I can't shake the feeling that I missed out on something here. At least it seems like the owner refused to sell out, preserving his/her dignity. A rare sight in this day and age.
No exactly, but I'm at a place where I've more or less exhausted the internet for reading-material and casual entertainment. So naturally I'm a little annoyed when I realize I probably missed out on something.
Sad to see the site go. Don't play it myself though. I've grabbed the entire set at a few different points in time, but never stuck with it. Can't even remember now if I simply didn't like how it played, or if I felt it was too complicated to get it working like I thought it should, on a per-game basis.
Perhaps I'll never know.
Or perhaps this is going to bug the crap out of me for the next week and cost me 255-ish GB of space...
Just broke my personal record for number of consecutive days without dying!
Sounds like disaffection w/ the commercialization of the table author's work into a new breed of virtual pin cabinets that the sellers load up with tables and assets.
What does vpinball stand for? Visual pinball? VPX tables are vpinball.com tables? If i wanted to search for some footage on youtube what should i put in the search bar?
Good idea. If I'm looking in the right place vpinball.com is for Visual pinball tables and they're called VPX tables. What the X stands for I'm not quite sure. Seems very straight forward... not confusing at all. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for clarifying. I've seen the youtube channel before a few times. I in fact tried to install Visual Pinball on my pc and was instantly lost in a bottomless pit of information that was confusing at best and gave up. I've briefly watched a video explaining why the site was turned off. Too bad as the work there was pretty top notch and there was major amounts of contribution. Tables just flying out the door all the time.
> Thanks for clarifying. I've seen the youtube channel before a few times. I in fact > tried to install Visual Pinball on my pc and was instantly lost in a bottomless pit > of information that was confusing at best and gave up. I've briefly watched a video > explaining why the site was turned off. Too bad as the work there was pretty top > notch and there was major amounts of contribution. Tables just flying out the door > all the time.
It has been a long time since used and installed Visual Pinball/VPinMAME I didn't remember anything. I gave it a try to play my favorite pinball table again and these are the files you will need:
VPX62 Pinball Minimal.zip (from GitHub) VPinMAME33b_Minimal.zip (from GitHub) ID4 - Independence Day (SEGA)(1996)(Goldchicco)(2.0)[VPX06].zip (from archive dot org into Visual Pinball [VPXx] PinMame Tables folder) directx_Jun2010_redist.exe (if you miss d3dx9_43.dll) id4.zip (your typical and official MAME merged romset)
Here is a brief tech savvy walkthrough: - Extract "VPinMAME33b_Minimal.zip" content (i.e. C:\Emu\VPinMAME\). - Inside that path create a "roms" folder and copy your "id4.zip" file. - Execute "Setup.exe" (or "Setup64.exe" on 64-bit Windows) and press "Install" button, follow the steps then "Quit" button. - Extract "VPX62 Pinball Minimal.zip" content on a different path (i.e. C:\Emu\VPX\). - Inside that path extract "Independence Day (SEGA 1996) 2.0.vpx" into your "Tables" folder. - If you don't want to install directx_Jun2010_redist.exe just extract d3dx9_43.dll next to your "VPinballX.exe" executable (choose Jun2010_d3dx9_43_x86.cab or Jun2010_d3dx10_43_x64.cab accordingly). - Execute "VPinballX.exe". - You will be prompted to open a table, choose the table you just extracted. - If the table doesn't start, press F5 or select Table -> Play in the menu.
I'm saving this here in case I need help about this in another two or so years. :P
Most all the content has been now moved to new sites. Mainly vpforums and vpuniverse
If your looking to setup everything in a 2 or 3 monitor configuration i would recommend pinup popper "Baller" installer, it is scripted to do everything automatically.
I set up a multiple monitor cab, with real DMD, painfully over several months, well before this installer.
Side note, it has only been 2 years since my last visit here. Life still hasn;t slowed enough to cover all my hobbies.
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