Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: JoyMonkey on November 30, 2004, 07:01:48 pm
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I finally got Visual PinMame/Pinball to run (thanks to EasyEMU's guide (http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/pinmameguide.htm)) and I've got a few questions for anyone out there:
1. Do I have to unzip the table files? I'd like to keep them nice and tidy, all zipped up. But I don't think Visual Pinball supports zipped files. Right?
2. Is there a ClrMame DAT file for the table files? I know I can use PinMame with ClrMame to check my ROM files, but how do I check my table files?
Cheers!
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I think the files need unzipped. Yes, it is messy. I think you can point CLRMame to the executable and create a dat file, like with mame.
John
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Pointing ClrMame to the exe works great for checking ROMs, but it doesn't check Visual Pinball's table files. :(
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Unlike ROM files, there may be several different table files for any given table, and mods of those, and many are undergoing constant updates. VPLauncher (http://www.scholzroland.de/VPLauncher/) comes with a DAT file, I believe, but I don't know if it's being kept up to date anymore.
Oh, and don't overlook tables that don't use ROMs at all... (Blatant plug for Fight Night: http://webpages.charter.net/celamantia/vp)
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Unlike ROM files, there may be several different table files for any given table, and mods of those, and many are undergoing constant updates. VPLauncher (http://www.scholzroland.de/VPLauncher/) comes with a DAT file, I believe, but I don't know if it's being kept up to date anymore.
Oh, and don't overlook tables that don't use ROMs at all... (Blatant plug for Fight Night: http://webpages.charter.net/celamantia/vp)
Thanks for those links. Your Fight Night table looks worthy of a download!
I was wondering where all the very old/Pre Rom dumpable type tables were available. Your links led me here: http://irpinball.ztnet.com/