Future Pinball

Pinball Simulation Software

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Information

Emulators	fpinball
Games Location	📂roms \ 📂 fpinball
File extensions	.fpt .7z .zip .rar

BIOS

No BIOS required.

Controls

RetroBat key	Future Pinball key
START	START game
SELECT	Insert COIN
D-PAD	Shake the Pinball
	Ball Launcher
	Change Camera view
	HUD Toggle (Display DMD)
	Pause / Highscores
L1	Left Flipper
R1	Right Flipper
L3	Look up to the backglass
R3	Exit Future Pinball (can be used if select + start fails)

Future Pinball uses DirectInput driver, RetroBat manages dinput through the gamecontrollerdb file located in the \system\tools folder of your RetroBat installation.

If your device is not listed in this file, autoconfiguration will not function properly.

Specific system information

Tables

Future Pinball tables are distributed as .fpt files.

Some tables are fully contained in the .fpt file, these kind of tables can simply be placed in \roms\fpinball folder.

Some tables require additional files to work (fonts, music, textures...), these kind of tables need to be placed in a subfolder of their own in the \roms\fpinball folder:

roms\
└─ fpinball\
   └─ 24 (Stern) (2009) (Collectors Edition) (1.01)\
      ├─ 24 (Stern) (2009) (Collectors Edition) (1.01).fpt
      ├─ 24fonts.fpl
      └─ 24textures.fpl

Why there is an error message ?

If you receive an error message like the following one:

You need to launch Future Pinball as administrator once only. So, go to the "fpinball" folder in the "emulators" folder at the root of your Retrobat installation folder. Then right-click on the Future Pinball executable "Future Pinball.exe" and, as showed on the picture, select "Run as administrator"

Once Future Pinball has started, you can close it and start it again from Retrobat.