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Pinball FX3 on Legends Ultimate Arcade

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This post details the wiring mods and software configuration you will need to play Pinball FX3 with the buttons on the side of the ALU 1.1.  The side buttons control flippers and nudge.  The right stick launches the ball.  The trackball and "A" buttons give in-game mouse control. I tried the free pinball games on ArcadeNet and frankly, they don't hold a candle to Zen Studio's Pinball FX3.   On the Legends Ultimate, the pinball games are limited to 720p/30fps and IMO, that is a non-starter.  There isn't enough resolution to see and enjoy the tables at 720p with sidebars. In my limited experience with virtual pinball, it seems that there are two kinds of tables.  The first are virtual recreations, which are best played on high resolution portrait displays.  The second are "fantasy" tables which are designed to run on typical 1080p landscape gaming monitors.   Pinball FX3 largely falls in the latter category, although they also have many "digitally enh