It's good to be back

[fattmarrell]

It's been a few years since i've been on the arcade scene. My cabinet has been sitting in my office collecting dust, only getting used when I have a few people over.

I got the itch again and started browsing the forums last night, and feel good about being back.

One thing, if you guys can help, that is driving me boggles is getting visual pinball to load a table properly.

I've updated pinmame and vpinball. When launching vpinball right out of windows I'm now able to open a table, however through gameex I seemed to have messed something up over the years.

What happsens is gameex minimizes, and Vpinball launches and says: Error Loading File

I'm curious if I should extract my tableset that's torrentzipped? Thanks guys. It's too bad to hear what went down with nolo..I won't finish that.

Here's my config:

[Emulator_3]

Enabled=True

StartPageName=Pinball Games

TitleText=Pinball

StartPageLogo=pinball

RomFilter=*.vpt

RomsInFolders=True

ROMPath=F:\Pinball\Tables (This is the location of my tables)

SnapPath=

WorkingPath=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball (Fresh Install of VPinball)

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=False

AlsoLaunch=[apppath]\vpauto.exe

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MapFile=

OLDatZip=

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

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

CartPath=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

Import=

Export=

DumbyValue=

PlayMusic=

PCGame=

DATABASE=[Pinball] Visual Pinball

GamesIn7Zips=

PlayInScreenSaver=False

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

ShowMostPlayed=True

RandomMostPlayed=True

ManualPath=

ControlPanelPath=

InstructionsPath=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

lastgame=

UseDbName=

MergeSets=

CustomArtName1=

CustomArtPath1=

CustomArtName2=

CustomArtPath2=

CustomArtName3=

CustomArtPath3=

[Tempest]

Try:

WorkingPath=F:\Pinball\Tables

Command=..\vpinball.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]"

edit: Your vpinball.exe should be one folder up from your tables. So, in your case, the exe should be in F:\Pinball

[fattmarrell]

  Tempest said:

Try:

WorkingPath=F:\Pinball\Tables

Command=..\vpinball.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]"

edit: Your vpinball.exe should be one folder up from your tables. So, in your case, the exe should be in F:\Pinball

Thanks Tempest! Gave it all a shot but I got the same error from vpinball "Error loading file."

Now here's what I tried and found, which makes it work.

I had to move the .vpt files out of the individual subfolders and place them into the \tables directory. So a table that was located at \tables\adams family 2007\adams family 2007.vtp would generate this error. Moving this table to be this: \tables\adams family 2007.vpt works great!

And yes, I do have the option enabled to include subfolders.

Has anyone seen this situation?