Throughout my life I've loved playing pinball when having the occasion to play, but having to pay 25/50/100 cents to play each time never really allowed me the time to learn or understand tables.
I've owned a few arcade machines and always wanted to own a pinball cabinet, but they're extremely expensive to purchase and even harder to maintain in working order. Plus when you own a table you're kind of stuck playing the same game over and over, which would get old after awhile (at least in theory. Since I never owned one I can only assume!)
Enter digital pinball! When I saw someone had built a virtual cabinet on YouTube I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, and hoped that someone would offer one to purchase not realizing that there was an entire community out there building tables and offering them up for free. Not only that, but people are building their own cabinets and showing step by step instructions on how its done.
The more videos I watched the more I got the ridiculous thought that I could actually do it too! So off I went, purchasing everything I needed to make it happen.
A month later I had it done and I haven't stopped playing since. Below are random pictures of the build process with my friend Kyndal and me.
Of course this led to me learning how to make my own tables, my first being a Twin Peaks table. If you'd like to download a copy of my Twin Peaks table, click the link below. You can open it in Visual Pinball X.
Downloads:
I'm not sure if what you download here will work with a new installation of Visual Pinball X, as most people in the community have everything "set up" to work with the backglass and DMD, so please let me know if you need help getting this to work. Search YouTube for "Baller Installer" if you want to install a complete package that you can be confident will run everything.
Steps to install:
1) Place .vpx file in the Tables folder of Visual Pinball X.
2) Pick one of the .b2s files, rename it to the same filename as the .vpx file, and also place it in the Tables folder. (This is if you want a Backglass image. Ignore this step if you don't).
3) Place the TWINPEAKS music folder inside the Visual Pinball Music folder.
4) Place the UltraDMD folder inside the Visual Pinball X Tables folder.
5) Open the vpx file in Visual Pinball X and get to playing!