![]() wiring kits save a lot of hassle crimping connectors on wires. I used 6 buttons, each coming with it's own microswitch. the i-pac is your best bet, available here in Australia, and here in the USA. A monitor for the backglass - I went with a 19". If you want to replicate the size of a real pinball machine, a 37" LCD TV is your best bet. A monitor for your playfield - I wanted to keep costs down, so I went with a smaller option - a 24" Asus monitor. ![]() the software: Visual Pinball is the emulation software, and the front end that dresses it up and makes it playable on the cabinet is hyperpin. you'll need a pretty decent graphics card with dual monitor capabilities and a pretty decent processor - a fast dual core is better than a not as fast quad core, as the software only uses 2 cores anyway. Here's a step by step on how to configure the software, build the cabinet and wire it all together. A number of people have built cabinets, and the Hyperpin Forums are a great place to get all the information. ![]() the advantage of digital pinball is that it's cheap to maintain, relatively cheap to build and you can have as many tables as have been created. With the creation of software such as Visual Pinball, Future Pinball and Hyperpin, Digital pinball cabinets are a reality, and can be made quite cheaply. I'm a pinball fan from way back, but pinball machines are so expensive, and need a lot of maintenance.
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