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What is the VPin Studio?

The VPin Studio is a toolbox for Visual Pinball tables. It provides various features such as:

  • table (asset) management
  • table archiving
  • Discord integration
  • highscore card generation
  • competitions

Download & Installation

Download the latest installer from the releases section.

In general, the VPin Studio has a client/server architecture, supporting the administration of multiple VPins with one VPin Studio client. That's why every release comes with two different installers:

  • Full Installer: This installer must always be installed on the actual VPin and contains the server and the client UI.
  • Client Installer: This installer only contains the UI client which lets you connect from any other Windows PC to your VPin.
  • VPin-Studio-Client-Linux-x64.zip: This archive contains a VPin Studio client runnable on Linux systems.
  • VPin-Studio-Client-MacOS-arm64.dmg: This archive contains a VPin Studio client runnable on MacOS (ARM based) systems.
  • VPin-Studio-Client-MacOS-x64.dmg: This archive contains a VPin Studio client runnable on MacOS (Intel) systems.

The other artifacts are only required for updates.

Installation macOS

VPin Studio now can be downloaded as a .dmg file for Mac. To install the application open the .dmg file and drag the Vpin-Studio application file to your Applications folder.
DMG Install

In your Applications folder, double-click on the Vpin-Studio application. You'll be prompted with a warning that Vpin-Studio could not be opened. Click Done.
Mac Install warning


Navigate to Privacy & Security in your System Settings. Your screen may look different from the one below depending on the version of MacOS you are using. Scroll down. You should see an option to "Open Anyway" for the Vpin-Studio application. Click "Open Anyway".
Open Anyway


You'll then be prompted to make sure this is what you want to do. Click "Open Anyway" again.
Mac Open Anyway

Enter your password.
Mac Enter Password
If the application doesn't immediately open, go back to the Application folder and re-launch it.

Getting Started

Visit the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@vpin-studio/videos

Updates

Automated Updates

The VPin Studio comes with an automated updates. The Studio will indicate that a new update is available by showing a download button on the header toolbar:

Manual Updates

If for some reason the update process failed, you can easily update the server or client manually:

  • Terminate the VPin Studio Server. This can easily be done by right-clicking the Windows tray icon of the VPin Studio Server:

The VPin Studio Server Tray

  • Download the corresponding zip file for the client or server (VPin-Studio.zip and VPin-Studio-Server.zip) from the releases page of this repository.

  • Unzip the zip file and restart the client or server.

Donate

Creating and maintaining the VPin Studio takes a lot of time and resources. Please consider donating through ko-fi.com to support the development.

ko-fi

Discord

https://discord.gg/AMPwvAZHvy

You have feedback or want to report a bug? Join the VPin Studio Discord server!

Bug Tracking

Please do not hesitate to report bugs of feature requests on Github. https://github.com/syd711/vpin-studio/issues You can also get in contact using the Discord server above.

Third Party Integrations

PinUP Virtual Pinball System

https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=start

Visual Pinball Backup Manager

Download: https://github.com/mmattner/vPinBackupManagerApp/releases

Documentation: https://github.com/mmattner/vPinBackupManagerApp/wiki

PINemHi and PINemHi Leaderboard

Download: http://www.pinemhi.com/

Documentation: http://www.pinemhi.com/

iScored

https://www.iscored.info/

Virtual Pinball Spreadsheet

https://virtual-pinball-spreadsheet.web.app/

PinVol

http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/PinVol.html

VPX Tools

https://github.com/francisdb/vpxtool

DOFLinx

https://github.com/DOFLinx/DOFLinx

PUP Pack Screen Tweaker

https://github.com/matiou11/PupPackScreenTweaker

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