MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Future Pinball has come a long ways. :)

> I just started getting back into the emulated/simulated pinball scene (seem to go in
> 4 year bursts, laugh) and saw that Future Pinball table-making has really progressed
> since 2009. There are folks doing elaborate 3D modeling now to add the toys to recent
> games and they have gotten *really* good at ROM simulation (future pinball doesn't
> support ROMs). At any rate, on modern machines you can now max out the settings w/out
> too much trouble for 6x anti-aliased, trilinear filtered goodness.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WkL_51epAw
>
> Thankfully all the tables are available for easy download here if you want to catch
> up:
> http://www.pinsimdb.org/
>
> The usual suspects have gotten a lot of love, Twilight Zone, Addams Family, Star Trek
> TNG, T2, Indiana Jones, etc.
>
> Anyhow I was a big proponent when FP hit the scene back in the mid-aughts and a new
> kid on the block Pinball Arcade piqued my curiosity and re-examination of the scene.
>
> I also initially checked out VP and VPMame which has continued development and
> supports integration w/ ROM tables of course but I always liked FP's graphics and
> setup somewhat more. Anyhow, just a heads up for folks that don't frequent that side
> of things.

FP is really cool, I used it a lot a while back, and I loaded it up again after seeing your post, but it really needs an update. It took me about 30 minutes of scratching my head before I figured out that you have to launch it as an administrator to get a table to actually run properly and accept input. I assume they're either storing things in the wrong place in the registry, or simply not setting the right permissions when trying to read a key. I mean, registry key access rights have only been around since Vista was released in 2007.