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[xio]

Destroy The Ring times from starting the mode to ending the mode. The Movie Multiballs need to be played beforehand for the mode to even light.

OK that's what I had missed ! it's not the total time played
Thx McD

I'm working on installing Hyperpin in my cab (that's some excuse for not making hiscores right now ) : I saw that Pinemhi was now in the FPlaunch program (not the one I first installed but I'll change that tonight), is it the VP one on only FP ??

[DnaDisturber]

Hrm - couldn't get it to work so far. Played three games (AFM, WW and TOM) and all three ended up giving me the "No Game Played" error.

This is my INI:

CODE

// INI-file for pinemhi leaderboard.....................made by Dna Disturber

[path]
VP9=C:\Games\Visual Pinball\VPinball912.exe
VP8=C:\Games\Visual Pinball\vpinball_8.1.exe
nvram=C:\Games\Visual Pinball\nvram\
tables=C:\Games\Visual Pinball\tables\

[user]
name=TheMcD
code=The code, copypasted from the PM

[Misc]
splash=1
tweet=1

I boot up the program and select my table. It boots up VP9 and the table, I put in credits and play one game. After the game, I wait until I see "Game Over", then press Escape. Then it throws up that error.

The McD

EDIT: And just now it worked again. This seems to be a pattern I'm running into. First VP itself suddenly works again, and now this suddenly works.

Hi McD,

If the table takes longer than 70 seconds to load after you press the vp9 button then this occurs.
If it took longer it's best to not play a game and press escape and load it again.
Maybe you have a lot of stuff running on the computer while running it .?


Let me know if it happened on tables that took long to load....

Destroy The Ring times from starting the mode to ending the mode. The Movie Multiballs need to be played beforehand for the mode to even light.

OK that's what I had missed ! it's not the total time played
Thx McD

I'm working on installing Hyperpin in my cab (that's some excuse for not making hiscores right now ) : I saw that Pinemhi was now in the FPlaunch program (not the one I first installed but I'll change that tonight), is it the VP one on only FP ??

No no no......
2different programs...
The one in fplaunch shows only hiscores ...

Sorry...

Edited by DnaDisturber, 04 January 2012 - 05:28 PM.

[xio]

The one in fplaunch shows only hiscores ...

Going to see DedRok's name in every table I launch, great !


So you have 3 different programs, one for showing hiscores in HP, a second for storing hiscores on FP & the third same thing for VP ? and all named PinemHi ?
Why not adding the storing code to HP ??

[DnaDisturber]

The one in fplaunch shows only hiscores ...

Going to see DedRok's name in every table I launch, great !


So you have 3 different programs, one for showing hiscores in HP, a second for storing hiscores on FP & the third same thing for VP ? and all named PinemHi ?
Why not adding the storing code to HP ??

There are 2 programs..
Pinemhi....that shows the hiscores (frontends can use it, i made a setup for hyperpin but blur is still workin on implementation into hyperpin)
It shows hiscores for fp and vpm games...
And no worries...that's only local scores...so only what's on your cabinet...so no DedRok on every game

And then there is pinemhi leaderboard.....the one with the database you are using at the moment....

In theory i could implement pinemhi leaderboard into hyperpin using fplaunch.......but most cabinets have no internetconnection and most of the owners of a cabinet have their tables renamed....

Edited by DnaDisturber, 04 January 2012 - 05:39 PM.

[xio]

In theory i could implement pinemhi leaderboard into hyperpin using fplaunch.......but most cabinets have no internetconnection and most of the owners of a cabinet have their tables renamed....

A wifi usb key will do for the internet connection. It would be great to have leaderboard in the cab, to battle against the rest of the world (Australia, most )

Too bad there's no standard for the table names. Maybe you can use the rom names ?

[DnaDisturber]

In theory i could implement pinemhi leaderboard into hyperpin using fplaunch.......but most cabinets have no internetconnection and most of the owners of a cabinet have their tables renamed....

A wifi usb key will do for the internet connection. It would be great to have leaderboard in the cab, to battle against the rest of the world (Australia, most )

Too bad there's no standard for the table names. Maybe you can use the rom names ?

The roms are being used......but multiple tables use the same rom so you need the table as well...
But to keep the database clean and a fair competition everybody must use the same table.
The standard could be the name when you download it.....
You can use these names in the xml in hyperpin....would be no problem....


But when you use wifi you probably need a firewall and a virusscanner and that would mean less performance for your cabinet or slowdowns during gameplay

Edited by DnaDisturber, 04 January 2012 - 06:44 PM.

[yogiholzer]

This is what I meant a few pages earlier. I understood it's a "feature", but I just want to make sure that that's more or less the same you also get.
It's no problem as I know the score from the game just played before.

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[DnaDisturber]

This is what I meant a few pages earlier. I understood it's a "feature", but I just want to make sure that that's more or less the same you also get.
It's no problem as I know the score from the game just played before.

Yes.. That's the one....

[xio]

Hard to read indeed. It appears much clearer on my system, but have no idea why

[DnaDisturber]

Hard to read indeed. It appears much clearer on my system, but have no idea why

That's because of your background image....it's transparent where the letters are....

[GSGregg]

Hard to read indeed. It appears much clearer on my system, but have no idea why

That's because of your background image....it's transparent where the letters are....

Yep. For instance, the desktop background (in my case, 'Da Vinci') not only shows through, but seems to elicit white splotchiness on the characters (a bit more prominent on my display than in this screenshot).
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while the PinemHi image alone is quite clean and coherent.
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In Yogi's case, the text seems to be ghosting, or 'printing double'. I of course have no idea what causes that, but if the user would rather not tolerate what is presented, I would suggest a light-, solid-colored background for the desktop (I assume it's possible to do). I may or may not experiment someday; for the present I find things quite acceptable.

[yogiholzer]

As I said, no problem here. I just wanted to know if there is any error on my side other than "wrong" background.

I changed background to single colour "orange". Looks this:

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Edited by yogiholzer, 05 January 2012 - 06:11 PM.

[TheMcD]

Bit of a problem - the web page for Scared Stiff shows me as Spider Champion, but I'm not, since I never managed to do that.

The McD

EDIT: Don't ya just hate it when you get a decent score, but you could have gotten so much more? 300+ on Whitewater, which in and of itself is fairly good (150% of default GC), but I had to screw up. I had bloody Wet Willie's lit, and I couldn't hit No Way Out. Couldn't do it. That shot is a PAIN to get right in this game along with Boomerang Bend. Mostly because of those damn bumpers having a tendency to screw me over.

Edited by TheMcD, 05 January 2012 - 10:43 PM.

[DnaDisturber]

Bit of a problem - the web page for Scared Stiff shows me as Spider Champion, but I'm not, since I never managed to do that.

The McD

EDIT: Don't ya just hate it when you get a decent score, but you could have gotten so much more? 300+ on Whitewater, which in and of itself is fairly good (150% of default GC), but I had to screw up. I had bloody Wet Willie's lit, and I couldn't hit No Way Out. Couldn't do it. That shot is a PAIN to get right in this game along with Boomerang Bend. Mostly because of those damn bumpers having a tendency to screw me over.

Hi McD,

Thanks for the headsup on spider champion...
I'll look into it....

[TheMcD]

Could I get a score put in manually? I tried to submit it, but it failed, and I really want this one to be in.

Around 500 mil on Whitewater, here's the NVRAM to prove it.

The McD

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[The_Raven]

I'd like to take part again - I lost my credentials, so if you would be so kind as to PM them to me again, that'd be great.

Edited by The_Raven, 08 January 2012 - 06:44 AM.

[DnaDisturber]

Could I get a score put in manually? I tried to submit it, but it failed, and I really want this one to be in.

Around 500 mil on Whitewater, here's the NVRAM to prove it.

The McD

Hi McD,

I'm really sorry but I don't put the scores in manually
Otherwise I would get that sort of request a lot more and have to check nvrams and updating the database manually on a regular bases..
It's not only the score but also your name and tablename and special scores....if I make a mistake with the names/tablenames the score will not be shown on the website, so I must check it also after inserting.
I'm afraid it will cost me a lot of time in the future and I'm afraid that when people have a really nice score but didn't use pinemhi leaderboard they would do these requests as well...

I hope you understand.......

I'd like to take part again - I lost my credentials, so if you would be so kind as to PM them to me again, that'd be great.

Hi Raven,

PM sent....welcome back.....

[DedRok_V]

I tried to submit it, but it failed, and I really want this one to be in.

Around 500 mil on Whitewater

The McD

Dont ya hate when that happens

take a screenie and pop it in the high score topic

[ced]

Yep , the high-score topic is make by the mcd but you have true.

@dnadisturber : what are your the new tables ?

ced.

I speak English as a Spanish cow !! lol

[yogiholzer]

Yep , the high-score topic is make by the mcd but you have true.

@dnadisturber : what are your the new tables ?

ced.

I speak English as a Spanish cow !! lol

I didn't understand anything!