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Thanks Tom! I'm back after being away for a few years and was worried when I saw ftp and gameex online down =)

Then I may have a stupid question - is the setup wizard the one by Ben Baker? Is it supposed to be installed/updated with the PinballX installer? Because the one I have is dated Aug 21 2014 (so I wasn't surprised it doesn't have the new setting).

I'll attach the inis, but is the new setting in 2.12 documented anywhere? Although I'm sure it's not a numbering issue. The table that it chooses changes intermittently - it seems like it's "skipping over" items in the list - about 25% of the time one keystroke counts as 2. So if I launch a table configured at position #5, sometimes it selects the 5th, sometimes the 6th, sometimes the 7th. I see other people complaining about the same thing and it sounds like what the new feature was supposed to be for. So wanted to try it. In general it'd be good if the new setting was documented.

> Anyway, I don't personally think Pinball Arcade is that great an option for Pin Cabs myself. Your better playing the tables in VP. Man, after endless hours of screwing around, I've finally thrown in the towel on VP. Too many quirks, too much work. Like recently I got tired of my playfield monitor being in landscape and being difficult to work with on the desktop, so I rotated the display to a portrait mode. Setting up PBFX, PinballX, and even Pinball Arcade to handle this was dirt simple, but no, not VP. Apparently tables have to be custom built for portrait mode, and most aren't? And tweaking a table to match, oh god. So much fiddling, then when I get the dimensions right there are all kinds of display artifacts. The flippers are messed up looking. Etc. And I still need to go through and spend hours custom configing all the B2S and backglass and DMD stuff because I got a different backglass monitor and wanted to use a better resolution. ARGH I'm so done with VP =) Heck, in general the Pinball Arcade versions of a game tend to be better designed, look better, etc. And I can buy them legally. And I'm hoping they finally follow through on their plans to release a version with cabinet support... I know, I can dream. But holy crap VP setup for a large library is going to kill me.

Hi Tom, you mentioned in the 2.12 release announcement that you'd added a "pinball arcade setting to set the delay between down key presses selecting the game". But I don't see this setting anywhere, or a document/post that describes it? I'm not even sure if this will help. I'm trying to set up Pinball Arcade for the first time, and having problems with game selection. It'll frequently skip past the correct game in the list so I end up launching the wrong game. Even if I barely tap a key on the keyboard sometimes PBA will skip two games). Your post referenced the DX11 version, though I'm running the DX9 version in this case so I'm not sure if the problem you're fixing is related to the problem I'm having.

Wait, you can launch Pinball Arcade games using a filename parameter?