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Pinball and MAME?
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The lack of googlefoo here rather bemuses me.
Grimoz:
Im running Visual Pinball 8 on my P4 machine and it runs great, VP9 didnt run very good so if you have a low powered machine i'd say try VP8, just make sure you download all the required programs like pinMAME as well otherwise it wont work. As already stated vpforums.org is where you can get everything you need. Hours of fun too be had ;D
BobA:
With Visual Pinball you also need Vpinmame. It uses Roms just like mame and I think it is based on the guts of mame to control the displays and pieces within the cabinet. When that is working Visual Pinball uses table files (.vpt) to create the full pinball emulation. With Visual Pinball you have a choice of the older version 8 or newer version 9. Version 8 seems to run on older hardware while some version 9 tables are very slow on older computers.
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--- Quote from: BobA on March 07, 2012, 07:15:51 am ---With Visual Pinball you have a choice of the older version 8 or newer version 9. Version 8 seems to run on older hardware while some version 9 tables are very slow on older computers.
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There are some other compatibility issues between vp8 and vp9. I use 9, and the spacing works slightly different, so many tables for vp8 do not work. Many tables for '8' were fixed for 9, so you won't miss much either way.
DarthMarino:
I find it best to keep both VP8 and VP9 to get the most out of it. There's more available for VP8 but usually the VP9 versions are superior. The ball gets stuck sometimes if you use the wrong version. I label each of my table files with the version that it works best with. As BobA was saying, you are basically running 2 programs at the same time so it may be a little confusing at first. You need to acquire the ROM as well as the fan made tables (.vpt). Sometimes separate sound files are needed as well. Once you are up and running, you only need to run Visual Pinball. In addition to recreations of classic tables, there are some original creations as well which aren't half bad. It's quite impressive how accurate the recreations are so it's well worth a look if you want to add some pinball to your set up.