freezy Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Hi all! I finally got around to working on a new dmdext release! Changes include: Added PWM support from PinMAME. PWM (pulse-width modulation) is used by some games to simulate additional gray tones on the DMD. This was previously ignored, but thanks to @vbousquet we’re now getting much smoother gradients and more accurate grayscale rendering. This does not apply to colorizations, which still receive the original frames (increasing the bit depth there would break them anyway). Updated Serum to the latest version, which introduces an optimized cROMc format that uses an order of magnitude fewer resources. The original cRZ format is still supported but will be internally converted to cROMc. As a result, new colorizations will be distributed in this new format. Fixed the GitHub CI, meaning every update pushed to the repository is now automatically built and available for testing. Download as always here. Be sure to update to latest VPM beta (released today as well, VPinMAME-sc-3.7.0-222-8133307-win-x64.zip is the file you'll probably want). Thanks a lot to the Serum community for testing and bug reporting, namely @PastorLUL, @Enthusiast, @KRAKEN and @ebor, and of course @mk47 for his work on Serum. Enjoy! -freezy.
Cliffy Posted January 11 Posted January 11 (edited) Thanks Freezy! Can I assume we need to remove any serum dll's in our vpinmame folders, again? EDIT- well right off the bat color is lost on the new tmnt_200 .pac Older pac files seem ok though. Edited January 11 by Cliffy
PastorLUL Posted January 11 Posted January 11 21 minutes ago, Cliffy said: Thanks Freezy! Can I assume we need to remove any serum dll's in our vpinmame folders, again? EDIT- well right off the bat color is lost on the new tmnt_200 .pac Older pac files seem ok though. I heard another layer of encryption has been added to pac. That tmnt file which was recently updated has the extra encryption. It is what it is.
Cliffy Posted January 12 Posted January 12 30 minutes ago, PastorLUL said: I heard another layer of encryption has been added to pac. That tmnt file which was recently updated has the extra encryption. It is what it is. he shoulda made it in serum
Redwings13 Posted January 12 Posted January 12 54 minutes ago, Cliffy said: Thanks Freezy! Can I assume we need to remove any serum dll's in our vpinmame folders, again? EDIT- well right off the bat color is lost on the new tmnt_200 .pac Older pac files seem ok though. I don’t feel so bad now that I gave up trying to get the tmnt_200.pac to work for me. 😉
Enthusiast Posted January 12 Posted January 12 1 hour ago, Cliffy said: Thanks Freezy! Can I assume we need to remove any serum dll's in our vpinmame folders, again? EDIT- well right off the bat color is lost on the new tmnt_200 .pac Older pac files seem ok though. yes that's correct as of this writing you don't need any extra serum files in vpinmame, its all been integrated into dmdext
freezy Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 8 hours ago, PastorLUL said: another layer of encryption has been added to pac. LOL!
mk47 Posted January 12 Posted January 12 DMDExt v2.4.0 also contains the new libzedmd v0.10.1 and is prepared for the upcoming ZeDMD v6.0.0 release. So it is important that you delete any serum.dll and zedmd.dll in you vpinmame folders.
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 12 Content Provider Posted January 12 pin2color plugin updated on my github https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/integration/pinmame
Tengri Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Hi @freezy, thanks a lot for this release! Can you name a few tables, where PWM is used in the DMD. I'd be interested to see the difference. Do I get it right, that (for the time being) PWM is only enabled when not using a colorization?
Rappelbox Posted January 12 Posted January 12 5 hours ago, lucky1 said: pin2color plugin updated on my github https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/integration/pinmame thanks for the update
Sinizin Posted January 12 Posted January 12 6 hours ago, lucky1 said: pin2color plugin updated on my github https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/integration/pinmame Does this mean alt colour PAC files will work again? I updated last night but none of the PACs were coloured.
Cliffy Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Just now, Sinizin said: Does this mean alt colour PAC files will work again? I updated last night but none of the PACs were coloured. Yep! Extract the two pin2color.dll's into vpinmame and all pacs work including the new tmnt_200. Thanks as always @lucky1
Sinizin Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Just now, Cliffy said: Yep! Extract the two pin2color.dll's into vpinmame and all pacs work including the new tmnt_200. Thanks as always @lucky1 Amazing! Thanks Cliffy! And again thanks @lucky1
Redwings13 Posted January 12 Posted January 12 9 hours ago, lucky1 said: pin2color plugin updated on my github https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/integration/pinmame I’m having a total brain fart, how do I download the plugin?
Rappelbox Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Download the zip from the link, copy AT LEAST the dlls from the subdirectories and make the plugin-changes needed in the dmddevice.ini. Don’t just overwrite, or you’ll lose your custom settings. compare the ini from the zip with your own. Plugins and plugin64 entries.
PastorLUL Posted January 12 Posted January 12 4 hours ago, Rappelbox said: thanks for the update yeah thanks for adding another layer of encryption
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