Search the Community

Please Note - this version is outdated, refer to following link for up to date application version. VPBM processes a variety of game content including: Game scripts/files Backglass files, POV files, ROM and NVRAM files as well as alt colour/sound files (VPX) Game libraries required by game scripts (Future Pinball) Game specific Pinup Player Pup Packs Game specific Pinup Popper front end media files Copies of all stored game database settings Copies of any game specific registry settings (VPX) This is the first publicly released version of VPBM so feedback is welcome. The contents of a games backup can easily be viewed within the application using the tree view, while an integrated Quick View bar provides users a quick visual indication of the presence of critical files - as shown in the screenshot provided. Additionally, a Pinup View displays Pinup media, in a manner consistent with how media is displayed within Pinup Menu Setup. VPBM is not designed to replace Pinup System, in fact it depends on it to function - rather it tries to add features that make managing game files and settings easier. I found myself storing all files used by a game in a backup folder and then having to manually copy these files when I felt the need to update my system, VPBM automates this process. VPBM has been designed to quickly highlight to users when a games backup has fallen out of synch with the currently installed version of the game, allowing users to use the functions provides to address the inconsistencies. VPBM backup files are encrypted and locked to the machine that they were created on, however a mechanism is provided to export games to a known external system. For infromation on this feature, refer to the Export Path and Export Host Identifier settings within the Application Settings help pages. This process does not allow games to be exported and shared universally.

Version 2.1 of Virtual Pinball Backup Manager is now available for download/install. Virtual Pinball Backup Manager (VPBM) is designed to manage backups of individual Virtual Pinball games within a Pinup System/Baller Installer installation. VPBM currently supports Visual Pinball (VPX) and Future Pinball emulators. VPBM supports backup and restore of a wide range of game related content, including: Pinup System specific Pinup database settings Pinup media files Pup Packs VPX specific B2S (backglass) files B2S settings POV (point-of-view) files Flex DMD/Ultra DMD files and folders VPReg.stg entries Custom user text files VPinMAME ROMs VpinMAME VPMAlias.txt entries VPinMAME altcolor and altsound VPinMAME NVRAM (including offset handling) All stored game specific registry settings found in 'Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Freeware\Visual PinMame' Future Pinball specific Game libraries - (via custom filters) VPBM can be run using supplied GUI, but also can be run in a command line mode, and can be integrated into other tools using this interface. Vpin Studio is one tool making use of this feature: https://github.com/syd711/vpin-studio/wiki Version 2.1 contains a GUI uplift which addresses issues when running VPBM on hosts with varying display scaling options. The set of improvements include: The Frontend look and feel has been modernised using WPF framework More accurate progress updates for all operations Panels able to scale in line with windows display scaling Bugfix to support backup / restore of large games (> 5GM) Functionality to check backup compatibility at startup Functionality to support backup / restore of individual game files without the need for a full game backup / restore to be run More details can be found on the application wiki at: https://github.com/mmattner/vPinBackupManagerApp/wiki VPBM backup files are encrypted and locked to the machine that they were created on, however a mechanism is provided to export games to a known external system. For infromation on this feature, refer to the Export Path and Export Host Identifier settings within the Application Settings help pages. This process does not allow games to be exported and shared universally.

@scutters and @MikeDASpike are proud to present "Database manager for PBX" We built this program to make it easier for ourselves to update/add tables in PBX. If the tests succeed we want to bring this program to the PBX community Beforehand, please make a copy of your database directory (and maybe your media folder too)! We are not responsible that anything goes wrong. Features: - Auto find PinballX and all relative paths - Shows system name and XML name - Filtering disabled and/or system XML - Filtering on obsolete tables (for VPX,VP9 and FPT) (and easily deleting tables including deleting media) - Added custom fields for extra information (1) - Unicode supported entries in tables and form to easily pick a character - Search/filter on tables - Easy to use drag and drop for updating media - Media preview on right mouse click - Easily adding -system- media per system - Deleting media with one click - Media Audit button to checking per XML missing content and unused media - Populate data from Visual Pinball tables (Author,Version and Rom) - IPDB list updated to Feb 2020 - Media import from GameEx online - Media import from Mega - Direct table launch with PinballX. Including all startup, launch, before, launch after and exit scripts Thanks to Tom Speirs for this feature (PinballX version 4.14 or higher needed) - Option to stop Team Viewer when recording videos - Support of GIF (PinballX version 4.15 or higher needed) - Loading media support if de-randomiser plugin is used (2) - Advanced Search - Bulk GameEx import - Bulk IPDB update - RealDMD Support for preview media - ZenPinball FX3 auto populate tables when using Steam (all tables) - ALT shortcut keys in all forms - Statistics.ini file will be updated when table is changed/removed - Media image can be converted automatically to static video (mp4) - Auto delete old playfield videos when creating bulk videos (Visual Pinball only) - Original tables added to IPDB search (source sheet by Dux Retro) - Program is resizable - POV import (Visual Pinball only) - Multilanguage - APNG support - Multiselect of tables. Hold CTRL for single entries, SHIFT for selection and press CTRL-A for selecting all - VBS Import/Export (Visual Pinball only) Needed in same folder (without the files the program won’t start, or errors): PinballX Database Manager.exe PinballX Database Manager.exe.config Interop.WMPLib.dll (3) AxInterop.WMPLib.dll (3) MegaApiClient.dll (4) MegaApiClient.xml (4) Newtonsoft.Json.dll (5) Newtonsoft.Json.xml (5) PinballX Database Sheet - PinballX.csv (6) Needed in PinballX folder: FFMPEG.exe (1) If you use custom fields and you use Gamemanager, the XML will be overwrite by Gamemanger and you will lose the custom entries ! (3) These DLL's are from Windows media player and used for preview media content. WMP needs to be installed on the system too. (4) Mega API Client for downloading on Mega (https://github.com/gpailler/MegaApiClient) (5) JSON framework for .NET (https://www.newtonsoft.com/json) (2) See : https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/23127-plugin-pinballx-loading-video-image-changer-de-randomiser-v2/ (6) Visual Pinball Spreadsheet export for PinballX by Dux Retro, see https://tinyurl.com/vps-pinballx All files Are in the setup. As we are no programmers, the setup or program could a virus warning. These are false positives. The setup is created with Inno Setup (https://jrsoftware.org/) Newer versions can be downloaded via https://forums.gameex.com/forums/files/file/2499-pinballx-database-manager/ Running the program on an internet connected PC, will show you when new version is available