Visual PinMAME is a pinball emulation project which is based on the current PinMAME source code.

Visual PinMAME is a Windows COM object which can be controlled by scripting languages such as Visual Basic Script. This allows other programs to 'control' Visual PinMAME.

As an example, users can program their own front end for it, using Visual Basic, or even an HTML front end.

Any software that has VBS support and can create COM objects can interact and control Visual PinMAME.

Control of Visual PinMAME includes choosing which game to play, setting options for controlling gameplay, setting & reading the state of switches programmatically during gameplay, receiving programmatic information regarding the state of the lamp matrix and the solenoid matrix during gameplay.

It allows programmers to control PinMAME emulation. Essentially PinMAME is entirely encapsulated into the Visual PinMAME object. Practically anything PinMAME can do, Visual PinMAME can do, only programmatically so the user has control over how certain things work.