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Confused about virtual pinball...is it part of MAME?
« on: April 30, 2015, 04:36:23 pm »
I just found out about virtual pinball... LOL 

Is this part of MAME?  Or is it a separate emulator that you need to install? 

Thanks in advance...

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Re: Confused about virtual pinball...is it part of MAME?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2015, 04:38:12 pm »
definitely it's own thing. Visit http://www.vpforums.org/ for all you wanted to know and more.
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Re: Confused about virtual pinball...is it part of MAME?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2015, 05:47:04 pm »
MAME does have something about pinball in it I though.  Isn't there PinMAME?  At least I've seen that option in RomLister.
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Re: Confused about virtual pinball...is it part of MAME?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2015, 06:23:49 pm »
The Visual Pinball program uses Visual PinMAME ("VPM") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PINMAME#Visual_PinMAME
VPM is used "for emulating CPUs and the connected ROMs used in modern pinball tables".

Also, "The program is named after the original MAME program for emulating arcade games. Visual PinMAME runs on top of the PinMAME software engine which again uses some parts of the MAME core".

As BorgDog suggests, check out vpforums for how to install Visual Pinball with VPM  ;D
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Re: Confused about virtual pinball...is it part of MAME?
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2015, 08:39:23 am »
PinMAME is based on a version of MAME so old that dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, and they screwed it up so badly and messed with so many things they can't even resync with current versions of MAME anymore. It's a disaster.
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