[New VP10 Alert] El Duderino (Original 2026) Lebowski El Dorado Mod

[endeemillr]

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El Duderino (Original 2026) Lebowski El Dorado Mod

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This is one of the rarest El Dorado variants ever produced.  Only one known location to exist at Mike Zoss Drugs in St.Louis Park, Minnesota, childhood home of Joel and Ethan Coen.

...sometimes there is a table...I won't say a hero...

 

OK, it all started with a favorite movie.

That movie turned into a pinball machine which was the perfect movie to turn into a pinball machine.

Strikes and Spares rethemed by idigstuff and hauntfreaks was one of my first moments of bliss in the virtual world.

My dream is still to create a 90's style DMD original

Marty made the tribute table. I tweak it now and then but get too obsessed and have to take breaks to live life.

I thought making both an EM and Solid state originals would be a fun path to my goal.

While playing El Dorado, I had a vision, and once again got lazy thinking, why develop a great playing game when it's already been done?

So it started with a backglass. It looks a little AI, but it is not, just Natural Stupidity!   Some graphic tricks and raided images from an old she-viking table, surf champ, and flying carpet.

Had a hard time finding a vision for the playfield graphics, but ultimately decided to let the rug tie the room together.  I hadn't previously realized El Dorado had 10 upper targets and I'm like, this has to become a bowling pin!

I thought I was done.  After all, there is nothing more tacky than adding call-outs to an EM.  But I also had a whole library that I created for my Strikes N' Spares mod, so that was an easy import.  What is even more tacky is adding a Flex-DMD to an EM table.  I've done it to all in my collection because it is easy and I prefer it to my ZeDMD being blank and it is better than a marquee image.  This one has one, but I prefer the b2s DMD even though I don't personally have a DMD screen.  I also have a music routine and a music folder that I included in my Strikes N' Spares mod, but also use it and the subroutine in my copy of Strikes AND Spares and in Marty's table.  I much prefer music and callouts to pup packs but I do appreciate some of the beautiful pup scoring displays out there!  The last piece to add is some ambient bowling noise.  It is a gaudy collection of effects that makes me incredibly happy playing it, but I made each option something that can be turned off in the script.

 

This was modified from Loserman's table and backglass, and I am very appreciative of his body of work! Thank-you

 

There is a single piece of AI and that is the tumbleweed decal in the middle.  I asked ChatGPT for an illustration of a tumbleweed in LA.  I could have ignored it and used something else, but it put on the Dude's Wayfarers and was too perfect to ignore!

 

I included two backglass files.  One is the modified original from Loserman.  The second is cropped and stripped down for those who have widescreen backglasses and full DMD screens.  I am particularly proud of the DMD screen and the desktop background.  Anyone under 50  and most under 60 probably has no concept of recording bowling scores on scantron sheets, but it was fun!

 

Place "TheDude" folder in your music directory, or turn off the music in the script.

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• Submitter
  endeemillr
• Submitted
  05/13/26
• Category
  VPX - Pinball Tables
• VPX Standalone
  No