Gameex Pinball Arcade config

**rockyrocket** · December 1, 2013

Hi so I have just finished getting Pinball Arcade set up in my gameex cab.
The plan originally was to have each table to show up individually in the menu just like the PinballFX2 ones can be.
However after experimenting a bit with ZENs mess of a menu it was concluded to just be too inconsistent as depending on your table buying habits its different for everyone.
Also the timing seems to change a bit too as an AHK that would start a table fine one play would start a differing one on another boot :angry: .
Any way what I settled on was an AHK loader the starts PBA then navigates to your "my games" part of the menu (in landscape).
So its not a perfect solution but I am happy with it, although really it offers little more than a bit of menu navigation over just starting via a shortcut.
The AHK file is looking for your steam install in" C:\Program Files (x86)" so if you have steam elsewhere then please edit that part

So to use this you can put this ahk file (or exe file if you compile it) anywhere in its own folder , then point gameex to that folder as the rom path.

You also need to have AutoHotkey installed, and I enclose a advanced config to put in your GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS folder.

So as they say a picture is worth a lot of words...

And here are the contents of the AHK, with some personal key bindings commented out.

Run, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\PinballArcade\PinballArcade.exeProcess, wait, PinballArcade.exeWinWait, ahk_class Pinball ArcadeWinWaitActive, ahk_class Pinball ArcadeSleep, 7000Send {Enter Down}, Send {Enter Up}Sleep, 200Send {Enter Down}, Send {Enter Up}Sleep, 200Send {Right Down}, Send {Right Up}Sleep, 20Send {Right Down}, Send {Right Up}Sleep, 20Send {Enter Down}, Send {Enter Up}process, WaitClose, PinballArcade.exeExitApp;#IfWinActive ahk_class Pinball Arcade;Left::LShift;Right::RShift;d::Up;g::Down;f::Left;r::Right;k::Space;Up:;Down::a;#IfWinActive

I hope someone else finds this usefull, although to be honest I am a little underwhelmed by PBA, so its not going into my pincab however if you would want to add this to a pincab with a portrait monitor then I posted a version here that works...

http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=25813&page=10#entry245849

PBA loader.7z