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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuseball" data-source="post: 35116" data-attributes="member: 539">Gotta say that the best VP designers have turned out some absolutely stunning recreations.  Completely agree on the JPSalas Black Knight - it feels so much more like the real thing than TPA... and of course it is emulated so the rules are correct.  I will check out that T2 version too.  Love that game. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I really fell out of love with VP after a couple of years.  It was around the time that everyone started modding other people's tables and plastering EM reels everywhere.  A lot of tables started looking like photos but playing like s**t.  Even today I come across tables that have clearly been built by someone with no real knowledge of the real table.  There's a VP9 Centaur (not PacDude's) that looks great but is scaled all weirdly and things like the multiball release target are impossible to activate!Some of the tables that are still knocking around that bear my name are actually other people's mods of my tables and not the originals.  I guess that still upsets me a little.  Some of the mods were pretty good but some completely messed up what I'd spent weeks getting right.  So many seemed to forget that getting it to play accurately was more important than showing off their photoshop skills.  Of course, folks have come along since and completely remodelled those tables far better than I could ever have done, and those are the VP tables that I now really enjoy playing.  Were it not for the likes of JPSalas and Groni, I would probably have never gone back to it.  I'm glad I did. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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