Another Future Pinball Question

[Robert]

I have future pinball setup with "Zip/7-Zip/Goodmerge: Yes" and all the tables are in zip files. But it seems that GameEx is not extracting them properly. "Play this game " is not listed as an option. When I look in the directory structure, I see the files that GameEx has extracted, but when I try to load them directly through Future Pinball, it gives an error. But if I extract the same table myself, with WinRar, then it loads fine into FP. Any ideas?

[fRequEnCy]

I have future pinball setup with "Zip/7-Zip/Goodmerge: Yes" and all the tables are in zip files. But it seems that GameEx is not extracting them properly. "Play this game " is not listed as an option. When I look in the directory structure, I see the files that GameEx has extracted, but when I try to load them directly through Future Pinball, it gives an error. But if I extract the same table myself, with WinRar, then it loads fine into FP. Any ideas?

Can you give more details about the error? From my experience you don't get "Play This Game" as an option when using zip support. When extracting using WinRar, are you just extracting the fpt files? Some tables require additional files needed to run like fpl which are the library files needed for the table to work. Give us more detail so we can help ya out.

[Robert]

I think I figured it out: Some of the zip files have multiple versions of a table in them. If that's the case, then GameEx doesn't list "Play this game" as an option, but instead creates an item for each fpt in the zip file. You select one of those to play the game. If there is only one fpt in the zip, then GameEx does give you the "Play this game" option, so it seems to be working as intended. As a side question, any idea why ten different versions of a table are included in a zip? That's annoying! I just want the latest one that works!

[fRequEnCy]

I think I figured it out: Some of the zip files have multiple versions of a table in them. If that's the case, then GameEx doesn't list "Play this game" as an option, but instead creates an item for each fpt in the zip file. You select one of those to play the game. If there is only one fpt in the zip, then GameEx does give you the "Play this game" option, so it seems to be working as intended. As a side question, any idea why ten different versions of a table are included in a zip? That's annoying! I just want the latest one that works!

Well if you have the tables built off the known dats then that's the way they have it. They have it by the version of the table in it's own subfolder. That is correct as far as if it's a single version table then there will be no subfolders in the zip. You can get creative with a wrapper to pick the latest one and unzip that table for play along with all the library files needed for that table. GameEx has basic zip support and can't do all that for you. What I suggest is create something and we'll help you or post a feature request and maybe Tom can implement something.