> hi there,
> i'm very new to pinball emulation and am having some trouble. it took me a
> long time but i finally installed visual pinball and vpinmame. i've been trying
> to play my favorite pinball, fish tales, but have been having trouble. i
> downloaded the table into the visual pinball table folder, and the rom into the
> vpinmame rom folder. i don't know what to do after this. i have tried opening
> visual pinball, loading the table and pressing play. the Table pops up along
> with the digital screen which seems to be working fine. The only problem is I
> can't start the game. I press enter to launch the ball and nothing happens, i
> press the shift buttons to move the flippers and nothing happens. the tilt
> buttons work, but nothing else. someone please help me. i've been working on
> this for days and am getting frustrated
>

It should be like MAME - press 5 to add credits, and 1 to start a game. Then you should be able to play.