Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle (Spooky Pinball 2017) WIP

Hey all,

Working on Alice Cooper Nightmare Castle 1.2 EM table.  that "Ling Woo " made a long time ago  back in 2019 i think,  safe to say that he will probably never finish it

Trying to get FlexDMD to mirror the existing desktop score display. The table already has a working ScoreText.Text backdrop and EM reels. Goal is to piggyback off that instead of rewriting the whole scoring.

What works:

Desktop score updates fine via ScoreText.Text = FormatNumber(Score, 0, -1, 0, -1)

PuP-Pack runs fine

What I tried:

Basic FlexDMD init in table1_Init:

vbscript

Set FlexDMD = CreateObject("FlexDMD.FlexDMD")If Not FlexDMD is Nothing Then FlexDMD.GameName = "demo" FlexDMD.Run = True Set DMDFont = FlexDMD.NewFont("Arial", RGB(255,128,0), RGB(0,0,0), 1) Set DMDScoreLabel = FlexDMD.NewLabel("Scr", DMDFont, "0") DMDScoreLabel.SetAlignedPosition 64, 16, 0.5 Set DMDScene = FlexDMD.NewGroup("Scene") DMDScene.AddActor DMDScoreLabel FlexDMD.Stage.AddActor DMDSceneEnd If

Piggyback in AddScore:

vbscript

Sub AddScore(Points) If Tilted Then Exit Sub Score = Score + Points ScoreText.Text = FormatNumber(Score, 0, -1, 0, -1) ' <-- Desktop works ScoreReel1.AddValue Points If B2SOn Then Controller.B2SSetScorePlayer1 Score ' === Added for FlexDMD === If Not FlexDMD Is Nothing Then DMDScoreLabel.Text = ScoreText.TextEnd Sub...

Checked for conflicts:

Wrapped FlexDMD in On Error Resume Next

PuP runs before FlexDMD init

No errors thrown, but DMD window never appears

MsgBox "FlexDMD Started" after CreateObject never fires

The issue:
Desktop backdrop updates. EM reels update. FlexDMD stays blank. No error codes. FlexDMD.dll is registered and works on other FlexDMD tables.

Suspect: Something in this script is killing the FlexDMD object before it can show. Script has duplicate Sub AddScore and Sub Loadhs that I removed, but still no DMD.

Question: Has anyone got FlexDMD + PuP running together on an EM where you just mirror ScoreText.Text? Is there a known conflict with LoadController("EM") or the PuP init sequence?

Attaching script if needed. Really just want the DMD to show whatever ScoreText.Text shows.

i also tried whit UltraDmd  cause he did write some Ultradmd code in there  ...the script is a mess  alot of duplicated line      , also tried using pupdmd  

The duplicate subs were the real killer - i tried removed them and it still fails

The table as potential if someone want to have a try 

on the positive side i got B2s  working 

Thanks for any ideas.