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Title: Pinball emulation help
Post by: DAmnb on August 28, 2003, 05:30:40 pm

Im currently investegating wether I should add a pinball emu to my cab or not and I have three Qs.
The emu I tried out was Vpinmame and it works fine but is there a way:
1.To make it run fullscreen
2.Auto load the table from lets say MAMEWah without the "preparing table" making my Win2k desktop and tableeditor "shine through".
3.Terminate the tableedit program/thingy when I quit the table?

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: )p( on August 29, 2003, 09:01:01 am

Quote from: DAmnb on August 28, 2003, 05:30:40 pm

Im currently investegating wether I should add a pinball emu to my cab or not and I have three Qs.
The emu I tried out was Vpinmame and it works fine but is there a way:
1.To make it run fullscreen
2.Auto load the table from lets say MAMEWah without the "preparing table" making my Win2k desktop and tableeditor "shine through".
3.Terminate the tableedit program/thingy when I quit the table?

use howards vp wrapper with mamewah...it will do all that...

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus

peter

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: DAmnb on August 30, 2003, 07:13:46 pm

thx just what I was looking for, great!  :P

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: DAmnb on August 31, 2003, 03:17:49 am

Need some more help it seems, though I got it working but no go.
Using the Wrapper with MAMEWah it still displays my desktop and the "preparing table" dialogbox, not only that but the game lags, flippers sound etc. works fine but the ball lags, instead of nice flowing motions they are short and jerky  :o  ???

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 31, 2003, 04:19:04 pm

Sometimes it can't hide the preparing table dialog.  You'll just have to live with it.  Also the lag is expected, especially on lesser machines.  In the case of visual pinball the overhead for the wrapper is quite high.  The best thing you can do is adjust the "How often to check for an exit key" option in the wrapper.  You can set it quite high (1000 is every second)  but the higher you set it, the longer you have to hold down the exit key for it to properly exit.  

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: DAmnb on August 31, 2003, 05:22:47 pm

Well if my P4 1.8 is a lesser machine I guess I just have to live with it  ;)

thx for the help

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: )p( on August 31, 2003, 05:43:12 pm

weird...i don't see any noticable difference when running vp directly, with the wrapper or my fe's build in vp launcher and exit key checker...annd that is with an athlon 1.1...

peter

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: Minwah on September 01, 2003, 06:14:22 pm

Seems to run OK either way too on my 1.4ghz Athlon, but I've only tried a couple of tables...

Title: Re:Pinball emulation help
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 01, 2003, 10:17:10 pm

The only table I've ever had any trouble with is the fancy version of mars attacks.  It stutters just a tad.  Of course I have a puny 900mhz athlon.