[RESOLVED] Arcooda Pinball Arcade and Pinballx

[sked123]

Hi all, having built my own pinball machine and arcade machine using the usual suspects of pinball fx3,mame and visual pinball i decided to purchase the arcooda cabinet key and set up pinball arcade as i have the williams tables i wanted . 

I thought it would be a doddle to set up but is it just me or is it a pain in the butt.I have checked my famous friend google and all i can find really is freecammod related, is there a definitive guide of setting up TPA cabinet version without freecammod or do i have to incorporate it into pinballx setup

 

i would really appreciate any help Im running the new 4.30 pinballx and the latest TPA cheers

[Mike_da_Spike]

Freecammod is the easiest tool to jump directly to a table, because NoEx read memory addresses and select the correct table.

PinballX has grid positions too (see gamemanager). I never used it, but think it works with key stroke.

If Adamsfamily is the first table the grid wil be 1x1.

The table below 1x2, and the table next to adamsfamily is 2x1. Etc

Give it a try with some tables, before setting all tables

[sked123]

I did try freecam mod but never got it right i dont know if it was set up correctly in pinballx settings though the only settings i could find were from 2018 and didnt take into effect the arcooda cabinet settings,do you know what defaults on pinballx settings i need to enter?.cheers

 

thanks for the swift supply 

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, sked123 said:

I did try freecam mod but never got it right i dont know if it was set up correctly in pinballx settings though the only settings i could find were from 2018 and didnt take into effect the arcooda cabinet settings,do you know what defaults on pinballx settings i need to enter?.cheers

 

thanks for the swift supply 

I will create tomorrow some screenshots (if I have time ) from my own cabinet and the settings in fcm.

 

[sked123]

Fantastic thank you im just experimenting launching the app direct using -applaunch 226980 and just navigating via joystick,not really working but thank you and will look forward to seeing them cheers

[Mike_da_Spike]

here is my setup in settings.exe :

The launch before and launch after script is just to create a 3rd screen where I mirror the screen to my realDMD

@Echo off
c:\windows\system32\reg.exe import C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\monitor_100dpi.reg
C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\dc2.exe -configure=C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\4kDisplay_Arcooda.xml
start "" /min C:\Pinball\DMDext\dmdext.exe mirror --source=screen --position 4080 0 1920 530 --no-virtual -d pindmdv3

@echo off
C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\dc2.exe -configure=C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\4kdisplay_landscape_60p.xml
taskkill /im dmdext.exe /f
taskkill /im cmd.exe /f

You don't need them, but just wanted to show it

The next is the settings.ini I use for Freecammod :

[Settings]

; Auto launch the game when the mod starts.
LaunchGame=0

; Path to the game executable.
GamePath=C:\Pinball\Steam\SteamApps\common\Pinball Arcade\PinballArcadeCabinet.exe
;GamePathC:\Pinball\Steam\SteamApps\common\Pinball Arcade\PinballArcade11.exe

; Overlay is hidden when the game starts.
StartHidden=1

; Opacity of the overlay (0 -> 1.0 / 0.1 range).
Opacity=1

; Enable/disable the mod.
FreeCameraMode=0

; Auto hide the ingame HUD when you click START button.
AutoHideHUD=0

; The cam values are applied to the sliders when you click START button, otherwise sliders value are applied to the cam.
AutoCamToSliders=1

; Check if a *.cam file exists for the current table and automatically loads it.
AutoLoadCamFile=1

; Enable/disable Hotkeys.
HotKeys=0

; The key (constant) defined in the game to manually hide the ingame HUD (default key: H)
; Keyboard scan code constants list: http://goo.gl/rvrMS9
; Take the hex value in the table (0x48) and convert it to an integer (72);
HideHUDKey=72

AutoRotateScreen=1
PFMonitor=1

[Cabinet]

; Enable cabinet mode, dual monitor display with backglass & DMD.
CabinetMode=1

; Backglass monitor number (as displayed in Windows/Nvidia/Ati display settings).
BGMonitor=2

; Enable/disable 4K resolution support.
HighRes4K=1

[DMD]

; ### DMD Settings (position is ignored when a table specific DMD file exists) ###

; DMD monitor number (as displayed in Windows/Nvidia/Ati display settings).
DMDMonitor=0

; DMD Default X Position.
DMDXPos=0

; DMD Default Y Position.
DMDYPos=0

; DMD always on top of all windows.
DMDTopMost=0

; DMD position is locked by default.
DMDLockedPos=0

; DMD size is locked by default.
DMDLockedSize=0

; ############################# HOTKEYS NOTE ###############################
; # For a complete list of usable keys, please visit: http://goo.gl/0blPF6 #
; # NumLock key should be ON to use NumPad keys.			   #
; # 'PageUp' key is also known as 'Prior' for backwards compatibility.     #
; # 'PageDown' key is also known as 'Next' for backwards compatibility.    #
; ##########################################################################

[HotKeys]

HideShowOverlay=NumPad0
XTranslation+=Right
XTranslation-=Left
YTranslation+=Up
YTranslation-=Down
ZTranslation+=Home
ZTranslation-=End
XRotation+=NumPad2
XRotation-=NumPad5
YRotation+=Numpad6
YRotation-=Numpad4
ZRotation+=NumPad1
ZRotation-=NumPad3
FOV+=Insert
FOV-=Delete
CamSpeed+=Add
CamSpeed-=Subtract
SetCamView1=F1
SetCamView2=F2
SetCamView3=F3
CycleViews=F4

Adjust the gamepath to your steam path, because I installed Steam under my C:\Pinball dir (c:\pinball is fully backuped, so in case of issues I can restore it)

I hope this make sense and is working for you

[sked123]

absolutely brilliant thank you, had an emergency at work so just got to try it but only my resolution is wrong 

thanks a lot it has saved me a world of bother cheers