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MPTech:
I just about got MAMWAH setup properly and have now built some filtered lists (that WIKI is GREAT!  Thanks guys!)

I was attempting to setup my Virtual _Pinaball and have created the .ini and using the wrapper from Lazarus.  When I'm in MAMWAH, it lets me select V_Pinball, and shows me my list of Tables, but when I select a table and hit the Player-1, it attempts to launch, then the screen goes completely Black  and it's difficult to exit out of.

Any suggestions?

Also, is there a way to get screen shots of the tables (like the MAME games?)

I'm running:
MAME   v0.104
MAMEWAH  v1.6.1
V_Pinball  v1.0.0.3

(is there any easy way to upgrade MAMEWAH??

whatisk:
You may need to experiment with the variations of dosbox and safelaunch within the pinball.ini file (or whatever it may be called) of mamewah. I think there may be a thread somewhere that lists my mamewah ini file for VP.

I'm not aware of somewhere where you can download a pack containing screenshots of the tables, but you could download them individually from http://www.vpforums.com/vptables as they have screenshots of the tables they host. Otherwise you might need to create your own...

MPTech:
Well, I changed "dosbox" (I need to learn what that is).  no luck.
I also read in some other topics to set all of the values to 0, tht helped, I now get the "say no to drugs screen" but it hangs there and it is VERY hard to get out of it.

I also loaded some screen shots to a dedicated folder and idetified it in the path, but no luck there either.

further suggestions, please.

here's my ini:
### V_Pinball.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            Visual Pinball

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  K:\Pinball\Tables
rom_extension                             vpt
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       K:\Pinball\Tables\vp-launch4.exe
commandline_format                        [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      K:\Pinball\Tables
artwork_2_image_path                      K:\Pinball\Tables Screenshot
artwork_3_image_path                     
artwork_4_image_path                     
artwork_5_image_path                     
artwork_6_image_path                     
artwork_7_image_path                     
artwork_8_image_path                     
artwork_9_image_path                     
artwork_10_image_path                     
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          0

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
saver_type                                slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          0
quit_delay                                30
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                [name]
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format                 
app_2_executable                         
app_2_commandline_format                 
app_3_executable                         
app_3_commandline_format                 
auto_launch_apps                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

whatisk:
Okay, here's my ini file which works for me:

--- Code: ---### x_vpinball.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            Visual Pinball

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\Pinball\tables
rom_extension                             vpt
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       C:\Pinball\tables\vp-launch4.exe
commandline_format                        [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}{cursor}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\pinballscreen
artwork_2_image_path                      c:\pinballflyers
artwork_3_image_path                     
artwork_4_image_path                     
artwork_5_image_path                     
artwork_6_image_path                     
artwork_7_image_path                     
artwork_8_image_path                     
artwork_9_image_path                     
artwork_10_image_path                     
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
saver_type                                slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                [name]
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format                 
app_2_executable                         
app_2_commandline_format                 
app_3_executable                         
app_3_commandline_format                 
auto_launch_apps                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

--- End code ---

When I first tried I thought it may have been hanging as well. I timed a couple of tables loading times just through VP and then tried them using the wrapper as some tables take a while to load everything.

With the screenshots, are they named the same as the .vpt table file? If not, they won't be displayed in Mamewah.

unclet:
I uploaded 1386 screenshots for Visual Pinball tables to the ScreenshotArchive site:

http://localarcade.com/screenshotarchive/

Just download them and use them .......   



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