randr Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Genius! This works perfectly! Thank you guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17Al3x17 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Work fine for me, Thanks Freneticamnesic ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 We should have a section/repository for color palettes now edit: never mind, I saw there is one now. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted November 28, 2015 Author Content Provider Share Posted November 28, 2015 I copied the instruction into the table section here http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2270-pin2dmd-table-support/ Thanks fren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider UncleSash Posted November 29, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 29, 2015 Pre Order for ROUND 3 is officially started! rev 1.3 (round 3) comes with 2 HUB75 HEADER on board! order here: http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2250-pin2dmd-prorder-backorder When you live in Europe... you prefere maybe Rappelbox PreOrder for the EU http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2253-pin2dmd-eu-preorder/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Hi I can not run the tables only SAM STERN, I care to test PIN2DMD on Spiderman Game Roms Invalid roms have downloaded from the website STERN, earlier on Windows XP, everything worked, now on Windows 10 I have problems :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted November 29, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 29, 2015 you have sam pinmame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Yes, VPinMAME_SAM_UNIFIED_2.21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted November 30, 2015 Author Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 Here is a picture of the usb raw transfer mode where you can see that you are not limitted to 16 color palettes using it. This is mainly for developpers which want to transfer content without having to think about the color limitations. (Maybe video streaming using Ultra DMD ) As a test I implemented a picture display routine in the upcoming vc++ release of pin2dmd.exe. I also implemented a clear routine in the current firmware and tool (/c option) to reset back to default palette etc It can be used instead of /r which disconnects usb for a short time. Firmware and tool can be found on github. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider steve45 Posted November 30, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 Looks cool. Maybe I should support even higher color depth in the editor out of the box. Right now I'm working on replacing a whole sequence of frames to achieve more colors than the original ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted November 30, 2015 Author Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 I thought about increasing the color depth for the display routine also before I implemented this, When I look at the result I´m confident that with the given resolution of 128x32 pixel the colors depth we have it is already enough. If you have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monochrome_and_RGB_palettes for my eyes starting from 12 up to 24bit there is absolutely no difference in the parrot picture but eats up a lot of resources processing the additional data. I think we save these resources for other features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gStAv Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Holy camel toe!!! This is so awesome! Can not wait! Thanks for doing this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Hi I can not run the tables only SAM STERN, I care to test PIN2DMD on Spiderman Game Roms Invalid roms have downloaded from the website STERN, earlier on Windows XP, everything worked, now on Windows 10 I have problems :/ I forgot to change the roms name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider steve45 Posted November 30, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 I thought about increasing the color depth for the display routine also before I implemented this, When I look at the result I´m confident that with the given resolution of 128x32 pixel the colors depth we have it is already enough. When I say increasing I was only refering to the limits of the original frames, that can only use 4 or 16 different colors, not the color depth pin2dmd is able to display in general. When replacing frame, it would be possible to use 16 colors instead of 4 for WPC games or even up to 32 or 64 different colors in one single frame, which will of course improve the experience. but there ist still a lot of work to do: 1. improve the editor to create such replacement frames. 2. export it to sd card file(s) 3. improve pin2dmd firmware to be able to read and replace replacement frames instead of the ones coming from normal input. I'm not even sure if this will work out as expected, because of maybe timing issues with sd card reading, but I will try. cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted November 30, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 When I say increasing I was only refering to the limits of the original frames, that can only use 4 or 16 different colors, not the color depth pin2dmd is able to display in general. When replacing frame, it would be possible to use 16 colors instead of 4 for WPC games or even up to 32 or 64 different colors in one single frame, which will of course improve the experience. but there ist still a lot of work to do: 1. improve the editor to create such replacement frames. 2. export it to sd card file(s) 3. improve pin2dmd firmware to be able to read and replace replacement frames instead of the ones coming from normal input. I'm not even sure if this will work out as expected, because of maybe timing issues with sd card reading, but I will try. cheers Steve Do I need a licensed version of Pinball Browser to modify the roms? I colored Sopranos using the Pin2dmd editor but don't know what to do with that info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider steve45 Posted November 30, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 This post is not about modifying roms. This is about using replacment frames store somewhere else e.g. SD card. Rom modifications work only for stern and only with licensened pb. What I'm talking about is doing it for non stern as well. And of course without rom modification because in a real pinball machine I dont want to burn roms. I'm not sure how this will work for vpins but maybe one could also use the sdcard for storing additional frames. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted November 30, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted November 30, 2015 I saw your video about modifying the Twilight Zone colors, I wasn't sure if you had a solution yet, whether it be rom modification like the smartdmd files or via the sd card... I guess what I'm saying is, what can I do with the pin2dmd editor besides color the frames, and what can i do with those frames once they're colored...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Dazz Posted December 1, 2015 Administrators Share Posted December 1, 2015 Can the roms be patched with the color version using our VPU Patch Tool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted December 1, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted December 1, 2015 You'd have to use the patch tool to separate them first but it could be done I bet. You can't patch it using the provided patch unless the vpu patch tool was built on bsdiff.... which is possible I suppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Dazz Posted December 1, 2015 Administrators Share Posted December 1, 2015 I haven't looked into what all is involved when it comes to the roms for this... But I am already working on creating a download section for Pin2DMD files and documentation already. Anyone see an issue with us hosting the color patched roms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted December 1, 2015 Author Content Provider Share Posted December 1, 2015 I wouldn´t host the ready patched ROMs if you don´t have the approval for that from STERN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider arngrim Posted December 1, 2015 Content Provider Share Posted December 1, 2015 did they give approval for the vpinmame sam? no, this is worse than patch of roms for giving colors, what could be worse is to provide the rom themselves wait, they are also already there , so according to me, i don't see the issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gStAv Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Hi! Just tried to play some ATF with only geen shades in VPinMAME,but sometimes in certain animations the palette turns red/blue instead, like ball save/status report and on an attack - which flickers like in this video... What is wrong as I only want to have green shades atm. (newest FW from 011215) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted December 1, 2015 Author Content Provider Share Posted December 1, 2015 Do you have a sd card installed ? Please check your PIN2DMD LEDs also and look if green or orange LED near the blue are toggling when this happens. What are the exact color values you have set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gStAv Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Hi! No, I still have not got my new ordered SD-cads so I'm riding "vanilla" here I did a reset in VPinMAME of the colors and the white/red/blue worked like a charm. Looks like changing the colors manually didn't work. here's a pic of it, played with no such errors as above with the default palette just wish I cuold get more original DMD look. Guess I have to play with the default until I get my cards then? Thanks for the quick reply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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