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Cirqus Voltaire VPW Visual Pinball

Visual Pinball

Visual Pinball is the most used platform among the Virtual Pinball community. There is a very large community creating original tables such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire (Original) by Scott Wickberg of Orbitalpin.com , The Iron Maiden Legacy of the Beast (Original ) from members of the VpinWorkshop team or Real table recreations like JP's Indiana Jones (Stern 2008) By The famous JPSalas.

VPX features

Simulates pinball table physics and renders the table with DirectX or OpenGL
Simple editor to (re-)create any kind of pinball table
Live editing in the rendered viewport
Table logic (and game rules) can be controlled via Visual Basic Script
Over 1050 real/unique pinball machines from ~100 manufacturers, plus over 550 original creations were rebuilt/designed using the Visual Pinball X editor (over 3000 if one counts all released tables, incl. MODs and different variants), and even more when including its predecessor versions (Visual Pinball 9.X)
Emulation of real pinball machines via Visual PinMAME is possible via Visual Basic Script
Supports configurable camera views (e.g. to allow for correct display in virtual pinball cabinets)
Support for Tablet/Touch input or specialized pinball controllers
Support for Stereo3D output
Support for Head tracking via BAM
Support for VR HMD rendering (including PUP, B2S backglass and DMD output support)

Visual Pinball Downloads

Downlod

GItHub

VPX

Current Version: 10.7.3

Vpinmame

Current Version: 3.6

B2S Server

Db2s

Current Version: 2.0.3

Installation VPX

Installing Visual Pinball

1

Download from trusted source

Download Visual Pinball X from the official Github. Download the full installer 1st before upgrading to 10.8

2

Unblocking

You need to right click on the installation file and select properties.

3

Selecting Unblock

Check the unblock box and apply.

4

Launching the Visual Pinball installation file.

Just like any other program, double click to install and follow the prompts.

5

Installation path

You can install it anywhere you want. Just remember the path of the installation folder in the future. A good practice is to create a folder, let say Vpinball, and install all software in it.

6

Visual Pinball Options

A few features can be delected here. Select B2S Backglass and .Net

If you have a real DMD, you can select the PinDMD

7

Launching VisualPinballX

Double click the VisualPinballX shortcut on your desktop to launch the program. Let's have a look in the Preference menu item and select Video/Graphic options

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Visual Pinball Video options

Select your video card from the drop down and select the same resolution as your monitor.

Uncheck Force Exclusive Fullscreen. At the bottom you can adjust the texture slider to reduce the table lag or any out of memory errors. Ambient occlusion can also cause memory error.

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VPS

The Virtual Pinball Spreadsheet will help you find a table by keywords and find about the hosting site, versions, ROM, Backglass, POV, Media files.

The site is Here

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Tables Hosts

Tables are hosted typically on 3 sites, VPUniverse, VPForums and Pinball Nirvana. The location is decided by the table author(s).

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About this file

Take the time to familiarize yourself with the important details such as what version of software is required.

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ROMS

Tables that exist on real pinball, when re-created for VP , a ROM is required for emulation. Tables that don't need a ROM are what we call " Original tables "

Back on the VPS site, there is a link to find the ROM for Cirqus Voltaire

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Downloading the Backglass

On the VPS site , Backglass are also listed. Download one and extract it in the VisualPinball/Table folder.

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Renaming the backglass

Once you download the directb2s file, rename it to the name of your table keeping the .directB2S extension and move it to your VisualPinball/Table folder

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Launching VPX

The setup created a shortcut on your Desktop. Double click it and select files / open and select a VPX table to open it it the editor mode.

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Editor Mode

In this mode, you can view the script, launch the Interactive view and of course launch the table.

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Launching Table

Pressing F5 or the launch icon as shown in the picture will launch the table.

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Play

The Table will hopefully launch and bring you a lot of joy. If you are having an error, most likely it is due to the wrong version of software installed and you will need to upgrade to the minimum specs required. In this case, it requires 10.8 and Vpinmame 3.6

Vpx upgrade

Upgrading VPX to a newer version

1

Check your current VPX version

Open Visual Pinball X and in the Help menu select about.

2

Download a newer VPX

You only need to install the full package once. Any upgrade you can only drop in a few files and you are set. Always backup the old files 1st.

All Beta versions are on the Github, read about it and look in different Groups and forums for feedbacks

3

VPX Beta

You will see many version Debug, GL. Pick the Release-Win version. You can choose the X86 version for now.

4

Always unblock

You will right click on the file and select properties and check the unblock box and apply

5

Extract the Zip

You will extract the zip of the archive.

6

Copy and replace VPX

You will select the files from the VPX 10.8 and moved them to the VisualPinball folder. When asking to overwrite, say yes.

You are Done

vpinmame

Upgrading Vpinmame

1

Check your current Vpinmame version

Navigate to your VisualPinball/Vpinmame folder.

Double click Setup.exe

2

Version

It will tell you what version you have installed.

3

Vpinmame Github

You will see many version Debug, GL. Pick the Release-Win version. You can choose the X86 version for now.

Go to Vpinmame Github

4

Always unblock

You will right click on the file and select properties and check the unblock box and apply

5

Extract the Zip

You will extract the zip of the archive.

6

Copy and replace Vpinmame

You have to be careful if you already have a VPMalias file with content you already added, keep the old file.

Copy and replace the files in the Vpinmame folder

7

Install the Newer Vpinmame

In the Vpinmame folder, open the Setup.exe folder. As displayed with the Yellow Highlighter, it should reflect the new version you just copied in the folder.

Click the Install button and follow the prompts

8

Check your Paths again

Click on the Path button and Make sure your paths are set correctly

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Gameplay

You did it, You just upgraded VPX to the latest and Vpinmame to the latest.

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