Zip Support and PinMame/Visual Pinball

[miskie]

So, Ive been working with the cabinet and the PinMame/Visual Pinball set -- which I have working just fine when everything is unzipped beforehand. Is it possible to run the games from zipfiles using the Zipfile feature of GameEx ? If it is, I am doing something wrong since Visual Pinball complains about missing files and exits.

Any help would be appreciated, as would letting me know if this is even possible

Thanks for your time.

[fRequEnCy]

So, Ive been working with the cabinet and the PinMame/Visual Pinball set -- which I have working just fine when everything is unzipped beforehand. Is it possible to run the games from zipfiles using the Zipfile feature of GameEx ? If it is, I am doing something wrong since Visual Pinball complains about missing files and exits.

Any help would be appreciated, as would letting me know if this is even possible

Thanks for your time.

GameEx has basic zip support so for you to get this to work, you would have to unzip not only the table but all the libraries required to run the table as well. There's different ways of approaching this. You can script something or even make a batch file to accomplish this. Since we all have our collections in different ways, it's hard to give an exact fix.

[JamminJ]

GameEx has basic zip support so for you to get this to work, you would have to unzip not only the table but all the libraries required to run the table as well. There's different ways of approaching this. You can script something or even make a batch file to accomplish this. Since we all have our collections in different ways, it's hard to give an exact fix.

I've gotten future pinball to work with my zipped files, but when starting gameex into visual pinball it shows the games, but whenever I choose a game it tries to start visual pinball but then hops back to the gameex screen. I'm using torrentzipped games that I copied to 1 folder. Maybe because I didn't setup pinmame? If you need any more info to help you out, just ask!

Thanks!

[fRequEnCy]

I've gotten future pinball to work with my zipped files, but when starting gameex into visual pinball it shows the games, but whenever I choose a game it tries to start visual pinball but then hops back to the gameex screen. I'm using torrentzipped games that I copied to 1 folder. Maybe because I didn't setup pinmame? If you need any more info to help you out, just ask!

Thanks!

Well try running outside of GameEx (from commandline) to see what errors you're getting so we can narrow it down. Try a few tables to see if it's different between them.

[JamminJ]

Well, If I click on vpinball.exe, then open an already unzipped game...it plays perfectly within visual pinball. Here are my settings within GameEx:

Vpinball1.zip

VPinball2.zip

VPinball3.zip

I don't know how to run this from commandline, so hopefully these screenshots help. I get no errors when clicking on VPinball.exe and loading an unzipped table

[fRequEnCy]

Try "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" in your commandline instead of just "[ROMFILE]". Also to make it easier you can export your config and post it's contents instead of having to take screenshots of your screen.

[JamminJ]

I figured it out and what was setup wrong was my 'Working Path' entry. I thought I wanted the location of vpinball.exe, but what it needed was the location of my tables. I also changed my commandline. Here's my working config file:

[Emulator_3]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Visual Pinball

TITLETEXT=Pinball

StartPageLogo=pinball

ROMFilter=*.vpt

RomPath=F:\Program Files (x86)\Pinball\Tables

SnapPath=

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

CartPath=

ManualPath=

ControlPanelPath=

InstructionsPath=

WorkingPath=F:\Program Files (x86)\Pinball\Tables

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=False

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=[APPPATH]\VPAUTO.EXE

Command=..\VPINBALL -PLAY -"[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=Visual Pinball V6

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=

DATABASE=[Pinball] Visual Pinball

UseDbName=

GamesIn7Zips=True

PlayInScreenSaver=False

ShowMostPlayed=True

RandomMostPlayed=True

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

I also updated to a newer version of Visual Pinball I found Here: http://irpinball.ztnet.com/files.htm

Thanks for the help!