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[Emig5m]

 

Same problem...over the years I have never been able to get visual pinball to work. Who the hell designs this rubbish..lol.

10's of 1000's of rubbish experts aparently

since a massive amount of people are using it, and many of them with no real computer expertise.

 

It's funny how I could hand code games all the way back in the Tandy TRS-80 days, have always built my own computers from scratch since Windows, I can repair a 1980 Asteroids Deluxe game PCB and rebuild the vector monitor, rebuild dirt bike and ATV motors, you name it...but can't get this hog-posh of an unorganized app to work. Could you imagine one full app that you click on the executable that includes everything that you need and not a hog-posh of a multitude of components and a multitude of versions of each that each one has to be customized to maybe 1 in a 1000 chance of all being compatible with each other and work? Yea I can...then entire real gaming industry does it and everything installs and works without hassle.

Are you using VPinballX.exe to open a vpx table?

What exe are you using and what exact table files are you trying to open

 

I rest my case.... a hog-posh of unorganized exe's and components that are incompatible with each other...

[SmilesLikeJoker]

I'm not smart about programming and scripting and stuff like, but even I can get it to work.  Your right that this isn't the gaming industry.  Some things need tweaked to work for YOU.

This stuff is made by normal folks.  Comparing what is done here to the real gaming industry is apple and oranges.  People here make stuff to work for themselves and their own tastes first and then share their work.  How can you expect something someone coded specifically for use for themselves to work flawlessly with some other code that the author did the same thing?  Software, hardware, understanding and knowledge, and even preferred tastes vary from each person who codes and designs something for this site.

 

I'm grateful that these folks are willing to share their time and effort with this community.  If someone like me can get this to work, that says something lol.

Edited by SmilesLikeJoker, 01 May 2023 - 01:39 AM.

[Emig5m]

I'm not smart about programming and scripting and stuff like, but even I can get it to work.  Your right that this isn't the gaming industry.  Some things need tweaked to work for YOU.

This stuff is made by normal folks.  Comparing what is done here to the real gaming industry is apple and oranges.  People here make stuff to work for themselves and their own tastes first and then share their work.  How can you expect something someone coded specifically for use for themselves to work flawlessly with some other code that the author did the same thing?  Software, hardware, understanding and knowledge, and even preferred tastes vary from each person who codes and designs something for this site.

 

I'm grateful that these folks are willing to share their time and effort with this community.  If someone like me can get this to work, that says something lol.

Amazingly I got it working tonight. Landscape mode with my LG C2 Oled looks pretty damned amazing in Metallica and AC/DC! Now I just need to find the best version of Cirqus Voltaire....

[SmilesLikeJoker]

I run in landscape mode too.  Single screen desktop user   If you run into problems tweaking things, let me know and I'll try to help.  Some tweaks have been more frustrating to accomplish than others lol.  A good many of the tables here were designed with portrait / cabinet mode in mind.

[Emig5m]

I run in landscape mode too.  Single screen desktop user   If you run into problems tweaking things, let me know and I'll try to help.  Some tweaks have been more frustrating to accomplish than others lol.  A good many of the tables here were designed with portrait / cabinet mode in mind.

Oopps... It was 5:44 AM... I meant portrait/cabinet mode so that the table fills the entire screen... I took my 42" LG C2 Oled and put it on it's side on my desktop in portrait mode and the stand leg while on it's side propped the back on my desk to let it sit a like the exact angle that a real pin sits at... Crazy how good it plays and looks after tweaking the size/X/Y scales etc... Looks very 3D for a 2D display... I still would like to one day own at least one real pin though...but this is a great alternative (Last Friday I spent the entire afternoon at Game Vault in Morristown, NJ playing the hell out of AC/DC and Metallica and then Saturday I was at the Silverball Retro arcade in Asbury Park, NJ playing the hell out of Cirqus Voltaire, JJ Guns n' Roses, Wizard of Oz, Godfather, Dialed In...they basically have every single limited edition Jersey Jack pin)....so basically I know real pins very well and this app (once you get it running...lol) is even better in some ways... The real arcades are so loud you can barely hear the game that you're playing...can't even hear the music in them...but the main point is this plays and looks very good for digital recreation coming from somebody very familiar with real pins...

[MadMRMax]

I'll just throw a comment into this thread -- the issue really is only in the Visual Pinball Installation Guide on this site. Consider it how a newbie would go about installing VPX (VP 8, 9 and X): Visual Pinball Installation Guide - Installation and Setup - Visual Pinball Tutorials - Tutorials - VPForums.org

 

 

I think newbies see the first link "The new VP installer" -- click on that. Here is what they see:

1) They are directed to a "VPX installer 10.7.2" page -> click download

2) The are directed to a "Your file is ready for download, please "agree to terms" - > they click agree

3) BOOM they are directed to a "your files are available below" -> COMPLETLY FLABRAGESTED

4) They have no clue so they scan it and see "VPXsetup.zip" and assume that is correct since the other versions must be related to earlier versions of VP (most people scanning the list don't read the "X" in things like "VPX4setup.zip"

 

And thus, there you have it. Exactly why someone gets the "can't load that file" error.

[xenonph]

I'll just throw a comment into this thread -- the issue really is only in the Visual Pinball Installation Guide on this site. Consider it how a newbie would go about installing VPX (VP 8, 9 and X): Visual Pinball Installation Guide - Installation and Setup - Visual Pinball Tutorials - Tutorials - VPForums.org

 

 

I think newbies see the first link "The new VP installer" -- click on that. Here is what they see:

1) They are directed to a "VPX installer 10.7.2" page -> click download

2) The are directed to a "Your file is ready for download, please "agree to terms" - > they click agree

3) BOOM they are directed to a "your files are available below" -> COMPLETLY FLABRAGESTED

4) They have no clue so they scan it and see "VPXsetup.zip" and assume that is correct since the other versions must be related to earlier versions of VP (most people scanning the list don't read the "X" in things like "VPX4setup.zip"

 

And thus, there you have it. Exactly why someone gets the "can't load that file" error.

If they would only read the first line on the download page...

https://www.vpforums...&showfile=11573

 

Note: Pick VPX72setup.zip if you're not sure which one to download, as this is the latest one.

[MadMRMax]

 

If they would only read the first line on the download page...

https://www.vpforums...&showfile=11573

 

Note: Pick VPX72setup.zip if you're not sure which one to download, as this is the latest one.

 

 

I know, right!! To be fair, this whole process just happened to me this morning installing VPX on a new machine, even though I've had older versions of VP installed on my crusty PC for ages. So, I'm speaking to myself on what I didn't do, when I should have.

 

 

-mark

[kamikazeedriver]

I'll just throw a comment into this thread -- the issue really is only in the Visual Pinball Installation Guide on this site. Consider it how a newbie would go about installing VPX (VP 8, 9 and X): Visual Pinball Installation Guide - Installation and Setup - Visual Pinball Tutorials - Tutorials - VPForums.org

 

 

I think newbies see the first link "The new VP installer" -- click on that. Here is what they see:

1) They are directed to a "VPX installer 10.7.2" page -> click download

2) The are directed to a "Your file is ready for download, please "agree to terms" - > they click agree

3) BOOM they are directed to a "your files are available below" -> COMPLETLY FLABRAGESTED

4) They have no clue so they scan it and see "VPXsetup.zip" and assume that is correct since the other versions must be related to earlier versions of VP (most people scanning the list don't read the "X" in things like "VPX4setup.zip"

 

And thus, there you have it. Exactly why someone gets the "can't load that file" error.

 

Thank you sir, this was my issue.  I had downloaded the VPinballX_Minimal.zip, assuming it was the latest.

 

After not being able to load a table, and seeing a few people specify which version to download, I had already forgotten where I had seen the list.

 

Your post not only reminded me, but clarified the same issue many are having.  

 

I got the VPinballX73_Minimal.zip (the latest, as I understand it) and the table actually attempts to load.

 

The only remaining issue I had was a script error saying the game was not found.

 

In case any future people end up here, on my same exact path and run into this, here's what I found out.

• I did have the my rom (tomy_500.zip) in the VPinMAME\roms folder, so that wasn't the issue.

A post referencing that issue mentioned you had to run the "Setup" that's locating inside the VPinMAME folder.

• Be sure to run just the "Setup" if you're using the 32bit version (which you probably are).  I mistakenly ran the Setup64 and continued to have the same problem until I finally ran just the "Setup" version.

After that, setup your paths, especially the one to the \roms\ folder you're using.

 

Table loaded fine.