PinballY tries to make installation mostly automatic, but there are a few details that you might have to take care of manually.
If you want to be able to use .swf files for scanned pinball
instruction card images, the Adobe Flash Player ActiveX control
(also known as the Flash plug-in for Internet Explorer) must
be installed on your system. PinballY doesn't need Flash for anything
else, so this only necessary if you want to be able to display .swf
instruction card scans.
See Flash Player for more details.
If you're using PinVol, you should update to version 1.2 (July 2018) or later. PinVol added recognition for PinballY in that version to make the two programs work better together.
If you're using DOF for feedback devices in your pin cab, a few extra steps might be required.
If you're using a real DMD (dot matrix display) device, such as a PinDMD or Pin2DMD, you might need to update your copy of DmdDevice.dll (the system component that accesses the DMD device).
DmdDevice.dll is normally installed as part of your Visual Pinball setup. If you used the VP installer, it should have placed a copy of DmdDevice.dll in VP's VPinMAME subfolder. That might be an older version, though. For best results, make sure you're using one of the following:
Version 1.7.2 (even my patched 1.7.2) has a known bug that prevents it from working with ROM colorizations, so some people are still using my 1.7.1 patch for the time being, until that bug is fixed in the official release branch.
If you're not sure which version you have installed, open the file properties (from the Windows desktop) for the file DmdDevice.dll, normally found in your Visual Pinball\VPinMAME folder. Check the Product Version under the Details tab as shown at right.
The 64-bit version of PinballY requires the 64-bit version of DmdDevice.dll. It's safe to install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the DLL at the same time. The trick is to make sure the 64-bit version is named DmdDevice64.dll, so that it can coexist with the regular 32-bit DmdDevice.dll without creating a file naming conflict.