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Title: Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Gus on September 19, 2002, 03:05:55 pm

Thanks to you guys and several hours of tweaking i finally got Mame, Nes and Snes to work with Game Launcher.

The last thing I want to add to GL is Visual Pinball. The problem is that it seems like there is a rom-file and a table file for every game. How do you get GL to point to the rom file then the table file?

Do you know how to solve this?

Thanks!

/Gus

Title: Re:Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Dave Dribin on September 19, 2002, 06:08:49 pm

Quote from: Gus on September 19, 2002, 03:05:55 pm

The last thing I want to add to GL is Visual Pinball. The problem is that it seems like there is a rom-file and a table file for every game. How do you get GL to point to the rom file then the table file?

Hmm... ROM files are usually per emulator not per game.  The rom file is the same name as the config file with a .rom extension.  So for vpin.cfg, GL will look for vpin.rom.  I have not personally setup visual pinball.  You may have better luck asking on the GL mailing list:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/glaunch-public (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/glaunch-public)

-Dave

Title: Re:Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Gus on September 19, 2002, 07:12:48 pm

Ok, thanks Dave, Ill check it out.

It's possible to get it running by putting
vpinball.exe - play "starwars 2.01.vpt" in vpin.cfg

The problem is that you have to have one menu for each game...

EDIT

By the way, what other emulator besides mame, nes and snes do you use?

Title: Re:Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Dave Dribin on September 19, 2002, 09:52:55 pm

Quote from: Gus on September 19, 2002, 07:12:48 pm

It's possible to get it running by putting
vpinball.exe - play "starwars 2.01.vpt" in vpin.cfg

The problem is that you have to have one menu for each game...

Why can't you just put all the .vpt files in one directory and then use a ROM directory with a "vpt" extension?

-Dave

Title: Re:Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 19, 2002, 10:41:09 pm

just use my vpin wrapper... then you just pass the name of the wrapper "vp-launch.exe" and the table name, with or without the .vpt extension.  

Title: Re:Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Gus on September 20, 2002, 06:59:02 am

Thanks Howard!

Runs like a charm!

Got one more question:
The vp-launcher.exe says something about " these setting will not work in win 9X".
What I do is that i config everything om my computer with win XP and then I just transfer all the files and folders to my arcadecomputer. The arcade runs win 98 SE, will it work?

/Gus

Title: Re:Another question from me: Game Launcher and Visual Pinball?
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 21, 2002, 11:28:54 pm

Sorry, I've been sick, I usually reply quicker. ;)

Yes it will work beautifully in 98 just DON'T turn on translucency effects.  If you try to change the default trans value or turn it on it could crash your machine.  As long as you don't use those you'll be fine.