what is the "hobby standard" currently for pinball?

[aldub516]

Hey all. So ive been building mame machines for a few years now and became quite good. Over the years i dabbled with pinball, but never very much. Now for the first time, im trying to complete an empty ultrapincab i have. I have a full, complete and clean set of both visual pinball and future pinball tables. I realized unlike mame, pinball needs a lot more attention as theres many versions of games, not a good naming convention, etc. I decided to go through one by one a little every day, add games, make sure i have all the art, make sure all the games even work. Diligence right? So i first started along using art i had or found, along with hyperpin media packs and such. Soon i found that a lot of those were outdated, and began to use the multiple sources of ftps. I finally inquired about something on the hyperpin site (in regards to a hdd my friend gave me that i started off with before switching to pinballx) and they gave me a few resources such as vpuniverse for backglasses and such. Browsing vpuniverse i see a lot of nice screens and art, but now im seeing b2s glasses and such. I know i installed the server for it prior. So instead of rambling, this is my main question im getting at. Noticing there a lot of outdated info, files, and such, currently for someone who is plenty capable of learning and working for a good result, my question is, what is the current "high standard" for virtual pincabs? Meaning, "b2s glasses with table videos from xxxx site are the current best quality". etc.. As i said, ive gone in circles with old work, different versions of work. So before i spend an eternity renaming files, art, and tweaking this all to perfection, what should i account for, where should i be focusing my attention to. I went ahead and downloaded just about all the backglass and table videos from the gameex ftp, but as i said again, im now seeing that other options may be better.. again, sorry for the rambling. If you were building a pincab, and ideally you could have as many tables as possible (that work and have art) what is the most current art sources,formats, qualitys, etc. Thank you for getting me started in the right direction. Pinball is whole new ball game to me and im learning a lot.

[the_greeze]

If it's high quality backglass and playfield videos you require then you really can't wrong with running this app (http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/15207-capture-videos-to-pinballx-media-table-backglass-and-dmd/). Basically, this will run through your collection and record backglass videos, table videos, DMD videos along with images too.

It does a fantastic job and I can't recommend it enough. One of the really cool things is that when you use this, your videos reflect 100% the tables you own. Any little tweaks you may make can be captured and recorded.

As for other media; I usually just Google it. For wheel images, I make my own.