Like you I re-programmed my key assignments to accommodate FX. It could definitely be done.īy pure coincidence I have also just got this up and running in a cabinet to, so it was interesting to hear what you think. As it stands, you'd have to script rotating the monitor when hyperpin launches and exit hyperpin to go to pinball fx. Visual pinball would probably do ok in this also if all the tables were redone lol. It actually supports non rotated 1080x1920 resolution in arcade mode. You could add future pinball pretty easily. It's really pretty awesome.Īs far as a single cabinet that integrates both, it will be hard. Most tables have 4-5 ramps, several lower (hidden) playfields you have to get to, changing ambiance such as moving characters, night to day transitions, etc. Shots go where you'd expect off the flippers and it even implements ball spin well. I bought them all.Īs for the quality, there really is no comparison between this and visual pinball or future pinball. There are currently a slew of games, maybe 20 or so. I even used joytokey to translate my analog nudge controls into key presses that pinball fx2 accepts and set joytokey to autorun. If you're willing to say ditch hyperpin and go fully pinball fx2, (or build a 2nd cabinet for this purpose), then you can have this boot up to metro, only have pinball fx available, hit enter to start it, and use the four buttons above to select games, navigate all menus, and even change in game settings. With the plunger being enter and the exit button being escape, this integrates extremely well into a cabinet. As for controls, I reprogrammed my ipaq to left/right arrows, and the 2nd buttons to up/down arrows. It only supports one monitor, so I put the DMD on the bottom left, out of the way. So I am sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have managed to get this running very well on my cabinet moving it to windows 8. I will play some more the weekend and will report back. The views could be better, plus the ball is far too small - like a marble. I can now boot the cabinet in XP or W8 by changing the boot drive in the BIOS. No sound because the W8 drivers don't work for my onboard sound nor my Asus Xonar DS soundcard. I couldn't work out how to shutdown, launch the control panel, run a DOS cmd. It's seems like it was designed by the same person that designed the ribbons in office. It's awful and so un-intuitive - the mix between desktop and tablet is a complete mess. I managed to do a clean install on a freshly formatted drive with the Pro Upgrade - it is possible with a lot of messing about. I have a full copy of 8 in a VM don't like the new UI and VM's are poor at 3d video. The only bummer about it is navigating the menus you have to use the mouse/keyboard. Still plays like PFX2 of course *cough* but it works fine. The portrait mode PFX2 works just fine on a cabinet. Managed to wrangle up a RTM version of Win8 from a developer friend of mine.
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