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@@TinaRoberts-k2e super easy, 2 screws, two wires. I’ll be doing it in the follow up video to show the process. The part number is printed on the solenoid, so it’s easy to get the exact part. I bought a pack of 5 on eBay for $50, just to have some spares or encase any of them come dead on arrival, which unfortunately does happen with them sometimes.

​@@andrew21742 Thank you. I wasn't sure if it was something I would be able to do. Thanks for the information.

@@ShaneDocPuff for people that are capable, there’s nothing stopping them from setting up a brand new drive, running baller installer themselves and copying the tables from the unprotected portion of the drive. In fact almost all of the drive can be copied and then you can play with it until your hearts content, and you’ll still have a working drive you can plug back in and use should you have problems. I have no desire to do that. I tried twice to build my own machine and both times I got so frustrated making it all work together. I spent more time futzing with it than I did getting to play pinball. My kids messed it up every time they touched it. That’s why I went with XGC, I just want it to work. In my opinion it would be crazy for XGC to provide machine with the drive unlocked, they’d spend all their time trying to fix whatever someone screwed up and not building peoples machines. There’s just no way they can support that. I do believe at some point in the future XGC will offer access to an update server to add tables and fixes, but I don’t think we’ll see it until they get through the back log of orders and have time to get it all worked out and solid.

@@andrew21742 I agree, that Xtream is a fantastic out-of-the-box system, but as you dive deeper into the hobby, more support would be beneficial. I’ve tried to customize the files myself and learned a lot about DOF, but having a clear hardware layout would help those who want to create their own files while keeping the C: Drive secure. I’m also curious about the sound setup; I have an unlocked 1.5 drive I use for my cabinet but finding a straightforward solution is tough. While you could opt for a USB sound card, the goal is to have something ready to use and updatable. His SSF setup is very, I don't know... Some newer tables may require DOF updates, and if you want to use Zen's FX3 without hacks along with using FX's DOFLinx, you're limited. It comes to a point you should just build your own if the work becomes too much. Ultimately, if you're considering building from scratch, I recommend the Cleveland software kit for a seamless setup that includes support for FX/FX3 without any hacks. I used it on an older home cabinet I built. To sell it I wanted to upgrade it and use Cleveland software to help sell it with all the toys. Thanks for letting me ramble. And once again you are right...

@@chumbuket2300 yes, when you buy it, it includes Darryl dialing in and configuring it for your machine. Since every XGC vpin is custom built they are all a touch different and require the final configuration to be done by XGC.

@@ChristianKrogh-Denmark I removed the screen so it didn’t get damaged when I stood the machine up on its back to go onto the dolly. In the Version 1.0 XGC cabs, the screen it just resting on the supports that hold it in place. You wouldn’t need to do this on the new 2.0 cabs as the screen is held in place with the tilt mechanism. The other reason is that it makes the cab significantly lighter to move. Please keep in mind, XGC does not recommend standing the machine up the way I did and moving it as you would a traditional Pin. I did this because I have a ton of experience and knew it would be ok at my own risk.

@@andrew21742 Thanks for the answer!💪 I’m from DENMARK, and though it’ll cost a shit-ton, I’m seriously considering buying one of their Virtual pins, cause it truly seems like the best there is! (and you literally get 100’s of different tables on it, so it couldn’t possibly get repetitive/boring. The variety is insane!) I saw your entire video from beginning to end, and you clearly know what you’re doing. At points I honestly got exhausted, lol! I began to question if I could even set it up my self, if I were to buy one 😂 But hopefully I’ll figure it out. I’m no tech-wizzard, so I really love the concept of basically “Plug’N’Play” 🤗

@@ChristianKrogh-Denmark you will find no better quality anywhere that is as easy to to start playing as soon as the legs are on it. And you can’t break the software… if you you some how mess it up, just reboot it and it completely resets back to the original working config.

@@andrew21742 Thank you 👍 AWESOME basement of yours, by the way 💪 Every man deserves his man-cave 🥳

@@Busa-power I know they are heads down trying to put the final polish on 3 different systems, the light gun drive, the 32tb beast arcade drives, and the newest VPin release. After the issues with Integrum Retro not following through on updating the drives and providing support XGC decided to pull all that back in-house and do it themselves. Since they are a relatively small mostly family run business it’s easy to get heads down and focused on something. Since you’ve gotten your final invoice that means they’ve started production on your machines. It can still take a couple months once production starts depending on what you have chosen for your builds. Also, I’m sure since the updated vpin drive is so close they are holding releases until that’s complete. My suggestion would be to call Donna in the morning. Seems like 10am Queensland time is a pretty good time to reach her. I don’t leave voicemails when I call because I know how busy they are, I just keep trying until I reach her, but she will answer if she’s not on another call, I’ve never had an issue of not being able to get her on the phone. AND… most importantly, I’m not aware of a single person saying XGC took their money and didn’t deliver, that’s not who they are. They build the best stuff out there and because of that they are very very popular. It’s difficult for a small business to ramp up production and still maintain the quality they are known for, but they are actually doing a good job with that. So… don’t worry, your machines will get built and delivered.

@@andrew21742 Hey Andrew,thanks a lot for answering 🙏I will be patient and wait .I never did push anything and had always good communication with them. I ‘m glad to here this from you ,makes me less worried. I will keep you informed about the future.I was a bit desperate about the situation.🤔Thanks a lot again and enjoyed a lot your videos 👍👌 Rgrds Guido✌🏻

@@Busa-power I’m glad you enjoyed the videos! I’ll be doing some more when I receive my updated drives show how the upgrades go.

To my knowledge nothing is planned lie this for the VPin. Even though they are built the same, each VPin is different and takes a manual touch so I don’t see this coming any time soon. Then again, I never put it past XGC to surprise us with new features, so you never know, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up for that coming any time soon.

Still love as much as the day I got it. The only issue I’ve had with it was a solenoid crapping out, which happens and was only a $10 fix. I could have called XGC and they would have warranted it, but it was just way faster to go to my local NAPA and grains for $8 and replace it. The only thing I don’t like about my VPIN is that it’s not the new version 2.0 cab. The newest version is so nice as far as the screen tilt and how everything is now labeled internally. I’m close to ordering another and giving my existing one to a friend.

I haven’t tried it, but it should work plugged into a PC, it’s just a 2player ipac board that emulates a keyboard inside. And yes, you could use the unlock drive in the cabinet to install Steam and run it on your back box.

So, the simple answer is yes. XGC provides you a drive that is unlocked so that you can download and add new tables without messing up your machine. However, what I’m referring to in the video is a little different. When ever I play a table on the Cab that I haven’t played yet, I go out on my pc and download the table and leave a comment for the table creator so they get the feed back for the download. I’m not sure I’m still making sense… lol. So let me give you an example. Let’s say I just got my machine brand new from XGC, and the first table I play is Monster Bash. I can see when the table boots which version it is so I write that down in my notebook, then once I’m done playing I go to my PC, not the vpin, and download that table and leave a comment. So the creator gets the feedback. I didn’t install anything new to the XGC machine yet, but the creator still gets the download and the feed back. Clear as mud? LoL

@@andrew21742 Hi Andrew, I understand what you’re telling me. I belong to many Facebook VP forums . I have been wanting one of these or two build one for a while now. Buying one is sounding more realistic to me as I know the constant tweaking and upgrading will be a necessary process for the long term if I built my own. I like your videos, they very well done. 👍🏻

For the Beast Deck you just need to call and speak with Donna, most likely they just don’t have it on the website. None of my cabs are motion sims, and I’ll see what I can do with making videos for the Racing Cab the Star Wars cab. That is something I plan to do. I’ve been making some life size characters lately with my free time since I have all the cabs built that I currently want for the basement.

@@andrew21742 this is great to know. I’ll message Donna to see costs.

VPIN is as amazing as the day I got it. Its built so you can add you own tables and update yourself as needed. XGC will from time to time release an updated drive you can purchase but I’m not sure they have those available at the moment. I did get the Beast Deck, see the other videos on my channel for info on that.

@@andrew21742yeah, I ended up watching all of your other videos. Great stuff! Apparently the wait time is almost a year for a vpin. I’m hoping Jasen over at the us office starts building vpins. They look incredible.

@@Dan-lm4di Jason will only be building the arcades. Darryl has said many times that XGC Vpins will only ever be made in Australia. As Jason is the programmer of the Drives XGC is now using for their arcades it makes sense that he can build the cabs. The Vpins on the other hand are tricky beasts to make work as smoothly as XGC has made them, and I don’t see anything changing that would allow them to be made in the USA.

Mate check Shark-Kade in the UK. Best systems in the world. Just ordered mine from him

I was planning on it at one point, but I just haven’t had time to really get into that. I’m happy when I have time to boot the pin up and play a few games …

They call it the Fire/Select/punch it button. It selects in popper, and works with different tables that make use of it. It doesn’t start a game, you add credits using the coin button and then hit the start button to start a game. I don’t remember off the top of my head why it’s mapped to.

Sure, what’s the questions?

@@andrew21742 The tilt doesn’t seem to ever activate. We noticed there is some electrical tape on parts of the gold ring that the tilt bob hangs in. Should that tape be removed? I’m unable to locate the inline switch for toggle between digital and mechanical tilt. Sometimes after playing a few different tables, the background music on Pinup Popper goes quiet and previews of the tables no longer appear. When you then select a table, the screen goes to the desktop briefly but then the table loads. Is this normal? Pinball FX tables will not load and play. Message on the DMD says “view locked”. Seems to matter in what order we connect the removable arcade panel in order to get buttons and trackball to work properly. Any insight on this? Thanks!

@@jenniferad3039 wow, ok… so the tilt can typically be very touchy and overly sensitive. The tape is on there to help with that. You could open the door during a game and physically move the Bob over to touch the ring and see if it tilts. If it’s not working you’ll want to contact XGC before you do anything else with that. There could be a wire off or something else that’s a simple solution. As for the video stuff with popper, I usually only see that when you start a new table before the system has reset after exiting a previous table. This is a popper thing and not anything particular to XGC’s build. You want to make sure after you exit a table you do not launch a different table until DOF resets. You’ll be able to tell when this is because the LEDs will start going again. Then you can launch a new table. Depending on the table you were exiting this time can vary. As for FX, do you mean FX2/FX3? I don’t have the new Pinball FX on my 1.7 drive, As for the add on control panel you need to plug it in to the USB ports before you boot to the Hyperspin drive.

@@andrew21742 Thanks very much.

@@andrew21742 Thanks. Tilt works correctly. Using the arcade panel with the vertical games from Pinup Popper, are you able to use the trackball on Centipede? Mine doesn’t work on the vertical games, just the horizontal on the back glass through Hyperspin. Did you conclude that the joysticks on the arcade panel cannot be changed to 4 way? The 8 way makes all the PacMan games difficult to play for sure. I really do like the system, just trying to learn the ins and outs, since I have no expertise in the world of vpins.

You would need to call Donna at XGC to see what rates are going for today. When my machine shipped they had started to come down from the Covid supply chain issues that had them sky high. I think by ship it was $1,800-1,900.00 to the USA. I did Air Freight which was roughly $3500.00

It’s a custom controller I made using the XGC 2n1 arcade controller as inspiration. With VR you need a keyboard attached to your Vpin. I didn’t want my kids having access to a keyboard, but I wanted them to be able to play without me needing to be there every second to make sure nothing got messed up. So I used a iPac board and mapped just the keys you need for VR to buttons. The round openings are where you put the Oculus controllers when you aren’t using them. I have about 30mins of video shot for my VR update video, but my Oculus Rift S is an “original”, meaning first batch and it isn’t playing well with the RTX 3080 graphics card that is included in the XGC Titan package. It works perfect in my older gaming Pc with a 2080Ti, but there are known driver issues with the 3080/3090, 4080/4090 RTX cards. Oculus support told me it was the link cable because it was first gen. I paid $170 to get the actual Oculus cable and that still didn’t resolve the issue. (Issue is the head set just turns off of locks up) I’ve tried extra USB power, and HDMI boost devices in line on the cable that have worked for some, but unfortunately not for me. So… the Vr video will be delayed until I get that resolved or switch to my Oculus Quest2. (My quest 2 has custom vision lenses installed for my vision correction and I don’t let the kids mess with that on.)

@@andrew21742 wow that’s awesome, I hope you can get a resolve and be able to utilise what you have, if you get a chance I’d love to hear about your pedal setup on the light gun cab, I’m getting xgc to make a pedestal style one for me and would like to be able to have the option to add pedals also, would be curious as to how you’ve done it so I can make it happen on mine, cheers again for your time

@@deviusrme my Gun4IR guns that I bought from Ray at RPEG Electronics are SuperJolts. So the guns themselves hook to the peddles and are configured in software just like an extra button on the gun. But stand alone peddles are just as easy. They get wired to a controller board and configured as a button. I set them up to be a reload for the games that don’t use a peddle.

@@andrew21742 yeah ok, that makes sense, am I correct in saying the plug that connects to the gun from the pedal is an rj11 or rj45? I was trying to make it out in the video.

@@andrew21742 I have 2 of the gcon2 from Ray, so I will have to look at having the extra buttons wired on the pedestal hopefully

I’m not selling anything, and XGC is selling their services for the time and configuration of free software to work on their hardware, or preconfigured drives for arcade builds that people who either don’t have the time or simply don’t want to take the time to learn how to configure it properly themselves. XGC is very upfront about the fact that all the software is free, except Bigbox which they buy an actual license for that you get with their arcade drives. They only charge for the hardware of the drive it’s self, and the hours they spend to make it work so flawlessly. Don’t spear this nonsense on my channel please. Nobody pays for tables or roms with their setups. Their are tons of people who selling the same type service, and after trying many of them Ive found XGC’s builds to be the best out there.

@Andrew's Retro Basement Arcade lol many tables say do not redistribute and many times these pre configured hard drives you sell never work out the box i see you offer to team viewer peoples set ups lol you are a joke and a thief simple as

Yeah, I’ve done that on some other cabs. Some emulators have given me trouble with it and things go a little wonky. For the most part the volume is fine and rarely needs adjusted. Unless I have a lot of people over and I need to make it louder because all the machines are going at once.

I have about $1200 in it. It’s cut from one sheet of 3/4” plywood. The Gun4IR guns are 70% of the cost. The monitor is a decased Samsung TV that was given to me. The graphics I did myself just using a bunch of clear logos in photoshop. GameonGraphics printed them for me for about $100. The PC is a micro form factor HP machine running a 1660 GPU I found on eBay for $125. You could save a ton of you build the Gun4IR yourself, but I simply wanted to spend my time on other things.

@@andrew21742 did the 1200 include the drive from XGC ? Did you have a build that you followed or any specific plans, we want to build one and I’m trying to figure out the cost and time

Jason charges $200 for the drive @@dragonfruitaddict2463

No, I did not include them on the 1.7 drive update for my Vpin since I purchased the OS light gun drive for my shoot cabinet. You can absolutely add the Light gun gams to your Vpin, but it is an additional charge, they are not included in 1.7 by default.

Not sure, what are the exact names and I’ll try them out and get back to you.

Great video and setup. I have two gun4ir as well. Do both guns work in Wii or psx1???

@@drady4172 yes, both guns work but greatly depends on the game your are playing. The Wii games that require nunchuks aren’t playable unless you get a Dolphin bar and actual Wiimotes…

@@andrew21742 The Cabella big game titles. It puts you into the wilderness and you need to walk around the environment. Couldn't get the character to move. Using Jasens drive with Sinden

@@svenop i tried one of the Wii hunting games this morning and it won’t even let me start the game until it detects a Wii nunchuck. So that’s more of a limitation of the emulator/game than anything. My guess is that Jason included them so they’d be there for future updates to the emulator if they get them working, but he probably should have just left them off or hidden them in the wheel. Unless he plans to offer Dolphin bar support in the future or something, as that’s the only way I could see them being playable.

Interesting, let me know how it goes. I’m not 100% sure, but I seem to remember at one point there were some changes to the mother boards he was using in some builds. I wish I could remember, but that would certainly explain it. One thing I know is they won’t leave you hanging.

@@andrew21742 hi Andrew, are you gonna make a video about the vr drive? I’m curious how it works and how you set it up.

I get what you are saying, but the software on the machine is free. It’s free to download from many different sites and he doesn’t charge for it. What he charges for and protects is his time spent setting up the configuration of that software to work with the specific hardware of the machines he builds. There are builders in the US who sell Vpins for 10,000 that don’t include software, they include information on where to get a hard drive from overseas to run in the vPins they sell, and those hard drives don’t include things like DOF, or Pup Packs. XGC machines are the best production manufactured Vpins in the world, and like all things, you get what you pay for.

I need to be very careful with this response. So, they DO offer updated drives for sale to customers of XGC Vpin's only. They do not sell drives to the public, because frankly that would be pointless as they wouldn't work. The drives are locked down and configured specifically for the hardware XGC uses to build their machines. The updated drives still require XGC to dial in to each cabinet to do the final configuration before it will work. The drive is frozen/locked down in such a way that it's useless to anyone unless configured by XGC for a machine they've built. And still, the updated drives are simply done to bring the software such as VPX, DOF and BAM up to the latest version. Anyone with an XGC vpin can go grab the tables from any of the sites that offer them, they don't need to buy an updated drive. And you are 100% correct when you say XGC wouldn't sell as many pinball machines with out properly configured software on them... It's the rock solid configuration of a XGC vPin that people who just want to play pinball and not learn to install software love...

I don’t have video of that, but it’s very easy… 1) Remover the two screws holding the lockdown bar and slowly work it up and off of the machine. 2) unplug the wires from the select fire punch it button. I labeled mine to make sure they go back on the same way they came off. 3) remove the screw half way up the side rails that hold the glass down. It will be tight but the side rails will now be able to be moved up a little bit to make sliding the glass out easier. 4) remove the stop blocks that are screwed down under where the lock bar was that are holding the glass from sliding. 5) carefully slide the glass down and out of the cabinet. It’s heavier than you think. Set it somewhere safe. 6) open the coin door and reach in under the monitor and push it up about 4-5” and remove the power and video cable. I snapped a picture with my phone so I made sure the video cable was reinstalled back into the same port. 6) continue lifting the monitor out of the cabinet, and set it some where safe. Easier with two people. The monitor just sits on cross bars in the cab, there is nothing to unscrew on it to remove it. It’s a damn near perfect fit. Hope this helps, just reverse the steps to reinstall. For me it lightened the cab about 85 lbs for moving it.

@@andrew21742 Excellent info, thanks!