Some colored dmd's stopped working

[DarkVoid666]

Hi me again,

since i had some troubles with a previous Visual Pinball install, i made a fresh install with PinUP_Popper_Baller_Installer_2501
Now i have this problem that some colored dmd's are not working anymore, seems to be only the pac files.
Everything is registered in FlexDMDUI.exe
That is really weird, cause the vni key is correct and it was working before.

[global]

; how to scale games to smaller or larger displays: fit, fill or stretch
resize = fit

; flips the image horizontally
fliphorizontally = false

; flips the image vertically
flipvertically = false

; enable or disable frame-by-frame colorization (inactive in VPX bundle)
colorize = true

; scaler mode for standard content (vpm frames): none, doubler, scale2x.
; note: see readme.md for details
scalermode = none

; VNI colorizations can contain 256x64 frames for 128x32 games. this defines
; how the frames that aren't replaced are up-scaled. doubler or scale2x.
vni.scalermode = doubler

; the key to decrypt PAC files, in hex.
vni.key = f0ad135937ffa111c60b24d88ebb2e59

Any hints what the problem could be?

[deadmanworking]

Maybe you don't have the "sc" VPinMAME version? Worth checking 

[DarkVoid666]

Thanx for the reply.
But unfortunately that didn't work.
It's driving me nuts, cause it was working with my previous installation.
And i never used the sc version before. What is the difference to non sc?
But my previous version was somehow messed up, guess i mixed to many stuff together.
So i made a complete fresh install, but since then, the pac files somehow don't work anymore, the pal/vni are still working fine.
I'm at a loss at the moment, everything is registered, otherwise it wouldn't work at all.
It is just the pac files that aren't working anymore, although i have the correct vni key and latest flexdmd but still no dice.

Edited September 12, 2025 by DarkVoid666

[DarkVoid666]

And i have script controller errors with some pup tables, that i hadn't before.
Like with this one, table/pup is working fine, but when i exit the table the script pops up.
And it is a totally clean fresh install, dunno what is going on, some stuff is not working as before, for some reason.

All sorts of stuff is happening with that install i hadn't before, like John Wick is not showing the dmd anymore.
I thought PinUP_Popper_Baller_Installer_2501 is an all in one installer, but i'm having all sorts of trouble with some pup tables, i hadn't before.
It is really driving me crazy and i don't have a clue why and how to fix it.

 

Edited September 12, 2025 by DarkVoid666

[DarkVoid666]

So i got everything working again.
I deleted the pinuppopper install.
Fortunately i made a back up of my previous set up.
Cleaned that up and now everything is like it was before.
Dunno what the problem with the baller installer was.
But as said, all is good again. 🙂