Mike_da_Spike

I noticed the same

Gotcha. Dotnet 4.8 doesn't have the framework of 3.5. Try to download it from the Microsoft website and install that version

Welcome to the world of virtual pinball ! always willing to help other people. Never seen your issue before Is it hanging or you get an error ? Do you see any error in the eventlog ?

@simbamame. Did you had a sabbatical that you all forgot it ?

Odd. I used it myself. Installation of pbx isnt that hard. You can copy over the complete pinballx directory as well (but do an install to your new drive)

You can use symbolic links (junction points). You can put a directory on another drive and create a link to it. Program will see just a path, but because of the junction point it is on another drive https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/junction Hope this helps you

I wish I was a developer, but I am just an Infrastructure teamlead. But understand enough to get my team to work

Thanks Tom. In our company the developers doesn't have bugs in there programs, but they call it a"un documented feature"

I think you discovered a bug , euh .. feature With your database file and config file, I could reproduce it. It took me a long time to identify it to get it work (with your Ini and database zip file) : In the Databases\Groups folder I created a file called Dummy.xml with the following content : <group name="Dummy"> <database>Visual Pinball\Visual Pinball</database> <database>Visual Pinball X\Visual Pinball X</database> </group> This creates a group list that combines the 2 XML files (It was just for testing that I took those) After adding this, I was able to see your custom files. removing this file results in: @Tom Speirs, Is this a feature that you can solve in codelog_without_Dummy_file.txt ? Attached 2 log files, but both shows the same. @jejegameex A couple of XML files has an error in it Not sure if PinballX can handle it, but Database manager cannot read the following XML's and mention the line and position nr that are incorrect : ERROR: GetDatasetFromXMLFile Database: [C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\MAME\MAME Horizontal.xml] contains unreadable characters. Error :The 'type' start tag on line 7 position 4 does not match the end tag of 'genre'. Line 7, position 30. ERROR: GetDatasetFromXMLFile Database: [C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\MAME\MAME Vertical.xml] contains unreadable characters. Error :The 'type' start tag on line 7 position 4 does not match the end tag of 'genre'. Line 7, position 31. ERROR: GetDatasetFromXMLFile Database: [C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball 995\Visual Pinball 995.xml] contains unreadable characters. Error :Unexpected end tag. Line 605, position 3. ERROR: GetDatasetFromXMLFile Database: [C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball PhysMod5\Visual Pinball PhysMod5.xml] contains unreadable characters. Error :Unexpected end tag. Line 29, position 3. I would recommend to check this and fix this as well log_with_dummy_file..txt

Alternateexe is more a system that you want to launch another table. And you are right. This is more to launch exe's without parameters. So you can have 1 system and put the exe's in 1 list. As what I can see, Tom is. A busy man. All his stuff on gameex needs to be updated, website needs maintenance, and he answers a lot of questions. And this all almost for free! The features are mostly self explaining and people like you, me and a lot of others will help each other with questions. And if needed. A tutorial/manual will be created. That's all the good stuff of the community ! When you try the new feature, you will understand the work of it. i think this is more used for the touch version that needs more more standalone programs, but maybe we can use it as well.

Can you zip your pinballx\databases directory and attach it ? This is a way to reproduce your issue on other machine

Good to known thanks ! And no problem if you use google translate. As long as your issue get fixed

I never knew that @PcTeknic could also write Chinese (See previous quote) The batch file should be in the after script where you define your Visual Pinball system in settings.exe : Something like this (change the path to your location where the batch file is located)

The pinemhi.ini (in the Pinballx folder)should contain the following information (don't change anything !) [paths] VP={path to Visual Pinball}\nvram\ FP={path to Future Pinball}\fpram\ If you use Pinemhi Leaderboard, please install it in a different directory ! Can you zip your pinballx\Database directory and attach it ? So I can check it with your files ? I still have my custom lists (I only have 2)

According to the log I see the following custom databases : Loading Custom Database: MAME Driving 18:53:59.24 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Fighting and Wrestling 18:53:59.27 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Horizontal 18:53:59.40 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Maze 18:53:59.42 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Misc 18:53:59.42 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Multiplay 18:53:59.43 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Platform 18:53:59.45 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Puzzle 18:53:59.47 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Shooter 18:53:59.53 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Sports 18:53:59.56 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: MAME Vertical 18:53:59.62 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: Visual Pinball 995 anciennes 18:53:59.63 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: Visual Pinball 995 originales 18:53:59.63 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: Visual Pinball X anciennes 18:53:59.66 01/10/2020: Loading Custom Database: Visual Pinball X originales You don't see any of those, or you miss some custom databases?

I just checked my cabinet. I'm running pbx version 4.65 and I still have my custom lists and my filters Can you post you log.txt and yiur pinballx.ini as attachment?

What do you mean with a DB clean utility ? Settings for pinballx are in the INI file. The database files for tables are 'just' xml files and cannot do much damage by launching a table.

Gotcha ! Make sense. Just wanted to be sure that I didnt make any mistake

Did you have a button asdigned (or keyboard key) within vpx to exit the emularor ? Please attach log file and settings file

I played HPGOF with PUP pack for you I have a real DMD , but it was not enabled in HPGOF. I didn't get it to work when it was released, but now it is working (So I enabled it) This is my backglass setup in pup player : I cannot find any settings further that should hide your backglass for I see in my registry that B2S server is used too maybe try to launch a 'normal' table with backglass and check if this is set :

This is a question that has nothing to do with PinballX, but hope that people can help me. I recently discovered that my VPINMAME rom zip files , does not contain always all the files that should be in the rom. Some .bin files (or other extensions) are removed that could be for example sound files For example table 'Contact (Williams 1978)' where rom cntct_l1.zip is used. According to vpinmame, the sound file is missing : As the state noticed : ''If sound roms are missing, sound will be disabled' The game is playing fine, but I miss some sounds (properly) Rights now, all the new roms I add, I check with Vpinmame and check if all files are available. If not, I try to search the internet and add it to the zip. This fixed for me a couple of times the rom. Now I tried to use Rom Center 3.7.1, that can read all the roms that are supported in Vpinmame and can check them For this specific rom : So it noticed that the file is missing, but that in the zip file there is another file (with different CRC/SHA1) that is not needed. But this tool shows a lot of "Not needed in this file". Although I have unchecked "Remove useless files", it deletes the files that are not needed when fixing the game. (and not sure if this is needed in the future) I also tried to use CLRmamePro to identify roms with missing files, but cannot find an option to check the roms itself if all content is there. To make a long story short : Who knows how to identify roms that are missing files in it, and what is the best and quickest way to fix this ?

@Tom Speirs Just a question about the new system "Custom - exe files" I'm playing a bit with it and as I understand , I only have to fill in a name/Folder in settings and thats enough (no path/executable or process to monitor, right ?) Within Game List Manager, I can define the exe files : When I use the direct Exe file all is working, but if I use Steam.exe, or another launcher (like in this example LaunchAstrobeer.exe), it will directly go back to PinballX screen and the game is laoded in the background. Is this as designed, or can there also be a "Process to monitor" per game ? Or does it work different ? (sorry for the stupid questions) This was tested on my test PC (not on my cabinet) log.txt PinballX.ini

I'm not a real fan of puppacks, but for some tables I need to have it (like harry potter, guardians of the galaxy etc.) I need to check my setup for it. What I understand is that the puppack is loaded, but pinballx wants to put the black screen on top of it ? Is pinballx running as Admin ? I will be at my cab in an hour and will check with latest release of pinballx