lees1964
Pinball Wizard
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2022
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- Captain Fantastic
I know how frustrating it is to see someone make a post about something they could have just as easily searched and answered on their own. This does not seem to be the case for my situation. Oh, I'm SURE the answer is out there in the vastness of the internet on one forum or another, but if it does exist I have not been able to find it. Here is the short version - I recently acquired a virtual pinball cabinet (preowned). It was set up to access future pinball through mouse clicks and keyboard, etc. It worked exactly as it should (flipper/coin/nudge buttons all did what they were supposed to do). I've been around a LONG while and never knew such a thing even existed, so I was pretty excited about it, and like always happens, I began to search the internet for cool things to do with it (this may have been my first mistake, lol). When I found out that there were program that allowed you to choose games and even play without using the keyboard or a mouse, I knew I had to have it. Enter: Pinball Emporium. Because the PC in the cabinet is running windows 7 I opted to download and install release 10. I followed Nate's video to a T! I have the VP cabinet in my office here at home, so I had the video up on my main pc and following along on the screen on the cabinet (I paused about ten thousand times, no kidding). When the Joytokey part came up (and I've watched and followed along with several other videos of the same thing) it didn't display like mine did. Pressing my cabinet buttons didn't light any of the option in the righthand box. I opted to leave it alone and went on with the install. When everything was done, I ran PE and it came up beautifully and did just what I had hoped it would do! I could cycle through the available games and choose whichever one I wanted to play! My excitement was pretty short lived. I could play any of the games that launched through Steam (though the cabinet buttons did all work correctly - the flippers and start button were fine, so I could at least play something). I still needed a mouse to get back out of the game and steam interface. The real stumper is Future Pinball games. They all were working correctly before I installed PE (not blaming this awesome program, just explaining) and now, when I bring up one of the FP games through PE the cabinet buttons are all completely dead. I have, over the past week, gone into Joytokey and though I cannot see anything lit up in yellow on the main screen, if I double click to edit the individual buttons, I CAN see a reaction when I press the cabinet buttons (which I then saved). Nothing that I do (or have done) seems to have an effect on whether the cabinet buttons work or don't work in PE. I've checked back in FP to see if the buttons that were originally mapped out were still in place and the same, and they are. As I learn more about this whole Virtual Pinball thing, and dig into various front end programs, I can see that the previous owner has apparently tried Hyperspin and possibly PinballX, which I assume he had no luck with or he would have instructed me on how to start the games THAT way vs the keyboard and mouse route. I'm at my absolute wits end and I have no other ideas. I've searched and read and watched SO much that it's all starting to get a little mixed up in my head. OHH! Very important piece that I left out - This cabinet was set up with an iPac 2 controller board for the physical buttons. I'm sorry this post was so long, but leaving any of this out could potentially waste much of your valuable time with avenues I've already been down. Thank you for reading!!