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Visual Pinball (2000)

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Finally got around to adding all this stuff to my Chewlix.

This is my personal multi that i added some games to. There's a guide on Arcade Projects forum on how to add games to the Artax multi. Search on there, you should be able to find it.

What you see in the video is running on a completely STOCK Taito Type X3 TTX3 model 404. So the I5 cpu and 660gtx video card. It runs VPX pretty well. There are a few tables with pup packs that are cpu limited, such as ghostbusters, but 99% of other stuff works fine. It's all running @ 1080p and default graphical settings in VPX.

I added pinball flipper buttons to the side of the control panel, there's an LCD for a the DMD, and there's also a nudge sensor in there that works suprisingly well. There's no demo of the nudge sensor in this video, it's coming in another video. I need an extra arm/hand so i can camera and hit both flipper buttons at once. I've got exciters installed as well, but they don't relaly excite me, i have to play around with them some more to see if i can make them better.

All commericaly released tables that have public release reproductions for VPX are there from 1991 to today. This video is a little old now, 1990, 1989, 1987 and 1988 tables have been added since it was made and a bunch of alt sounds and more colour dmd files. The main thing is, all the hardware installed runs alongside all the other games. You don't have to change anything to jump between the arcade games and VPX, it all just works.

I'll try and rig up a camera so i can do a better video with proper gameplay and showing the nudge sensor in action.





If you read this far and want some more info or you just want to play along. It's running on a stock TTX3 model 404, using FASTIO. I'm still amazed at how well this piece of shit old hardware runs so much of this stuff, VPX is the first time i've really seen the system CPU limited. I've done the testing on all tables from 91-current and it runs 99% of stuff. Ghostbusters with PUP doesn't run so well, and a few other tables in multiball, mainly the VPW tables as those guys push the limits, but it's close to running ok, so a gpu upgrade should make it fine, and possibly some PUP tables will need faster CPU. Pup packs take their toll on the CPU though, so the cpu can bottleneck performance a little on some tables with PUPs, again mostly to do with VPW tables.

The flipper buttons are wired to buttons 7 and 8 on the FASTIO. 8 buttons are enabled for all games via FASTIO now on all games/systems, even the custom mapping games, those wrappers were redone with buttons 7 and 8 mapped for use. This opens up a lot more possibilites for games that require more buttons. Mostly PC stuff that wasn't possible before. JVS support has been completely removed from the multi. It was a PITA to add in, then keep up to date with all the custom game mappings and the swap between fastio and jvs, and those custom mappings are growing in numbers now... it's gone and won't be coming back, not in this multi anyways. FASTIO support only from here out.

If you want to replicate.

SOFTWARE
- Visual Pinball X 10.7.1
- Pinscape software for the nudge sensor. This works really well, position is around the center of your control panel.


HARDWARE
- TTX3 stock 404 unit. No GPU upgrade
- KL25Z nudge sensor
- The DMD LCD came from aliexpress, it's a great fit, and a MASSIVE pain to install. It's awesome when it's done, but holy shit it's a pain to install where it is. It took me a whole day to get it installed there. It was secondhand when it arrived.. the listing failed to tell you that part. Aliexpress is defintely land of the dodgy.
- Sanwa buttons for the flippers.
- Excitor speakers, i have some Dayton exciter speakers... i'm not overly excited by them. Not sure if I was epecting more or it's just not for me. I need to play around with them more. For now I just turned them off.


Anyways, happy gaming. VPX on a Chew/Vewlix is great fun, i find myself playing VPX more than arcade games these days.... and from a software perspective it's prety easy to add.

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