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vpinball
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Virtual Pinhead
> A clever person posted an experimental build of VPX for the M1 Apple hardware — as a kind of science project. But there are a lot of external processes and frameworks that would also require porting to give you the whole VPX experience.
This isn't so much the case anymore. Thanks to some stellar work by jsm174, you can download a prebuilt binary from github actions for either Mac or Linux. Android and IOS versions are floating around as well. What started off in the "standalone" branch was recently merged into the mainline 10.8.1 version of Visual Pinball. A good number of the "external processes and frameworks" have already been ported over (DMD (Dot Matrix Display) support, anaglyph support) with more in progress (e.g. PUP (Multimedia) Packs). Linux / Mac support is OpenGL for now but work is underway to port vpinball to the BGFX cross platform rendering library (used by MAME for one) that will open the door to Vulkan and Metal.
https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/actions
The approach taken to make all this happen is outlined here: https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/blob/standalone/standal...
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Cabinet Build on Linux, all help welcome
You already helped me along with this issue https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/issues/1251
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Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?
Visual Pinball X [1] is a free modern pinball simulator. It also supports VR, and comes pretty close to feeling like the real thing (sans realistic bumping).
There are hundreds of VPX format tables available online including original works, replicas of physical tables and replicas of existing digital tables. I've played dozens of hours of Stern's Tron Legacy both on a physical table and in Visual Pinball X, and I prefer VPX over the real thing.
There's also a high quality remake of 3D Space Cadet [2] available. Playing that one in VR feels like stepping into a PC in the 90s.
[1] https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball
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Getting into Pinball
Yes, we're targeting all the desktop platforms, i.e. Windows, Linux and macOS.
But thanks to recent efforts, VPX also runs on Linux now! It's on the standalone branch[1], under actions you can download a build.
[1] https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/tree/standalone
- Windows Visual Pinball Version Error Dialog Box Using PinUp Baller Installer on Newer VPX Tables
- PinMAME vs MAME (2015+)
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Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
Check out Visual Pinball or Visual Pinball Engine for Macs/Linux.
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Pinball via bigbox
In my home arcade room, next to the custom 27" RGB CRT-based arcade cabinet running Bigbox, there's a virtual pinball cabinet with a large portrait mode flat screen for the playfield (and two more LCDs for the backglass and score display). I also play some vertical mode (aka Tate) arcade games on the VPin cab because I'm into Japanese shmups and they really need a portrait monitor to shine. I also have several physical pinball machines.These two forums will get you started: https://www.vpforums.org/ http://vpuniverse.com/.
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Virtual Pinball on Desktop?
go here. make account: https://www.vpforums.org/
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Epic games pinball FX
So the biggest tip that I found going through the forum was to find all the "Rom" files for the real tables. That was the biggest issue. I saw a comment https://www.vpforums.org/ that changed everything for me. I was directed to this link: https://archive.org/details/vpinmame that features all the ROM files (mods please remove link if it's against terms). You can also find this page by googling "Archive.org pinball Roms". The file is over 12G, but with that in place in the proper folder in my system, that really changed everything because now 95% of all of those tables that did not work before, now work.
dmd-extensions
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Reading DMD data
The simplest solution is probably just to implement an output driver for dmdext by implementing this interface. Otherwise, you could also implement your own DmdDevice.dll using this interface, which will then be picked up by VPM and Pinball FX (not the other pinball sims, though).
- Pinball FX - Patch Notes (1.0.6)
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Setting up colored DMDs
Fixed! Got it to work. I had to download the Freezy DMD from here: https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/releases
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LCD DMD showing pixelated when should be high res
Have you checked your DMD settings? It may have been an accidental resolution or style change? https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/blob/master/LibDmd/Output/Virtual/Dmd/README.md
- Alphanumeric virtual DMD like windows showing up on playfield in vpx. Does anyone know how to get rid of these?
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PUP Pack DMD
You can update to the newest freezy by downloading dmdext-v1.10.1-x86.zip from his Github page.
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Are there any good plug and play full color DMD options out there?
https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/issues/119 this is what russ uses to update the software every so often. Just subscribe and if there is an update, he will tell ya..
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How do I resolve this? I beat my head against the wall for an hour last night.
Install the latest Freezy v1.90 using the installer (https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/releases). Install both x86 and x64. (https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions).
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How to suppress DMD for older machines that have scoring on the B2S
Freezy also has great analog render options, so you can combine those on the backglass as well.
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Starting the plan to build
I think it is possible to use a real DMD for Pinball FX (I recall reading something in the Freezy DMD documentation. Though this route may not be future-proof. A new version FX is underway and new Pinballs have more elaborate DMD options so a 3rd display gives you more flexibility. Or consider a game like Pool Shark where I have score analogue on the backglass and the DMD monitor shows the illuminated frame of the shark that is currently active. In all- a 3rd display gives more flexibiliy.
What are some alternatives?
Pinball-on-Android - Android port of 3D Pinball Space Cadet
PyDMD - mathLab mirror of Python Dynamic Mode Decomposition
pinball - Emilia Pinball : A Libre pinball simulator for GNU Linux
escape-space - A top-down game featuring Pong, Breakout and pinball mechanics
VisualPinball.Engine - :video_game: Visual Pinball Engine for Unity
b2s-backglass - B2S Backglass Server for use with Visual Pinball
sphereCollision - Javascript experiment with 2D physics