MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: vpinball.com go bye bye

> 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