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Version 24.03.26.0 released. Some parts of DBM rely on the connection of internet. Just think of checking new version of DBM, getting media from FTP or MEGA links and also the download of the virtual pinball spreadsheet. as we only did a check for internet during launch of the program, there wasn't an option to do a retry of the internet connection. if during launch, or even use of the program , discovers that internet connection drops, it will come up with an icon in the top right corner: this indicates that internet connection could not be established and failed. Clicking on this icon will re-do the internet test. If it still fails, nothing changes, but if can connect to internet, it will reset the status and internet options will be available again The Virtual Pinball Spreadsheet, updated their backend to V2.0, and also their DB moved. to get all to work, we changed DBM to use V2.0 as well. If you use table versions/theme's or any other data from VPS, you are good with this version. We also updated our internal IPDB with the all the latest tables up to IPDB nr 7052. We noticed that some IPDB entries didn't have a year number. We tried to add those from the VPS data we imported. We also fixed some bugs we discovered. Maybe not all the bugs are mentioned in the release notes, as we fix on going and forgot what we fixed, but the most imported are : Darkmode - Unicode characters not displayed correctly in VP versions Darkmode - New Version icon background incorrect colour 'Loading media mode' check improved IPDB import (bulk and single) could result to error DBNULL 'Table versions' could results in double entries And a small update we did is on the 'busy' animated gif (in the corner of the action log) This icon was sometimes not spinning correctly. We tried to fix this, to calculate every frame and show them in a separate process. Sometimes it still not shows fine, but think it is better than it was. A big thanks to @scutters for his great help on this release as well I can't say it enough, but he is the one who made it happen that DBM is alive thanks mate for all your help in the 4 1/2 years we worked on DBM !

My guess, without seeing your new gameex.ini file, would be possible that you still have it enabled under External Applications or you have 2 emulator slots enabled for it. Thanks for sharing the vid! Nice guitar BTW!

And, quick video demo with a look at the real wood custom Ashley Rock Axe controller install. 432476033_7320329418015017_6228285104674349794_n.mp4

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During holiday season, @scutters and I where not getting sunburned, but working on a new release of DBM. We had a long discussion about the new Zen Pinball FX and thanks to Fraesh (VPS-DB) we where able to add Pinball FX tables in an easy way to DBM. This is including the correct table names, description name etc. Here are some small animation that will show how easily it can be done (you need off course to setup the correct system. This can be found here : https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/28881-guide-setup-zen-pinball-fx-in-pinballx-steam-version/ ) Single table : Auto import missing tables : Adding new/missing entries and obsolete checking: IPDB entries : Enough about FX. Think you understand now that Pinball FX is handled the same way as VPX/FP and FX3 tables Another great improvement is the 'Table Version' start time. This is really improved if you have a large set of VP tables. To compare this is from the previous version with my data record set, heres my vp list with the previous version of dbm And this is from the latest version : Isn't that an improvement ??? We also added a command line option to use DBM with different settings : here's a small demo to create a new INI and set different settings These are the most important new features which @scutters and I brought to you. read the full release notes if you want to know all of the changes A big thanks to Scutters for getting this release done