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Virtual Pinball with Scorbit Integration - Setup and Use Tutorial

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·19m 59s·analyzed·Oct 29, 2022
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TL;DR

Tutorial: Setting up Scorebit integration for virtual pinball games and using the app.

Summary

Manu from Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 provides a comprehensive tutorial on setting up and using Scorebit integration with virtual pinball games. The video covers downloading Scorebit-supported games, creating a Scorebit account, enabling Scorebit in game scripts, pairing machines via QR code, and using the app's features including leaderboards, score tracking, player challenges, and social sharing. Scorebit is positioned as a platform that brings competitive and social features to virtual pinball similar to what exists in the physical pinball community.

Key Claims

  • Any virtual pinball game with Scorebit support built in can be tracked through the Scorebit app and leaderboard system

    high confidence · Manu demonstrates this with Guardians of the Galaxy V-pin and mentions Tales of the Arabian Nights also being Scorebit enabled

  • All Jersey Jack Pinball games have Scorebit enabled

    high confidence · Direct statement: 'you can use this with any Jersey Jack Pinball game. Any Jersey Jack Pinball game will have Scorebit enabled.'

  • Scorebit app version 1.2.8 or later is required for compatibility

    high confidence · Manu checks his version and states 'Make sure your version is that version or later'

  • Scorebit can track physical pinball machine scores via photo if the machine is not Scorebit-enabled

    high confidence · 'if you are playing a game on location that does not have Scorebit enabled on it. You can still use Scorebit to take pictures of the scores in kind of like a Pindigo fashion.'

  • The Scorebit challenge system gives opponents six days to beat a posted score

    high confidence · Manu demonstrates the challenge feature and states 'you have six days. You have a week to beat Mystery Pinball Theater 3000's score'

Notable Quotes

  • “Any virtual pinball game that has Scorebit built into it... make sure it's updated, make sure it's running”

    Manu@ 0:46 — Setup instructions emphasizing prerequisite steps

  • “A venue is basically gonna be your home office, your home arcade, the murder garage that I have downstairs. Where are all your pinball machines living? Either physical or virtual, they will all live in the same venue.”

    Manu@ 4:54 — Explains the Scorebit venue concept, showing how virtual and physical machines integrate

  • “You hear that sound. That sound means you have just successfully connected to the Scorebit servers.”

    Manu@ 6:39 — Confirms successful connection indicator

  • “Scorebit needs your computer's time to be within a very small window of offness because it uses the time in its recordings”

    Manu@ 7:10 — Technical requirement: system clock accuracy

  • “if you are playing a game on location that does not have Scorebit enabled on it. You can still use Scorebit to take pictures of the scores in kind of like a Pindigo fashion.”

    Manu@ 12:21 — Alternative score tracking method for non-Scorebit machines

  • “Any Jersey Jack Pinball game will have Scorebit enabled. So this could be fun.”

    Manu@ 15:23 — Confirms Scorebit integration across JJP catalog

Entities

ManupersonMystery Pinball Theater 3000mediaScorebitproductGuardians of the GalaxygameTales of the Arabian NightsgameJersey Jack PinballcompanyVisual PinballproductFuture PinballproductPindigoproduct

Signals

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    community_signal: Scorebit enabling virtual pinball players to compete, challenge, and share scores with global community similar to physical tournament structures

    high · Challenge system with 6-day windows, global leaderboards, social media sharing, IFPA player integration, and location-based machine discovery all demonstrated

  • $

    market_signal: Jersey Jack Pinball has standardized Scorebit integration across entire game catalog

    high · Direct statement: 'Any Jersey Jack Pinball game will have Scorebit enabled'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Scorebit platform roadmap includes unreleased features still in development (mentioned 'another mode that's not yet enabled, but it's going to be awesome')

    medium · Manu references upcoming features: 'There's another mode that's not yet enabled, but it's going to be awesome.' Achievements mentioned as coming soon for Guardians.

  • ?

    technology_signal: Scorebit bringing competitive leaderboard and challenge features to virtual pinball ecosystem, expanding beyond physical machines

    high · Entire tutorial demonstrates Scorebit's application to virtual pinball with same leaderboard, challenge, and social features as physical machines

Transcript

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0:00
Hey guys Manu aka MPT3K here and you probably clicked this video because now you 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 Obviously your virtual pinball game has to have score bit 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 score bit built into it. So first thing you do is you want to download your game, get the latest version of the score bit 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 pinball games that have scorebit support. Set it up outside of your front end. Don't use Pinball X 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 right. 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.
1:24
The next thing you want to do is to download the app from 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 the app, or just go to the store, search for SCORBIT, 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 1.2.8, click on your profile picture here, go to settings, and then click on app version.
2:03

“the Scorebit app is defaulted to saving your scores automatically to the leaderboard”

Manu@ 16:27 — Default behavior explanation

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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.
2:13
If you don't already have a Scorebit account, make sure when you download the app it's going to pop up ask you for 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 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 score bit active equals zero. So when the game comes, it's going to be set to score bit active equals zero. That means the score bit is not currently enabled and running on this game. Change score bit active to 1 and that will enable scorebit to be used on this particular v-pin you also might see scorebit show claim qr equals 1 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 claim small equals zero. If you have a higher resolution monitor, you can set that to one, which will make the QR code show up a little smaller, but I would just leave it alone and let it stay its largest size so that it's easiest for your phone to scan that QR code. So once you've enabled the script to say scorebit 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 but basically it says scan qr code with the scorebit app to activate you're starting the process to register your game with the scorebit 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 Now once I've scanned the code you should see this message pop up in the scorebit app Now we see you have scanned a 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 Alright Your machine needs a place to live Scorpion refers to these locations and venues A venue is basically gonna be your home office your home arcade the murder garage that I have downstairs
5:05
Where are all your pinball machines living? Either physical or virtual, they will all live in the same venue. So if you set up already a Scorbit account and you have physical pins, but you also have a VPN, 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.
5:33
And once again, if I had a score bit 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 Manu's Venue.
5:47
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 going to hit save. And now it's pairing. And you'll notice success. Your Scorbatron is connected.
6:07
That QR code just disappeared. It's now paired with the game. We click finish. And now we're almost ready to go. What I suggest that 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.
6:28
This is just for safety. We're going to quit the game. And then we're going to run it again. Technically, you don't have to do this, but I like to do it just to be safe. When you start it up, you hear that sound. That sound means you have just successfully connected to the Scorebit servers Now we should be ready to play Alright, you're all ready to go You have Scorebit 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 Scorebit servers Also, if you fire up the game and you see a message up there that says Please set the time, something about your computer's time being off scorebit needs your computer's time to be within a very small window of offness because it uses the time uh in its uh in its recordings and stuff like that so make sure that you're 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 um so just turn on the auto sync of the clock and then maybe turn it off and on so it gets to sync again. But 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 Guardians of the Galaxy VPN, and any VPN you have is going to have the VPN label at the end of it, and any physical table that you have won't have it. So there's a Tales of the Arabian Nights also in the house that is also score bit enabled. If you have any physical pinball machines that are not score bit enabled, remember you can still use the score bit 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 a Guardians of the Galaxy vPin, and it loads the session, but there's no game playing right now. So it just basically shows me my top scores and leaderboards and stuff like that. You can scroll and see leaderboards, top scores, global top players, global top scores, top scores this month. It's a lot of neat things. Also, if you notice, if I click on, say, this 1.9 million score, you notice that it not only has a screenshot of my score. See, there's my score right there. It also has me in there. It also has a cool little readout of data about the modes and stuff like that. It's a fun visual thing right now. It shows you in red is ball one, and then there's another color for ball two, another color for ball three. You can see how much time that game took. So that was actually quite a long game. It was like an 11-minute game for a 1.9-minute score. Anyway, swipe left and right to go back to the screen. Once I start the game now, I'm going to press start on the game.
9:24
Okay, the game fires up, and you notice 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. 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 my player to claim my player score. You just tap the player.
9:50
And there you go. As you can see up in the DMD, it says MPT3K. You see in the app it says MPT3K We all set We 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 Scorbit. I quit the app completely. Go into Scorbit.
10:34
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. So here we go. We're ready to play. Let's just do Quill's class, which I would never do as a first mode. Let's just do it for now. No playing. Notice the scores are actually updating on the screen.
10:58
Very, very cool. There's one. There's two. Am I finished? I don't think I will. One hour later. Oh, sorry. You just saw me drain out. So when the game is done, after the game does its little game over sequence, all right, we're finished. We're showing our match sequence.
11:27
Alright, we did match. We didn't win a free game. Game over. Scorebit 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 Scorebit rank, which is pretty cool. Worthy of attention. That's me. if you click save to leaderboard it'll take you to this screen here now this is the screen where you can do all kinds of neat stuff with your score that you've just saved uh you can hit the x button to get out of this if you don't want to do anything the camera button right there will allow you to take a photograph of this of anything you want or choose or choose from your library a photo to post along with the score so that's kind of cool way to like you know take a picture in front of it and show your friends that you're awesome.
12:18
That's also the way to log a score if you are playing a game on location that does not have a score bit enabled on it. You can still use score bit to take pictures of the scores in kind of like a Pindigo fashion. This little versus button here, this is cool. This is where you can send a challenge to one of your friends. If I tap the versus button, it'll bring up this dialogue box here that says challenge people to beat your score. and I can, these are all my friends that I follow right now, and I can tap on, say, Flipstream, who's a buddy and a rival of mine, and click on Flipstream. You can choose multiple people to challenge. And so what happens is I'm going to close that. Now, Flipstream is selected to be challenged. When I hit send challenge, it'll send a notification to Flipstream via the Scorebit app saying, hey, you have six days. You have a week to beat MPT3K's score at this score. And when he launches a game that I challenged him on, it'll give him a little bit of a different experience. It'll say, okay, you ready to play this guy? You think you can handle it? No, it doesn't say that. But anyway, this is a cool way. You can choose multiple people, challenge a lot of people. So when you put up that huge score, challenge your friends to beat them. They have six days to beat you. I'm not going to do that right now.
13:36
This guy right here chooses, you know, you can share your score out on different social media. just like any other thing. And there's another mode that's not yet enabled, but it's going to be awesome. It's going to be awesome.
13:50
And when you're done, you just hit New Game, and you can go to play a brand new game. A couple other features you might want to see when you click your profile. Notice I have a profile picture. I think currently you can only upload a profile picture on the Scorbit website. I could be wrong, but that's how I upload my profile picture on the Scorbit website. I'll put a link to the score bit website below for you to Be able to look at your user account stuff like that Actually, I stand corrected You can in fact upload a photo from your phone if you just click on the little edit pencil right there You'll see it comes up your profile will show up and then from this screen simply tap on your profile picture like that and you can choose to take a picture from the camera or from your user library. So anyway, you can do it both ways, from the phone or from the Scorebit website. And this is where you can edit all of your information about your profile. You can update stuff here. You can even put your IFPA player number in here which will be amazing to show all your friends that you an IFPA ranked player 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 score bit. It's a place where it holds all your achievements and everything. Here are my scores.
15:13
These are my scores on Guardians. I also have some scores on... let's 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 will have scorebit enabled. So this could be fun. Here's a picture of me and Audrey and Tales of the Libby Knights. A lot of me on MPTPK. And it shows your achievements. And like I said, achievements that aren't currently supported in the Guardians yet, but we're going to be working on achievements soon. So these are my achievements on Toy Story 4. these are my challenges this is me versus these are the challenges I won actually, that's pretty cool what's this pinball machine do, oh this is to find a pinball machine and this little I is information about when I joined and stuff like that another thing you might want to check out is the settings 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. One thing I do want to point out is that the score bit app is defaulted to saving your scores automatically to the leaderboard. So where in the beginning I showed you my option to save to the leaderboard, it's going to be defaulted to save for your convenience. Most users just want their scores to be saved and, you know, not have to be bugged about it. But if you want to change that preference, if you come into player preferences, you can change this ask to save score, ask to save score to leaderboard. You can turn that on. Like I said, it's going to be defaulted to off. You can turn it on and then it will show you that screen that I showed you where it says save to leaderboard. Otherwise, I'd say just keep it off. That way it'll just post your scores. You don't have to worry. It won't bug you ever again. about that stuff definitely take a look at all the preferences in the settings because a lot of the questions asked about scorebit actually can be customized in the screen um the uh my machines and my venues buttons are to see uh which machines you have uh control of so to speak on scorebit 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 Freegal Watch. So that's why it has a huge list. That's why it took a little while to come up. Then my venues button, which shows me all the venues that I have, kind of ownership on, which as I said before, Freegal Watch and Mystery Pinball Theater 3000. Make sure you visit Freegal Watch if you're ever in the San Francisco Bay Area. What else is there? Anything else? 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 Toy Story 4, it will show me the global scores for Toy Story 4. So it shows me the champion scores and everything. 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.
18:52
And as you can see, that is the case. Free Gold Watch is a toy story for just how? One kilometer? Zero kilometers? It's pretty close. I live pretty close.
19:04
And in this one little here with the little people icon right there, that's so you can 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 jump into the fun of challenging each other on your brand new shiny scorebit enabled virtual pinball machine thank you so much to scorebit for opening the door to virtual pinball so we can start doing this kind of neat thing this is mpt3k with the pin credibles thanks Thank you.