Visual PinMAME

[tomdrake]

I tried setting up visual pinball but am having a problem... when I try to start a game it just hides gameex (still running as a process) and I can see that vpauto has an icon in the system tray, no game starts though. It works fine using visual pinmame and opening the game and hitting play. My tables are in R:\PinMAME\Tables and my roms are in R:\PinMAME\Roms, should these be together? Is it a problem using XPFix5?

[Emulator_23]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Pinball Games

TITLETEXT=Pinball

StartPageLogo=pinball

ROMFilter=*.vpt

RomsInFolders=False

RomPath=R:\PinMAME\Tables

SnapPath=

WorkingPath=C:\Emulators\PinMAME

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=10000

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=[apppath]\vpauto.exe

Command=..\VPinball-XPFix5.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]"

OLDatZip=

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

CartPath=

log.txt

[tomdrake]

Tom, now that you're back... do you have any idea where I went wrong? Thanks

[Tom Speirs]

Tom, now that you're back... do you have any idea where I went wrong? Thanks

I think you have your paths a bit messed up.

Try these changes:

WorkingPath=R:\PinMAME\Tables

Command=C:\Emulators\PinMAME\VPinball-XPFix5.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]"

[tomdrake]

I think you have your paths a bit messed up.

Try these changes:

WorkingPath=R:\PinMAME\Tables

Command=C:\Emulators\PinMAME\VPinball-XPFix5.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]"

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks Tom, that's working much better... just a couple more questions and it should be perfect...

1. When starting it leaves the focus on pinmame, so I have to click on the table to fix it. Any ideas why?

2. When exiting, it's leaving everything open (Exit To Editer, Editer, current Table) and making GameEx it all over top. Do I have to configure something in visual pinball to close it?

Thanks again!

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks Tom, that's working much better... just a couple more questions and it should be perfect...

1. When starting it leaves the focus on pinmame, so I have to click on the table to fix it. Any ideas why?

2. When exiting, it's leaving everything open (Exit To Editer, Editer, current Table) and making GameEx it all over top. Do I have to configure something in visual pinball to close it?

Thanks again!

Have you got this?

AlsoLaunch=[apppath]\vpauto.exe

MapKeys=False

WaitBeforeKeys=

[tomdrake]

Have you got this?

AlsoLaunch=[apppath]\vpauto.exe

MapKeys=False

WaitBeforeKeys=

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I tried switching the MapKeys and WaitBeforeKeys to what you said, but the focus on pinmame is still there at start and the exiting doesn't seem to work at all (just stays on the Quit To Editor / Debug / Return box)... so I switched those 2 back to what you had.

This is what I'm at so far...

[Emulator_23]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Pinball Games

TITLETEXT=Pinball

StartPageLogo=pinball

ROMFilter=*.vpt

RomsInFolders=False

RomPath=R:\PinMAME\Tables

SnapPath=

WorkingPath=R:\PinMAME\Tables

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=10000

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=[apppath]\vpauto.exe

Command=C:\Emulators\PinMAME\VPinball-XPFix5.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]"

OLDatZip=

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

CartPath=

[Nightlife]

I too was having an issue where I had to click on the table in order to force the game to start. I believe this problem developed when I updated to the newest version of Visual Pinball. With a bit of searching, I found an AutoIt file on the VPForums posted by a guy named eXentric. I just replaced the vpauto.exe that came with GameEX with this one (renamed it to vpauto.exe) and it works fine.

Tom, maybe you want to decompile his script to see what he did different?

Anyway, it's attached here.

vpa1.1.zip

[CJ7]

What does vpauto.exe do?