for sending this one in.
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/28/mini-pinball-mame-machine-is-small-enough-to-fit-in-any-game-room/
Inside the pinball cabinet, there are two monitors. A 4:3 Samsung monitor serves as the backglass for the machine while a 23″ HDTV provides the playfield. On the software side of things, [veriix] used PINMAME (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpinball/) and Visual Pinball 9 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpinball/) running on an old motherboard he had lying around. The result is impressive. The HD monitor playfield provides the right perspective to fool [veriix]‘s brain into thinking he’s playing a real pinball machine.
We’ve seen PINMAME builds before (http://www.minhembio.com/Tordyvel/301314#389811), but those were encased in full-size pinball cabinets that took up far too much room. [veriix]‘s machine is much smaller, and perfect for the garage, den, basement, or anywhere you’d like to set up an awesome game room.
You can check out [veriix] playing his mini pinball machine after the break. Thanks [Johnny] for sending this one in.
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/28/mini-pinball-mame-machine-is-small-enough-to-fit-in-any-game-room/