This is not an official guide more of a personal journey with tips!
Quick snappy tips after installing the softwares and save some frustrations and time for some people
more fun less stress
PINUPOPPER
When starting pinuppopper for the first time run the PinUpPlayerRegister.bat in pinupsystem folder this will register pinuppopper
Then run the PinUpPlayerConfigDisplays.bat and configure the screens displays for the monitors
Set the popmedia location by running PinUpMenuSetup.exe and going to popper setuptab and clicking on gobal config this were were the pinupopper artwork location is stored
the media path must land on the default folder
PinupSystem\POPMedia\Default
MAKING POPPER DESKTOP WITHOUT A THEME CHANGE IN CAB VIEW
if you want to make pinupopper a desktop without running a desktop theme to change it you can rotate the wheels around, if they are set to 270 you can make them 0 and it will now display them rotated round, or 90 if you need that way
so a cab can look desktop in this way without running any theme
you can change the rotation of the wheels by running PinUpMenuSetup.exe and going to the popper setuptab and clicking on gobalconfig and going to game/wheels tab
changing the "thumb rotate" then press refresh all thumbs to the right and it will allign them right
pinuppopper is a frontend for art display only. so all art is stored in popmedia folder of pinupsystem
PUPVIDEOS
PUPVideos are named the same name as the tables rom file
They go into the Pupvideos folder in pinupsystem
The pupvideos go into the pupvideos folder and remain in there foldered not zipped
example: STLE
this is the stranger things pup pack
The ultradmd folder that comes with pupacks goes into the Visual pinball TABLES folder
VISUAL PINBALL
Visual pinball does require to be on c drive to run properly (in my point of view) you can have media and paths elsewhere but pinmame runs better i think on C drive. You can change rom and table paths in pinmame tho.
I also got script table errors running the x64 version of pinmame, so run the x32 bit version and installed and no errors i got after.
Depends if you run a x64 or x32 bit setup
You can update Visual pinball by extracting the minimal latest release to your visual pinball folder
To first run a table go into Visual pinball folder run VPinballX.exe
This is how you run table and the file must be .vpx file extention
Press file then open and go to table and play
You can configure the preferences for how the table looks and runs, settings for graphics, controllers and video orientation in the prefrences section
if you keep getting a rom legal notice, press tab, space and enter or open Setup.exe in the vpinmame folder and goto setup defaults and click cabinet mode to on
Emulation is actually done by vpinmame and requires roms to play a certain table, if a table does not start on first initial run, press the Q key the quit and restart the table. some will say resetting factory defaults on first boot and require you to restart for the table to start properly
Starting a table will create a pupvideos (table name folder) in pupvideos you can make sure your videos are in the right folder. Example STLE (STRANGER THINGS) SHOULD NOT BE STL145. If the pup folder is named wrong it will not play
If you have a cgamename error. Check your b2s backglass is registered and your running x64 of pinmame.
Some tables need vpx32b (the 32bit version of vpx) with visual pinball leaning towards x64 compatability make sure if a table doesnt run your using the vpx.exe or the vpx32b for the 32bit tables.
Dmd can be dragged and resized and tonset it right click and say set globally or per table
FIRST BACKGLASS SETUP TO DISPLAY B2S
Run the b2s setup and written in the displays, and then run B2SBackglassServerRegisterApp.exe to register usually without admin rights but if issues run as admin
Backglasses, POV files, ULTRADMD, Tables
an example below of how a visual pinball tables folder should look
STLE.UltraDMD (DMD)
B2S_SetUp.exe (BACKGLASS SETUP)
B2SBackglassServer.dll
B2SBackglassServerEXE.exe
B2SBackglassServerRegisterApp.exe (run after running B2s_setup.exe)
B2SServerPluginInterface.dll
B2STableSettings.xml
ScreenRes.txt (SCREEN RESOLUTIONS)
Stranger Things - SE 1.47_OSB.vpx (TABLE)
Stranger Things - SE 1.47_OSB.directb2s (BACKGLASS)
Stranger Things - SE 1.47_OSB.pov (POINT OF VIEW FILE)
the b2s backglass software must be in tables folder
ROMS go into the vpinmame (roms) folder and remain zipped do not extract a roms files contents
IF ANYTHING DOES NOT SHOW AS IT SHOULD ITS BECAUSE EVERYTHING MUST BE NAMED THE SAME NAME
.TABLES
.DIRECTB2S
.POV
.ARTWORK (for pinuppopper)
All wheels,backglasses and tables ect must have the same names)
DMD
The dmd device.ini is kept in the vpinmame folder and you can open this with a text editor