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Hi @Tom Speirs, I recorded using a simple vbs script the narrator voice (for example "CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak"Slamit Pinball - Big Score") and named them "- system -.mp3" and placed the files in the respective table audio directory of each system, but for some reason these files are not played when broswing through the system menu. To make sure mp3 is not the problem i also exported them as "- system -.ogg" but it was also not played Is table system audio files not allowed for the system menu? Has anyone else got table audio working for system menu? I used these files as test: - system -.wav - system -.mp3

I also have a small request for the system menu. Besides the quit button thingie that @Mike_da_Spike requested and i would like as well, it would be nice if the narrator plugin could mention the system names also when selecting them. I use the narrator plugin on my cabinet with table selection and i like that it "says" the names of the table but system names would be nice also. If it would require to much changes i can try to record system table audio (if that would work) which says the names of my systems using same narrator voice, but i'll have to verify how i can record it correctly then Edit: I created audio recordings of the system names spoken by narrator and converted to mp3 and named them "- system -.mp3" and placed them in table audio but for some reason they are not played on system selection screen

unfortunatly i have no real dmd in my cabinet i just have 2 screen setup and don't use dmd video's (my backglasses contains recorded dmd inside it). You mentioned the video from PBX logo works fine ? maybe you can compare resolution of that video to yours and also verify codec used you can do that with vlc and check codec information. If the information is different you could try reencoding the video's to the same format as the video that is working. It could also be pbx problem if the same video that is working for your tables (from v12 for example) is failing in the system selection and then @Tom Speirs is the only one that can verify it But again i have no real dmd so can not verify this and it's only an idea

i'm running VPX_6_beta_rev3751 which the totan table mentioned is needed. Not sure if thats the latest. My guess exiting the table outside pbx could be related to my slow cpu although as i get a not responding message, i did wait a long time already so not sure. But from within pbx it works fine. Could be my visual pinmame is not latest, i'm always affraid to upgrade that. But exiting through pbx works ok audio stalls but pbx kills vpx eventually or i kill it if its still running in a launch after, can't remember. On my main pc i don't have a problem either but that pc has much much faster cpu compared to my cabinet Edit1: It's my visual pinmame that crashes when quiting the rom. I see the same if i test the game from pinmame's setup.exe. already upgraded to 3.2 beta and then to sam build rev r4816. but it still hangs will try a few things but at least now i know whats causing it (pinmame) Edit2: I fixed it i had in game options use external dll checked if i uncheck it works fine

I did not install this table because i got a feeling it won't run good on my system. Seems its tailored for 4k. My system has a really bad cpu alongside a 1060gtx but i can not easily change the cpu. So i'm hessitant to install this table. Does it run good on your system ? Edit: i tried it anyway and it seems to play ok on my system sometimes a very small slowdown but overall very playable and this table looks good. The only problem i have is that visual pinball x becomes unresponsive when i exit the table. But when using it from inside pinballx i have no problem as the exe gets killed eventually.

i installed 3.51 not sure if anything else has changed (compared to 3.50) but i can not reproduce the table display bug anymore so it indeed looks like its fixed. Thanks again

Hey @Tom Speirs, I just installed 3.51 and i can not reproduce the problem anymore now. So i think it is fixed. Thanks again

I'll merge my xml files as well or try to create a seperate system between visual pinball 9 and visual pinball X

Yes the table launches correctly, its only the table info. The status text bar at the bottom does display correct table name but not in the box with table info

Hi @Tom Speirs Besides systems not displaying the tables from all xml's from a system (check other topic from mike_da_spike), i seem to have encountered a small display bug where the table information is displayed wrong when switching systems. It seems to display the table information from last selected table in the previous system. I have created a video to show the problem as it might be hard to explain in text in how i can trigger it most of the time, i have attached the video at the end but will try to explain how to trigger it. In my case i have 9 systems, if i select a system i get the table info displayed for whatever the system loads first. If you do not switch tables in the table selection menu, but select the table so the menu comes up and you select "systems" to go back to the systems menu, and then you select another system, most of the time in my case it will display the table information in the big box from the table from the previous system while i'm actually already in a new system. Moving one table up and back does fix the display but it's kinda weird. Launching the table when its displaying the wrong information does launch the correct table from the system i selected, it just seems to be a display issue. I can not trigger it every time as you will notice in the movie but enough to make it happen on purpose. I also don't know if the amount of systems present makes a difference (for example is it needed to have more systems (or tables once system i selected) than what can be displayed in the menu). I also don't know if not switching tables is a requirement or not but The explanation above is the closest i can get to describe the small bug and to easily reproduce it and maybe the video will help also. @Mike_da_Spike can you verify to see if you can reproduce the same thing on your system if you still have the system menu enabled Here is the video showcasing the bug in action PinballX.ini log.txt

In case anyone already downloaded i just added a fading table video with a few tables for future pinball. No backglass, you can use the one from pinup popper. if someone wants to create these fading table video's using openshot themselves, i'm willing to create a video on how i did them. It's not that hard and you can create one quickly with the tables videos you have (so you can choose which tables are displayed in the table video for the system)

there seem to be some video's in both orientations (comparing to my pinball video's) here /-PinballX-/Media/MAME/Table Videos and here /-PinballX-/Media/MAME/Table Videos Desktop on ftp (you can see filenames but not download here and here) probably one of these 2 folders contain video's in correct orientation for his setup i also noticed in his pinballx.ini he has desktopmode set to yes but i don't know if it influences the video orentation. If i change it locally with me in settings it does not seem to change anything do you have both the desktop and table videos in your setup in different orientation if so i would try setting desktop mode to no in the settings and see if it changes something. according the little help tip it changes which video's are loaded (but i don't think by looking at my setup it will rotate them for you, you'll need them in correct oriantion / rotation for your setup)

what happens if you rotate the video yourselve. It could be your video's are recorded in bad orientation / rotation but not sure. Did you record them yourselve or you had gotten them from somewhere ? My video's on my cabinet are also rotated compared to how they are displayed vertically (i also rotate 270 degrees like you it seems). If i play a video from my pinball x in vlc or some other player on my main pc (which is not rotated so not on my cabinet) they are ortientated like this. Are your video's also rotated like this when played on a normal landscape oriented pc ? If not that might be the cause

I noticed something similar. For my visual pinball system i use 2 xmls one for visual pinball 9 tables named Visual Pinball.xml (same name as my system name) and one for visual pinball x tables (using alternate exe method) named Visual Pinball X.xml when clicking on my visual pinball system using the systems menu it only seems to show the tables from visual pinball.xml the main xml but not from visual pinballx.xml I can see that with the total game count when selecting a system or seperate lists i have for these 2 databases. the total table count displayed in pinball x matches the main visual pinball.xml game count when i select the visual pinball system. it would also explain why @Mike_da_Spike is seeing no tables when he selects his arcooda pinball arcade system as his main xml is empty. It seems when using the systems menu it does not seem to load the games from the other (customn) database files that might have been added for the system but only the main one named as the system. I would have assumed it would load all games / tabels from any xml from that system, but maybe if using systems menu we can only have one main xml and no customn databases and it is designed this way or it could be a small bug? I can create a video if needed to show it PinballX.ini log.txt

Hey as of pinballx 3.49 a system menu is now supported. You basically have to name the media for system menu "- system -.extension" it can be movie picture etc and you just have to place them in your usual media folders (not a seperate one) I created / searched media tonight for the systems i use / have and uploaded them to the gameex ftp under this directory "/-PinballX-/Other Uploads/Joyrider3774/System Media" i placed them in seperate "system media" folder to make clear it's for the new system menu but you should place them in your existing system folders. i did not find any logo / splashscreens for visual pinball so i'm using pinuppoper media files for the backglass for this however i did not upload these, you will need to get them somewhere else i did however upload all other things and i even created certain table media for example to show a few tables that can be played if the system is chosen. I used "Openshot" for this. It's a free / opensource video editor where you can easily import pictures and media and add certain effects. I only added a fade in / out effect between tables. Here's whats included: Pinball FX3 Backglass image (found on the net) Table video (created by me based on table video's i had on my system (not created by me) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Pinball FX3", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) BigScore Pinball Backglass (found on the net / bad quality) table video (created by me, just the single table) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Slamit Pinball - BigScore", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) BingoGameroom Backglass (taken from bingogameroom program itselve) table video (created by me based on screenshot pictures from tables) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Bingo Game Room", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Malzbies pinball collection Backglass (found picture on the net) table video (created by me based on table video's i did already also created by me) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Malzbies Pinball Collection", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Pinball Arcade Backglass picture (Created by me based on logo + picture i found of pinball tables on the net) Table video (Created by me based on table video's i had on my system (not created by me) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Pinball Arcade", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Pinball Wicked Backglass picture (edited logo + picture from their press kit) Table video (Created by me, just the single table) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Pinball Wicked", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Visual Pinball Table video (created by me based on vp9 and vpx table video's i had on my system) Backglass video (star field video taken from here https://pixabay.com/videos/starfield-star-galaxy-background-1209/ with visual pinball logo text i tried to recreate) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Visual Pinball", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Visual Pinball X Table video (created by me based on vpx only table video's i had on my system) Backglass video (star field video taken from here https://pixabay.com/videos/starfield-star-galaxy-background-1209/ with visual pinball X logo text i tried to recreate) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Visual Pinball X", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Zaccaria Pinball Backglass Picture (edited screenshot of the (old ?) splashscreen, i removed the press A button thingie) Table Video (created by me based on table video's i had on my system) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Zaccaria Pinball", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Future Pinball there is no backglass here, take the one from pinuppopper (not supplied) Table video (Created by me, based on table video's i had on my system from future pinball) Table audio (Recorded windows narrator voice saying "Future Pinball", make sure you have latest PBX version installed) Some system logos, some pulled from the net some basic ones i had on my system and bingogameroom one taken from program itselve in the video below you can see my system menu, but it does not include all mentioned video's above as i did not finish creating them at the time i created the video

here's a little video of the new systems menu feature. I'll upload what i got once i'm finished although i won't upload the stuff i had gotten from pinup popper (future pinball, visual pinball and pinball x backglass for system)

wow i love the system list and option to show it on startup now the search for system video's begins

about the screens. Can you check in pinballx settings if your screen resolutions are still setup correctly ? Like verify the resolutions of you screens in windows to what you had defined in pinballx settings. My guess that could be the problem and if you reset it up in pinballx settings it might fix it. Doflinx is not really pinballx / frontend related and the error screenshot does not show everything. But it seems it fails to load some file at the time it is reading ini (config file) settings. Maybe your ini contains an error or it can't find some file it tries to load

No idea how i can help with that might be something specific to popper menu and how it works. In pinballx it works but launchbingogameroom.Exe keeps running until it's killed or the quit key (default esc) is pressed. I also set that script as the executeable instead of bingogameroom's real exe (because each tabel is basically an exe that is run). Basically i wait for the script to exit it keeps running until bingo game room is quited.

i think by default in launchbingameroom.exe i have set ESC to be the quit key, it might be a good idea to change it to Q also and recompile, if you run into problems like the scripts keeps running. Change esc:: Gosub killApp Return to (i have not tested it but i think it's correct) q:: Gosub killApp Return

The following works for me you have to add two empty double quotes in front if you use start and remove any spaces at front and end double quotes (you got some with launchbingameroom.exe) START "" /min "LaunchBingoGameRoom.exe" "BallyMagicRing" without the "" it saw ballymagicring as an extra executable to launch instead of a parameter with me it's explained here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17201507/how-to-use-the-start-command-in-a-batch-file (that's where i got the info when i started using start in batch files) I placed the batch file in same directory as where launchbingogameroom.exe was located. Also remember the script assumes default install location of bingo game room, if that's not the case with you, you have to adopt the script and recompile it. but it's explained in first post testbingogameroom.bat

i have the williams pack ones on ftp although only in full hd resolution /-PinballX-/Other Uploads/Joyrider3774/Pinball FX3/Table Videos . I'm not sure if you have contributor status that you can access the ftp but if you can you can check them out. Other people have uploaded 4k video's also

you can download dmdext and place it anywhere you like on your system as long as you point to the correct location of the exe in the batch file and take into account that you might need to double quote the location if it contains spaces. if you want to be safe place an extra copy in a directory without spaces or place in same location as the launch before batch file that's how i did it. You can have multiple copies of dmdext binaries on your system It's not a simple copy and paste thing you have to adopt for your situation. My batch files are in the pinball wicked zip file in the first post as a reference not to copy paste. but you might have to change dmd coordinates depending on your game settings etc (screenshots help with that) anyway my launch before batch file has this line "start "" /min dmdext.exe mirror --source=screen --position=93 46 328 83 --destination=virtual --virtual-stay-on-top --virtual-hide-grip --virtual-position=1084 530 656 166 " i use the start executable so it does not block execution of batch file. i also use dmdext.exe without a path because my launch before.bat and dmdext.exe are in the same location / folder. you can always try to add path like (if it does not contain spaces) with spaces you have to play with double quotes and i'm not sure if you only have to quote path to exe or the whole line my guess the execuateable but you can try start "" /min c:\somedirectory\dmdext.exe mirror --source=screen --position=93 46 328 83 --destination=virtual --virtual-stay-on-top --virtual-hide-grip --virtual-position=1084 530 656 166 i would just download dmdext again and place the files in same location as batch files. I have a scripts folder where i save everything for every system so you can easily reuse that install then for other games to mirror the dmd. (i have done it for bigscore pinball and malzbies pinball collection also)

also why are you launching pinball fx3.exe the applaunch commands are for steam.exe, it's better to link to steam.exe in combination with applaunch. Process to monitor should still be pinball fx3 but executeable and working path should be steam.exe and steam.exe location. Steam.exe will launch pinball fx3 with the -applaunch command unless there exist some special version without steam

You can also always look up the pxp filenames in the steam pinball fx3 folder. For the williams / bally ones they have not used exotic names yet and all are recognizeable. I always get the game names from there The game name is that name without .pxp extension. do note my steam folder is located not on default install location in your case it probably sites in program files (x86). This way you know how to find out the game names from games install folder. BALLY_Safe_Cracker, BALLY_TheatreOfMagic etc