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I have just played my first FP table by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/20/2007, 4:09pm PDT
And a hearty FUCK YOU to the Visual Pinmame guys. This is fucking awesome.

The download for the engine (exectuable) was one file, a nice .exe. This is an advantage over Visual PinMAME, as you need two programs to do anything. The tables were accessible from the executable download site, from the most part, and no stupid nonsense about getting the table file and then oh ho ho the ROM file, and the ROM file is warez so we can't have them both in the same file and blah blah blah. What a fucking improvement.

Instructions appear as you start the game -- I hit the plunger before I had a credit in the machine and HOLY SHIT the game told me what to do to fucking play it. Plus, nudge left, nudge right and nudge forward. I can't recall if all three are in Visual PM, but the fact that they are in this game is critical. Just having "nudge" is retarded, and any game without nudge forward doesn't fully comprehend the value of nudging.

I'll be playing this a lot and putting it on my MAME cab (currently in development). When it comes right down to it, I don't want or need original tables "emulated" -- it's never going to be as good as the real thing and there are plenty of real tables around. If something like Cyclone is emulated by hand, then great. I am interested in the original tables, and there certainly seems to be a good number of them around. My only improvements would be in letting the flipper buttons be mapped to the mouse so I can use the flipper buttons on my X-Arcade trackball (not a big deal once the cab is finished) and putting all the tables in a common download site that does not require people to register in order to get them. But this seems to be infinitely better than any other pinball product out there.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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Recommendation Request: Pinball games for the PC by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/12/2007, 6:35pm PDT NEW
    I refuse to recommend a pinball game for the PC by Grumah 05/13/2007, 5:40am PDT NEW
        NICE REFERENCE >:( by Jhoh Cable o_O 05/14/2007, 11:54am PDT NEW
        Re: I refuse to recommend a pinball game for the PC by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/14/2007, 1:20pm PDT NEW
            I do not appreciate the sarcasm FACEFUCK (assuming that was sarcasm) NT by Grumah 05/14/2007, 5:07pm PDT NEW
                It was not sarcasm by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/14/2007, 5:23pm PDT NEW
                    ok great ^_^ NT by Grumah 05/15/2007, 7:55pm PDT NEW
    Future Pinball by Fussbett 05/20/2007, 2:26am PDT NEW
        Re: Future Pinball by Fussbett 05/20/2007, 11:52am PDT NEW
        I have just played my first FP table by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/20/2007, 4:09pm PDT NEW
            Re: I have just played my first FP table by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/20/2007, 4:17pm PDT NEW
                Dead Hunters was released today, from the makers of Three Angels and Road Girls. by Fussbett 05/21/2007, 7:57pm PDT NEW
                    Dead Hunters was released today, from the makers of Three Angels and Road Girls. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/22/2007, 1:12am PDT NEW
                        Re: Dead Hunters was released today, from the makers of Three Angels and Road Gi by Mischief Maker 05/25/2007, 11:00pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Dead Hunters was released today, from the makers of Three Angels and Road Gi by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/03/2007, 11:03pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Dead Hunters was released today, from the makers of Three Angels and Road Gi by Mischief Maker 06/04/2007, 8:12pm PDT NEW
                                    My grandfather got me the original nintendo Bubble Bobble for my 11th birthday. by All-Caps Forum Conquistadora Zseni! 06/04/2007, 8:54pm PDT NEW
                                        WHY DONT PEOPLE THINK THE SAME AS ME!!!!! NT by Time for a new rule! 06/04/2007, 10:32pm PDT NEW
                                        They're talking about a virtual bubble bobble pinball table. by Worm 06/05/2007, 12:05pm PDT NEW
                                            Re: They're talking about a virtual bubble bobble pinball table. by All-Caps Forum Conquistadora Zseni! 06/05/2007, 12:34pm PDT NEW
                                                Having never played the table in question, I think you may have a point. NT by Jerry Whorebach 06/05/2007, 12:57pm PDT NEW
                                    I'm sneaking Future Pinballs sessions in at work! by Fussbett 06/05/2007, 11:26am PDT NEW
                                        Re: I'm sneaking Future Pinballs sessions in at work! by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/05/2007, 2:05pm PDT NEW
                                            Some pinball tables have a recess that traps your ball and then shoots it out by Ray of Light 06/05/2007, 3:37pm PDT NEW
                                                Re: Some pinball tables have a recess that traps your ball and then shoots it ou by Bruce Lee's mother-in-law 06/05/2007, 7:19pm PDT NEW
                                                    I always imagined Zseni sounding like my mother. NT by Someone who calls his mom 'mother'. 06/05/2007, 7:58pm PDT NEW
                                                        That's got to make imaginary sex with either of them even more troubling :( NT by Jerry Whorebach 06/05/2007, 8:21pm PDT NEW
                                                            Psh, Provincial North Americans. by Oedipus 06/05/2007, 9:32pm PDT NEW
                                                    Re: Some pinball tables have a recess that traps your ball and then shoots it ou by Bruce Lee's mother-in-law 06/06/2007, 12:46am PDT NEW
                                        Goddamn it by Entropy Stew 06/05/2007, 8:47pm PDT NEW
                                            HA ha ha! NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/05/2007, 10:49pm PDT NEW
                                                I spent like 3 hours adjusting those rails at the top :( NT by Entropy Stew 06/05/2007, 11:39pm PDT NEW
                                                    Re: I spent like 3 hours adjusting those rails at the top :( by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/06/2007, 9:47am PDT NEW
                                                        Go nuts, and be sure to shoot me a link to whatever it is you're doing by Entropy Stew 06/06/2007, 10:07am PDT NEW
                                                            Re: Go nuts, and be sure to shoot me a link to whatever it is you're doing by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/06/2007, 1:41pm PDT NEW
                                                                sent NT by Entropy Stew 06/06/2007, 3:03pm PDT NEW
                                            I hope making this has sparked a fire within you! by Fussbett 06/05/2007, 11:44pm PDT NEW
                                                "About Caltrops" NT by Ray of Light 06/05/2007, 11:47pm PDT NEW
                                                It turns out it sparked a fire within ME! by Fussbett 06/08/2007, 2:51am PDT NEW
                                                    POSITIVE! NT by Entropy Stew 06/08/2007, 2:54am PDT NEW
                                                        Does this table have a Bipolar Mode? NT by Entropy Stew 06/08/2007, 9:58am PDT NEW
                                                    I must play this game. This is the table to end all tables. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/08/2007, 2:56am PDT NEW
                                                    You must include Senior B flexing with his knife, possibly with a Mushroom cloud NT by Mischief Maker 06/08/2007, 5:42pm PDT NEW
                                                        No! by Fussbett 06/08/2007, 7:08pm PDT NEW
                                            Beta 2 by Entropy Stew 06/06/2007, 9:40pm PDT NEW
                                                Ball often finds its way back to entrance gate and gets stuck there by Ray of Light 06/06/2007, 10:48pm PDT NEW
                                                    I noticed that and did nothing about it by Entropy Stew 06/06/2007, 11:17pm PDT NEW
                                        spoiler by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/30/2008, 1:11pm PST NEW
        New version of 3 Angels just came out! by Mischief Maker 12/28/2008, 9:39am PST NEW
            I'll check by Fussbett 12/28/2008, 9:59am PST NEW
 
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