Lyanheart

I've been using Pinball X for a long time now, but one thing that has always bugged me is that I can't alter the table menus for different sorting options. Currently, I can choose the basic "1970's tables" "1980s Tables" "Gottlieb tables" "Williams tables" etc etc... but I would love to be able to change these selections. I'm also surprised there is no "60s Tables" option, since I have several from the 1960's. What I REALLY want is to replace all those with just 3 choices- "Electro-Mech Tables" "Solid State Tables" and "DMD Tables" based on the TYPE field in the database/manager. Is this just not possible, or have I missed an option somewhere? Thanks!

The standard keys for flippers are left and right shift, while nudges are Z and / These are also the standard keybindings for pinballx... I did not have to change a thing for mine. Check the key binding screen in the config wizard

You have the button assigned to skip tables alphbetically... it goes to the next letter based on the title. I have my nudge buttons set to do this, while the flipper buttons go one and a time.

Adding a few more photos of mine after getting some more work done... Detachable speaker cover: Case painted: Backbox with stripe: (Mostly) finished:

Download the "hyperspin media packs" for your tables- that is the file you import in the table setup application. Tables should be unzipped to the vp tables folder and roms should remain zipped in the vpinmame roms folder. Save the media pack zip files wherever is handy; I have mine in their own "media packs" folder. Once imported, pinballx extracts them to its own media folders and will create a new table entry will all the data prefilled. 333 tables? No wonder you think so many are crap. I have 73 loaded currently that all look good and play well. All VP and all have media packs and B2S backglasses- it is a sign of a good table of it is well-supported by the community with those extras. There are a few more I still want, but I just tore down my cabinet to finish the "bodywork." I doubt I will even get close to 100 though unless I bite the bullet and include some FP tables.

Ok, I do admit I've spent a LOT of time loading tables.... but you have to download them one-by-one anyway, so its not much of an extra step. This is a hobby that requires a bit of work and setup and attention to detail.

You know, if you have all the table files, roms, etc downloaded to the correct places you can then just click the "import media pack" button at the top of the game manager application. Pick the zipped media pack file and the program will match it to the correct table if the names are similar and put everything where it belongs in the XML. I have not manually entered a table since I figured that out.

Flashy! The backglass videos add a lot more than I expected; might have to start adding those to my cabinet. I love the background music, what is it and can you share the file? And where did you find some of those tables? You've got ones I've never seen before... Frogger?? I've been on an EM kick lately so maybe I've just overlooked some of those. Thanks for sharing! I'm going to have to go looking for some of those now. Ahh... just noticed a lot of those are Future Pinball tables.. bummer. I've never been fond of FP and never had much luck getting it to work correctly.

Good call on the "Original" graphic

Since I've been playing a lot of old EM tables lately, I've found myself annoyed that many of them don't have a high score feature. Some have a little "sticky note" somewhere that records high scores. So I'm wondering if a high score tracking feature could be added and dispalyed/edited from the Table Info screen. I've started a little discussion about high scores on these EM tables on vpforums also to toss some ideas around. I'm wondering if something could be added to the script of the VP tables to export the score to a text file when the game ends, and this could be displayed by the frontend.

Ok, I get what's going on now. Didn't realize at first since it was one of the first things I changed to avoid exactly what you're going through. The easy solution is to use the ESC key as the b2s.exe's require, and also is the default for pinballX. Bind your exit/end button on your cabinet to ESC. In the vpinball Preferences>Keys menu, check the box "Disable ESC Key" to keep the little menu from popping up when trying to close out a table and mucking things up from within pinballX. When you are using vpinball directly (in the editor), you would press Q to bring up the exit menu and just hit ESC to close the b2s. This generally is not a problem since if you're running tables from vpinball itself, you should have a keyboard nearby. The alternative is to change the close/exit button for pinballX and the b2s exe's to match. Easily done for pinballX, but I don't know if you can do it for the b2s files, but your script takes care of it.

I have at least two tables that are using the b2s exe's instead of direct and I never had a problem with them not closing when launched from pinballx. If I launch direct from vp they can remain open, though. Circus Voltaire is one of them. I think my version of Gridiron is the old exe as well.

Good question... Just saw this and I'd like to have a cabinet/portrait version.

Rainman- is that home built or did you start with an actual cabinet? Looks very well made!

OK, that makes sense. I was trying to replace the audio files I uploaded before with re-mixed ones of the same file name. I'll just put the new ones up as "version 2" or something.

Data East is recognized to display their logo, but does not appear in the sorting list how Bally, Williams, Stern, etc. do. I did not notice this at first after that update last week.

Having some problems uploading files to the FTP... getting permission denied messages while trying to update some audio files or put up some new ones. Was something changed?

Yea, I agree. If we have those tables, we'll already have the files and if we don't have them, we don't need them. I'm guessing they were probably included just as a demo sort of thing.

The LED Wiz is the controler for all things lit, blinky, and flashy. That is what you want to use for anything that you don't want just constantly on. I do not have one myself since I only have two lit buttons at the moment. I might be wrong about this, but I think you just ground the lights to the LED Wiz and it controls when they fire through that, but the lights themselves draw their own power directly (allowing for both 5v and 12v to be controlled without any fancy circuitry).

Thanks for the help. I was going to re-do some of those anyway now that I have a better idea about how I would like them to sound but I don't have a good editor. Going to check in to the ROM-snatching, too.

Added those I listed above to ftp > Media > Visual Pinball > Table Audio I thought about putting a generic Table Audio folder in the Media directory, since these are not really exclusive to VP or FP, so that might still get done. Also, the Arabian Nights audio is fairly quiet. If anyone has an editor that can turn up the volume, please do so. I'll keep working on adding more.

No, it's not supposed to be that way... I've never had the problem so not sure what to tell you. In another thread you mentioned about the cursor staying on the screen, too, so it might be related to that. Wish I could help more

I made a few sound clips from some of the popular pins to try out. I'll add them to the FTP later tonight. Mostly just recorded the opening sounds & music and cut down to 10-30 seconds. I tried to capture the signature music and voices as best I could. So far, I've done: Attack From Mars Scared Stiff Cactus Canyon Star Trek: TNG Tales of the Arabian Nights Medieval Madness

I just asked this myself the other day Just download the current install file and run it. It doesn't override any of your current settings, but it's usually a good idea to go through the setup wizard and check everything to make sure.

I think you did a great job with the VP logo, and I love the new information window! Very nice touch.