ScottT Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 As the title suggests, I recently upgraded VPX to the official 10.4 release, downloaded and installed the vpinmame 3.0 SAM release. Everything seemed to work great, except any colorized DMD didn't show color anymore. I believe DMDExt is running properly, because the DMD display looks like it, and has the white triangle resizing tab on the bottom right corner. I found and installed the dmdext 1.6 update from github, but that doesn't seem to change anything. The pin2dmd.pal files are all in their right folders (named according to the rom names), in the altcolor folder in vpinmame, etc. As I said, it all worked great before the updates. I've reinstalled vpinmame multiple times, restarted everything (including the PC), and have confirmed the rom setttings. Any ideas??
Thalamus Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 I believe that you've overwritten dmdext with a version that doesn't have the colourization. You say you've downloaded the latest from github which is the correct thing to do, so, I'm not sure why it isn't working for you. Did you maybe put dmddevice.dll and dmddevice.ini into the wrong folder ?
ScottT Posted January 1, 2018 Author Posted January 1, 2018 dmddevice.dll and dmddevice.ini are both in vpinmame\DMDext\ What gets me is that I can see that everything about DMDExt seems to be running great -- except for the fact that all of the DMDs are the red dots, and the resizing handle is white dots. It's like it doesn't see or recongnize the pin2dmd.pal files. Is there another place I should post this question, or someone I could message directly?
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 1, 2018 Content Provider Posted January 1, 2018 dmddevice.dll needs to be in the same directory as the vpinmame.dll or in syswow64
BambiPlattfuss Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 if you used the all in one installer then you need to update the vpinmame dll to the "real" sambuild from VPU here. cause the official vpinmame doesnt work with colored roms. Install like mentioned here https://goo.gl/BTzQjV
Thalamus Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 I thought since you are here you've used the pinmame that is provided here also. Bambi is right - look here http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=33261&p=395959
ScottT Posted January 1, 2018 Author Posted January 1, 2018 Thanks BambiPlattfuss and lucky1... I made those changes and it is working! One mistake that I made was installing DMDExt, when all that I really needed to do was move the dmddevice.dll and dmddevice.ini files to my vpinmame directory. As you pointed out, I was editing the dmddevice.dll and dmddevice.ini files in the wrong place (in an unnecessary DMDext folder). I don't know if there is an official install guide (I haven't found one for my configuration, at least), but senseless wrote up a wiki at vpinball that could use some updating. I'm happy to document my leanings if there is an official thread for this. I'll update senseless's post, since it is a wiki and designed to be contributed to.
ScottT Posted January 1, 2018 Author Posted January 1, 2018 I think I had several unneccesary folders within my vpinmame folder. I am using a third PC monitor for my DMD display. I believe through a variety of installers, mishaps, etc. I had the following folders in my vpinmame folder that weren't needed... they are: DMDExt, PIN2DMD, PinDMD1, PinDMD2, and PinDMD3. I deleted those. I'm not sure what all caused what, but things seem to running much better now. For example, I had problems with sound stutter that have gone away.
Thalamus Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 That is really odd. Those folders are the to make it easy to copy files from, not to be used. So, sure, you can delete them.
ScottT Posted January 1, 2018 Author Posted January 1, 2018 19 minutes ago, Thalamus said: I thought since you are here you've used the pinmame that is provided here also. Bambi is right - look here http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=33261&p=395959 I recently ran the VPX4 allinone installer, and tried to just update vpinmame, etc. That was my first mistake
Thalamus Posted January 2, 2018 Posted January 2, 2018 Yes. I expected you did but, since Loserman releases a ton of tables I didn't notice what Toxie said before a long time had passed. Last time I updated from 10.2 to 10.3 I used the all in one on the cab but this time I was a bit hesitant since I knew about some special fixes I've done that isn't release ready. Happy to hear you resolved it though.
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