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Pinball entry
PL1:
Just noticed that the Pinball entry is horribly outdated. (Multiple dead links, etc.)
Does anybody have any objections/improvements to the following changes:
I'm thinking about choosing a better screenshot (a 4:3 table with a backglass background) and updating the text as shown below, broken out in the quote boxes for the various sections:
--- Quote ---Visual Pinball/PinMAME
Visual Pinball (VP) is a playfield pinball simulator. It comes with a editor, so you can design your own tables. VP has a lots of well created layouts of popular pinball tables from the real world.
Visual PinMAME (VPM) is a pinball emulator. When run in conjunction with VP, VPM allows you to design and play a table that will use the actual ROM images from pinball tables. These ROM images have the table logic, sounds, and dot-matrix display animations.
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The latest VP/VPM releases are all on www.vpforums.org, so the two links above direct to that homepage. (Current wiki link targets are no longer updated.)
--- Quote ---How to install the software.
On VPForums.org, there is a "Getting Started" pulldown menu in the upper left of the page.
Download the Installation Guide, VP Installer, and all the Essential Files from the pulldown menu.
Follow the Installation Guide step-by-step. Print a copy or have it on a nearby laptop.
VP Installer will install and configure Visual Pinball 8 (the updated VP9 physics engine can cause unusual motion in VP8 or earlier tables), Visual Pinball 9, and Visual PinMAME.
After running the VP Installer, the Installation Guide will direct you to install the latest version of VP and VPM.
If you encounter problems during the install, there is a Installation Support Forum on VPForums.org.
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--- Quote ---How to run VP on my cabinet.
You need a wrapper or cab-friendly Front-End to get this to run in your cabinet. Visual Pinball is not cab-friendly by itself.
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Hyperspin/Hyperpin links here. (not sure if hyperspin works as FE for VP/FP)
Other cab-friendly FE programs?
Shouldn't the VP/FP FE programs be listed together below the FP section?
--- Quote ---Future Pinball
Future Pinball (FP) is the next generation Pinball Development System. It was written by the same people behind Visual Pinball.
It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation in True real time 3D. It uses Advanced Physics to provide the best possible Simulation of a true to life pinball machine.
Future Pinball does not utilize VPM, nor does it have the option to use pinball table ROMs. Any information that would normally be stored in the ROM is written into the script or stored in a library file.
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--- Quote ---How to run FP on a cabinet.
You should download the lastest version (from 1.5.2 or above) to get this to work on your cabinet, if you are using the gameport. But if you use a keyboard hack, it may lose focus at the startup, so you need a wrapper. This wrapper should also work for cabinets, using gameport.
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The wrapper link is dead, not quite sure what point the rest is trying to get across.
Combine this section with the VP FE section above?
--- Quote ---About Sticky Keys
Future Pinball allows table creators to use two special keys that can be fully remapped by the application.
But some table authors have overlooked this feature, and used stickykeys instead. This is generally not good for use on a cabinet, and thus must be fixed. It is often very easy to fix these by just looking at the script. Find the keyname (like "h"), and change it. Some creators have even defined these stickykeys at the top of the script, so you only need to change it once.
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Is this section needed? In-depth troubleshooting like this might be better refered to VPForums.
Is stickykeys supposed to be one word or two?
Scott
saint:
No objections here, love having folks update the wiki. :)
PL1:
Any idea what this wiki login error message means?
--- Quote ---Unable to view external table
MySQL Error Number: 1054
MySQL Error Message: Unknown column 'memberName' in 'field list'
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Scott
saint:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 18, 2012, 05:01:17 am ---Any idea what this wiki login error message means?
--- Quote ---Unable to view external table
MySQL Error Number: 1054
MySQL Error Message: Unknown column 'memberName' in 'field list'
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Scott
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Mmm something broken in our move. I'll ask Sirwoogie to look at it.
PL1:
Is wiki login working for anyone else yet?
Tried to login and got this.
--- Quote ---Login error:
You have not specified a valid user name.
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Scott
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