Here’s my comment from that thread (it’s got everything needed to get started) :

Hey gamers. Considering the pretty positive reception on the last post, I figured it was worth a shot to get this going. Basic outline of things:

The game is VPX - aka Visual Pinball 10

Available here:

https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/releases

The idea is to include both an older and a newer table for each tournament. For this first tournament I picked some fun ones:

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Data East, 1991)

Table available here: https://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/8826-new-vpx-alertstar-trek-25th-anniversary-data-east-1991/

ROM available here: https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/1467-trek_201zip/

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Stern, 2010)

Table available here: https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/18215-big-buck-hunter-pro-stern-2010/

ROM available here: https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/3472-big-buck-hunter-pro-v17/

Post your high scores to c/HighScore (so we don’t clog up c/gaming). Post as many scores as you want, for one or both tables. Two weeks from now (~Feb 7th) I’ll go through the scores, congratulate the two highest, and we can pick the next set of tables. Feel free to post table suggestions in this thread, call someone out to settle your differences on the playfield, talk shop, whatever

If anyone needs help getting it running feel free to ask!

Tables go, unzipped, into the /Tables folder

Roms go, zipped (they should download like this) into the /VPinMAME/roms folder

You then open the table file using the VPX editor, and hit the play button

iirc, by default, the controls are (4) or (5) to add credits, (1) to start the game, (enter) to use the plunger, and the flippers are the left and right shift keys

Controls can be changed by going to Preferences > Configure Keys, Nudge, and DOF in the editor