Standard Pinball Key Assignments

Listed below are the standard keyboard mappings for Visual Pinball. The basic keys (flippers, plunger, Start Game) are the same in almost all other PC pinball programs.
1e (1) Start Game 1f (2) Extra Ball (Buy-In) 22 (5) Coin In 21 (4) Coin In (second coin slot) 23 (6) Coin In (fourth coin slot) (VPinMAME) 28 (Enter) Plunger/Launch Ball 29 (Escape) Exit to menu (PinballX/HyperPin front ends) 14 (Q) Quit to editor (within VP) E1 (Left Shift) Left Flipper E5 (Right Shift) Right Flipper E0 (Left Ctrl) Left MagnaSave E4 (Right Ctrl) Right MagnaSave 17 (T) Mechanical Tilt Bob 4A (Home) Slam Tilt (VPinMAME) 2C (Spacebar) Forward Nudge 1D (Z) Left Nudge 38 (/) Right Nudge 4D (End) Open/Close Coin Door (VPinMAME) 24 (7) Cancel/Exit Service Button (VPinMAME) 25 (8) Down/"-" Service Button (VPinMAME) 26 (9) Up/"+" Service Button (VPinMAME) 27 (0) "Enter" Service Button (VPinMAME) 2E (=+) VP Volume Down 2D (-_) VP Volume Up

Notes

Joystick buttons

Visual Pinball also lets you use joystick buttons, but there aren't any "standard" mappings for those. Instead, you have to manually assign the button numbers in VP's Keyboard Preferences dialog. Note that other pinball emulators might not support the joystick buttons at all, so if you're going to use multiple pinball programs, it's easier to set everything up using keyboard keys.