Author Topic: Visual Pinball (vpinmame) -- Favorite tables? (Read 3237 times)

sofakng · « **on:** July 05, 2004, 11:06:44 am »

Before actually trying Visual Pinball I thought that there is no way real pinball tables could be emulated and actually be fun. Boy was I wrong! Visual Pinball ROCKS! I didn't play pinball in the arcades all that much as a kid, but I'm hooked up visual pinball

So, what are some of the better tables for it? After looking through the hundreds of tables available, some of the older ones I don't care for but some of the newer ones are great. Because I don't know of many good tables, I only have one favorite right now:

T2 - Judgement Day

I'm not very good at pinball either... anybody have any tips for that?

patrickl · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2004, 11:19:06 am »

Hmm, I was gonna suggest T2, but I guess that's no use

I have played lots of others, but T2 is the only one I keep playing.

DaveMMR · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2004, 11:35:07 am »

Theatre of Magic and Dr. Who are my two favorites.

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2004, 12:48:59 pm »

My brothers and I have a contest going on Addams Family. 1 brother got over 1 billion. We have also been playing T2 but not for a while. Both very fun. I am actually trying to make one myself. It will suck but it will be modeled after the old EM machines. So no ramps or anything.

J_K_M_A_N

RayB · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2004, 12:52:16 pm »

Hey I was just looking at these yesterday, and is it correct that there are 2 seperate virtual pinball programs? Cuz I saw a screenshot of "Funhouse" for Visual Pinball and then I saw a screenshot of "FunHouse" for the Pin Mame, or whatever it's called and they were not the same at all.

So are the two programs related or not? Do they both run only in Windows?

Chemixtry · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2004, 01:02:01 pm »

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I saw a screenshot of "Funhouse" for Visual Pinball and then I saw a screenshot of "FunHouse" for the Pin Mame, or whatever it's called and they were not the same at all.

So are the two programs related or not? Do they both run only in Windows?

They are related, you need both to fully emulate a pinball table.
from the eayemu.com site :

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Visual Pinball allows you to design realistic pinball tables including original graphics and realistic physics. It does it by using Visual Basic scripts and this is where Pinmame comes in.

What the clever authors of Pinmame did was to hook it into the scripts from Visual Pinball creating Visual Pinmame.

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/

This site will tell you how to get everything up and running

Chemixtry · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2004, 01:02:43 pm »

Almost forgot - I love Star Trek - Next Generation

nipsmg · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2004, 01:06:10 pm »

Visual Pinball is the pinball simulator program, and the tables both would have been for Visual Pinball, but the were probably different versions. Visual PinMAME integrates with Visual Pinball and allows the use of the actual pinball ROMS and video display.

Visual Pinball and Visual PinMAME are both windows only, I believe.

--NipsMG

bionicbadger · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2004, 01:09:26 pm »

Usually the good real life pinballs are good to play.
Try "Twilight Zone", and I also really like "Centaur"

bdsjake · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2004, 02:16:01 pm »

star wars (the first one from about 1992) is very good.

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #10 on:** July 05, 2004, 02:47:20 pm »

used to love whitewater

quarterstringer · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2004, 03:46:34 pm »

Fish Tales is alot of fun.

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2004, 07:18:14 pm »

Quote from: sofakng on July 05, 2004, 11:06:44 am

So, what are some of the better tables for it?

I'm not very good at pinball either... anybody have any tips for that?

Attack From Mars, and Tales of the Arabian Nights are two I would reccomend.

As for tips, ball control is everything. learn how to stop the ball on the flipper for better aim. And learn the rules of the table, there is almost always a system to the newer tables that will maximize your score.

If you see a real table in good shape - play it! Playing a real table will help immensely in beating them on vpinmame.

Paul Olson · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2004, 07:30:32 pm »

High Speed is great.

WTFPWND · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2004, 08:24:33 pm »

Give world cup soccer a try. Pretty good design work ont hat one.

RacerX · « **Reply #15 on:** July 05, 2004, 09:48:13 pm »

"I am Merlin wise and old. Listen up to what you're told."

Medieval Madness has great gameplay and the sound effects are pretty funny.

Xiaou2 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 06, 2004, 01:43:00 am »

battle the evil :

Black Knight 2000

fast - smooth flow - great soundtrack - cool lightshow
(much better in real life tho )

pocketbikez · « **Reply #17 on:** July 06, 2004, 07:54:16 am »

my fav is Diner (Williams 1990). i get hungry for a bowl of chili everytime i play this one.

lil poot · « **Reply #18 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:02:13 am »

Guns n Roses all the way

abrannan · « **Reply #19 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:17:18 am »

Addams Family Gold
Twilight Zone
T2
Theater of Magic
The Getaway

Chris · « **Reply #20 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:46:45 am »

I always find myself playing Roadshow and Scared Stiff....

--Chris

said7 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:50:51 am »

Tales from The Crypt and Starship Troopers are my favs.

FoX · « **Reply #22 on:** July 06, 2004, 10:18:18 am »

Star Wars is definately a great one ("Death Star Approaching!") as is the Star Trek table

bioart · « **Reply #23 on:** July 06, 2004, 03:41:33 pm »

Funhouse Is the reason I spent a buttload of money on my cab

I could play that game for hours...

Onji · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2004, 03:51:24 pm »

Who Dunnit? is an awesome one as well, you have to solve murder mysteries. shoot the ball this way to answer the phone, shoot it this way to take a taxi, pretty sweet, check it out.


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