The best sentence in that post is: "We are excited to announce that it is finally ready!"

Does this support a rotated overhead view that could be used in a hyperpin cabinet?

Oh well. Worthless without.

Voted. Hey its a step closer to having it in a virtual pin. Hope that support comes

If this gets made, are they going to start going after Visual Pinball?

"going after"? Visual pinball isn't illegal.

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Seems like with recreated tables using pinmame roms it is at least as copyright infringey as console game emulators, if not more so because of using actual table art etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for VP, just thinking that if someone comes out with an actual licensed PC product with the same tables, they might start looking funny at VP.

I love the pinball arcade, but I do have one issue with it.. I have to re-buy if I want it on another system. I suppose this is no different from any other video game, but it would be nice if perhaps they cut you a break when you login (Oh, I see you purchased black knight for iphone. Well then, it will only cost you a dollar instead of $2 when you also purchase it for ps3).

I mean like I want to have it on my iphone, but sometimes it's nice to play it on my wife's ipad, so re-buy. Then it's on ps3, so I think "well, that's got even MORE resolution, and it's a big screen". Unless your a person who just doesn't have a console to play on, I can't imagine there being a big market for a PC version. Also I imagine once it's on the PC, it's probably going to get pirated (something you can't do on a console).

Visual pinball is a framework. It doesn't use mame or copyrighted artwork. Mame is an emulator it doesn't do anything on its own. Neither of these things are illegal. The roms you download angers into pinmame are freely available unlike most cartridge roms. So there's no issue there. The I ly issue is with the tables that some users make that do use scans of copyrighted art. But those are not issues with visual pinball. They are separate tables distributed by separate parties than the vp software authors.

Ability to rotate 270 degrees and fill the screen with overhead table only view on one monitor is all that's really needed. I guess also cmd line to direct launch a table but that can possibly be worked around.

Okay, so when I say VP, take that as shorthand for "the reproduction tables and roms that everyone uses VP for". Obviously the framework itself is not a problem, but I think we would be lying to ourselves to suggest that the main point of the framework is something other than playing real pinball tables on our computers. That's how the lawyers will see it, anyway.

Really hope this makes it on Steam.

I voted yes yesterday.

Please vote peoples.

Actually it's an open source project with a ton of non copyrighted tables. The lawyers aren't technical. When educated then they're done. If they want to go after individual table makers they could. But that's it. Going after vp itself saying it enables the making of infringing tables is like going after Microsoft for making an os that enables infringing material. And who has deeper pockets? Microsoft or a group of open source devs working in their spare time?

I can't see this getting past 5%. The ratio of voters to wanna-be voters is crazy small. People don't like the fact that you have to sign up AND buy a game just to vote, and neither do I. Now I see why everybody is complaining about Steam.

Thanks. Voted

The game has still not passed greenlight so please vote if you have not yet. Also tight now The Pinball Arcade is sold for OSX via the Mac App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade/id509675654?mt=12) for $9.99. I wounder if the Steam release will provide SteamPlay cross platform support for free? I would love that feature because I would find it kinda annoying to buy Mac, Windows and Android (already own) licenses for the same game through 3 different stores.