My Pinball FX2 "platform" in Bigbox

[Eirulan]

Hi,

to set up Pinball FX2 in Launchbox was the "hardest" platform to do for me to date, simply because almost everything had to be done and added manually because it's no actual scrapable platform in the database.

But it was a good exercise to learn Launchbox better. I'm pretty pleased with the final result

Cheers.

https://youtu.be/BZ8ezHJLe44

(And this is by the way my first youtube upload ever *lol* )

Edited September 12, 2016 by Eirulan

[Lordmonkus]

Very nice, where did you find the buttons for each game ?

[Eirulan]

12 hours ago, lordmonkus said:

Very nice, where did you find the buttons for each game ?

Oh I can't tell you exactly where I got them, because I searched so many sites for game media. I think it was either arcadepunks or the hyperspin forums.

I've attached them here.

PinballFX2.zip

Edit: Ah I found it, it was a part of this media pack: mega:///#!mRBAAQQY!liOSuUUOx4I-Y026ek0DJp3tFYkGH1c4bnM7ohAbBlo

Edited September 13, 2016 by Eirulan

[RetroArcade]

They were created by someone on the gameex forum and I believe migrated over to HS as well.

[Lordmonkus]

Thanks for the wheel button art.

 

[Temp]

I love the cd look like a jukebox 

[Jason Carr]

Gotta say, that looks amazing @Eirulan. We might be adding official pinball support here soon; what sort of hurdles did you run into in getting it all set up? What emulator(s) did you use?

[Jason Carr]

Oh duh, Pinball FX2.  

[Lordmonkus]

Setting it up is easy, it's the scraping that sucks.

Setting it up is just a matter of adding the pinballfx.exe as the emulator and then importing the .pxp table files as the roms.

[Eirulan]

@Jason Carr that's exactly the problem, the scraping "sucks". It's best to NOT scrape any data at all (just import and uncheck all scrape-sources), because you'll end up deleting this wrong information that's being scraped anyway. Some tables will get recognized as the wrong games, e.g. the "Rome" table gets scraped as "Rome: Total War". Guess the problem is that your database does not know a platform named "Pinball FX2"

[Charco]

Wow, that's really nice. Well done on all your hard work on that!

[andyco47]

the wheels are called docklet style i have them in my pin cab mate.

Edited September 14, 2016 by andyco47

[Lordmonkus]

I wanted to add that for this way of importing the .pxp table files and the pinballfx.exe as the emulator only works with newer versions of PinballFX. I don't know the exact patch that added this functionality but I do know that this will not work with older versions.

[Eirulan]

I believe this was patched in early 2015, so everyone normally should have the functionality.

[Lordmonkus]

Yes but in some rare cases someone may have an older version on a PC not connected to the net to upgrade

[wize]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0R0MAWii8VBfkJ2TktrdkRSZEZqMEM4LUM4a09WUTRNVUFDcWZsUWZMN2VhdnZZNVgzTVk

Found the images for most of the games.. Seems to be missing the two last tables (Women of Pinball) that are new.

 

I have downloaded what I can find and sent a message to Eirulan that we can compare notes before making a zip of the images and the videos..
I probably need to clean up som files within.

 

[RetroArcade]

7 hours ago, wize said:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0R0MAWii8VBfkJ2TktrdkRSZEZqMEM4LUM4a09WUTRNVUFDcWZsUWZMN2VhdnZZNVgzTVk

Found the images for most of the games.. Seems to be missing the two last tables (Women of Pinball) that are new.

 

I have downloaded what I can find and sent a message to Eirulan that we can compare notes before making a zip of the images and the videos..
I probably need to clean up som files within.

 

Just link to the thread from Draco where you got them so that people can give a shout out to him for his nice images.

[JaysArcade]

On 9/13/2016 at 6:14 PM, Jason Carr said:

We might be adding official pinball support here soon; what sort of hurdles did you run into in getting it all set up? 

Looking forward to some official support for pinball @Jason Carr. Spent a lot of time this weekend setting up about 100 Future Pinball tables manually. Thankful that I can add them, but a more automatic way to set them up would be awesome. I followed the tips in the post below to get Future Pinball tables working. I could wait until the Rocketlauncher plugin gets updated again and just use that, but where is the fun in that?

 

Messed around a bit with Pinball FX2 as well. Never messed around with that system before. Pretty neat.

If there needs to be a ticket opened for this, just say the word.

[RIJOSROBERTO]

On 9/12/2016 at 7:21 PM, Eirulan said:

Hi,

to set up Pinball FX2 in Launchbox was the "hardest" platform to do for me to date, simply because almost everything had to be done and added manually because it's no actual scrapable platform in the database.

But it was a good exercise to learn Launchbox better. I'm pretty pleased with the final result

Cheers.

https://youtu.be/BZ8ezHJLe44

(And this is by the way my first youtube upload ever *lol* )

that pretty awesome iam happy to see that pinball fever is spreading all around ,. pfx2 is one of the hardest ones to set up , it took me a while to figure it out to be able to use it in cabinet mode , because . i was thinking of doing pinball arcade as well but most of the table you can find in visual pinball and future pinball ,. iam currently building my pinball cab . so ive been extremely busy . that's one of the reasons why i haven't been around much. but awesome work and thank you.