Virtual Pinball
 

I was pretty excited to find out recently that you can download virtual pinball tables and play them the same way you would play regular arcade games on an emulator. Many tables have been replicated, including my favorite, "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

I tried downloading a couple of emulators (Visual Pinball and PinMAME), but I can't get them to work right. PinMAME seems to be strictly an emulator for the LED screens:

http://pinmame.retrogames.com/Images/sttng.png

Visual Pinball I think is the one most of us would be interested in, but it's tricky because I think in addition to downloading the virtual table that somebody had to program, you have to download the ROM of the LED screen? I can't really figure it out.

Anyone ever tried this?

Edit: Just found a tutorial site, haven't tried it out yet:

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/pinmameguide.htm

Re: Virtual Pinball
 

I've downloaded and played these before. They are suprisingly realistic, considering the fact that you are playing with a keyboard and not a physical machine.

Attack from Mars and Twilight Zone were always my favorites.

Re: Virtual Pinball
 

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I've downloaded and played these before. They are suprisingly realistic, considering the fact that you are playing with a keyboard and not a physical machine.

Attack from Mars and Twilight Zone were always my favorites.

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Good to know...I'm still trying to figure out how to get them to run, as you have to have like 4 different programs and link them all together to get everything working right.

Then some of them are betas which have expiration dates and you have to set back your CPU clock, and some versions of the program don't work with other versions of the other programs, and some tables don't work with some versions of the programs, and there's an extra step you need to take if you have Windows XP SP2.