Future Pinball Recreation Flyers (200+)

[MacklinB]

I've recently gone through the task of collecting and cleaning up promotional flyers for most of the hundreds of Future Pinball (and I suppose also Visual Pinball) recreation tables. While the artwork may not exist online for unusual tables like those produced by Geiger and Taito do Brasil, I've managed to easily find most flyers for the existing popular recreations. Each image has been cleaned up and resized to a standard of 400px wide for tall flyers, and 500px for wide flyers. Just in case that size of flyer isn't doing it for you, if anyone likes I could also upload an archive of the cleaned and un-resized flyers.

Because in some cases duplicate "Special Edition" and "ULTRA Edition" recreations exist, I've gone and used alternate artwork (such as another page of the flyer, or a foreign flyer) where applicable (in cases where there wasn't alternate artwork I've had to use the same artwork repeatedly.)

For the Database - visit Future Pinball Database (Unofficial)

For Letters - visit Future Pinball Letters

- On the FTP: /Upload Here/MacklinB/Future Pinball/ ~unzipped & regularly updated.

- You can also find the XML and Wheel images on the FTP (the large portion of which were created by Zerojay and re-sized to the standard 400px wide).

- Marcoqwerty renamed the set to suit HyperPause - only required if you don't these flyers in your Default theme. HyperPause should automatically add artwork in the Artwork# folders to the artwork tab.

- The most recent changes to this pack, as well as the XML in plain text can be found at the thread above.

Most recent changes:

• Properly defined Bally/Midway games as "Bally" or "Bally Midway", depending on year (games before '83 were not associated with the Midway label).
  
• Renamed Jungle's game name to "Jungle (Gottlieb)", as there are now two games with the name "Jungle".
  
• Got rid of the "without Originals" denomination, as I figured it wasn't nessecary to keep two concurrent sets. If you'd like an XML without originals, I'd be glad to upload it for you.
  
• Added AC/DC, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Canada Dry, Elektra, Jungle (Williams), Laser War, Last Action Hero, Rey de Diamantes, Robot, The Shadow, Sky Divers, Spirit, Strange Science, The X Files, X's & O's
  

[dsnyd22]

cool work, Should I get visual pinball, future pinball or both. Kinda new and dont know what each offers.

[MacklinB]

cool work, Should I get visual pinball, future pinball or both. Kinda new and dont know what each offers.

Both are really neat if you just want to play pinball on a desktop PC (or in an arcade cabinet). Here's a quick rundown on some of the main arguments, and my opinions:

- Graphics: VP offers a fixed, simulated 3D view on the playing field (kind of like Space Cadet on Windows XP) - good for older and slower setups. FP renders the tables in real-time 3D (the camera follows the ball) - my PC sometimes struggles with some of the larger tables. Sure, I'm not one to rate games based on graphics alone, but playing a Future Pinball table just feels so much better.

- Physics: As in, the way that the ball reacts to being hit about on the slope of the table. This really comes down to personal preference, I haven't felt too much of a difference between both - but I'm sure some will strongly disagree.

- ROM Support: VP supports Visual PinMAME which uses "...image files of the actual ROMs from the physical pinball machines, executing them as simulations of the embedded CPUs, sound chips, and displays from the physical machines." Basically VP uses the actual ROMs from the real pinball tables to display text and images on the DMD. FP as far as I know doesn't support this.

There's a lot more arguments for either side. If you have the time, you should really just install both and decide for yourself (that's what I did!). Do a quick Google "Visual Pinball vs Future Pinball" and I'm sure it'll come up with loads of posts discussing the finer differences between them.

EDIT: Oh I forgot to add; most Future Pinball tables can be found at PinSimDB, while Visual Pinball tables can be found at VPForums. Associated VP ROMs can be found in the ROMs section and from IPDB

[dsnyd22]

Thanks. Very informative. im goin to try to set up future first.

[zerojay]

As the dude that made the Recreations set, thanks for putting in the effort for this. I wish I had seen this sooner. Great work.

[dsnyd22]

awesome work zero. is the rec set on ftp. if so i should wait until i can access it to set up FP?

[Andyman]

Awesome. These will make the already-great FP wheel even better. Thanks so much for doing this!

[zerojay]

awesome work zero. is the rec set on ftp. if so i should wait until i can access it to set up FP?

If you are talking about the actual tables, no. You'll have to PM me for that.

[MacklinB]

As the dude that made the Recreations set, thanks for putting in the effort for this. I wish I had seen this sooner. Great work.

If you'd like I can re-up the flyers, names altered to suit your database. I personally don't agree with your formatting, but I'm sure a lot of people use both your wheels and XML.

[zerojay]

I'd rather you didn't, actually. At some point soon I'll be redoing the set to be closer to the Hyperlist standards anyways so I'd rather you not waste the time. I'm not sure when I'll be getting to that, however.

[MacklinB]

Well when you get around to it I'd be glad to contribute.

[zerojay]

Sounds good to me. I'm aiming to have a new updated package and to have the database accepted as official within a month or so.

[Andyman]

I noticed that the flyer for Playboy is for the newer Stern game, not the 70s Bally game. Just wanted to pass it along for correction. Thanks.

[MacklinB]

I noticed that the flyer for Playboy is for the newer Stern game, not the 70s Bally game. Just wanted to pass it along for correction. Thanks.

Oops, thanks for spotting that. I'll correct it later today, or when I get the chance.

EDIT: Done!

[Andyman]

No problem, and very nice work on these. They really make the Future Pinball wheel pop.

[MacklinB]

I probably should've posted updates to the pack directly in the thread, instead of just editing the original post. So here's all the changes from the first iteration:

04/08/13 - Added Gold Rush, Jackpot, Klondike, Yukon (all slightly different clones of eachother, although I don't list "clone-of" in the XML)

28/07/13 - Fixed incorrect wheel art and flyer for Bally's "Playboy" (thanks Andyman!)

27/07/13 - Changed "Space Riders" to Geiger's "Space Rider", removed flyer and wheel art because Atari's Space Riders doesn't exist as a recreation.

25/07/13 - Added 4 Square, Amazing Spider-Man, Avatar, Avatar - ULTRA Edition, Taito do Brasil's "Drakor" (wheel only), Favorite (wheel only) Green Pastures, Nitro Ground Shaker Reloaded, Pinball Pool - ULTRA Edition, Rolling Stones, Space Invaders, Super Spin.

17/07/13 - Added Apollo 13, Jumping Jack and Pinball.

[Marcoqwerty]

Tk's...

if can help, i've made all Folder with Flyer.png inside for Hyperpause.

You can do that easy with FILEtoFOLDER and FlashRenamer software, or i can upload in MacklinB folder....

[MacklinB]

Awesome! Yeah if you want you can go right ahead and upload that wherever you think is best/wherever you want. Although if a theme uses artwork from either one of the Artwork# folders I'm pretty sure HyperPause automatically adds/uses it as artwork for the corresponding game. But you never know, some people might not want to use the flyers in their Default theme, and for that a set suited for HyperPause would be great.

[Marcoqwerty]

Ok...first upload start! lol

I can advise here when finish, i hope 1 hour with my slow line...

this it's the software...perfect for Hyperpause folder structure....the other Flash Renamer don't need presentation...

http://www.thecodeline.com/wp/products/filetofolder

Ok uploaded!

[MacklinB]

12/08/13 - Added 24 (Collector's Edition), Back to the Future - ULTRA Edition, BloodRayne, Bond 50 (Anniversary Edition), Fire Power, The Jetsons, Mission Impossible, Mousin' Around!, Red Dwarf - SMEG Edition, Solar System, ThunderCats, War of the Worlds GOLD, The War of the Worlds. Most of these are originals without flyers.

7/08/13 - Added Gottlieb's "Strange World". Updated XML's, added flyer + wheel etc.

10/08/13 - Removed Hankin's "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back", as far as I'm aware this hasn't been recreated in Future Pinball yet. I don't know why it was in the set anyway.

[THK]

Maybe this can be added to the box art section of the dl section if you consider it anywhere near complete. You can always update it later on.

[MacklinB]

I might just do that... for wheels as well maybe?

[THK]

I might just do that... for wheels as well maybe?

If you have proper cut out wheels. (those can probably be 'borrowed' from HyperPin)

[MacklinB]

Actually, maybe that's a job for the HS Project.

[THK]

Actually, maybe that's a job for the HS Project.

Well, I somewhat doubt that as there's no official database.