KingofMetal79 Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 Morning Everyone, Does anyone have a quick guide in how to set TPA (The Pinball Arcade) up in a cabinet? I don't know if I am doing anything wrong but in Pinball FX2 you just change screen rotation in settings and tweak the DMD config file to display the DMD on the 2nd monitor and away you go. However there seems to be no such settings in TPA - certainly in the version I possess anyway. If I rotate the screen via window settings before launching TPA it simply doesn't start.... Any suggestions? Cheers
randr Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 Need script or use I rotate to rotate screen. It's awful in cab not worth it honestly
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 22, 2014 Content Provider Posted August 22, 2014 Says the man with 1400 tables in his cabinet!
randr Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 Lol! I didn't say I don't have it in my cab! Lol! I would rather play Hercules v8 rotated full screen then tpa on the cab not gunna lie and Hercules looks bad! But at least it's fun with friends when you hear huge ball and huge flippers thunking always a good table for a laugh
Loafmeister Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 That sounds like a good idea for a thread: "what are the "guilty pleasure pins on your cab?" Ie: pins that either tr vp version is horrid graphically, or the table is a known dog, etc
Loafmeister Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 Wait... Did someone ever release Hercules? What is bad about TPA for you?
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 22, 2014 Content Provider Posted August 22, 2014 That sounds like a good idea for a thread: "what are the "guilty pleasure pins on your cab?" Ie: pins that either tr vp version is horrid graphically, or the table is a known dog, etc start it "Tables that need an update but you still play" would be a kind way of wording it, lol
randr Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 Tpa is fine on tablet or phone but in cab the flippers are huge and view is very bad. I will tell you Hercules is very funny to play in cab fs as bad as it looks it emulates the play good...awful as it is in real life. Would be a good thread pinballs you have installed/played in cab and are ashamed to admit it! I have several. I had I guy this week ask if I had spring break and I did bad as it was he played it and loved the sounds that he recalled and it looks bad but still good fun.
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 22, 2014 Content Provider Posted August 22, 2014 Well since we have hijacked this thread, mine might possibly be Rollercoaster Tycoon, which isn't even bad looking, but compared to most tables on my cab it's a little outdated.
randr Posted August 22, 2014 Posted August 22, 2014 I'll stick to Hercules its bad rotated full screen but as soon as you launch ball you will laugh till it drains! even the sound draining is funny
KingofMetal79 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Posted August 25, 2014 Further to this does anyone written a bat file or ahk that automatically rotates the screen when TPA is opened? If so, would they kindly mind sharing it? ;o)
randr Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Either use irotate or your video card custom launch for tpa to rotate screen on tpa launch
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 25, 2014 Content Provider Posted August 25, 2014 BigBoss over on VPF (I BELIEVE IT WAS HIM???) created a script that will rotate your screen for TPA use when you launch TPA from pinballx/hyperpin......... give his topics a search and see if it turns up
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 25, 2014 Content Provider Posted August 25, 2014 Sorry it was SirCheddar http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=24435
newjersey Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 ok, so i was wondering if anyone here (still) has that Pinball Arcade in the Cabinet setup. i am very interested in trying this myself too. Mostly beceause of the physics engine in the Pinball Arcade. i had read somewhere that they wanted to come pretty close to how the real pinball should play. is it really that different or "better" than the Visual Pinball scripts/engine? (of course there is VPX now, but i haven't installed that yet its on my to-do-list)
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 6, 2015 Content Provider Posted August 6, 2015 Their new DX11 build looks much better in cabinet, but it's still not quite "cab mode" Physics are improved...I'll say that much heh
mpad Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 Tricky question. The physics in different games all have their pros and cons and none is perfect. Matter of taste if you ask me. I play a lot of TPA because they deliver the best overall (graphics , physics, maintenance) carefree experience imo, but still miss proper cab support. If I had to rank physics: Pro-Pinball VP PM5 / VPX Some super tuned VP9 TPA VP9 Fx2
robertms Posted August 17, 2015 Posted August 17, 2015 Well since we have hijacked this thread, mine might possibly be Rollercoaster Tycoon, which isn't even bad looking, but compared to most tables on my cab it's a little outdated. Fren, coming back to this for a minute I agree Rollercoaster Tycoon in VP9 plays pretty awful and needs an overhaul. Have you ever considered it for your next VPX challenge? Just saying... in case you're looking...
benlogan Posted September 9, 2015 Posted September 9, 2015 Best physics in my opinion is Ask Homework's Zaccaria ME. iOS only, as far as I know, but...amazing!
Loafmeister Posted September 9, 2015 Posted September 9, 2015 Zaccaria is also out for Android and strongly suggested is coming to PC, but nothing official.
benlogan Posted September 18, 2015 Posted September 18, 2015 Yes - I heard the Blahcade podcast in which Zsolt hints at upcoming PC version. Excited about that.
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