tabascoman77

You're one lucky guy. Mrs. Tabascoman77 would love a full-on arcade, so I've modded PinballX to mimic Flynn's Arcade from TRON for the atmosphere complete with jukebox audio and video game sounds.

Nice! I'm working this whole thing off a desktop unit but from across the room using an ArcadeX panel. One of these days, I'm getting a hybrid Virtual Pin Cab with the ability to run arcade and console games.

Also, if you ever need help with Dolphin running Mario Kart Arcade GP or Daphne running Dragon's Lair, just take a look at my history and you will see my write-ups for that.

You rule, Mike. Have a great day!

Looks like we are good to go. Thanks, dude. I appreciate all of your help and for sticking with me. It's nice to get good support.

Success. Ok. So it works from the command line. How does one go about making it work in PBX then?

This was what you gave me: This does not work. It comes up with "File Not Found". However, when running the emulator by itself, everything is fine. It won't work in PinballX and nothing emulating the NES seems to. They all error out as if they can't find the rom file. Putting "Contra" in the parameters is not what I'm attempting to accomplish if that's what you're telling me to do.

What "extension" are you referring to? I copy-pasted that command into cmd.exe and it's still erroring out.

It won't load from the command line. I don't know what else to tell ya'. Here's the order in which I tried: 1) Tried "nestopia.exe" in the Parameters before the "TABLEPATH" etc. function. Didn't work. 2) Tried it WITHOUT it. Didn't work. 3) Tried it with "ROMPATH", etc. Didn't work. 4) Was told to run it with the "TABLEPATH", etc. function. Didn't wok. 5) Command line doesn't work with the extension. It errors out. What else needs to be tried here?

Oh sweet baby jesus, I'm not even messing with RetroArch. This is like a half dozen emulators I've tried and I'm not going to go down a list and try each one just to watch them error out one by one. Does anyone else have any ideas about how to run any NES emulator on PinballX?

VirtuaNES can't open rom files within PinballX.

NEStopia UE is doing the exact same thing NEStopia is doing.

Just tried FCEUX with the parameters set to "[TABLEPATH]/[TABLEFILE]". Error message telling me it can't run the rom and nothing doing. The emulator will play the game on its own, outside of PinballX. This is the third NES emulator. Mesen works but won't load games properly. It keeps loading a Save State menu, regardless of what game I'm asking to load and makes me choose a game I'm not asking for.

Same error, same black screen. Same error, same black screen.

Here you go. How do I go about getting it to run from the Command Line? log.txt

@Draco1962 - Upgraded to 4.30. Same issue.

@Tom Speirs - That didn't work. Same error, same black screen. @Draco1962 - Config file is attached for your perusal. PinballX.ini

Hello, I can run MAME, VPX, Future Pinball, Daphne, Dolphin, and SNES9X successfully on PinballX but, for some reason, I cannot get NEStopia to run with PinballX at all. It will play just fine by itself, but launching within PinballX creates a black screen and an error from NEStopia which says "File not Found" followed by a black screen. No audio, no video. It's already set up to run fullsceen on start-up. My config looks like this: [System_4] Name=NEStopia WorkingPath=C:\Games\NEStopia TablePath=C:\Games\NEStopia\roms Executable=nestopia.exe Parameters=nestopia.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" Enabled=True SystemType=0 Logs for PinballX and NEStopia are attached. Any thoughts? nestopia.log log.txt

Solved and working: [System_X] Name=Dolphin (Mario Kart GP) WorkingPath=C:\Program Files\Dolphin 4.0-315 TablePath=C:\Program Files\Dolphin 4.0-315\ISOs Executable=DolphinWX.exe Parameters=-b -e "C:\Program Files\Dolphin 4.0-315\ISOs/MarioKartGP.iso" (THIS PATH POINTS TO WHERE EVER YOUR ISO IS. DON'T JUST COPY-PASTE THIS CODE. ALTER THIS CODE TO REFLECT WHERE THE GAME ACTUALLY IS ON YOUR PERSONAL PC. The same goes for the Working Path and Table Path as well as the Executable.) Enabled=True SystemType=0 Some notes here: The posted solution above is SPECIFICALLY for anyone attempting to JUST add Mario Kart Arcade GP to Pinball X. Before you do ANYTHING, you're going to have to screw around with Dolphin 4.0 (builds 309 AND 315) a bit. Yes, I KNOW we're at Dolphin 5 but, to my knowledge, the game ONLY runs on Dolphin 4.0, Build 315. You also need the specific Mario Kart Arcade GP rom file. The only version that will work is the ISO version of the rom ONLY. I am not going to tell you where or how to obtain it. If you have everything (both versions of Dolphin and the ISO), you're ready to rock. There's a pretty good tutorial here. I am assuming that, like Daphne, you can't just add Dolphin and play all the games. You actually have to do a Dolphin entry for each game you want to play. Pain in the ass, but that's the way to go, I suppose. I could be completely wrong about this but I haven't found a code that would allow you to play everything, willy-nilly. Anyhow...SUCCESS!

Newest challenge: Attempting to get Dolphin Triforce to work with PBX. I will post config files a little later but this is what I have set up in the PBX Init right now: [System_X}Name=DolphinEnabled=TrueSystemType=0WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\DolphinTablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Dolphin\ISOs\ Executable=Dolphin.exeParameters= ??? "Parameters" is where I remain confused. There seems to be conflicting information regarding what belongs in that box. I've been told -b -e or /b /e followed by the path or rom name but I'm getting all sorts of errors ranging from "invalid path" to "rom file not found". Has anyone tried Dolphin with PBX?

Thanks! And thank you for your help and bearing with me.

Success! Thank you, Thomas! Ok...so here's what I used in case somebody else looks for the solution (DON'T COPY-PASTE THE BOLD LETTERING). These settings used Thomas's guidelines: PinballX.ini file (found in "Config" in PinballX's root folder): [System_4] (OR WHICH EVER SYSTEM NUMBER YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHOOSE) Name=Daphne - Lair Enabled=True SystemType=0 WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne (THIS POINTS TO THE DAPHNE FOLDER ON WHICHEVER DRIVE YOU HAVE IT ON.) TablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne\roms\ (THIS POINTS TO THE ROMS FOLDER IN THE DAPHNE ROOT.) Executable=daphne.exe (THIS POINTS TO THE DAPHNE EXE FILE IN THE DAPHNE ROOT FOLDER) Parameters=lair vldp -fullscreen -x 1920 -y 1080 -framefile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne\vldp_dl/lair/lair.txt" (I PUT THE "VLDP_DL" DOWNLOAD FOLDER IN THE DAPHNE ROOT, THEN MADE A PATH TO THE "LAIR.TXT" BASED ON THAT. I MIGHT TEST IT TO SEE IF I CAN PUT THE VLDP_FL FOLDER ELSEWHERE BECAUSE I'M FANATICAL ABOUT ORGANIZING MY FILES, BUT THIS WORKS.) Daphne - Lair.xml file (found in root Daphne folder...make one in Notepad if you don't have one and be sure to tack ".xml" on it at the end when saving it.) <menu> <game name="lair"> <description>Dragon's Lair</description> <rom>lair</rom> <manufacturer>Cinematronics</manufacturer> <year>1983</year> <type></type> <hidedmd>True</hidedmd> <hidetopper>True</hidetopper> <hidebackglass>True</hidebackglass> <enabled>True</enabled> <rating>-1</rating> </game> </menu> You also can't forget to create a game file under "Daphne - Lair" in PinballX's Game Manager. You need to select "lair" when selecting the game to match this. Or rather, I had to. It's which ever rom matches your path. For some strange reason, the data that you're supposed to enter in the "parameters" path isn't the same as what the DaphneLoader spits out, so you have to trim it down as shown above. This isn't made obvious by the makers of Daphne so I'm glad someone here was able to direct me down the right path. Thank you, one and all, for your help.

Just checking in to see if you have any ideas. Thanks.

Yes, I have. I have about 100+ games set up. Here's the Daphne PBX XML file for you. Hopefully this helps. Daphne.xml