Twistedsistem Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 All, I am using a PIN2DMD with the v3 shield. I have flashed the latest firmware as of 3/18/2018. I have a fresh install of windows, virtual pinball, pinmame 3.0 sam build, dmdext. When I run tables such as South Park or World Cup Soccer as my testing tables the virtual dmd shows the video exactly as the tables were built and function (I have a neighbor with World Cup Soccer that we are comparing with), but the PIN2DMD is adding a light blue/gray tint to some things like the coin in the insert coin animation and in the high score scroll through on south park. I have attached the images below to show my settings and to see if anyone can help me stop this from happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappelbox Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Choose either you want to use the internal dmd OR external dll. You checked both which might cause problems. Additionally you might want to remove the altcolor folder if you have some folders and files inside. Please test and report Gesendet von iPhone mit Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 Thank you for the reply. I have unchecked the use of virtual DMD and only had the external checked. I also removed the altcolor folder all together and i still get the same result :(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappelbox Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Does your Pin2dmd show the colors in exact the same order as on the original logo?Gesendet von iPhone mit Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 Here is my image that i get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappelbox Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Looks pretty original to me... If you check colorize and set it to different orange shades do you still get the wrong colors?Gesendet von iPhone mit Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 I will check later tonight. When i did add the altcolors yesterday and tell it to colorize i did get just orange and yellow so it definitely changed the palette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 When I choose colorized and I don’t have an altcolors folder with a rom specific palette this is what I get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 20, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 20, 2018 How are your settings for the 4 different colors in pinmame (0,33,66,100%) ? Could it be that you use the dmddevice.dll for pindmd2 instead of mine from github ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Lucky1 - the 4 different colors in pinmame are set like the picture in the first post. I haven't changed them at all. I just went through and put the dmddevice.dll from github into the pinmame/PIN2DMD folder and in the pinmame folder. After doing this and unchecking use colorization i still get the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 is it something with dmdext? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 i just did a fresh install of VPX4 and told it to only add the pin2dmd support. I didn't update pinmame and i am still getting the same colors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 20, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 20, 2018 dmddevice.dll has to be located in the pinmame folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 OK here is what i did. I did a fresh install of windows. Installed vpx using the all in one installer Told it to add support for PIN2DMD ran everything as admin and used the WCS from monsterbashpin. Still get the light blue/gray coloring. Grabbed new dmddevice.dll from lucky's github and put it in the pinmame folder same light blue/gray coloring I am quite sad at this point and running out of ideas on how to fix this besides using an LCD for my DMD which i don't want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 20, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 20, 2018 It is definitely a problem with your setup and not a general pin2dmd problem. Please change the 4 colors in pinmame and see if the colors on the dmd change accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 i changed the four colors and was getting different results yes. One thing i was trying to do was to use the menu and options button on my shield to see if there was a reset or something on there and it doesn't cycle through a menu or anything for me. Don't know if that is a problem or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 if you run the wcs_l2 rom do you get all orange/yellow and not blue or gray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 20, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 20, 2018 54 minutes ago, Twistedsistem said: i changed the four colors and was getting different results yes. One thing i was trying to do was to use the menu and options button on my shield to see if there was a reset or something on there and it doesn't cycle through a menu or anything for me. Don't know if that is a problem or not. different results means you are getting the colors you choose ? Menu is not a problem. Do you have a SD card inserted ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 1 minute ago, lucky1 said: different results means you are getting the colors you choose ? Menu is not a problem. Do you have a SD card inserted ? Yes i was able to get it to show only shades of orange if i changed to colorize and put in custom values for all 4. I do not have an SD card inserted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 21, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 21, 2018 And if you disable colorize and change the value of 100% to full red (255) ? Do you get a red palette ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 2 hours ago, lucky1 said: And if you disable colorize and change the value of 100% to full red (255) ? Do you get a red palette ? Lucky1 - i first want to say thank you very much for helping me troubleshoot this!!!j When I disable colorize and put in a full red value for 100% I did get a red palette and it was just different shades of red throughout the gameplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 21, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 21, 2018 Then everything seems to be working as expected. If colorize is not checked it takes the 100% color and calculates the shades from it. If colorize is checked and no palette is found for that rom in altcolor it takes the values from pinmame. If palette is present in altcolor it takes that palette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsistem Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Lucky thank you again for your help.I do feel I still have an issue that may be hardware related. Should the dmd be doing this color blinking on animations? It happens on almost all roms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappelbox Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 The color shifting is coming from the ROM and not directly hardware related. When you change the palette to 4 shades of a single color you won’t have these shifts during transitions. Or use the full color rom, especially that one for smb is great. And don’t forget to send the creator a beer Gesendet von iPhone mit Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 22, 2018 Content Provider Share Posted March 22, 2018 This problem is Gottlieb and WPC emulation specific and has nothing to do with the hardware. You can compensate it either by using a monochrome palette or a full colorization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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