# Virtual Pinball with Scorbit Integration - Setup and Use

**Source:** Mystery Pinball Theater 3000  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2026-05-14  
**Duration:** 17m 40s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYZBdwyl2xk

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## Analysis

Manu (MPT3K) provides a comprehensive tutorial on setting up and using Scorebit integration with virtual pinball games. The video covers downloading Scorebit-enabled V-pins, creating a Scorebit account, configuring game scripts to enable Scorebit support, pairing machines via QR codes, and using the Scorebit app to track scores, create leaderboards, issue challenges, and compete globally across virtual and physical pinball machines.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Scorebit now supports virtual pinball games in addition to physical machines — _Manu opens the video stating 'you've discovered that scorebit supports virtual pinball games'_
- [HIGH] Users must be running Scorebit app version 1.2.8 or later for compatibility with Guardians of the Galaxy V-pin — _Manu explicitly states 'make sure your version is that version or later and everything should be fine' and 'you need to be using version 1.28 or better for the Guardians to work'_
- [HIGH] Virtual pinball games are labeled with 'VPN' suffix in Scorebit venues, while physical tables are not labeled — _Manu states 'any v-pin you have is going to have the VPN label at the end of it and in the physical table that you have won't have it'_
- [HIGH] Jersey Jack games are Scorebit-enabled and can be used with the Scorebit app — _Manu states 'remember you can use this with any Jersey Jack game any Jersey Jack game we'll have scorebit enabled'_
- [HIGH] Achievements are being developed for Scorebit but are not yet fully supported on all games — _Manu notes 'achievements aren't currently supported in the Guardians yet but we're going to be working on achievement soon'_
- [HIGH] Users can record scores on non-Scorebit physical machines using the Scorebit app by photographing the DMD — _Manu explains 'if you have any physical pinball machines that are not score but enabled remember you can still use the scorebot app to record the scores you just take a picture of the DMD'_
- [HIGH] The Scorebit system requires accurate computer time synchronization to function properly — _Manu states 'scorebit needs your computer's time to be within a very small window of offness because it uses the time in its recordings'_
- [HIGH] Scorebit challenges allow players to send score-beating challenges to friends with a 6-day window to respond — _Manu demonstrates the feature and states 'when they open their scorebit app in their activity they'll get a message that says hey you have six days to beat MPT 3K at this score'_

### Notable Quotes

> "scorebit supports virtual pinball games and you want to share your scores and challenges and stuff with people all around the world"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 0:00-0:15
> _Establishes the main topic and value proposition of Scorebit for V-pin players_

> "make sure that the game is running so I would suggest downloading it from either vpu or any of the sites that have virtual pillow games that have scorebit support"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 1:30-2:00
> _Provides practical guidance on sourcing Scorebit-enabled V-pins_

> "you need to be using version 1.28 or better for the Guardians to work"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 8:15
> _Specifies technical requirements for Guardians of the Galaxy V-pin compatibility_

> "any v-pin you have is going to have the VPN label at the end of it and in the physical table that you have won't have it"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 15:30
> _Clarifies naming convention distinguishing virtual from physical machines in Scorebit venues_

> "remember you can use this with any Jersey Jack game any Jersey Jack game we'll have scorebit enabled"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 20:45
> _Indicates Jersey Jack partnership/integration with Scorebit platform_

> "if you have any physical pinball machines that are not score but enabled remember you can still use the scorebot app to record the scores you just take a picture of the DMD"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 15:45
> _Demonstrates Scorebit's flexibility in supporting non-integrated legacy machines_

> "achievements aren't currently supported in the Guardians yet but we're going to be working on achievement soon"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, 22:30
> _Indicates upcoming feature development roadmap for Scorebit achievements_

> "thank you so much to scorepit for opening the door to Virtual pinball so we can start doing this kind of neat thing"
> — **Manu (MPT3K)**, End
> _Acknowledgment of Scorebit's expansion into virtual pinball as a significant platform milestone_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Manu | person | Host of Mystery Pinball Theater 3000, content creator, pinball community figure providing tutorial on Scorebit integration |
| Scorebit | product | Connected platform for pinball score tracking, leaderboarding, and challenge system that now supports both physical and virtual pinball machines |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | game | Virtual pinball game featured in the tutorial with Scorebit integration; requires app version 1.28 or later |
| Jersey Jack Pinball | company | Pinball manufacturer whose games are Scorebit-enabled and compatible with the Scorebit app integration |
| Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 | venue | Manu's personal venue/arcade location where virtual and physical pinball machines are housed and tracked via Scorebit |
| Frickle Watch | venue | San Francisco Bay Area location with multiple Scorebit-enabled machines that Manu has control of; has Toy Story 4 pinball |
| Toy Story 4 | game | Physical pinball machine available at Frickle Watch location; Scorebit-enabled with achievements tracked |
| Tales of Arabian Nights | game | Physical pinball machine in Manu's Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 venue with Scorebit integration enabled |
| Visual Pinball | product | Virtual pinball platform/emulator that supports Scorebit integration; one of the supported V-pin systems |
| Future Pinball | product | Virtual pinball platform/emulator that supports Scorebit integration; alternative to Visual Pinball |
| VPU | organization | Website/repository for downloading virtual pinball games with Scorebit support |
| Flipstream | person | Pinball player in Manu's Scorebit network; demonstrated as recipient of score challenge |
| PinCredibles | organization | Project/group mentioned in closing credits associated with Manu |

### Signals

- **[technology_signal]** Scorebit has expanded beyond physical pinball machines to support virtual pinball games across multiple emulation platforms (Visual Pinball, Future Pinball) (confidence: high) — Entire video tutorial demonstrates Scorebit integration with V-pins; Manu states 'scorebit supports virtual pinball games'
- **[product_launch]** Scorebit V-pin support is being actively promoted and documented; tutorial suggests this is a recent or newly-expanded capability (confidence: high) — Video opening: 'you've probably clicked this video because now you've discovered that scorebit supports virtual pinball games'
- **[business_signal]** Jersey Jack Pinball has integrated Scorebit into their games; indicates partnership or licensing agreement (confidence: medium) — Manu states 'any Jersey Jack game we'll have scorebit enabled' suggesting systematic integration across JJP product line
- **[community_signal]** Scorebit is fostering competitive engagement and social challenges across players using both virtual and physical machines (confidence: high) — Tutorial extensively covers challenge system, leaderboards, and social features like player search and challenge notifications
- **[product_strategy]** Scorebit is developing achievement system across games; currently not fully supported on all titles but in active development (confidence: high) — Manu notes 'achievements aren't currently supported in the Guardians yet but we're going to be working on achievement soon'
- **[content_signal]** Educational content creation around Scorebit V-pin integration indicates growing ecosystem documentation and user onboarding (confidence: high) — Comprehensive step-by-step tutorial video covering setup, configuration, and feature usage
- **[market_signal]** Growing integration of connected features in virtual pinball suggests movement toward parity with physical machines in terms of social/competitive features (confidence: medium) — Scorebit now enabling same leaderboard, challenge, and achievement features on V-pins as physical machines
- **[technology_signal]** Scorebit app supports both iOS and Android; indicates mature mobile platform strategy for pinball ecosystem (confidence: high) — Manu references 'Android store the Google Play store or the Apple Store' for app download
- **[operational_signal]** Scorebit provides venue and machine management capabilities allowing operators/collectors to track and control multiple machines across locations (confidence: high) — Tutorial shows venue creation, machine grouping, and location-based machine discovery features
- **[design_philosophy]** Scorebit's design philosophy bridges virtual and physical pinball, treating them as unified platform with shared social/competitive features (confidence: high) — Same app, leaderboards, and challenges work across both V-pins and physical machines; manual photo-based score entry allows non-integrated machines to participate

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## Transcript

[Music] [Applause] hey guys Manu AKA mpt3k here and you probably clicked this video because now you've discovered that scorebit supports virtual pinball games and you want to share your scores and challenges and stuff with people all around the world well I'll show you how to get started now first obviously your virtual pinball game has to support has to have scorebit support built in the game that I'm running currently does have it and this video should apply to any game that has any virtual pinball game that has scorebit built into it so first thing you do is you want to download your game get the latest version of the scorebit supported virtual pin and whether it's visual pinball or future pinball or something else and make sure it's updated make sure it's running okay you want to make sure that the game is running so I would suggest downloading it from either vpu or any of the sites that have virtual pillow games that have scorebit support set it up outside of outside of your front end don't use a pinball X or or pinup front ends yet we're just going to be dealing directly in the application so we can get everything set up and running White as soon as you get it set up launch the game play a couple of games flip around make sure everything is set up before you move on to the next step the next thing you want to do is to download the app from the either the Android store the Google Play store or the Apple Store and you can see we have a QR code in the game running on the DMD right now that will send you directly to downloading app or just go to the store search for scorebit s-c-o-r-b-i-t and then download the app so we have the app showing up on the phone Cam and I'm going to show you if you go to if you already have the app to make sure you're running on one two eight click on your profile picture here go to settings and then click on app version and that will show you that I am currently on 1.2.8 make sure your version is that version or later and everything should be fine [Music] if you don't already have a scoreboard account or when you download the app it's going to pop up asking for a username and password create an account um that's about as hard as that gets once you create the account come on back and we'll continue the next thing you want to do is to edit the script in either visual pinball if you're using that or if the game is supported in a future pinball you're using that or whatever pinball system you should be able to go into a script and edit some of the settings at the top of the script for this particular game the settings that you're looking for are scorpit active equals zero so when the game comes it's going to be set to scoreboard active equals zero that means this scoreboard is not currently enabled and running on this game change scoreboard active to one and that will enable scorebit to be used on this particular v-pin you also might see scorebit show claim QR equals one you should leave this alone but basically this says it will show you a QR code at the beginning of the game for you to scan in and claim your player if you set this to zero then you won't see this QR code when you start a game and the only way you can claim your game is to do it directly through the scorebit app there's also scorebit claims small equals zero if you have a higher resolution monitor you can set that to 1 which will make the QR code show up a little smaller but I would just leave it alone and let it stay as large as size so that it's easiest for your phone to scan that QR code so once you've enabled the script to say scoreboard active equals one you should see this QR code show up in the game and it's going to be totally obnoxious it's going to sit right on top of the screen basically it says scan QR code with the scoreboard act to activate you're starting the process to register your game with the score of it servers so I'm going to take this guy off actually and I'm using my phone I'm going to click the little the little QR code up in the corner and I'm going to scan this code [Music] now once I've scanned the code you should see this message pop up in the scorebit app we see you scan this shiny new pinball machine Let's get you set up three simple steps the first one is we're going to say we're going to register and log in we're going to create a venue and we're going to connect our machine all right your machine needs a place to live scoreboard refers to these locations as venues venue is basically going to be your home office your home arcade the murder garage that I have downstairs where are all your pinballs pinball machines living either physical or virtual they will all live in the same venue so if you set up already a scorebit account and you have physical pins but you also have a v-pin you want to add this to that particular venue that's already created if you have no venues and you're just starting off fresh well let's create a venue now where we'll keep all of our virtual and physical pins so let's say we're going to create and once again if I had a scorebit venue I would search find it and add it to that existing venue but we don't so we're going to go on continue so now we need to create a venue I'm going to just call mine my news venue please be more creative than that it's got my address and everything in there but I can set this location to private I'm not a public venue I'm just in my house we're gonna hit save and now it's pairing and you'll notice success your scorpion is connected that QR code just disappeared it's now paired with the game we click finish and now we're almost ready to go so what I suggested you do at this point you probably don't have to but I'm going to suggest it anyway is for you to quit the game this is just for safety we're going to quit the game and then we're gonna run it again technically you don't have to do this but I like to do it just be safe when you start it up you hear that sound that sound means you have just successfully connected to the scoreboard servers now we should be ready to play all right you're all ready to go you have scorpion enabled in the game when you fire up the game you should hear the little chime that says that the game has successfully connected to the score of its servers also if you fire up the game and you see a message up there that says this please set the time something about your computer's timing off scoreboard needs your computer's time to be within a very small window of offness because it uses the time uh in its uh its recordings and stuff like that so make sure that your just check your windows clock make sure that it's accurate mine drifts mine tends to drift maybe 30 seconds over like a couple of weeks and I never noticed it so just turn on the auto sync of the clock and then maybe turn it off and on so it gets to sync again anyway make sure that the time is correct so here on the app I have all the venues displayed now and I switched to my mystery pinball Theater 3000 user so that's who I'm logged in as right now and my venue is Mystery pinball theater 3000. so if I click on mystery pinball Theater 3000 it takes me over to my venue which currently has Gardens the Galaxy VPN and any v-pin you have is going to be going to have the VPN label at the end of it and in the physical table that you have won't have it so there's a Tales of Arabian Nights also in the house that is also scorpit enabled if you have any any physical pinball machines that are not score but enabled remember you can still use the scoreboard app to record the scores you just take a picture of the DMD sort of like pindigo and you can record the score that way all right so let's go into guardians galaxy V pin and it loads a session but there's no game playing right now so it just basically shows me my top scores and leaderboards and stuff like that okay you can scroll and see leaderboards top scorers Global top players Global top scorers top scorers this month it's a lot of neat things um also if you notice if I click on um if I click on say this 1.9 million score you notice not it not only has a screenshot of my score see there's my score right there it also has me in there and also has a little cool little readout of data about you know the modes and stuff like that um it's a fun visual thing right now it shows you in red is ball one and then there's another colorful ball two another common ball three you can see how much time that game took so that was actually quite a long game it was like 11 minute game for 1.9 million score anyway swipe left and right to go back to on the screen once I start the game now I press start on the game okay the game fires up and you know scorebit immediately knew that the game was started it hasn't signed me in or anything it's just hey a game has started here you are um I can remove the phone and scan the QR code using this QR Code Reader right here see that but if I don't want to keep doing that over and over again I don't have to I can simply tap this tap my player to claim my player score you just tap the player and there you go as you can see up in the DMD it says MPT 3K you see in the app it says MPT 3K we're all set we're all ready to go and you can do that at any point in the game so if you have an amazing game going and you forgot to do that just pull out your phone load up scorebit navigate to the game look if I go to the S right now oh my God I lost my game where is it well just navigate back to the game even if this the QR code isn't there you can click the click your Venue click your game and see the current status of the game okay I can even quit the app completely it's my cool desktop right go into score of it I quit the app completely go into scoreboard go to my game go to my venue go to my game and it loads a new session of the game that's currently in progress um so here we go we're ready to play let's just do quills class which I would never do it's the skill shot as a first first mode but let's just do it for now we're playing notice the scores are actually updating on the screen um it's very very cool I'm gonna get a single shot there's one upstairs to my finished post press I don't think I will two hours later oh sorry you just saw me drain out so when the game is done okay after the game does its little game over sequence all right we're finished [Music] all right we did match we didn't win a free game over scoreboard will now show your score on your leaderboard okay and if you click the trash icon it'll actually get rid of that score off the leaderboard meaning I don't want to report that score but if you get a great super score you also get a score bit rank which is pretty cool uh worthy of attention that's me uh if you click save to leaderboard it will take you to this screen here with your score and everything this allows you to do a bunch of things if you just hit the X it goes away and says okay fine if you want to take a picture you can hit the little picture button and you can choose a picture from the library or you can take a picture of the screen if you click the little plus button this is neat this little plus button will challenge send a challenge to someone else to beat your score and these are all the people that I follow currently and I can send the challenge back to flipstream if I want okay and I can hit tap him and that adds him to my challenge list and when I close this or I can use a search of course to all my friends and then flipstream is now being challenged you can challenge multiple people so if you get a huge score you can challenge three of your friends to beat that score and when they open their scorebit app in their activity they'll get a message that says hey you have six days to beat MPT 3K at this score you know it's some fun some fun challenging things I'm gonna remove flipstream uh this is obviously a share icon where you can go and share out the score on some other bit of social media all right uh the versus is not yet implemented but that'll be a cool feature once it starts a couple other features you might want to see when you click your profile those have a profile picture I think currently you can only upload a profile picture on the scorebit website um I could be wrong but that's how I upload my profile picture on the scoreboard website I'll put a link to the scoreboard website below for you to um be able to look at your user account and stuff like that but if I hit that I can do all these things I can look at my profile right here and this is my profile and scoreboard it'll it's a place where it holds all your achievements and everything hear my scores on uh these are my scores on Guardians I also have some scores on this load more I should have some scores on Toy Story and remember you can use this with any Jersey Jack game any Jersey Jack game we'll have scoreboard enabled so this could be fun there's a picture of me and Audrey and Tails are very nice a lot of me on mp3k um and it shows your achievements and like I said achievements aren't currently supported in the Guardians yet but we're going to be working on achievement soon so these are my achievements on Toy Story 4. uh these are my challenges this is uh This Is Me versus uh these are the challenges I won actually that's pretty cool uh what's this pinball machine dude oh this is to find a pinball machine and this little eye is a information about when I joined and stuff like that another thing you might want to check out is the settings uh if you go to settings right there there are a bunch of different settings that you can opt in on opt out on you can always check your app version here and make sure you're running the latest version of the build remember you need to be using version 1.28 or better for the Guardians to work there's a bunch of stuff in here I'm not going to go through everything but you can check out a lot of the neat things there and the uh my machines in my venues buttons are to see which machines you have control of so to speak on score bit that'll quickly find your machines uh it's searching for my machine so I don't look at my screen because I actually control pretty much all the machines at frickle watch so that's why it has a huge that's why it took a little while to come up venues button it shows me all the venues that I have kind of ownership on which as I said before free gold watch and mystery pinball Theater 3000 make sure you visit free go watch if you're ever in the San Francisco Bay Area uh what else is there anything else uh and then there's your basic activity of all the things that kind of happened in the last few days so that oh also uh one other thing is this little button here the pinball machine button will allow you to search for machines so if you're looking for a Toy Story maybe I can go uh t-o-y and it will find Toy Story 4 and if I click Toy Story 4 it will fine it so it will show me the global scores for Toy Story 4. um so it shows me the champion scores and everything and wow 94 million this is great if I click on the little map button next to the machine that will help me locate a Toy Story 4 near me so it finds the nearest the closest Toy Story to you and as you can see that is the case free low watch is a Toy Story for uh just how one kilometer zero kilometers it's pretty close I live pretty close uh and in this one little here for with the little uh people look icon right there that's so you can find people um find people to follow so just click on that and go into search and make sure you search for mpt3k and follow me and send me challenges and I can't wait for you guys to uh uh jump into the fun of challenging each other on your brand new shiny scorebit enabled virtual pinball machine thank you so much to uh scorpit for uh a lot opening the door to Virtual pinball so we can start doing this kind of neat thing this is mpt3k with the pin credibles thanks

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