Pinball Emulation/Simulation

•    Pinball Emulation/Simulation is fairly new.  If you are sick of video game emulation, like I am, then give this a try.  And if you don’t see your favorite pinball machine, just create it in VisualPinball, or make a new one up.

Essential Files
•    VisualPinball – This program simulates the physics, graphics, etc of the physical pinball machine.  Visual Pinball uses “Table” files, not ROMs for each machine.

•    VPinMame – Obviously, pinball machines from the 1930′s didn’t have any computerized displays or sounds.  But modern machines do.  You will need VPinMame to emulate the ROM images dumped from modern pinball machines.  Download the Sound Samples from that page also.

•    System Components – Links to these files are on the VisualPinball site.  If you are getting frustrated because you think you have everything, but the pinball emulator just isn’t running, try downloading the latest script pack.

Table & Rom Sites

Tables
•    Digital Bumper
•    Robbway’s
•    Gerhard
•    VPForums
•    Gerhard & Crew

Roms
•    AJ’s Site
•    VPForums

Message Boards
•    VPForums – Great site in general.

Other
•    Rec.Games.Pinball Archive