LGR Oddware - Philips Virtual Pinball Controller
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Date: 2022-04-14
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OldElf
Fun fact, Clint, hitting the flipper buttons harder on a real pinball machine doesn't affect the flipper speed/force etc. I know, it's weird. I just found out recently and can't believe my pinball world has been a lie all of this time. I mean, at best you might be more accurate with your timing, or you nudging the machine can affect the ball trajectory, but it has no actual effect on the flipper. It's basically an On/Off kinda thing.
Edit: I realize this video is old and you might have found out by now. But I thought I should share, because my mind has been blown tbh.
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Fun fact, Clint, hitting the flipper buttons harder on a real pinball machine doesn't affect the flipper speed/force etc. I know, it's weird. I just found out recently and can't believe my pinball world has been a lie all of this time. I mean, at best you might be more accurate with your timing, or you nudging the machine can affect the ball trajectory, but it has no actual effect on the flipper. It's basically an On/Off kinda thing.
Edit: I realize this video is old and you might have found out by now. But I thought I should share, because my mind has been blown tbh.
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maxis2k
Virtual Pinball is such an overlooked genre of games. Possibly the most overlooked. Yeah, there was a lot of titles back in the day. But they were also low budget and mostly slept on. And today, barely anyone even makes pinball games. There's also tons of opportunity for developers to do things in virtual pinball besides just simulate live tables. Stuff like Kirby's Pinball Land and Sonic Spinball were starting to try and merge pinball with other genres (in this case platformers) but didn't really go all the way with it.
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Virtual Pinball is such an overlooked genre of games. Possibly the most overlooked. Yeah, there was a lot of titles back in the day. But they were also low budget and mostly slept on. And today, barely anyone even makes pinball games. There's also tons of opportunity for developers to do things in virtual pinball besides just simulate live tables. Stuff like Kirby's Pinball Land and Sonic Spinball were starting to try and merge pinball with other genres (in this case platformers) but didn't really go all the way with it.
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Matt
Evererything about this controller is good except tilting which is ass to operate. It's better to built one and make tilting based on three vibration sensors that can be bought for cheap and solder them with cables on a cheap gamepad pcb just like the flipper and plunger buttons. Those sensors have the calibration pots on them to make it more or less sensitive.
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Evererything about this controller is good except tilting which is ass to operate. It's better to built one and make tilting based on three vibration sensors that can be bought for cheap and solder them with cables on a cheap gamepad pcb just like the flipper and plunger buttons. Those sensors have the calibration pots on them to make it more or less sensitive.
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GabeTheGrump
Getting back into Pinball FX again I can't find this anywhere or the crappy thrustmaster one I wish someone like Logitech would come out with an affordable pinball controller instead of having my make my own from scratch or pay hundreds of dollars for a giant table controller thing to take up my entire room.
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Getting back into Pinball FX again I can't find this anywhere or the crappy thrustmaster one I wish someone like Logitech would come out with an affordable pinball controller instead of having my make my own from scratch or pay hundreds of dollars for a giant table controller thing to take up my entire room.
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BitPAL
Just a odd fact: Recommend in 2019
Client you are odd, but you aren't forgotten or obsoulit
Indeed you are one of a kind and you are a memorable kindly polite nerd
Thanks for the nice memories, and knowledge you have given me, the last years
Greetings
Julian, 18
Germany
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Just a odd fact: Recommend in 2019
Client you are odd, but you aren't forgotten or obsoulit
Indeed you are one of a kind and you are a memorable kindly polite nerd
Thanks for the nice memories, and knowledge you have given me, the last years
Greetings
Julian, 18
Germany
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Larry
You can always tell when someone sucks at pinball growing up in the early 80s there is a certain swagg lean when you hold the buttons and a certain way of pressure you put on the buttons when you use the flippers fron one side to another
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You can always tell when someone sucks at pinball growing up in the early 80s there is a certain swagg lean when you hold the buttons and a certain way of pressure you put on the buttons when you use the flippers fron one side to another
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Stephen
Unfortunately in those times I was all about the PS2 and so something as cool as this would have and did totally miss my radar. If I'd had a clue this would have changed my view on PC games forever!
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Unfortunately in those times I was all about the PS2 and so something as cool as this would have and did totally miss my radar. If I'd had a clue this would have changed my view on PC games forever!
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Bong
The tilting thing is actually kinda cool, because on real machines you really have to put some force into tilting the whole machine just like this. It's not done with a button like some people think
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The tilting thing is actually kinda cool, because on real machines you really have to put some force into tilting the whole machine just like this. It's not done with a button like some people think
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Jet
You have to hulk it for tilting because the restrictor for movement is still in place to protect it during transport and doesn't break by shocks you doofus LOL
Cool device though. Totally my thing
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You have to hulk it for tilting because the restrictor for movement is still in place to protect it during transport and doesn't break by shocks you doofus LOL
Cool device though. Totally my thing
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fanjoy
Anyone remember psycho pinball? Me and my dad played it for hours, I would Come home to find him top of the scoreboard. he eventually hacked the scoreboard with a fake score - he admitted it: D
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Anyone remember psycho pinball? Me and my dad played it for hours, I would Come home to find him top of the scoreboard. he eventually hacked the scoreboard with a fake score - he admitted it: D
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