Thalamus

WTF. I used to be one of those on radio .. well, a local radio. I did play records on requests and I even broadcasted a copy### game on air for peeps to record and put into their C64 (old tech cassette) Got reports that it worked quite well too on air ... yes, I did warn people NOT to listen the x next minutes. Yes, I will make a clean install for PBX again, it is a good thing I guess if I can iron out what the differences are between PBY and PBX. I have no good reason anymore for not trying it again. It was a comparability issue first and foremost last (ages ago). So, as long as that is not a problem anymore. I do still think that people really should re-consider how they use their 'description' field. I guess it doesn't do much harm in showing what my 'description' field looks like ... <description>VPX__2_in_1__EM__1964__Bally</description> All my media uses that. I've been around computers since ... forever. I'm a linux user first and foremost, windows if for gaming and vp is really now the main reason for staying there (and my ancient versions of not online abobe products). I know that there is efforts in getting vp to run on linux and it seem to work very well too. I helped update the doc a while back on how to compile that on unsupported fedora. But, still, windows, has better drivers, it seems the devs are still incorporating 'windows only' features. So, yeah. Old as fuck now, soon 60, so I'm a perl guy, metadata is something I use to be efficient. From using the description above I don't really need much more. Double underscore means field separation. I did think though .. what if I want several version of the machine. There are a lot of releases where the machine is very well emulated from two different authors. So I ended up adding a _a, _b, _c etc if it existed already. Kind of a mistake. as it only has one _ and default has none. But, well, I'm able to handle those few cases manually quite easily. Using that format for the media, actullay works for both PBX and PBY. so, yeah, a new version of a release is as easy as to replacing the "game name" inside the xml. Not needing to rename all the media etc. IF of course you want to keep those. These days, with VLM tables, I often just delete the backglass'es and the table recordings since vpin-workshop do release table that looks soooo much better than native vp. And, of course, Hauntfreaks is there to follow up on the db2s Automation makes it easy, and - yes, I'm no html frontend author, to make a web-page like this https://larsson.priv.no/tables/ semi of dynamic. Cab has the images, I know their date. Newer ? update the images . I just now got an idea, dbm gave me MUCH more info on the machines themselves ... todo ? What I want to do next is to check if I'm able to use dbm to record my videos with. Got essential tips from @scutters on how it works. So, it is tempting to have that solution available to. No matter, your dbm - is da bomb. My xml's went from plain to very much more usable in many ways. Extracting rom information is kind of perfect for a guy that has all the roms that vpinmame supports. I tend to extract all vbs scripts for all table release, run them through a "process" where I look for obvious mistakes, etc. Much of this is much more manageable as long as authors keep their table names separater from last name. And I bet the reason why they don't is because ... It is too fucking hard to get a new table name that don't match their metadata. That is just the wrong way way of ding it ! Change "game name" - use 'description'.

What the hell guys. You finished the next version already ? That is unexpected for sure. You joked about a new release. Told me you had the next version almost done and whenI came around, just asking if it was ok to bother you about a request. Very seldom have I experienced - if ever, that a feature like that was implemented within 2 days, and with such a nice dialog between us. I was actually just now - starting the dbm up, and noticed it was blinking. Never seen that before. What the hell, had a feeling it meant it was an update available. Ini file should be prepped already. So here I go. I had planned to use your tool and do it the "harder way". But, now I get to test if my request works. I'm very sure it will though, because when I explained what and why. You guys clearly understood why and how my setup was done the way it is. I hope I meet you guys IRL some day, beers on me.

@pindapoe Search google for Hardlinks / mklink - its a workaround for many things.

Might be a good idea to ask user WOB over at VPU.

Sweet. I've missed the info you provided on the dates. I've always wanted to know when these companies changed their logos. Looking great. I know I'll be using these in one of my projects. Thank you very much !

I've had my share of unexplained crashes and I just uploaded to the latest 2.94. I then started to see something that hasn't happened before. I have two animated *.gif in the loading folder and these both started to freeze PBX. Took them away and it has been rock solid so far. I just wonder if this might have been the reason for my intermittent crashes. With the new version. It seems that the videos I've previously recorder are more washed out than what they where before ?! Well. Something I can live with - probably is about time I record new ones on 4k ( current vids are 1080p )

Congratulations on becoming a father once again. I really should try to make these myself, so thank you for the info.

@gStAv Have you made a write up on how you are making the tables sounds of yours ? If I knew the exact steps, programs used and settings you are using it would be easier to help you out complementing your great work. I've said it before, it isn't the same browsing PBX without your work and now there is a few holes I would love to fill. But, I would love to know a bit more about your process if possible. Find it kind of essential that the sound level is the same as yours.

Yeah. That is why I was hoping that we could call on PinUP that has already defined where the video would play - resolution etc. But, it seems we're out of luck at least for now.

@Tom Speirs It was an example of a video that convert-it can't convert. I see those 60ish tutorial videos and thank you for those. But, there are more than a few other videos out there that I would like to get my hands on. Yes, these are youtube videos as well. Problems seems to be downloading, I guess, if that works, it will convert just fine. @PcTeknic I see why you are doing that. But, I can assure you that I prefer my method Well, this is not the thread for discussion. So, I'll shut up now.

Any tip on how to convert eg. this one ? Convert-it doesn't download the video

Yeah. I know. I always leave the original file-name and use description. I actually made myself a perl script that uses information from ipdb to help me fill in the information like name, year, manufactorer. The drawback is that once I update a table in PBX. I need to run PBXrecorder again to get new media files. I probably should look into what I've just suggested. But, as long as I have room on the SSD. You know the drill My naming is : VPX__2_in_1__EM__1964__Bally I use two underscores to separate fields with, that way I can do automatic processing of meta data in all sort of ways. Easy to find duplicates and stuff like that.

I haven't tried it yet - but, maybe it would work for you to use "links" as it is called in Windows to reference back to those media files of your JSpradlin. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Would love it if support for playing youtube videos directly from instructions would be possible. Seems like PinupPlayer is going to become a standard for VP some way or another and hooking into that might be something that is easy to implement ? Link for Tom http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=38979&page=1