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Scripts:

The Apocalypse Man - Episode One: The End - We are introduced to our hero and he's already in pretty bad shape. See him already hurt! See him get hurt some more! See him hurt other people!

Seinfeld - The Worst Show Ever - Kramer gets a mail-order bride, George tries to write his life story, Jerry can't get a woman to laugh, and Elaine floats around. Hilarity ensues.

Games:

Pinball:

Installing and using Visual Pinball/VPinMAME

1) Download and Install Visual Pinball Tech Beta 6.1:
I recommend installing it to c:\pinball.

2) DirectX 8 or later required. Get it from Microsoft.
Most of you probably already have DirectX 8 or later, since it installs with games like Call of Duty, Rainbow Six 3, Soldier of Fortune 2, etc.

3) Install the latest Windows Scripting. The current is 5.6.
For Windows 2000 and XP
For Windows 98, ME and NT

4) Download and Install Visual PinMAME
Visual PinMAME works together with Visual Pinball to fully emulate the whole pinball machine.
Create a sub folder under your c:\pinball directory called vpinmame. Extract the zip to this directory, make sure to set the directory extract option. Run Setup.exe in the c:\pinball\vpinmame directory. Select the default directories you created as the paths. Also unselect Skip Test on the options screen after the directory screen.

5) Download the VPinMAME Samples.
Copy pinmame.zip to /pinball/vpinmame/samples/ (keep in zip).

6) Download the script files
Unzip these into /pinball/tables.

7) Download some tables from here or here.
Both sites have a few problems, the first site will keep asking you for a username and password, just hit cancel. They also have a few incorrectly named ROM files, but we'll get to that in the Troubleshooting section below.
The second site is well organized and has the latest versions of different tables, as opposed to the other site, unfortunately you're only allowed to download five a day.
When you download a table, you need to get the table file and the ROM file. For the first site, after clicking on a title, look for the blue box and download the files under "Tablea" and "Rom."
On the second site, click on the table name to download the table zip file and click on second piece of red text in that row to get the ROM.

On a separate note, I really recommend getting Indiana Jones (Get the Jive version), The Twilight Zone, Back to the Future, Doctor Who, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Who Dunnit, and Black Knight 2000.

Though you can get many of those from the first site, I would recommend you get them from the second. I know the download limit and wait times suck, but the other site has some horribly outdated versions of tables. You really should use that site only if you are very impatient. If you IM me, I'd be happy to send you whatever tables I have. Sorry I couldn't mirror them here, but I don't have enough space.

8) Installing tables.
So, you've downloaded the zip files for the table and the ROMs, what do you do with them?
Open the table zip file, this one contains a .vpt file and maybe a few text files. Unzip these into your /pinball/tables/ directory.
The second zip file is the ROMs, which contains several oddly named files with different extensions. All you have to do is move the zip file into /pinball/vpinmame/roms/, no need to unzip it.

9) Playing a table (finally).
Open Visual Pinball, click File -> Open... and point it over to your pinball/tables/ directory. Pick the table you want to play and open it. Once it loads, click play, and select YES when asked if it is legal for you to be playing. Most tables have to go through a boot up process where the scoreboard display will keep saying "Factory Settings Restored" or something along those lines. This only happens the very first time you run a table, so restarting it will let you play. Enjoy.

Troubleshooting:
Sometimes when loading a table a screen will pop up titled "Game Info." There will be various bits of information along with a white box near the bottom listing several filenames. This means that the ROM file you downloaded is misnamed, which I've found can happen when downloading from that faulty site. To remedy this, go into your /pinball/vpinmame/roms/ directory and find the ROM file that goes along with the table and rename the file to what is under "ROM set name" on the Game Info screen. That should take care of the problem.

Occasionally, if you've been playing for a while and switching from table to table, the table sound effects will stop working. All you have to do is restart Visual Pinball altogether to fix this.

If anything else comes up, feel free to ask me for help.

Controls:
The shift keys control the flippers.
5 inserts a coin.
1 is the start button.
Enter is the plunger.
Space tilts, don't go crazy.

Other:

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