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  3. Anyone Integrated MFME with PinUp Popper / Arcade Legends Pinball Machine?

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    9 hours ago, HeiHei said:

    @TolaxI tried your explanation of getting MFME work with Pinup Popper, but the game doesn't start. I did all that you did in emulator setup etc. But it doesn't work. Are you sure that the codes you have typed are correct? 

    Greets Eric

    Thats weird - I tried it this afternoon and it worked fine. The images attached to my post are from my test machine so they should be good.

    In general what you should see is that you launch your fruit machine, The screen rotates (the blue pinup popper bar will now be on the top right hand side of the display). Then the fruit machine should appear. 

    When you press escape to return to pinup popper it works in reverse.

    What part works/does not work?

    If you let me know where you are getting stuck I can try and advise. I am assuming that when you run MFME on it's own all is good?

     

    Cheers

     

    Tolax

     

  4. Anyone Integrated MFME with PinUp Popper / Arcade Legends Pinball Machine?

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    Posted · Edited by Tolax

    So I am added the following two apps to my install of baller installer (https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=baller_installer)....

    Rotate Display - to rotate the screen for MFME (and then rotate it back again)
    http://noeld.com/dl.asp?filename=display.zip

    Window Closer - automatically closes the notes window popups.
    https://www.murgee.com/window-closer/

     

    Launch script in Baller Installer...

    START "" "[STARTDIR]Launch\display.exe" /device 1 /rotate 90
    timeout 2

    START "" "[STARTDIR]Launch\VPXSTARTER.exe" 5 1 30 "MFME*"
    cd /d "[DIREMU]"

    START /min "" MFME.exe "[GAMEFULLNAME]"

     

    Close Script in Baller Installer

    START "" "[STARTDIR]Launch\display.exe" /device 1 /rotate 0

    timeout 2

    "[STARTDIR]LAUNCH\PUPCLOSER.EXE" WINTIT "MFME" 5 1
    taskkill /f /im "Multiple Fruit Machine Emulator"
    taskkill /f /im "MFME.exe"

     

    Not pretty - probably a much better way of doing it but it works reliably (so far).

     

    Notes

    I am running the Windows Closer app at launch. The purpose of this is to close the notes file that appears when you launch certain fruit machines. Reason I did this is PinUpPopper and MFME both use the escape key. Press the escape key to acknowledge the note and pinup popper auto closes MFME. This was the nicest (easiest) solution/hack I found to not having to use a mouse. To configure it I ran multiple machines in MFME - when a notes window pops up you refresh the Closer app - select the window you want to close (TLayoutNotes) and add it to the list.

     

    My MFME is running from  C:\MFME\v20\

    Machines/roms are installed within C:\MFME\v20\Fruits Curated (I like to keep just the machines I am play rather than go for every machine ever made - still have 70 machines though......) 

     

    If you use pinup popper you can scroll through the fruit machine lists and it shows an image of each one.  If you do this remember you have to rotate all the images as the screen is running at 270 degrees when pinup popper front end is running. 

     

    MFME only runs on the main display - I created a generic fruit machine  jpg for the top display (DMD) and then in the emulator config I specify that display 2 is also enabled. Image attached.

     

    Number of images attached of configurations/images.

     

    As usual MODs feel free to edit/delete if anything here is not allowed.

     

    Any questions let me know. 


    Cheers

     

    Tolax

     

     

     

     

     

    FM images.JPG

    Emulator Script.JPG

    Emulator Setup.JPG

    Windows Closer.JPG

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  5. Anyone Integrated MFME with PinUp Popper / Arcade Legends Pinball Machine?

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    You do have to rotate the screen 90 degrees when launching/closing MFME- you also have to rotate the screen shots for pinup popper as well so they look correct when you scroll through.

    I'm back home later in the week so I can grab/publish the script - can also post my machine screen images as well if needed. Mine is a curated list of my favorite fruit machines so it is by no means complete.

    Might try and grab a video so you can see it in action.

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  6. Anyone Integrated MFME with PinUp Popper / Arcade Legends Pinball Machine?

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    My VPin is based on Baller Installer Pinup Popper - https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=baller_installer

    Nice thing about this is that it lets you add new emulators easily and launch them via a script.

    Couple of notes..

    You have to rotate the screen 90 degrees before launching MFME as the pinball tables are run at 270 degrees

    One challenge I had was in MFME you press escape to close the popup 'notes' - baller installer uses escape to close the emulator.  

    Sure there are more elegant solutions but In the end I found a Window Closer program which scans for the notes window to pop up and then closes it automatically after a second. (Please let me know MOD's if this is not okay to mention). Works well.

    Be happy to post the script/program list I used if it would be helpful. 

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  8. Its a Fruit Machine, Its a pinball machine, its an arcade game.......

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    Fun winter project. Wanted an all in one machine that could play fruit machines, pinball and arcade games.

    Purchased an Atgames Arcade Legends Pinball Table, the vips board and the arcade control panel - (https://www.atgames.net/arcades/legends-pinball/). Cost was around $1K time I purchased cables and a few other things.

    Connected up an old PC I had lying around and installed PinUp Popper Baller Installer - (https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=baller_installer)

    Couple of hours later I have a machine that plays MFME, Addams Family Pinball, FX3 Pinball (steam) and MAME.

    Using the control buttons on the panel for most of the Fruit Machine controls. The trackball acts as a mouse for some of the tables with lots of buttons.

    Still lots of config needed (graphics etc) but I just played Cash Explosion for an hour instead of configuring more so I put that down as a success.

    I can post the PinUp Popper config screenshots if needed. Took a little figuring out (well cribbing from people smarter than me). 

    Pictures attached. It was a garage project...... Apologies for the quality. Clean up will come later :)

     

    Tolax

     

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  12. Anyone Integrated MFME with PinUp Popper / Arcade Legends Pinball Machine?

    in Newbies Help Area

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    Recently purchased an Arcade Legends Pinball Machine with Arcade Control Panel - Arcade Control Panel for Legends Pinball – AtGames E-Store

    You can hook a PC up to the pinball table and people are running numerous PC games/emulators including Zen FX3 Pinball, MAME  etc .

    Thinking I could run MFME and make a combo Fruit Machine / Virtual Pinball Machine / MAME machine.... Seems like there are enough buttons/trackballs etc to make it interesting.

    Anyone tried this before? 

    Seems like it should be fairly simple by integrating joy2key or something similar..  

     

    Though 'should be fairly simple' has got me in trouble before.... :)

     Cheers

     

    Tolax

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