How can I use the rear (mouse) pinball buttons with Visual Pinball or Future Pinball?

Unfortunately Visual Pinball and Future Pinball do not have native mouse button support for gameplay. But this does not mean you can't still use the X-Arcade™ Trackball for these games, thanks to a program known as AutoHotkey you can! By creating a custom config file for use with these pinball emulators, we then created an easy to use program that you simply start before playing them.

Download the X-Pinball program. Simply run it before playing a pinball game and it changes the mouse buttons to keyboard keys like this:

Mouse Button 1 = 7
Mouse Button 2 = 8

~ (Tilde) = Toggles Hotkeys on and off (tray icon will show 'H' when active, 'S' when suspended).

You will first want to open "Preferences, then choose "Keys", then change the left flipper to be number 7, and the right flipper to be number 8.

If the X-Pinball program does not work for you, simply make your own config file using the instructions included with AutoHotkey.