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Related Stuff => Emulators => Topic started by: eldibujante on May 10, 2016, 07:17:04 PM

Title: How to start visual pinball from Attract Mode?
Post by: eldibujante on May 10, 2016, 07:17:04 PM

Hello all.
I have almost configured my attract mode with a couple of emulators for my cabinet, but there is one which is driving me crazy: how can i call the visualpinball exe from attract mode to be played?

I've seen here that, for future pinball, this should works:
executable          C:/Future Pinball/Future Pinball.exe
args                     /open "[romfilename]" /play /exit
rompath              C:/Future Pinball/tables/
romext                .fpt

Someone knows the right parameters for visualpinball?
Of course, i can play it well without attract mode, the issue is how to integrate vpinball inside attract mode.

Thanks a lot!

Title: Re: How to start visual pinball from Attract Mode?
Post by: hermine.potter on May 10, 2016, 10:49:27 PM

Hi!
I've tested & it works. This is my config:

executable           C:\attract\EMU\Future Pinball\Future Pinball.exe
args                 /open "[romfilename]" /play /exit
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\Future Pinball\Tables
romext               .fpt

Maybe it's case-sensitive? Your path is C:/Future Pinball/tables/ but in filesystem it's C:/Future Pinball/Tables/

Title: Re: How to start visual pinball from Attract Mode?
Post by: eldibujante on May 11, 2016, 03:05:06 AM

Thanks hermine.potter, but this is for FUTURE pinball, not for visual pinball...

Title: Re: How to start visual pinball from Attract Mode?
Post by: hermine.potter on May 11, 2016, 03:41:34 AM

@eldibujante
Have tested with visual pinball (https://sourceforge.net/projects/vpinball/) too (and it works):
executable           C:\attract\EMU\Visual Pinball\VPinball915.exe
args                 /play "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\Visual Pinball\Tables
romext               .vpt

Title: Re: How to start visual pinball from Attract Mode?
Post by: eldibujante on May 11, 2016, 08:36:08 AM

That works perfect! Many thanks!  ;D ;D
Now, only one problem left, asking you as it seems you use vpinball too: the vpinmame (the little digital screen of the pinball) appears behind the table when i open vpinball. Could you imagine a fix for that?

Thanks again for all you support Hermine.potter.

Title: Re: How to start visual pinball from Attract Mode?
Post by: hermine.potter on May 11, 2016, 09:41:38 PM

@eldibujante
I've heard about visual pinball and future pinball yesterday the first time.
So i can not help you (maybe you do not use the latest graphic cards driver or version of visual pinball?)

So i've tested future pinball the common way, using emulator systems or applications :
1) cmd > start .exe with /? or -help parameter => in this case not supported
2) start .exe > hit F1 for help/manual => manual tells that there command line parameters
3) using google : future pinball parameters => different threads tells the correct parameters