Inside My Virtual Pinball Machine

[@Knievelgod1]

Great room you've got there!

[@LonnyPayne]

Thank you. 👍🏻

[@netropolis]

Brilliant build Lonny!

[@dprice06468]

Thanks for the internal tour. I like how you’ve used the delay switch. Can you provide a link to the switch on eBay and explain how you have it wired into your system? Thanks!

[@davidpriest7449]

Great video thank you

[@Woodwerker]

Awesome video - I am curious about the cuts for the the 43" inch playing field. At the front of the machine it looks like you have about 2 inches down from the top of the glass. And at the end of the playing field my guess is that it is about 3-3.5 inches from the top of the glass. Am I in the right area with my thoughts? Please keeping these informative and awesome videos - thank you so much!!! Like you I also have a Williams pinball cabinet (used to be a Swords of Fury) and want to put a 43" TV in it. Any info is greatly appreciated. You have such a nice looking vpin table. Thanks again.

[@LonnyPayne]

I just measured and it 2 inches on the front and 3 on the back. Just wanted to give it the same look as a real machine. I’ve played some machines that had even “playfields” I. The front and back and it didn’t look right to me so I adjusted mine.

[@ThomasGrillo]

Awesome job inside that cabinet! By the way, have either of the dogs gone up into the hole in the floor of the cabinet? Thanks for the video. :)

[@LonnyPayne]

Thanks. Lol. No, they haven’t jumped up there yet.

[@coreytolmasoff5426]

Really enjoyed this build, I’m debating going the 43” Playfield route in a standard cab as well, but having issues with sizing. What brand/model tv did you use? I have been looking but all appear to be nearly 3.5” or greater in thickness, is this why you decased the tv? To bring the thickness down? As I see your cutouts in the cab are around 2” or so? Or is this an illusion and the cutouts are thicker?

[@KuulKuum]

Great video, thanks for sharing. I am starting to get back in VPin, must have been 15+ yrs ago since I was doing the Visual Pinball/PinMAME thing. You have an awesome pinball game room... I still have my very first pinball repaired from 20yrs ago, an EM 1976 William Blue Chip and every one that plays it, loves it. The only thing in your video you did not cover was the PC system hardware that is required to run a Virtual Pinball utilizing a 4K UHD display plus addition displays.. BG/DMD displays? My research seem mixed, but some suggest a high-end pc system cpu ($400+) + video card ($700+) is needed.

[@LonnyPayne]

Thanks for the comments. Glad you are getting back into it. I am running a i7 at 3.4 ghz I think. The video card is a GTX 960. I run about 60 FPS. I was a little light on memory on the PC so upgrading to 16gb.

[@KuulKuum]

@@LonnyPayne wow. a GTX 960 can support 4K UHD. I think some media hype (lies) are going on in some of the reviewers then on what is needed (GPU wise) for 4K displays. Most state you need at least a GTX/RTX 2080/Super for 4K.

[@RichTeaChannel]

@@KuulKuum The 960 would be the bare minimum to enable 4K 60hz (maybe a few frame drops in places). The GTX 10 series and RTX 20 series are newer models but the clock speeds on the more recent cards arn't in themselves much different (for example the 1080 vs 2080). The 20 series of course has newer features such as ray tracing but those for the most part won't be used in a VPIN build. It's a bit confusing granted but a lot of people seem to get the NVIDIA naming conventions confused in their mind in this hobby. I would recommend GTX 1070 or above for the previous generation or for the current range RTX 2060 or above for a 3 screen 4k build.

[@BIGBIZDRIZ]

So no Force Feedback?

[@LonnyPayne]

Not at this time. I might add that in the future.

[@chinosts]

Interesting video.. thanks for posting. My only gripe was the audio cutting in and out was a bit distracting.

[@LonnyPayne]

Chino Thanks for the comments. It wasn’t really “cutting out”. It was actually editing. I wasn’t really paying attention and I said the word “basically” like 30 times. I was getting on my own nerves so I edited it out. Lol I promise to do better on future videos. :)

[@chinosts]

@@LonnyPayne ah ok that makes sense! Sorry for so blatantly pointing it out.. it was definitely a good video and informative from the perspective of someone who is thinking about building their own virtual pinball. Thanks for going to the trouble of posting.

[@Woodwerker]

@@chinosts ocd?

[@MobileDecay]

Jason Newsted likes pinball? 🤔