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I bought a used Pin2dmd 2nd hand from a fellow VPU user.  I have a full size cab with an LCD full DMD.  My plan here is to use pin2dmd on a spare PC with desktop mode as a way to test colorization projects.  I feel like I'm missing something silly but I cannot get it to register/show content with VPX / popper.

 

I updated to the latest firmware last night via the SD card.  I have the latest Lucky1 .dll extensions installed.  Windows is showing a pin2dmd winusb device attached.  External DMD is enabled from the F1 menu inside VPX.   The .ini file shows pin2dmd = true (i've tried both true and native).    I even completely blew out Pinup popper and re-installed it. 

 

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Please try the following: 

- install the dmddevice.dll and pin2color.dll files in your pinmame folder

- start setup.exe

- click test

- choose a dmd table

- go into game options

- set "use external DMD"

- run the test

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5 hours ago, lucky1 said:

Please try the following: 

- install the dmddevice.dll and pin2color.dll files in your pinmame folder

- start setup.exe

- click test

- choose a dmd table

- go into game options

- set "use external DMD"

- run the test

It's Putting the DMD in the normal Desktop Mode position

 

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Looking at you logfile it seems that pin2dmd is not enabled in the dmddevice.ini

Please check

 

[pin2dmd]

; if false, doesn't bother looking for a PIN2DMD
enabled = true

 

You should something like

 

[13] 2022/10/09 14:17:18.721  INFO | Found PIN2DMD device. 
[13] 2022/10/09 14:17:18.732  INFO | Added PIN2DMD renderer. 

 

in the dmddevice.log then

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Then it seems to be a USB problem.

Could you post a screenshot of your device manager ?

Make sure you have only connected the USB port next to the ethernet on the Nucleo

and PIN2DMD is listed under "USB Devices" in the device manager.

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48 minutes ago, lucky1 said:

Which winusb driver version do you have ? Mine is 6.1.7600.16385

I remeber there has been a problem with latest winusb drivers. Maybe that is the issue

Try replacing winusb driver version using the zadig tool from my github

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/usb_driver

THAT DID IT!!! It's working! Testing with my colorization project pac file!

 

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I took a screenshot and accidently over wrote it in my glee, but it was using 10...something.   Thanks for the help @lucky1

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