drewjbx Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Hey I'm a hyperspin user giving launchbox a go.... I got most my systems working without the use of rocketlauncher, except in a couple of cases I need it.... like with pinball arcade. So I am trying to use rocketlauncher as an emulator in LB to launch pinball arcade tables. In hyperspin it works flawlessly as the program will launch then rocketlaunch will scroll to the table you chose and launch it (AHK using correct number of keystrokes etc... ) In rocketlauncher… pinball arcade is setup as a 'virtual emulator'...… a rompath is not needed. When importing roms into LB, I just imported the table names with a .rez extension. So when rocketlauncher pulls LB's xml the game tables come up as 'TAddamsFamily.rez' or TAttackFromMars.Rez for example (actual file names). Launch box requires roms to have an application path to the filename... so this wont work as the pinball arcade AHK module looks for properly named games like "Addams Family, The (Bally)' or 'Attack from Mars (Bally)'. I obviously cant edit LB's xml rom entries to the game name that is required from rocketlauncher's module. Maybe have to change each table name (which I don't think will work), batch files? or is there another way? <ApplicationPath>..\Hyperspin\Roms\PC Games\Pinball Arcade\Resource\Tables\TAddamsFamily_Enums.rez</ApplicationPath> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styphelus Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Having the same issue. Were you able to find a way around it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Honestly I'm a bit clueless when it comes to pinball at this point, but it is one of the few items left to tackle from the last community poll. So I will be looking at it very soon to come up with an easy solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewjbx Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Yes I got it working, you need to use rocketlauncher and have it setup properly there first. Coming from Hyperspin this was pretty easy, but if you are new to rocketlauncher there is a somewhat high learning curve. I personally have the non-steam version. First step importing Pinball Arcade into LB, default location for my set is 'Pinball Arcade\PC11\Resource'. All tables have extension of *.rez. Once all imported open Rocketlauncher UI and setup LB as your default front end. Once that is done RLUI will load any LB system xml's you have setup. Go to Pinball Arcade and set default emulator to the executable, choose pinball arcade module. Test games by using game audit and selecting a table. RL will press enter a couple of times to get to table selection and scroll to the correct table and launch it. Now there may be a lot more to this depending on what version PA you have and might need to setup the module in the correct order of your table names etc. RL forums covered this awhile ago... metalzoic I believe. Also I had to name all my media the same name as original tables names for easier setup with LB. Maybe I will try to write up a detailed tutorial when I have time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) @drewjbxFor TPA, you don't have to use RL. Here is how have setup in LB with TPA purchased from Steam, but shouldn't make any difference as long as TPA is up and working outside LB since using TPAFreeCamMod.exe. The TPAFreeCamMod.exe needs to have the proper path in its Settings.ini file to the PinballArcade11.exe location. 1) Make sure you have the TPAFreeCamMod.exe and use that as your emulator application path. You can name the "emulator" whatever you want. You need to make sure to check the "Use file name only without extension or folder path...." Also note the -table command in command-line 2) Then setup "dummy" roms which are just plain text files with the name that TPA uses for launching: This is example of "rom" folder which plain text files. Note the name is key since that is what is used to pass to command line to launch table. The benefit here is that once have named can import into LB like any other roms and "in mass" through import tool. Will have to fiddle with the names to fix in the title once imported. Full list of game names Freecam needs (got this list from one of the pinball sites): Spoiler TPAFreeCamMod - Direct Table Launching Command line example: Target: "C:\TPAFreeCamMod.exe" -table Totan (* Table is not supported by Arcooda Pinball Arcade) ACDC * AddamsFamily AttackFromMars BanzaiRun * BigHurt BigShot BlackHole BlackKnight2000 BlackRose BoneBusters BridePB BuckHunter * CactusCanyon CactusJacks Centaur Centigrade37 CentralPark ChampionPub Cirqus Class1812 Creature CueBallWizard Cyclone Diner DoctorWho DoctorWhoRegen Dracula DrDude EarthShaker EightBallDeluxe ElDorado ElDoradoEM ElviraPartyMonst Fathom * Fireball Firepower2 * Firepwr FishTales Flight2000 * FnHouse Frankenstein * Genie GhostBustersSter * Gladiators Gofers GoinNuts Gorgar HarleyDavidson * HauntedHouse HighRollerCasino * HighSpeed HighSpeed2 Hurricane Indy500 JackBot JacksOpen JudgeDredd JunkYard KnightEmu LastActionHero * LightsCameraActi Mediev MonsterBash Mustang * NoFear Paragon * PartyZone PhantomOfTheOper * PinBot PistolPoker * Rescue911 Ripleys * RoadShow SafeCracker ScaredStiff Shuttle Sorcerer * SpanishEyes * StarshipTroopers * StarTrek * StarTrekTNG SwordsOfFury Taxi TeedOff Terminator2 TheaterOfMagic Tomcat Totan TwilightZone TxSector Victory WhirlWind WhiteWater WhoaNellie * WhoDunnit WildCard * Wipeout * WorldCup * WorldTour Xenon Edited June 13, 2019 by sundogak clarification 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewjbx Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 Thanks for sharing, wish I knew about this awhile ago.. looks like it is a free roaming camera mod NoEx created to view tables at any angle. But apparently it will allow table selection from what you are saying. I will try it out sometime. I'm sure someone else will find this useful as well. Only other system I use RL for, so far, is OpenBor. If there is a simpler way please share! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 (edited) Yep, primary reason use the Free CameraMod is because of the table launching ability via command line which then is easy to integrate into LB. I keep the camera mod portion turned off via the settings.ini file. The Backglass feature is also nice if you have multi monitors. A setup guide is here. I have RL as well, but this allowed to kill two birds with one stone, no RL for it to launch and added BG feature. Edited June 14, 2019 by sundogak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truest1 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 On 6/13/2019 at 9:23 AM, Jason Carr said: Honestly I'm a bit clueless when it comes to pinball at this point, but it is one of the few items left to tackle from the last community poll. So I will be looking at it very soon to come up with an easy solution. Any solution yet for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, Truest1 said: Any solution yet for this? There is the above and also this method with PinballArcadeLoader which I now use since only need launcher. Note you do not need to run (nor should) as administrator like is originally noted in the post. Edited May 21, 2023 by sundogak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truest1 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 16 hours ago, sundogak said: There is the above and also this method with PinballArcadeLoader which I now use since only need launcher. Note you do not need to run (nor should) as administrator like is originally noted in the post. got it working. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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