Darien Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 This may be redundant but to help / elaborate on what lucky1 said for anyone else who asks:I have an LCD currently as my DMD, It's actually a small in-wall monitor so I could mount it flat without cutting in to my cabinet. So as you can see I'm pretty thrifty/lazy. So I was very interested in doing colour without any mods. I mean I already have a full colour monitor. You can patch the roms you can browse them in browser. It was even something I tried before PIN2DMD was announced because ColorDMD for real machines was an LCD and here's the difference...specialized hardware/software.The missing element is something to process that information... When you change the 4 colours in PinMame or theoretically 16 on stern roms. You change the colour reference for all frames. Pinball Browser/ Pin2DMD Editor/ColorDMD/SmartDMD colours each frame individually... each pixel (it's also how you can completely change all the images/sounds and customize a game).PinMame Ex: you set colors to white (100%), Green (66%), Blue (33%), Black (0%) Every frame is those colours based on "brightness" of an original 1 colour / 4 or 16 phase presumably orange LED.Colour Ex: You re-colour everything frame by frame whatever colour you choose . The rom calls on these frames (which is a hexadecimal reference?) either in a real pin or Pinmame using additional software/hardware, Even when you patch a rom the colours aren't actually in the frames but are referenced to a palette file So frame 1000 (a space battle) uses these 16 colours, frame 1020 (people running) uses these 16 colours.If you replace your Stern DMD with RGB, burn a colour rom, and don't have additional hardware you just get 16 shades of Grey because it's R+G+B at the same levels, It's all about that next step... So far is there is no "extension" for lack of a better term to perform these tasks with pinmame. Even moving to a 16 colour palette will still be 16 static colours for the entire set of frames. If you can write that or modify existing open source more power to you!but now that it's a pretty cheap option AND RGB... thanks to all the great work lucky has done on Pin2DMD, I'm finally going DMD Which just feels right. Like flashers or the feel of contractors... the DMD is just kind of a "thing" for people even if I am losing some sweet wallpaper / resolution from my 3rd screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKY70 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 HI Darien, thanks for the explanation.. i am curious about the 16 colors for STERN roms. i understand that there are 16 shades, but i am not able to make any shade adjustments, and some are so dark, they can barely be seen. is there any way that you know of adjusting them?.. thanks/sparky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 27, 2016 Author Content Provider Share Posted January 27, 2016 I think this is a bit off topic now. Please open a new thread about this. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 where do I find the modified vpinmame.dll? I have patched metallica and acdc both with bspatch but in vpinmame it doesn't recognize rom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider CarnyPriest Posted February 3, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted February 3, 2016 Use the SAM build here. Ignore CRC errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I have a few attempt with mustang and walking dead and pinball browser.. How can i try them?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Use the SAM build here. Ignore CRC errors. that's the one I'm using.... still is not working. Testing in pinmame rom not found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted February 3, 2016 Author Content Provider Share Posted February 3, 2016 You have to use the ROM and zip file name for the colored version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 You have to use the ROM and zip file name for the colored version. Yeap, but nothing. Pinmame say no rom found when I click check rom. Someone have one of the twos I'm trying to test that can share it with me, just to see if I'm doing something wrong with the patch (diff). I did long time ago the Shreck, POTC, etc and they works.. but these don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Maybe I wasn't clear enough so I ask again. I have made custom palettes with pinball browser for twd and mustang. By now its only 1 palette for the whole rom But when I trie to launch tables through vpinball, and even if the palette seems to load, I only get the vga palette. Not the smartdmd one I have created. (I used the script to load the palette) If I trie to launch the saved custom rom I get an error due to the fact that the rom isn't in vpinmame. How can I try my modified walking dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Content Provider Share Posted February 4, 2016 If I trie to launch the saved custom rom I get an error due to the fact that the rom isn't in vpinmame. How can I try my modified walking dead? If the ROM size did´change after modification with pinball browser, you simply have to give it the same name as the original (ROM name and zip file name) and check ignore crc in the options menu. Please share your efforts (palette files etc) with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 As soon as I get it working. It will be in this tread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 no one can share a modified colored rom with me to test if vpinmame works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blashyrk Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 no one can share a modified colored rom with me to test if vpinmame works? Sure I'll share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98865673/walking%20dead.rar Here it is.. It 's still a wip so not everything is perfect.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider CarnyPriest Posted February 8, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted February 8, 2016 Don't forget! When there is a project ready to publish, there is a place here to upload it now. http://vpuniverse.com/forums/files/category/86-pin2dmd-color-palates/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 here is a v2 colored rom and palette https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98865673/walking%20dead.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Here is The Rolling Stones Palette file RollingStones.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider bent98 Posted March 6, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted March 6, 2016 Are there patch files for the following color roms?: Avengers MustangRolling Stones Big Buck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider bent98 Posted March 25, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted March 25, 2016 I also saw CV rom was colorized. Anyone have any new ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkky Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Yop,This is my first colorized try with MustangIt's not perfect (i'm novice) and sometime there is bugWIP 40% ++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkky Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Update ++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlson18 Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Very nice do you share the rom when you finshed the Job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkky Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Off course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider bent98 Posted April 3, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted April 3, 2016 Nice. I hope someone does family guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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