My pinballx cab and a few questions

[ode1979]

So i wanted to show you guys my first cab, a 32inch playfield with 19 inch backglass. i5 potato computer with 7gb ram and integrated intel grafics, so i guess i have not tested the real deal, but i does works nice and looks cool. I whoever having problem (and to be honest not real problems) with the buttons layout. You see, in the arcade world of mame and its many front ends, buttons layouts are easy to chose a game and to exit the emulator as wee as to exit the front end. you have 1 button to chose the game, and you can use the same button to start the game, then one button to exit the game emulator, and the same button can be used to exit the front end. Here at pinballx it seems we have 4 buttons, one to launch the game, then  once in the pinmame/visualpinball enviroment of the game you can map the same button to start the game, so you use "Q" to exit the game, but once in pinballx ,i have to use "esc" to exit pinballx, i have mapped it to use q as well but if i do that, the shutdown option does not seem to work. so i wonder if it has to do with the buttons layout. Also some games start fine with "enter" but i have to use "1" in some games to start the game. So not a big deal, and i hope im not overcomplicating things, so i was just wondering if you guys can share your buttons layout. , thanks and have a great day.

[Mike_da_Spike]

The esc key in pbx, should also be used to exit the emulator.
Not changing q to esc, but setting up in pbx.
All my emulators in pbx closes, pressing on tbe exit button. So 1 button to close the close the emulator and hitting tbat button again to close pbx as well.
I run pbx as admin, so I'm sure it can terminates the process.
My select button in PBX  is also my start button in vpinmame. So launching a game in pbx, can also starts in visual pinball. 
I don't use keyboard mappings, but I setup Joystick buttons.
I will add screenshots later if you want

EDIT: Here's my setup
these are my buttons. Button 1,2,3 and 4 are my flippers
Button 8 (credit) is the same as left coin chute
When I push my plunger I also a button (16)
I also have Button 11,12,13 and 14 in my coin door to control the pinmame rom and button 15 to check if the coin door is open

in PBX 
I set my quit and exit emulator to the same.

Within VPX :

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE "Overide Default Button Layout" and "Disable ESC KEY" checked
As you can see, I use "Add Credit" (button 8) and "Add Credit 2" (button 9) for adding credits
Within PBX I set button 8 (Credit)  for instructions. So in PBX I see the instructions, but using Vpinmame I add a credit.
I don't have assigned Button 7 (exit) in Visual Pinball, but I use the exit emulator in PBX for it

you only got 4 buttons on your front  (but maybe you can add some yourself), so needs to be creative to setup in the way you want
I hope it makes a bit sense 
 

[ode1979]

Actually i want les buttons not more,. one thing i notice, "launch" and "select/start" in pbx pretty much do the same. Also iam having problems with the shutdown function not working, if i want to quit pbx (since im on a cabinet i dont have an use to just exit pbx) i choose "shutdown option" but that just exits pbx and never turns the pc off.

[Draco1962]

12 minutes ago, ode1979 said:

Also iam having problems with the shutdown function not working, if i want to quit pbx (since im on a cabinet i dont have an use to just exit pbx) i choose "shutdown option" but that just exits pbx and never turns the pc off.

A feature request was recently submitted to address this issue:

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, ode1979 said:

i want to quit pbx (since im on a cabinet i dont have an use to just exit pbx) i choose "shutdown option" but that just exits pbx and never turns the pc off.

Odd. I always shutdown the cab like that. I removed the exit PBX and only have shutdown and cancel.

Can you try to run PBX as admin and try the shutdown ?

Please post a logfile after you hit shutdown and  pbx is clossd, instead of shutting down the os.

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, ode1979 said:

Actually i want les buttons not more,.

As I said, you need to be creative if you got 4 buttons.

I should setup in pbx:

1 button to select

1 button to exit pbx/exit emulator

1 button to quick launch

Than you can navigate completly

In vpx

1 button to add coin

1 button to start game

1 button to use plunger

And you already assigned a button in pbx to exit emulator

 

[ode1979]

Hey thanks for the help, i was just busy, so i sorted out the less butons options for me, and end it up to just have 3 plus plunger on front and 2 on each side . the 3 are , 4 coin, 5 coin, (as some games only seem to work with 5 and some with 4) ,quit and plunger, the sides are to navigate tru gamelist or flippers in game mode, and to start the game or nudge in game mode. i m using the pc power button to start or shutdown the game. but tomorrow i will post the log to see ahy its not using the shutdown function..

I was just wondering, its there a way to make pinballx start on a certain game everytime the pc is turned on? One famous soccer player decided he wanted mi pinball, and i moded a game for him, i would like inballx to start on that game everytime the cab its turned on, thanks for any help.

[Mike_da_Spike]

57 minutes ago, ode1979 said:

I was just wondering, its there a way to make pinballx start on a certain game everytime the pc is turned on? One famous soccer player decided he wanted mi pinball, and i moded a game for him, i would like inballx to start on that game everytime the cab its turned on, thanks for any help.

Within pinballx.ini there are entries where the last game and system is set. You can create a small program that sets those entries when starting/closing PinballX. This will show your table everytime when PinballX is starting. 

Not out of the box, but do-able

[ode1979]

i dont see any entry for the last game, im capable of adding ahk scripts to achieve, that, ill try and see if it works., thanks.

[scutters]

8 hours ago, ode1979 said:

i dont see any entry for the last game, im capable of adding ahk scripts to achieve, that, ill try and see if it works., thanks.

There should be an [Internal] section, i think you'll need to change the lastselected value (and quite possibly the majoity of the other values too so the section still makes sense to PinballX, so the correct system is loaded for that table entry too etc). You can add your script to startup settings.

Be careful, don't think anyone else runs a script like this so make a backup of the ini and if you do get any weird issues disable your script and restore the backup.