How to get Pinball HD Collection working on my cabinet without using PinballX

[Rosso23]

Thanks for this website and I hope you know how to forgive my mistakes, I have a Bartop and I want to put Pinball HD Collection, Zaccaria Pinball and Pinball FX 3 (I have the latter up and running with .bat files since my bartop has medium resources and I don't have pinballX
My doubt that I don't know how to do it since I don't have pinballX and it's a bartop is it possible to launch the independent Pinball HD Collection tables without going through the menu (I don't know if I understand myself, make a .bat file with Vikings and have PinballHDCollection run and directly the Vikins table (and if possible there is something like Pinball FX3 that is in the menu where you can choose the number of players))
And with Zaccaria pinball it would be the same if possible and if someone knows how to do this engineering and can help me

Thanks and as I said before, I'm sorry if I put impossible things. I've been doing this for a while and it messes me up a lot.

Edited August 11, 2023 by Draco1962
Moved to correct subforum

[Mike_da_Spike]

If you got a pc with medium resources, use pinballx lite.

Everything can be properly be done by batch files in stead of a frontend, but why should we put effort i. if we have free software that can do it for us?

[Draco1962]

As suggested, PinballX Lite is probably the best way to go as well as getting assistance.

Otherwise, forums for the individual programs will be your best bet for "how to"  assistance requests for direct launching the programs without use of a frontend.

[joyrider3774]

the scripts expects the steam version of pinball hd collection and nothing else, so the game must be installed already and steam must also be installed

you can write in a cmd prompt were launchpinballhdcollection.Exe (from the autohotkey script) is located the following command:

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launchpinballhdcollection.Exe [TABLEFILE]

where you can replace [tablefile] with the following writen exactly like this:

• wildwest
• fantasy
• zombie
• deep
• jungle
• halloween
• davinci
• snow
• arcade
• pirates
• redplanet
• tanks
• streetracing
• dreamland
• mafia
• vikings

for example 

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launchpinballhdcollection.Exe vikings

if you want this into batch files per game create a new text file by right clicking in explorer in a directory and choosing new -> text file. Rename the new.txt to vikings.bat (make sure you can see file extension in explorer.Exe or it won't work). The edit the batch file and place the commands inside it.