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[Meatballsaucey]

Hi Everyone,

I just heard that Glen's Retro Show (Maker of the $99.00 GRS Build-A-Cade) is trying to gauge interest in an affordable build your own Vpin kit.

Glen's Retro Show has been providing high quality affordable controls and accessories to the home arcade community for many years. In this video Glen is showing off his Scott Sloan 1/6th scale vpins. At the end of the video he is asking if there is interest in the product. All he is asking is to get 10k views and he will start to work on making it a real product. If this interests you please watch the video and share with your friends. 

[chonk0master]

I was ready to call bs on this or at least you had the scale off. Against my better judgement I clicked the video and fast forward to the actual vpin. I'll be damned if that is n't a fully functional 1/6th scale vpin. 

 

I have a lot of questions, like what resolution is it running, compatibility with vpx, OS running under the covers and most importantly the price. Only the price is a deal breaker, based on the video it plays pretty good for something that size.

 

I have over 500 hours and more money than I care to admit in my cabinet that I'm wrapping up, finally. So I don't see myself dropping $500 on a micro pin. $100-$200, I would buy one and make it look like my cabinet. $300 would be a maybe and $500+ and I'm probably out, maybe if I didn't just build a real cab. 

[unclewilly]

Id think that with Linux and ios and Android working with vpx 10.8.1 they could greatly reduce the cost from the original 1/6 scale vpins as they should be able to use a much cheaper board to run them. The original ones had a mini pc running windows that was about 500.
But as vpx is running on ipads and phones I would think they could make something affordable

Edited by unclewilly, 21 October 2024 - 07:21 PM.

[xenonph]

Pretty cool little virtual pinball cabinet!

Even cooler to see my TRON Classic table being played on it in the video!

[htamas]

I think this is neat as a novelty, but other than playing it for a few minutes, I find this to be way too small for being it worth buying.