Looking for new players to join the Visual Pinball Gaming League. Nominations for VPGL23 now open

[RusstyT]

If you have a visual pinball setup on desktop, cabinet or Virtual Reality you are welcome to join in the fun with our Aussie Arcade VPGL. The league gives a wonderful opportunity to mix with players of all levels and provides an opportunity to learn games, techniques and have fun. If you would like to nominate tables for the next league competition please join in and  personally message your nominations to me by next Tuesday 9th August.

It's time for our spring time VPGL23  Firing Solenoids and time to get the VP League back together. There has been some great EM tables made by Bord and Scottacus since our last comp and I really enjoyed the variety of nominations in our last comp. Your input is extremely important and it keeps the competition fresh.  Please personally forward your nominations for 2EM, 2SS & 2 DMD games by Tuesday 9th August. This allows me time to set up the comp on Wednesday.

I'm trialling a 9 game 7 week comp this time to provide a greater day to day choice so please stay tuned to a different timetable. The competition will start Thursday 10th August opening with 3 games, 1EM, 1SS & 1DMD and will conclude Sunday October 2. Im also thinking of introducing a battle night for around about an hour once a month using a free online video sharing site like jitsi. I reviewed 10 different sites and Jitsi seemed the best but Ive never used it. It runs encrypted end to end connection  when you use google chrome and you can have a swag of people with no time constraints. You can join in any time and don't have to sign up or have an account. The trick is how we set up Our screens and how we orchestrate the chat and hopefully we can find a platform to do that. Im thinking once a month and we can get together and share what's happening in the games we are playing and have a couple of the troops slug it out with a new release games and we can have some banter. 

cheers & Im looking forward to your nominations and thoughts around the battle night and 7 week comp.

Russ

Edited August 2, 2022 by RusstyT

[bouncer]

Hey, i'm on the Gold Coast...looking to get into vr pinball. Would love to join the league when i'm up and running.
Do you know anyone near me that could help me get set up..or a good source of info for someone starting out.

Thanks Rod

[needlebat]

On 03/08/2022 at 9:11 AM, RusstyT said:

Jitsi seemed the best but Ive never used it.

I've had success with Jitsi for video transport, OBS to create a video stream with screen capture from game and overlay of player, Telegram on phone for chat. Similar with Zoom. Teams is a fail as the random video crop "feature" is a bit ruining.

[RusstyT]

10 hours ago, bouncer said:

Hey, i'm on the Gold Coast...looking to get into vr pinball. Would love to join the league when i'm up and running.
Do you know anyone near me that could help me get set up..or a good source of info for someone starting out.

Thanks Rod

Rod, I hope you are ready for some toil. It is quite a process but rewarding once you get it work. To run VR you'll need a Steam account. I use the steam VR offline and I don't run my cab online. If you join VPUniverse There are resources For VPX Launcher which allows you to change cabinets with your headset on and a link to Github for the latest VPX_GL 86 Release which is the file that runs your VR File. You will need to be on VP Universe to get downloads for VR pinball tables.

Having said this you will also need to download VPinMame 3.4. Just do a google search. VPinMame has all the Architecture for the components needed to Run VPX_GL.  ie ROMs, NVRam Tables folder etc

Before you upload anything set up a folder C/VisualPinball which is the repository for all your pinball files. I suggest at this stage you PM StudlyGoorite  on VPUniverse who is the administrator for VR group. Politely ask him and if he can direct you to resources for the install. The VR guys also have a group on discord. This is a start

Russ

 

 

Edited November 3, 2022 by RusstyT

[bouncer]

Thanks Russ, i appreciate the info . That gives me a good starting point . I'm sure things will become a little clearer as i go on. I suppose i'd just like to know it is worth the expense and effort. i enjoyed playing Pinball fx 2 on my PSVR, but i'd really like to get some classic tables up and running. i owned quite a few over the years, so hopefully this will be the next best thing.II'll let you know how i get on. I don't even have a pc anymore but i did run vpmame on my old pc years ago. i'm going to build something high spec to run games for my my newly acquired racing sim rig. Why not have all the toys hey 😉 

[bouncer]

Playing the Williams classics in VR is what wold motivate me to set this up

[skids]

@Peezy you should get in on this

 

whoops, this is an old, thread, i'm sure someone will point you in to the current thread ( please 🙂)

Edited May 30 by skids

[JustAnotherRat]

On 31/05/2023 at 7:14 AM, skids said:

@Peezy you should get in on this

 

whoops, this is an old, thread, i'm sure someone will point you in to the current thread ( please 🙂)

Will need to join the Visual Pinball Gaming League  club on here.