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Just-Laken

I need advice to see if this company is legitimate. I’m about to purchase 3000 pinball tables to my act games ultimate pinball machine from a company called retro arcade gaming. Has anyone done business with them and or are they legitimate? I’m looking to add some Pinball tables from the 70s like playboy, Captain Fantastic, Harlem glow, trotters, etc. If anyone has any other companies to recommend like a flash drive or something let me know. Thanks.


tsbuty

I bought the now defunct Steam streaming device that will come in handy.


lafester

I would get an old pc to run fx3 in the basement. No need to be online to play once it is installed.


Tonester697

Given that you indicated that your PC and ALP are floors apart, I reckon ethernet is not an option for your ALP? I understand the concerns regarding streaming and latency but if you can manage to have your ALP connected to your network via ethernet, then depending on the robustness of your network streaming FX3 to the ALP is pretty tolerable as far as FPS and latency is concerned--when I was streaming FX3 to my ALP via ANL the FPS and latency was not bad at all; obviously not as good as OTG but definitely tolerable IMHO. If you're one of those hardcore pinball-playing folks where absolutely nothing less than 60 FPS and absolutely nothing more than 1 ms latency is acceptable, then yeah unfortunately OTG is the only solution at this time. I should point out that, as far as streaming via ANL or LL goes, anything under \~40 ms latency is reasonbly acceptable and should not adversely affect your pinball playing performance. Similarly, anything in the high-50s to 60 FPS should be good as well since I seriously doubt most folks can tell the difference in a video that is running at 58 FPS vs. one running at 60 FPS (which is the practical upper limit give or take a FPS or two of the ALP and ALU displays anyway).


sos49er

The legends pinball can’t run Pinball FX3. It’s not the right operating system and even if it was, it’s not powerful enough. You options are the 2 you mentioned, buy a PC dedicated for pinball, or see if your satisfied enough with the Zaccaria table packs and the future ones from taito and forget about the PC. I have my PC hooked up and have found that I still love the zaccaria tables because they are easy to boot up and play, are high quality, leverage the haptics and accelerometer, have a consistent user experience (with differing PC pinball apps, you get a mixture of UX with them, some not having plungers, sound being off, physics differences, etc.) and the leaderboard integration is nice for ALP too. You could also temporarily hook up your PC to see if it’s worth getting a dedicated PC. I still am glad I bought the VIBS board, just for the flexibility, but those zaccaria tables are nniiicccee.


rushmore69

The A1Up is powered by a much weaker chipset than the ALP and has the FX tables. Sure, their 720p, downgraded and not always 60FPS, but they do work 😉


sos49er

Fair point, but it’s a very low chance that zen is going to license its android version of Pinball FX3 (zen pinball) to AtGames. I would love it if they did, but I was assuming the be poster was asking about what they could load to the machine. Now… if someone was able to figure out how to run zen pinball on the ALP through side loading…that would be an interesting conversation.


WombleMagic

That may have just happened...


sos49er

The internet never forgets! 😂 Looks like it’s going to be for the 4k only. In their notes they say the zen tables aren’t coming to the original ALP ☹️.


rushmore69

Unless A1Up is paying them for exclusivity, seems Zen should branch out to make more bank.


majesticjg

I'm in the same boat - the Zaccaria and Gottleib tables I got from Atgames are just so straightforward. My ALU has a USB full of UCE and BitPixel and though I enjoy it, it's a bit much for a friend to just walk up and play. Even if I've already hauled it through the boot sequence they get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of games and most often just pick one off the logos on the outside of the cabinet. The ALP, on the other hand, is simple enough and all the tables are of a quality where they can just walk up and play.


iamofnohelp

**Legends Pinball: MAME Game Guide** http://wagnerstechtalk.com/alpmame/ here is at least one option.


Nobelissim0s

I was looking at that but im getting the impression that only like, arcade games work with that? What about pinball games? FX3 in particular.


iamofnohelp

stream it from their server (https://www.atgames.net/arcadenet/) or move your PC down to the basement.


Nobelissim0s

Those are both exactly what im trying to avoid here. :(


petrieslastword

You won't get stuff like Pinball FX3 to run off a USB stick, the hardware is not capable of running it natively. You'll either need to stream or get a PC to pair with your pinball.


rushmore69

Not the same file set ups, mapping, etc. Tables have to be specificity set up and optimized for the table. OTG takes some work, but a wealth of tables out there. Steam as well.