Visual Pinball Help

[AlphaUMi]

Hello!

Please, I would like to have some advise on how to use the VPinball_Loader in GameEx\LOADERS. If I understood correctly, the loader hides the window while the table is loading. I would like to have my tables loading that way instead of having that window. Currently Visual Pinball V9 runs well on my system, but I configured it independently of any loader.

I found this thread but it left me a bit unsecure and confused. What are VPinball_Loader and vpauto? These are included in GameEx installation. Are these files sufficient or do I need something else? How can I setup Visual Pinball in GameEx so that it starts via loader?

Here is my emulator config for Visual Pinball:

[Emulator_12]

Enabled=True

System=Pinball

Category=Pinball

Emulator=Visual Pinball

Version=9.0.3

Rating=

DownloadUrl=http://www.gamesdbase.com/setupwizard/emulators/download/Visual%20Pinball.7z

RequiredFiles=

Website=http://www.randydavis.com/vp/intro.htm

Info=Visual Pinball offers real time Pinball Development System. It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation

TitleText=Flipper

StartPageName=Flipper

StartPageLogo=Pinball

Command=VPinball912.exe -play -"[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

RomFilter=*.vpt

Database=[Pinball] Visual Pinball

ConfigFile=Visual Pinball V9

MapFile=

RomPath=F:\EMULATORS\Visual Pinball\Tables

SnapPath=F:\EMULATORS\Visual Pinball\Snaps

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

CartPath=

ManualPath=

ControlPanelPath=

WorkingPath=F:\EMULATORS\Visual Pinball

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=False

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=False

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

AlsoLaunch=

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=Pinball.png

PlayMusic=False

DontShowInfo=True

PlaySelectionMusic=False

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=False

GamesIn7Zips=False

PlayInScreenSaver=False

ShowMostPlayed=True

RandomMostPlayed=False

CDCheck=False

CDCheckFile=

RomsInFolders=False

MusicPath=

Thanks in advance!

[Adultery]

The way i have it set up the working path points to the loader instead of vpinmame. i cAn export my config for you if you'd like to see it.

[AlphaUMi]

Thank you Adultery, but nevermind. I managed to load a table with Tempest Loader, but I have a GameEx crash when exiting. In the end I decided to erase pinball games from my setup. I'm not a great fan of this kind of games, after all.

Cheers,

Alpha.

[Draco1962]

If you want to try the pinball again, I think you would much prefer Future Pinball. I found it much easier to setup and without having to run any special loaders, etc.

[Adultery]

+1.

I only really play Funhouse and Addams Family on VPinball.

[AlphaUMi]

+1.

I only really play Funhouse and Addams Family on VPinball.

VPinball stands for Visual Pinball, I suppose?

[Adultery]

Yeah.

[mesk]

Adultery can I see your VP config please? im having trouble with loader,it works well w\o the loader but I would like to eliminate those windows.thanks!

[Adultery]

Sure. I'm willing to bet I know what the problem is though. if you could export and post your vpinball emulator ini from GameEx and post the vpinball_loader ini I can help you fix it faster.

[mesk]

Sure. I'm willing to bet I know what the problem is though. if you could export and post your vpinball emulator ini from GameEx and post the vpinball_loader ini I can help you fix it faster.

ya know what? those windows dont really bother me.I think ill just leave it as it is.why fix it if it isnt broken,right? thanks anyway buddy!

[Adultery]

It's not too hard to get working, I promise. Lol

[bearzilla333]

I seen this post and it really didn't finish to a resolve as I am kinda stuck with the Loader thing myself. I got Visual Pinball working great outside Gameex. Gameex however will not load game for me, I have it all set up and it seems when select a table to play it, it goes black. It wants to load but it is stuck asking me for permission to run the program (vspinball). So I decided to fart around with the loader (since I keep on seeing it when I search about this.) This is a dumb question but where do I put the all the files for this loader?

[Draco1962]

I would recommend starting your search in the Pinned and Hot topics. We have a pinned topic specifically for Visual Pinball here.

[bearzilla333]

yeah that was the post I used to get me this far Gameex will launch it, but I know that the program is asking for "user rights" thus making my screen black. I do have it (under properties "run as admin") Not sure why it keeps asking for it. I was hoping maybe the loader/wrapper would help get by this, but I am not sure where to put them files at. Thanx for the fast response

[hansolo77]

Just to throw something else in here.. I recently re-setup Visual Pinball and had some trouble too. I went a different route though. Have you tried using Castro's wrapper/launcher? You can download it here:

http://dragonking.arcadecontrols.com/simplephp/ccount/click.php?id=57

Its really nice, and works great with GameEx. Here's a support thread I had created:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/11063-resolved-visual-pinball-help/page__p__85743#entry85743

and a post on how to configure GameEx to work with it:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/11063-resolved-visual-pinball-help/page__view__findpost__p__85901

[bearzilla333]

Sweet I will dive in and check it out thanx.

[bearzilla333]

Well I got the wrapper/launcher to work from the link you gave, works really nice! Gameex however trys to run it but again the permissions is still waiting for me to click yes...Can I ask how you got around this? Both the launcher exe and the VPinball exe have the "run as admin" checked, but still does it. Other than that I think i am close.

[hansolo77]

I'm not sure what to suggest here. If you have the launchers and VPinball both set to run as admin, it should work. Are you sure it's an access/permission dialog and not something like the "If you're authorized to use this ROM, blah blah blah". If it's the ROM one, that launcher should be taking care of it. If it's wanting admin privledges I'm not sure. On my system, I turned off the UAC so it would never prompt me. This is not a recommended procedure (since it opens up abilities for hackers to run programs, etc) but if you have an offline system, you should be safe to do it. I turned it off, and disabled the notifications as well.

http://www.petri.co.il/disable-uac-in-windows-7.htm

^--- Has a nice walkthrough. Basically you go into the control panel, search for UAC, and disable it. Then go into your notifications and set it to always hide. That might work for you.

[bearzilla333]

Actually I got it to work now!!!! All I need was made sure Gameex was on the "run as admin" also, that did the trick, finally got VPinball to work smoothly in Gameex. Thanx for the info and help