Visual pinball fans?

[godzillajoe]

I haven't tried it in a while but today I downloaded it and they have tables for Midnight Magic and Video Pinball.

 

Video Pinball is basiclly the same as the Atari version done in blocky graphics but MM is done in a 3D sorta way and would be a terrible pinball game if it were real.

 

NES Pinball and Night Mission are pretty nice.

 

They also have real classic tables simulated.

 

http://www.irpinball.org/

[Rybags]

Future Pinball is the new hot freepinball sim - rendered in proper 3D but the number of tables available is way less than Visual Pinball.

[rockman_x_2002]

Future Pinball is the new hot freepinball sim - rendered in proper 3D but the number of tables available is way less than Visual Pinball.

 

Last time I played around with Future, it wasn't able to do the more modern DMG or CPU-based games (essentially, those requiring PinMAME). Is that still the case or has that now been changed?

[S1500]

Future Pinball won't be getting any new versions. I wish the source code got leaked out so it could incorporate pinMAME. As for Visual Pinball, it's strength is emulation of table ROMs, but generally nothing else. FP's graphics are vastly superior.

[Rybags]

FP has matured - there's more modern games like Terminator 2. I'm not sure if there's emulation of the actual Roms going on or if the table authors have to do it by hand.

 

Pity if it does stall, the situation with it improved a lot between when I first used it and a few months ago when I got into it again, but there's still plenty of scope for improvement.

[S1500]

FP has matured - there's more modern games like Terminator 2. I'm not sure if there's emulation of the actual Roms going on or if the table authors have to do it by hand.

 

Pity if it does stall, the situation with it improved a lot between when I first used it and a few months ago when I got into it again, but there's still plenty of scope for improvement.

 

Future Pinball can't do ROM emulation. All those modernish tables you see in FP that are recreated are done by hand for the rulesets. A daunting task. It's sad the guy behind FP isn't doing it anymore, and went out of his way to prevent PinMAME integration. It could have dramatically sped up table recreation dev since the rules/sounds/graphics are already done for you.

 

If only we had the best of both worlds: PinMAME integration with Future Pinball's graphics(but not their weird physics engine) and multi-monitor support.