DemoMan

Hi,

Great table !
At 1st I was a bit disappointed – it just didn’t play very well, until I found out I did not have the latest ROM/table versions – now that I have those all the LE features work and it rocks !

PS my system (i3 8100 quad core/GTX 750) has only 4GB, but I’ve never had any problems –  I disabled everything in Windows I don’t…[Read more]

This could be interesting : https://github.com/tomlogic/pinmame-nvram-maps

tested it and it works nicely – unfortunately there aren’t that many maps for games.. also it reads the nvram (doesn’t write to it)
contacted the author – let’s see where that leads to

sample output :

VPinMAMEnvram>python nvram_parser.py maps/afm_113.nv.json…[Read more]

Hi,

yes, I’m talking about the Game settings like free play, nr of extra balls, high score boost & reset count etc.
These are not stored in the registry but in nvram somehow.
VPtools now just simulates a nr of button presses to get to and adjust these settings. A bit crude – but it works (at least when I test).

I think it would be really cool if…[Read more]

Hi,
I wonder if anyone tested the ‘Free Play’ button in the tool ?

Don’t know about you guys, but every time I use a new game, I have to change like 10 settings of the game, so I thought having a way to automate that as well, would be very convenient.
But maybe there’s a better way – just would like to know if this is something I should pursue..

update : you can now select roms via checkboxes, which gives you more control over which roms to save to
use the small red button to uncheck all and then make a selection – ‘Save All’ will use that selection
(the button toggles between Uncheck and Check)

v 0.4.5

Hi Guys (no girls I assume) – yet another update (0.4.4) ..

This one has a pretty cool feature IMHO – a button to set Free Play to “Yes” (assuming it is set to “No”)
Works only for WPC games (you need to check the WPC checkBox and start the ROM to see this button and also the coin door buttons).

If this will test OK, much more can be added of…[Read more]

BTW : if you do a ‘Save All’, the default will be saved to as well..

Thanks again for feedback,  0.4.3 update :

at91jit setting  (never heard of it, but after Googling I now know what this does
now also save ext DMD to all Roms :-/
coin door buttons only work for WPC roms for now..  (will have to do some research and/or enable keyboard buttons for Non WPC games)
added some tooltips

@Rich
Not sure how you tested,  you need to start the ROM from the VPtools – it cannot modify an already running ROM started by another program (like VP) because that’s a separate instance of VPM.

In any case, if you just use VPtools and start a (working) WPC Rom and then click the green ‘Enter’ key, it should start the WPC menu and you can then…[Read more]

Thanks for the positive feedback

Just put up a page for the tool at http://tinypin.nl/VPtools

Here you can download updates and see a change log.

BTW : I added a new feature : ‘cabinet buttons’ – so once you start a ROM, you can use these to manipulate settings (like the 7,8,9,0 keys in VP).

What’s  a POP front end signature?