Superb video, very informative and to the point. I am sure this will help many people out.

Due to your valuable time, attention and tutorials, I got FX3 running on my ALP!! Thank you!! Once I disabled vsync in nVidia control panel and FX3 as I discovered on reddit, the flipper lag disappeared. Sorcerer's Stone and all the others look and play fantastic! Love to hear the dude say "You are not welcome here!!"

I just wanted to say thank you for putting this fantastic work together. After watching this I purchased a ALP pinball with vibs board and the haptics kit from Buy Stuff Arcade and this is really awesome to have in my basement. We have come a long way since playing these games in arcades and bowling alleys back in the day. How cool to have something like this in the basement and for a really good price in my opinion. Your videos are thoughtful and easy to follow I Love the virtual table with all the different games. Thanks again!

Thanks very much for this guide, really helped me set up my ALP with Pinball FX3 - working perfectly. Was expecting it to be a pain but with this guide I had it working in no time - cheers!

I built a pin cab a few years ago and run about 200 tables on it including FX3. This cab however is a game changer and makes the world of pinball more readily available to people. I might just sell my old Cab and purchase one of these. Your content is really well appreciated and has given me the urge to start playing pinball again. Many thanks for posting this tutorial. Tony. 👍👍

Just got everything set up on my Legends pinball and it is great. I would have never been able to do it properly without this video. Thanks so much!!

Its 2024 and I'm using a Legends HD and this guide is epic!

Excellent! This should be on everyone's radar. Clear, crisp and consise.

Great detail on the setup from a completely new Pc. Only thing I did differently was being this machine was dedicated to my ALP, I set my monitor 1 to portrait. Having to navigate pc / steam sideways until I get into fx3 or steam zaccaria just didn’t seem worth it. Luckily it works flawlessly.

Thanks. Got mine all setup. Watched your video numerous times and your Reddit post.

Man this video is the best I’ve seen I sincerely thank you

My VIBS board just shipped so thank you for this!!!

Just ordered my ATlegneds "PLUS" pinball, Dec 4,2021. (wonder what the "PLUS means) Hope it has the latest install. And this vid just stoked me to I can't wait to try this very informative video. And the time you put into it. I surely do appreciate it. Very well done.

This is top notch KZfaq content, sir! Well done and thank you! I can't wait to duplicate your setup!

Video was really good and helped me get going. I wish it had settings for if you're running the playfield in windows in portrait mode though. Going back and forth between screens facing left and normal when in windows outside of pinball fx makes a real nuisance.

Thank you so much for putting this together. It works great! 😁

Thanks for the video. This is what an instructional video should be. Very well done!

Wow! Well done, and thank you so much for this information!

Thanks for the ALP videos, just got mine a couple of weeks ago. I’ve got the ALP cabinet nudge feature and plunger working in FX3 and VPX if interested.

Got it running again! Yeah!

Excellent video as always

Wow, Where do you live? Come over and do mine! LOL...Good instructions from start to finish. Really informative! Got to be a techy, which I am not.

Thank you for this video! I was having a lot of trouble getting a reliable non-laggy USB connection between my gaming PC and the ALP and your info (In the video and on your site) were what I needed to finally get things working well. I had tried 2 or 3 different USB cables...one worked reliably but had too much lag, another would constantly lose connection. I tried a powered USB hub since I heard that could fix the lag, but no luck with the HUB I had. I finally broke down and spent the $30 for the hub and cable you used (plus another $10 for the magnetic beverage holder!) and finally had a near-zero flipper lag (certainly good enough to play well..finally!). I did have a few issues/differences from your video. One was that I needed to set the ALP screen to portrait orientation in my Windows display settings. When I would do landscape in Windows and then rotate in ALP or Steam, the display would get screwed up. It's likely I had something set wrong between my ALU's orientation setting and the Steam/FX3 orientation setting, but I was able to get things working fine by simply adjusting the DMD/backglass coordinates in FX3 so it worked out fine in the end. Also had an issue with the controls, but tracked that down to some previously configured settings in Steam for the ALP controls that were interfering with the Joy2Key settings. After cleaning out the controller settings in Steam, the problem went away. Another challenge was tracking down the backglass graphics and the correct DMD/backglass coordinate settings for FX3. Would love a link to the backglass graphics you used in your video because they look pretty nice. I got the backglass stuff working on an external monitor and now I'm just waiting for my VIBS board to arrive...it's been in "ready for pickup" status for about a week now, but still isn't showing it has been picked up. But once I get it installed, everything else should be ready to go. Thanks again for the very detailed instructions!

This is a lot of work. Holy cow!

I have a Radeon RX570 video card. I followed everything most everything in your video, but cant get the backglass to display at the same time as the table. The only thing I have setup different is both HDMI connections directly from the video card. I have the table directly input into the video card, and the other VIBS into a HDMI/DVI converter. I can get the backglass to display if i switch the connections on video card. Do I need the station setup like you have?

Really great video!! Thank you!

Hi - added the LegendsPB-WTT config file to JoyToKey documents folder, but the settings don't appear when I open JoyToKey. Will they only show up when connected to the ALP, or should I see them on my PC when it's not connected to ALP? Should I remove JoyToKey Config 1 and replace with LegendsPB-WTT. I can't seem to get the settings from the new config to show up.

Thanks for this video! Just way out of my league.. I think I might try, but will fail! Old school guy that has owned OG coin op pins back in 1999 ; Frankenstein, Elvira, Tales from the Crypt, Dracula, Freddy, etc. and had to sell them off in 2018 due to life! I just bought this Atgames pinball in hopes to get these games back to play! I was way off! I guess I will stick to the games it came with which are pretty cool! If anyone can help out with a easier way to get the games mentioned on my Atgames Legends Pinball, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks again!

Hello there, I see the JoyToKey Profile I downloaded/copied listed. It's highlighted when I open JoyToKey. The flippers are still not working ( not a single button or flipper is working ) . What could I be possibly be doing wrong ?

Hi! Would love to see a similar video for Pinball Emporium. Thanks!

Man... i really wish they had USB access in back of the machine or underneath it because those wires look like ASS!!!!! lol. Other than that i'm looking forward to getting one of these, and setting it up with a PC eventually, likely going to swap out that horrid backbox for the $500+ version offered on buystuff. I nearly bought a really expensive custom machine but i hear it's best to mod these yourself and learn the ins and outs of the software so they're easier to troubleshoot when things go wrong. PLUS if i can't manage to get things running well enough, i'll always have the default tables and optional Zaccaria/Taito ones to fall back on.

So I followed these directions and it’s working, but, sometimes when I launch FX3, the backglass screen is not recognized by FX3 and it’s blank, despite the playfield working. Is there a way to insure the backglass always shows when launching the app?

Is my steam deck capable of this or does it have to be a windows pc? Is the vibs board required? Are there different steps for the micro? Thanks!

Don't understand the first bit about the drive backup? What drive? I just connect up the laptop, hdmi and USB to the pinball legends and play it with joytokey and FX3. FX is way too laggy compared and I cannot get it better, despite killing v sync etc. I am running 4070 and an I9 on my laptop with 16GB Ram./

A big thanks to you for sharing clear instructions that help many people get more out of their ATGames Legends Pinball machines! And a question: I see that the new Zen Pinball FX platform now offers cabinet support, yet I find nothing on the Internet about anyone getting that working on the ALP. Is it possible now to play the new Pinball FX on the ALP?

I'm having serious flipper lag on my ALP with FX3. So bad, no table is playable. When I connect the pc to a monitor there's no lag at all. What am I missing? JoytoKey doesn't seem to do anything. I have to use the pc keyboard. Again..am I missing something? Please help.

this video will be very helpful. Did you make a video like this but for Pinball Arcade on Steam?

So, how do you send the images to the backglass. Followed the video completely, but this seems to be left out. Where is the step showing the image being sent to the backglass display? I can't seem to find this information anywhere, in any guide. It just seems like you set the settings, and it works upon launch. However, I'm getting nothing on the backglass except the static windows display.

Joytokey folder only shows a notepad file. I can open Joy to key though no problem. The legends pinball file does not have a controller next to it. I still dropped under the joytikey file and nothing... Any help would be great

Love your vids .. but how come your vpx and fx3 tables look so bright on the ALP?? Mine look a bit dull and dont pop anywhere near as much as yours do .. is there settings or anything anywhere to adjust brightness settings??

I appreciate your video for install. Everything is working perfectly for me except visual pinball. For some reason the leprechaun table loads the playfield behind the top screen on my legends pinball. Future pinball works great but not sure what would be causing the other issue.

Great video! Question...do I need to enter my cabinet code every time I log in? Is there a way for it to retain the code I received from Zen?

I'm trying to set up FX3 on my Legends Pinball, but all I get on my playfield is my computer's main home screen in landscape position. It does not move, just shows same thing. Does not show my mouse and nothing works. My back screen works perfect and shows everything I do on the computer, mouse works, etc. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm using all the cables you used when setting the Legends Pinball to Steam Deck in your video about 10 days ago. Thanks in advance. Gary

Thank you so much for making this. I am a little confused, how did you set up the second HDMI connection into the VIBS exactly? I rewinded the vide 20 times and I still can't understand. Did you somehow do USB from your computer to HDMI or did you split the HDMI. I am so excited to set this up but also so so very confused

My ALP controller is not being detected by Windows. It's acting like I have no controllers plugged in at all. When I plug the USB cable in, it makes the windows chime and opens a folder, so I know everything is connected, but I can't figure out how to get it to work. Any ideas?

Ok. How do you get the sound to work? I have a PC with a graphics card, so the sound can't come thru the graphics card. What do I do?

Do you need 2 hdmi ports, as well as a usb 3.0 to usb cord on your pc to play fx3 with backglass display? My pc has 1 hdmi port, 1 ethernet port, and 3 usb ports...... I don't have any usb-type c ports either.

This was so helpful! For some reason though my plunger just doesn't work in FX3 with Joy2Key. I can use the "Enter" (forward nudge) button to launch but the plunger does nothing. JoytoKey seems to think my "Sitck 2

Is there no way to just stream your PC Steam pinball games to the ALP? That would save you trouble of drilling holes and sitting a PC next to the ALP.

Great video! Just got mine setup last night. I had one question though, why do you keep the playfield in landscape mode? Isn’t there a way to adjust the rotations in FX3 and have it in portrait mode. It sure is a pain to start up with everything sideways. Also, how do you boot straight into FX3 from Windows 10? Thanks

I have the raspberry pi image on this... it's fun... but not as good as a vertical pinball cab... cool vid

Love the video! So I followed everything and for some reason my laptop displays my fx3 while my atgames machine just shows my desktop.. can you help?

got fx3 running thanx to your walkthru so thanks for that. only thing im noticing is that sides of the playfield are slighly cut off. some tables worse than others. i cant even see the shooter lane on indiana jones. thoughts? just wondering if normal or i need to tweak some settings

How do you clear the controls in Steam Fx3? They are already set by default to the keyboard and mouse. I read your instructions and it said to clear the controls if they are set, in order to use Joy2key

Well done for your video ! Is it the same path for micro pinball?

Hey wagner ... is there a way to get the down button on the D pad to also launch the ball? Aswell as the plunger? Many thanks. Your videos are amazing and have been a huge help

Is the process the same for Pinball FX? It seems like Pinball FX3 is no longer having new tables added?

So how do you hook up to the internet if you do not have a VIBS board??? You show how with the VIBS but not without. Thanks in advance

My usb 3 port on alp has not worked since day one. And still doesn't work even after a replacement of both boards and the cable. Support and myself are both confounded by this. Nothing in usb 3 detects. The hmdi input and usb2 ports do work. Because of this. My alp tables are saved on usb flash drive plugged into usb 2. To avoid a bunch of back and forth. I thought a powered hub plugged into my usb 2 would be the answer. While the flash drive loads, steam does not detect my alp controls when the OTG cable is plugged into one of the hubs 4 ports. I have to have OTG direct connect to pc and ALP, making my usb hub useless. Any advice? Is your hub connected to your ALP with your OTG cable to pc in one of the ports? Or is the hub connected to your pc with the OTG to ALP in one of the ports?

Very nice video. My only question from another person's video on the same thing. Do the back glass images for fx3 have to be in png format or is jpeg ok? I'm installing this week. Thanks Gary

Love the video. Very helpful and my games are running great. Unfortunately the sound doesn't work well. It is low volume. I have my pc volume at 100%, the Legends volumes settings all the way up, and all of the FX3 volume slides at high, but still get weak sound. Tried switching the HDMI cable but no help there. Don't have weak sound when playing the games installed on the machine, but also get weak volume with Visual Pinball and Future Pinball. Any thoughts? Could it have anything to do with Nvidia settings? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Sorry if I missed it but I couldn’t find in your guide or the video. Where do you get the back glass images? I saw reference in another video that you had to download them individually and install? I don’t see that step here.

I've been using that file that you talk about on here for joy2key, it works great, unfortunately my plunger is broken and I'm forced to launch the ball using the enter key on my keyboard, i have the arcade control panel installed on my legends pinball, is there anyway i can change the button on joy2key to launch the ball with like my X,Y OR Z top buttons? Cause they don't do anything in fx3 right now anyway, and i dont think i can launch my wizard power either on fx3 with this setup the way the file comes, please help me out if you can, really just want to be able to map my wizard power button and especially the launch the ball button to my control panel so I don't have to use my keyboard at all anymore while playing fx3

@WagnersTechTalk You have one of the best setup videos around. The holy grail of ALP setup videos! Can you please help with something that happened with my Pinball setup? My setup was working great but then for some reason Pinball FX3 stopped displaying on the ALP. It shows up on my laptop but now on the ALP I just get a black screen with a URL on the side of the screen that says: c:\program files [x86]\steam\steamapps\common\pinball fx3\data\steam\pinballfx3.[bmp, gif, png, jpg, jpeg] No idea what to do about this. Please help. Thanks!

Hello Wagner's Thanks for the set up. I am however getting 1 problem. My backglass still shows black screen with location path. Yes I have vibs. What do I need to do to fix this?

I do not understand I have copied the config file to the joytokey subfolder but it never shows up in joytokey???

@WagnersTechTalk I'm so thankful for your video. I've ran into quite a problem with the display, however. When I hook everything up, the backglass display shows the main screen and the main display shows what should be on the backglass. My laptop only has two USB ports and one HDMI. So I bought an HDMI to USB adapter and used both USB ports and the one HDMI port. Did I do that incorrectly? Why are the videos on the backglass and main displays switched? Thanks for any help you can provide!

Wasn't able to find / get a cabinet code so couldn't get past the first step here. Any ideas would be great.

When I connect my pc to the agl, the display will not show up on the cab. I am in otg mode my display settings are 100% and 1080p. My MacBook works fine. Not sure what the issue is with the pc

😲 thanks for sharing!

I followed your tutorial for setting up Joy to key it is not picking up the other file that I downloaded now as far as pinball fx3 ever since I downloaded that other stuff I no longer have any controls on the pinball fx3 I have the Legends pinball with the arcade stick I went into steam and try to set it up like an Xbox one controller. I also followed the pinup popper install video I first did this a few days ago and it worked fine now that I've installed pin-up popper I have no controls on anything that work only the keyboard and that's not what I want to play with since I have an app games Legends pinball machine. One issue that I have also had is when I did have it actually working it had no sound and nothing on the back glass and when I would back out of the game the screen would just continuously scroll very fast

@Wagner'sTechTalk I am having an issue where I start up Pinball FX3, the whole playfield is dark but I hear the music playing but I can't see the animated PinballFX3 logo and the enter key that also appears on the screen. The only way I can get out of FX3 is to bring up the task manager and force close it.

This tutorial is awesome except I can't get Joy2Key working with my AtGames Legends Micro Pinball machine. I used the file you suggested for mapping buttons but nothing worked. Is there an update to the key mappings for the Micro or is there another solution besides Joy2Key that will make the buttons on the Micro work? Thanks!

Did you ever make a video about capturing both fx3 screens using Teamviewer and OBS? It's definitely something that I'm interested in.

How do you remove the dmd on the Williams tables. My main playfield screen has one on the top of the screen with graphics of the cab speakers that doesn't remove. The other tables are full screen. Thanks for any help!

Great video. Quick question. I only have one hdmi on my PC and want to install vibs board. Is there any way I could use one of my DP slots as a extra hdmi out? Thank.

Sent a comment earlier. Got everything working, but has flipper lag. Problem was with display settings. Thanks Have a steam deck on order, maybe that will fix flipper lag.

hi, at around @9:39 in the video you are showing how your main screen (the playfield) is set to landscape. I currently have my backglass screen (on the computer settings) set to portrait mode. And I can see everything on my computer (on the pinball arcade screen just fine with screen #1 being set to portrait). And I even have Pinball Arcade up and running using the joytokey, with this configuration (my #1 screen set to portrait, and my #2 set to landscape -like yours). So I am not sure why I would need or want to have my #1 screen on the PC, set to landscape....when it seems all pinball machine games will need the primary PC screen #1 to be in portrait mode. I hope that makes sense... Also if I left the screen #1 in landscape mode then it would look sideways when viewing it on the Arcade Legends pinball backglass (hence why my screen #1 is set to portrait mode currently). I have a feeling if I dont have the same settings as you showed in your video for the PC screen configuration, then when you explain all the cabinet mode settings in the Pinball FX 3, those settings would not work for me....since my screen #1 is already in portrait mode....So I was just wondering why you would not have have your screen#1 in the PC settings to be in portrait mode??? thanks

Where can I get the images for the back glass for each of the steam tables??? I only saw the image you created for the default view under the guide. I need the images for each table so I can copy and paste in the file. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Ok needs some help. I had this running on old PC. I have another PC that I cannot get the OTG controls to work and its making me nuts. Yes I use ugreen and atolla hub. When plugged in it just does not show up. In PC device manager how and where should it show up? Do you have video how to test with joy2key, I read it on your page but a video could help for visual learners. ?

Can you do this with the VIBS so that you only have the play field but the backglass is just not functioning? Also, JOY2KEY says trackball mimics mouse movement, I don't have a trackball on my ALP, how do you control or can you still use your mouse.

Thank you so much for the videos! Couple questions... I finished my haptics and it works GREAT but in OTG mode the exciters don't seem to be working. On the original tables they work great. Secondly when installing the vibs board. I am able to view my desktop perfectly on the backglass but no images. (FX3) Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm trying to use Koy to key for my Legends pinball hD, I copy the WTT config file, paste in, it shows up in JtoK but its empty, all fields blank, uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times any help?

Another question is I couldn't get any backglass images to show up? On anothe rforum I was told that PBFX3 doesn't come with backglass images and you have to download them yourself and install them. Is there a video tutorial that just shows how to do that? I found most of the backglass images online in a shared Google Drive, but I'm not sure how to add them to PBFX3 and how to edit the settings.ini file.

I installed the VIBS and set it all up following your video. But I don’t have any sounds when playing FX3 on the AT legends. Any suggestion how to get sound working on at pinball???

Great video! One issue I can’t solve is how to get haptics to work in OTG mode. I am on latest firmware 5.65. Can you help I know many people are having this same issue.

Why are you saying the AMD APU will not work with the VIBs board? Is it the Vega graphics or atgames implementation? I was looking at some of the 5600 and 5700GX builds that ETA Prime was putting together. Don't want to waste my money on a a small PC build if it won't work.

So Mr. Wagner what do you think of Zen Studios new upgrade to all their pinball tables & the fact that people have to re-buy all their tables for the new generation..& what’s your take on the ticket system they’re trying to implement..?..thank you‼️ HollerBack Wagner

Can someone please help me? Where in alp is the option to connect via ethernet? I clearly can see the wifi option but that's it. I have ethernet plugged in but no internet.

I have my VIBS board installed and works. I am going to download steam and fx3 for the games that I purchased. I have the Legends Pinball Control panel installed, so after Joytokey is installed do I install LegendsPB-WTT or LegendsPB-WTT-PUP? Thanks Gary

I have set up the vibs board and the pinball as instructed but I have no sound. Sound worked prior. Also on the table you can see the edge of the table at the top. Kind of narrows and and you can see the frame. Any thoughts?

Great guide.. just got it all hooked up.. I only have two tables on FX3, deciding which ones to buy.. I am confused on backglass images. Where do I get those and what should they be called as .jpg files in the steam directory?

Do you have no table / ball lag or stutter at all when using fx3 and vpx on OTG on the ALP cab? Fx3 and vpx run so smooth on my laptop .. but when i plug the hdmi into the alp there seems to be slight ball stutter etc. The flippers work fine. I can't get my head around it. Any help please?

What do you recommend for a desktop to connect to the Legends Pinball for virtual pinball

How did you remove hex standoffs that was used to connect the smaller portion to the back board?

Awesome video great tutorial thank you!

Hi question for you - so I just got my ALP today and quickly set off in setting up OTG. The optiplex I ordered along with the VIBS has not been delivered yet should be anyday now. So I currently have the ALP as the main playfield then I have the Backglass and DMD on my laptop screen. The question is: Is this the best I can do until I get the VIBS board? meaning I cannot use the ALP back glass at all until the VIBS board comes? I know I can't switch back and forth without it but was wondering if I could just HDMI straight into it but it does not seem to detect it. So this is likely the best I can do unti that VIBS board shows up yes?

How do you remove the dot matrix in fx3. I turned it off but it will not remove from the backglass. Any suggestions.

QUESTION: How can I access the original version of Monster Bash on FX3? When I play this game all I see is the remastered version with 3D moving toys/figures. I want to play the original version with the toys/figure simulating the real table. Any tips? Thanks in advance for your help.

If my PC has dual monitors already do I mark the ALP and back glass as display 3 and 4?