PAC colorizations stopped working correctly after 2025 vpx / VpinMame updates.

[80sRkadeguy70]

Hello all, I updated my vpx and vpinmame to the lasted 2025 updates and now my pac colorizations for Super Mario Bros and Simpsons Kooky Carnival stopped working properly.  Example, on Kooky Carnival, the colors are no longer correct and there is a weird purple color splash as shown in the video below. And the colorization for SMB just flickers really bad. 

What can I do to fix the problem without effecting my other colorizationd or the new Serum colorizations?

Thanks in advance.

Kooky Carnival dmd color issue video.

https://youtu.be/8HaCbJ9C3K4?si=R5LTsKjKHe0k2F2K

Edited April 13, 2025 by 80sRkadeguy70

[Pinballuser]

 

first off you should not disable

- cabinet mode or you will get that MAME nag screen

- ignore CRC for Stern (SAM) roms or your patched roms will not work.

 

Second this project was done with Points at the display not TICKETS.  your scenes are not working because you are using the tickets and the mask  used for Points is probably not working for tickets.

change your rom settings to display Points and not tickets and it will work

 

 

[80sRkadeguy70]

12 hours ago, Pinballuser said:

 

first off you should not disable

- cabinet mode or you will get that MAME nag screen

- ignore CRC for Stern (SAM) roms or your patched roms will not work.

 

Second this project was done with Points at the display not TICKETS.  your scenes are not working because you are using the tickets and the mask  used for Points is probably not working for tickets.

change your rom settings to display Points and not tickets and it will work

 

 

Thanks for the reply. I'm using a single screen desktop and cabinet mode has caused some of my pup packs to not work properly.  And I use Ignore CRC for Stern tables that threw rom errors. 

 

As for the pin2dmd editor, I'm not familiar with how that works.

And what about my Super Mario Bros pac colirization? It no longer works. It just flickers on and off. 

 

Btw, where can I download the editor? I looked, but I can't find it anywhere.

Edited April 13, 2025 by 80sRkadeguy70

[80sRkadeguy70]

13 hours ago, Pinballuser said:

 

first off you should not disable

- cabinet mode or you will get that MAME nag screen

- ignore CRC for Stern (SAM) roms or your patched roms will not work.

 

Second this project was done with Points at the display not TICKETS.  your scenes are not working because you are using the tickets and the mask  used for Points is probably not working for tickets.

change your rom settings to display Points and not tickets and it will work

 

 

I set the table to points and it's better, but it's still getting the weird purple splashing as shown in the video I just uploaded. You can also see what SMB is doing even with cabinet mode selected.

 

[outhere]

What does it do if you use VPinMame 3.5

[80sRkadeguy70]

6 minutes ago, outhere said:

What does it do if you use VPinMame 3.5

PAC files were working fine in VPinMame 3.5, but now that I'm updated to 3.6, they stopped working correctly. And I can't use 3.5 without effecting my current installation.

[outhere]

3.6 also has other things that need to be looked at.  One being your problem probably and the other for sure being something to do with DOF it's reading the ROMs slow.

Maybe the same Fix for both problems

https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/issues

[80sRkadeguy70]

1 hour ago, outhere said:

3.6 also has other things that need to be looked at.  One being your problem probably and the other for sure being something to do with DOF it's reading the ROMs slow.

Maybe the same Fix for both problems

https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/issues

I don't use DOF. I just use a single screen desktop.

And I looked on the github site you linked, but there's nothing regarding Kooky Carnival or SMB.

Edited April 13, 2025 by 80sRkadeguy70

[outhere]

I didn't see nothing out there either.

Go ahead and post something so that they will know that it's not working correctly.

My guess is it's not processing the ROM fast enough

[80sRkadeguy70]

On 4/13/2025 at 7:31 PM, outhere said:

I didn't see nothing out there either.

Go ahead and post something so that they will know that it's not working correctly.

My guess is it's not processing the ROM fast enough

@Pinballuser @outhere I decided to work backwards with trying older Freezy dmddevice.dll's and Lucky1's files and moving back to VpinMmame 3.5 from 3.6,  I was able to get my Kooky Carnival PAC working again (See video @3:00) , but I was unable to use serum. But when I replace the older dmddevice.dll with the one I was using before, my Serums worked, but Kooky went back to having the weird purple splash. So it's a problem with the newer Freezy files and updating Lucky1 files didn't help.

 

Edited April 15, 2025 by 80sRkadeguy70

[LoiAbdullah]

Did you solve it? Things gone like a "hellish" mess with me.. I used to run my tables on VpinMAME 3.5 with latest @lucky1 dmdext. but looks like he has given up updating it since almost a year and a half, and I only found that out when updating to 3.6 with old extension to realize it's not compatible anymore, having same issues like yours and even worse. I can't rollback to 3.5 because some tables I have use g-sound feature that is only supported in 3.6 

Edited May 3, 2025 by LoiAbdullah