So what do you think of the high score support?

[Tom Speirs]

Any comments or feedback?

[nelman]

Any comments or feedback?

I,m not sure how to set it up properly. Do I just edit the pinemhi.ini files to point to my nvram folder. I see the information is updated but I don't see any high scores.

Any help would be appreciated

Thank in advance

[Tom Speirs]

It should be automatic and no need to edit any inis. There is a new visual pinball setting for the nvram path in the settings wizard. Future Pinball is automatic. VP games need to be running for several seconds for it to work to ensure the PinMAME window is active.

[nelman]

Thanks Tom that did the trick .

This just gets better and better

Nelson

[Lyanheart]

I really like the infomation screen, especially the "number of times played." It would be interesting to have sorting categories of "Most Played" and "Least Played" tables, showing the top five and bottom five, respectively.

I also missed the nvram path in the setup the first time through and I thought the highscore wasn't working. Looks good now!

With all the different things to look at now, I think I am going to need to add some more buttons to my cabinet. Especially PAUSE!

[punter1]

Here are my initial VP results

Meteor: Shows default high score. When you start the table, VP shows the real high score. Last date, time, minute info is NOT displayed

Medieval Madness: Shows all default high scores. When you start the table VP shows all the real high scores. Last date, time, minute info is displayed

Space Shuttle: No high score info displayed. Only last date, time, minute info is displayed

[Tom Speirs]

Be aware the high scores are updated when you exit VP or FP and VP has to be running for several seconds. That is a limitation beyond my control. With that in mind what did you find?

If its always showing the defaults that may be an issue with PinemHi or you have selected the wrong NVRAM folder.

[Tom Speirs]

I am not sure why it is showing default high scores but I just put out 1.47 which may fix a few issues.

[punter1]

I will have to investigate further... I tried 1.47 but no joy - still showing default values when looking at information in PinballX and via the in-game menu during gameplay. Just testing VP at the moment... Most of my tables are setup to use B2S or directB2S backglass instead of using Pinmame and static backglass. Will experiment more

Here is a snippet from PinballX.ini for VP settings

[VisualPinball]
Enabled=True
WorkingPath=C:\Visual Pinball
TablePath=C:\Visual Pinball\Tables
Executable=VPinball.exe
Parameters=/play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]"
LaunchBeforeEnabled=false
LaunchBeforeWorkingPath=
LaunchBeforeExecutable=notepad.exe
LaunchBeforeHideWindow=False
LaunchBeforeWaitForExit=True
LaunchAfterEnabled=False
LaunchAfterWorkingPath=
LaunchAfterExecutable=notepad.exe
LaunchAfterHideWindow=False
LaunchAfterWaitForExit=True
NVRAMPath=C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMame\nvram

And here is pinemhi.ini snippet (Not using FP at the moment)

// PINemHi ini-file created by Dna Disturber
// use this section to set the paths to FP fpram's and VP nvram's

[paths]
VP=C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMame\nvram\
FP=h:\-PINBALL-\-FUTURE PINBALL-\fpRAM\

[options]
// Set these to 1 if you want to see them in your output - 1 means its on , 0 means its off
replays=1
hiscores=1
buyins=1

[spootdev]

I think it's a nice edition....handy to see scores without launching game and holding flipper forever to scroll through em all.

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Punter,

Yeah I am really not sure why its showing the defaults. So any investigation you can do would be helpful.

Like I said they are updated on game exit so in game is not going to be the best way to test. I think that is just when VP writes the file anyway.

[Lyanheart]

For what its worth, my score displays are working fine. Not to sound snarky, but you actually need to get a high score and replace the defaults in the game before you will see your own initials and score on the info screen... It shows the table's high scores, not your personal scores from playing.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for confirming its working for at least some of you. That helps me.

I think Punter is quite experienced with this stuff so there probably is an issue somewhere but right now I have no idea.

Cheers.

Tom.

[pocketpal]

I finally got to try it out last night, and I ran into a problem for those of us using BAM with Future Pinball. Since we have to specify the BAM subfolder of the Future Pinball folder as our working directory, and PinballX apparently looks in the working directory for the the fpRAM subfolder, the high scores don't display. I changed the working directory to the Future Pinball folder to test and it worked fine, but then, of course, I don't get BAM, I think the best solution would be to allow us to specify the location of the fpRAM folder for FP the same as we do for the nvRAM for VP.

[Tom Speirs]

Sounds fine. I will do that.

[horseyhorsey]

Oh wow, good man Tom. Only just seen this , will try it now.

[horseyhorsey]

All good , nice job mate!

[punter1]

Yes, I will do more troubleshooting, might not be until the weekend, and report my findings. Can someone post a VP FS table name that is confirmed working and I will use that as a starting point. Thanks

[Tom Speirs]

If you don't mind using command line you can use pinemhi.exe to get the supported roms. http://www.pinemhi.com/

Its PinMAME roms that are relevant not the tables.

I suspect if you are getting any kind of output it IS supported.

[punter1]

Got it working I had a 2nd install of VpinMame hiding in the Program Files folder and VP was using that installation... I ran the VpinMame setup.exe to change the Setup paths and moved the updated nvram files and high score support is working.

There is an issue with the statistics.ini file. VP table filenames that use brackets [ ] are not displaying the date and time statistics.

Examples:

Meteor (Stern)(1979)(Eala Dubh Side, vidmouse)(2.0)[VP9.1x][FullScreen vidmouse].vpt

Indianapolis 500 (Bally)(1995)(JPSalas)(1.1)[VP912][FullScreen JPSalas].vpt

MIght be nice to see the actual table filename also displayed on the information screen. It would be a quick way to check a table version

[Tom Speirs]

Thought as much. As for the filenames, are you using the latest version? I thought I fixed that previously.

[punter1]

Yes you did - Works fine with 1.48.(Was using 1.46).