JaysArcade Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Here is my Future Pinball collection so far in BigBox. Need a few clear logos, but I like what i have so far. Its a little long since I started from the top level platforms and took my time getting to the FP section. Loving those Cinematic HD Platform videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 Oh, and since I have to enter each table manually, I've only made it to the Gs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboii Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 How are Android working for you? Do you play them using a controller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 They work OK. Android is kind of a pain because of all the ads but it does work. I went against the traditional use of Bluestacks for Android because I couldn't get it to go fullscreen and it always opened with another window over the main one. I use AMIduOS and it works OK. Running it on an arcade cabinet. I use a trackball as a mouse to simulate touch/swipe and some of my control panel buttons to simulate tilt. Joystick for movement/swipe. Some games just don't translate well at all, especially the ones that use pinch/zoom features, but a lot of the others work OK. To be completely honest, I set it up more as a novelty than anything else. I think I have probably less than 20 games set up for it. I had to set up .bat files for each game because for some reason the .lnk (shortcuts) for AMIduOS would not run went launched from Launchbox. I can't remember exactly how I have the .bat files set up (at work currently) but I can let you know later if you're interested. Maybe I'll put up a quick vid of an Android game starting from Launchbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboii Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 (edited) Yeah I would love to see it in action. I am about to start building a android libary myself. And how far have android emulation come? Will it run pretty much any game or does only a few work? I am planing to add games from this list bassicly: http://androidgamepadgames.com/ Edited October 8, 2016 by gamerboii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) Wow thats a lot of Android games. The emulation is pretty good. I'd say once you get Bluestacks, AMIduOS, or another Android emulator running and if the game will run on a gamepad, you should have no problems. The biggest hurdle will be getting Launchbox to run them. Bluestacks will be the easiest way to go because it creates Windows shortcuts for each game that can be launched from Windows. This makes it easy to add the shortcuts as roms to Launchbox. I just wasn't thrilled with how Bluestacks runs windowed. That's why I went with AMIduOS. AMIduOS however took some creative thinking to figure out how to launch the games. Also, AMIduOS has gestures support that can be mapped to controls, but for some reason, you have to turn them on each time you start a game. This led me to create an autohotkey script to tell AMIduOS to turn on gestures at each launch. I run the script before launching AMIduOS. Now, about recording some gameplay, I'm having some difficulty in that department right now. I recorded some stuff but the actual Android stuff didn't record. Researching another recording solution right now. I'll see what I can do. Downloaded OBS to record. Here you go. Not pretty but it does work. Like I said, more of a novelty than anything else. Edited October 9, 2016 by jaythompson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboii Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) Thanks man I will start to set it up! Looks great from your video. Games seem to be running pretty good. The system defitanly need some love when Mario Run is realsed! Edited October 9, 2016 by gamerboii 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FChristopherMeder Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Where did you obtain the art / clear logos? I just installed Future Pinball and have about 60 tables, no art was found. I used the FP Loader in the Download section. It works great, I just wish I had something to view. Not sure if it is due to the fact that there is no standardized naming convention for the various tables, Ultimate, Regular, VIP, ect. Any help would be great. Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 ^ also wondering about this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted January 8, 2017 Author Share Posted January 8, 2017 9 hours ago, FChristopherMeder said: Where did you obtain the art / clear logos? Here and there. I think from Hyperspin FTP and/or Emumovies FTP. Some of the tables came with logos as well. I'm not currently able to update the Launchbox Database with my stuff because some of it was taken from HS. I'm also waiting for more fields in Launchbox and the database in order to add Table Author info and some other fields like backglass and playfield images that are needed for inclusion of pinball tables. I talk about it a bit in the link below. It's possible that I could share with you guys via other means if you are really champing at the bit for this stuff, I just don't want to muddy the waters between Launchbox and Hyperspin by trying to put stuff on the Launchbox database that shouldn't be there. Of course all of it might not be named how your stuff is named so you would have to deal with all that. Future Pinball was a lot of work. I've yet to dip my toes in the Visual Pinball waters. Maybe I should put in a ticket on Bitbucket for the extra fields needed, or maybe I feel lucky enough that @Jason Carr will read this and just add a few fields for Pinball.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FChristopherMeder Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 I was able to get wheels as I am a platnum member on hyperspin. It took me a while to figure out that part. Now if I just had vids and other media.Sent from my SM-G928V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 I believe Emumovies has some of the vids. I think I got them from the FTP. I couldn't find vids for everything however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FChristopherMeder Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Thanks.Sent from my SM-G928V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 @jaythompson Yeah, a ticket would be great for those missing fields. I'm always hesitant to do mass dumps from Hyperspin because yes, I don't want to step on anyone's toes, so we want to make sure we have permission before doing mass additions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 Done! Here is the ticket. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/2287/request-for-additional-fields-for-pinball Thanks @Jason Carr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Thank you @jaythompson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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