Pinball

Visual Pinball/PinMAME

Visual Pinball Screenshot

Pinmame Screenshot

Visual Pinball is a playfield pinball simulator. It came with a editor, so you could design your own tables. Visual Pinball has a lots of well created layouts of popular pinball tables from the real world.

PinMAME is an additional program that runs on top of Visual Pinball. PinMAME allows one to design and play a table that will use the actual rom images from pinball tables. These rom images often times have the table logic, sounds, and dot-matrix displays (generally orange) in them.

How to combine these?

Visual Install Pack will install Visual Pinball, PinMAME and setup all the intricate dependancies for you:

http://www.vpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37115

How to run on my cabinet?

You need a wrapper to get this to run in your cabinet. Visual Pinball is itself not cabfreidly.

Future Pinball

Future Pinball Screenshot

Future Pinball is the next generation Pinball Development System. It the same people behind Visual Pinball.

It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation in True real time 3D. It uses Advanced Physics to provide the best possible Simulation of a true to life pinball machine.

Future Pinball does not utilize PinMAME, nor does it have the option to use pinball table roms. Perhaps one day they will integrate the authentic rom functionality so tables will have true sound emulation and real dot-matrix displays.

How to run on my cabinet?

You need the freeware autohotkey software, and a another bat file to get this to work. Your frontend should start a bat file (like pinball.bat):

c:\
CD c:\Games\Future Pinball\
start poswindow.ahk
"Future Pinball.exe" /open %1 /play /exit

Future Pinball have some window isuess, that dosen't change to fullscreen directly, and need to press alt/tab. Here you can force the window to got maximazid. You may need to change the belowed resoulutons to fit your screen. Here is the autohotkey script (you may want to compile to exe, if you want):

WinWait, Future Pinball, , 
Sleep, 100
WinMove, Future Pinball, , 640, 480

Now it should now work from many frontends (including mamewah).

Other Pinball

Here is a brief list to other good PC pinball simulators:

• Epic Pinball - A classic pinball game to dos (run fine with DOSBOX)
• Pinball: INVASION 2 - A very fun combine of galaga and pinball