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Pinnabll MAME

Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
edited July 2007 in Chit chat
Has anybody managed to get this working? I've downloaded the eumlator from this site http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/ but I can't get the bloody thing to work :evil: As far as I can tell, I have the most recent version, but when I try and run a table, it say Asometing is missing from ActiveX and something about a different version of VPmame being needed. It's driving me nuts :evil:
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  • ArdaArda
    edited November 2006
    Many tables needs three main component to run:

    1. VBS (visual basic script) files
    2. VP (virtual pinball table design) files
    (You can get those files from VP forums, but many tables needs an additional ROMSET to start. Which is NOT INCLUDED in the arcive for legal reasons.)

    and

    3. Table ROM SETS. (You can find rom sets from internet, many of them illegal, but some of them are legal, just like WOS, there are dedicated sites. Just use google. => Black Knight 2000 Rom Set)

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    And virtual pinball has two main component:

    1.VP Editor (which you can design a table)
    2.VisualPinMame (to execute and play tables.)

    You can get those both for free. There is a compilation with easy installer here:

    http://www.franken-online.de/server1771/Visual_Install_Pack_1.2.exe

    That's what I'm using now, and it's doing fine.

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    Note: Some games at VpForums needs VBS files (in VP installation directory) in their app directory. I mean, you have to copy necessary vbs files to where table file resides. Easiest way to do this is to copy all vbs files to tables/<yourtable> directory.

    if you want to help on specific table please name it. Some of the tables needs VB script modifications to work in newer VP.
  • zx128kzx128k
    edited November 2006
    Why don't you try Future Pinbal...
    http://www.futurepinball.com/
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited November 2006
    Thanks for the help. For some totally unknown and random reason, it just started working! It wasn't working a luchtime, but when I tried again after work, it started up fine :roll: I think it must be because I just stopped bolloxing around with it :lol:
  • ArdaArda
    edited November 2006
    Hmm interesting, but future pinball is still lacks many functions, like magnets, which makes Black Knight 2000 impossible to create in FP.

    Thanks for tip tho. it looks pretty nice. I'll check it for some other tables.
    For some totally unknown and random reason

    Chuntey?
  • RefrenzRefrenz
    edited November 2006
    zx128k wrote:
    Why don't you try Future Pinbal...
    http://www.futurepinball.com/

    Because it won't work with PinMAME?

    Visual Pinball marries very well with PinMAME, with the result being that PinMAME emulates the pinball table dot matrix display and visual pinball simulates the pinball table itself. I don't think this can be done with Future Pinball.
  • ArdaArda
    edited November 2006
    it won't work with PinMAME?

    you can reproduce almost same behaviour with scripting, but ofcourse VpinMAME emulates exactly same behaviour.

    But in my opinion, both programs have different target.

    Future Pinball aims creative hobbyist, and does not want to involve roms, or emulation etc. I just checked their forums and there are so many nice, brand new design.

    Vpinball aims retrogamers who want to play their childhood again :)

    Both programs has their own powerful sides, VP has rendering problems and slowdowns, FP has no rom support.
  • CKayCKay
    edited November 2006
    There`s two other emulation progs for the old pinball tables, I forget what there called at mo as I ain`t gottem on hard drive... I`ll post links up when I find them.

    Tables I`d recommend :-

    Back to the Future, really nice table, for some reason Michael J Fox`s voice isn`t used, but it`s got the Doc in it... really nice to play.

    Baywatch, nice looking more modern table, little subgame in dotmatrix as well, theme tune inc
    Cops and Robbers, grew up with this at local seaside cafe so love it... there`s two or three versions that are different, can`t get quite the exact one that I used to play... a holy grail.
    edit, Cops `n Robebers is actually a Fruit Machine game, Doh !

    Rocky, a real old 70`s shitty looking cheap table, with great sounds when you use the flippers.... old and simple, marvelous
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited November 2006
    My top 3 tables are WWF Royal Rumble (I held the high score on the one in Scarborough for months till they got rid of it :( ), Haunted House (a fantastic 3 tier table that takes me WAY bak to my early childhood. I think I was 4 or 5 when I played it originally) and South Park (very funny table and one that I can actually last quite some time on!)
  • RefrenzRefrenz
    edited November 2006
    My personal pinball favourites are Party Zone, Doctor Who (of course!) and Star Trek:TNG, all of which are quite well recreated under vPinMAME/vPinball. I used to love those early/mid 90s pinball tables with flashy dot matrix displays complete with video mode sub-games. The (for the time) fancy modern sound systems used in Bally/Williams and Sega/Data East tables really made TV/movie-based pinball tables come to life as well.
  • CKayCKay
    edited November 2006
    Didn`t know there was a SouthPark one, have to go look for that :)

    That Doctor Who one looks amazing, couldn`t get it working properly last year, might have another bash... any of you know what a couple of 80`s ones could be...

    One had almost the full song of Tequilla from 60`s, and would frquently use the sample "Tequeeeellaah", the other had the song Wipeout from 60`s, and would use the Wipeout! sample and then laugh at you when you lost a ball...

    edit.. both games were around circa `89- `91

    The Fruit Machine emulator`s too rock, found a few old classics for the emulators of them, even without the money thing, their still damn addictive :)
  • oboobo
    edited November 2006
    My favorite table is Fun House (Williams) - a machine they had in Uni, and one of the few pinball machines I came back to again and again. The Visual PinMame conversion is spot on too, so I'd recommend it if you've not seen it already.

    Last time I tried PinMame I had problems with choppy sound, even though my older machine had no problems with it. I'd probably switched from a SB Live! to an Audigy 2 during that time, but it's all very standard kit. I'll have to give it another go in the hope it's been fixed.

    Si
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited July 2007
    I'm having trouble with this bloody thing again. It was running fine for AGES, but all of a sudden it's having trouble creating the tables. I get an error message saying "active X cannot creat object" then one saying something like "object required" and something about a controller. It was all running fine before, and I've not changed anything at all. I've even tried installing the latest version, but that still does the smae thing. (running the test option, runs the rom ok, but it just won't generate the table!)

    Any ideas what is going wrong?
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited July 2007
    I used to play on that thing too, I think you could edit the tables. Of course, that made it all too easy and tempting to place something in the bottom center to prevent the ball from going out and possibly spoil the game for you.

    Classics from the 90s that I recommend (used to play the real ones loads): Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness. Lots of funny speech in them.
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