Download Psycho Pinball

Abby 2024-04-22 1 point

Thanks to Specstuffer for start.bat to get around the copy protection so elegantly! That is a must.

I went digging through settings recently and found that this game supports playing audio via the Gravis Ultrasound. This works in DosBox. You basically have to install the drivers, then enable it.

Psycho Pinball's sound.bat script appears to be in French. Unfortunately, it doesn't set all the options correctly for itself (for me, anyway). One of its scripts throws an error if you try to set ultrasound settings manually (every single other option is for soundblaster).

Config.bin is just a text file. Change line 3 to "4ultrasound". Sound.bat should handle that correctly, but check if it isn't.

Next, edit psycho.bat. For DosBox, I'll assume the default settings. Make it look like this:

Psycho.bat
@echo off
SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,5,5
SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND
_P_.EXE

Then run start.bat.

It seems to work for me after doing that. I'm reasonably sure after checking it with SoundBlaster emulation turned off in DosBox ("sbtype=none" in dosbox config).

Tom 2023-05-18 2 points DOS version

DOS version with a setup (it will install the game with DOSBox and create the desktop shortcut from which you can run the game instantly): https://www.oldgames.sk/game/psycho-pinball/

Gamecus 2023-04-01 0 point DOS version

How yo fix the message: "Use cursor keys to highlight on reverse of manual at location"
In the installed game, locate the folder OTHERS. Here, Create a empty text file called HISCORE.flg, delete any old hiscore.flg files if you find them.

Specstuffer 2022-04-02 2 points

After much thought and testing I have found a work around for this game asking to reference a symbol table at start up. First an explanation. I noticed that the game is allowing 4 executions to occur before requiring input from the symbol table which can only be found on the paper game manual. So, it occurred to me that the game had to be keeping a count of the number of executions. This meant storing the count in a file. I figured that if I could determine what file the count was being used, I could prevent the game from altering that file and therefore prevent it from knowing what the count is. I determined the file is called "hiscores.flg" and it is located in the "other" directory of the main game directory. The game alters this file and changes it's attributes to "hidden, read only".
The work around. Unzip the game to a directory called " psycpin". Create a directory under "psycpin" called "temp" . Do not run the game yet! Copy "hiscores.flg" from "other" to " temp". Create the following batch file.

Start.bat
@echo off
attrib -r -h m:\psycpin\other\hiscores.flg
copy /Z m:\psycpin\temp\hiscores.flg m:\psycpin\other
Psycho.bat

Edit this batch file for the correct drive letter. Placé it in the "psycpin" directory. Use "start.bat" to start the game.

psycho-pinballer 2020-09-28 1 point DOS version

This game must be in a subdirectory in order to work. (otherwise: tons of "illegal reads")
If you try to create a shortcut like this:
"\DOSBox.exe" "\psycho.bat"
It will not work.
You have to create a unique configuration file for this game.
And create the shortcut like this:
"\DOSBox.exe" -conf "\example.conf"
And "example.conf" should have at the end [autoexec] the mount options, for example:
mount c d:\downloads\
c:
cd psycho-pinball_dos_en
psycho.bat

PhilB 2020-04-29 2 points DOS version

When i start the game, a message shows:
'Use cursor keys to highlight on reverse of manual at location:
column x, row y'

Where can we find the correct codes, or bypass this ?

Buben3 2017-01-23 3 points

It's my Life 1996

MentalZero 2014-05-27 3 points DOS version

Thanks for this works fine in DropBox who needs consoles when we have emulators and all these cool old games.

Macca 2013-11-16 1 point DOS version

I like this games very much