Color dmd tutorial: .pal .vni .pac .crz and color roms!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2023
- Special Note
Some people have had their .PAC color dmds not work but have had success only copying over these files from Lucky1: DMDdevice.dll, DMDdevice64,dll, Pin2color.dll, and Pin2color64.dll
Episode#37 Custom Virtual Pinball Cabinet Build
In this video I will explain all of the color dmd formats out there, how to install/update freezy, pin2dmd, serum, and Vpinmame, and how/where to install all of the files needed for color dmd for any of the formats out there. These can be tricky but hopefully I can make this an easy task for you! Super cool! As usual, this video will have a ton of tips and tricks to get your custom virtual pinball cabinet working absolutely amazing! This stuff seems crazy hard but is actually pretty simple once you have a walkthrough like this. Fear not! I got you!
Timestamps to jump to what you need!
00:23 Why people have trouble with color dmds - 4 types of color dmds
00:34 Freezy DMDEXT format
01:28 Lucky1 PIN2DMD format
02:25 Zedrummer Serum format
03:15 Stern color roms format
04:05 A good starting point with Baller Installer and VPX 10.7
04:54 Do a BACK UP of Vpinmame before you start!
06:00 updating freezy's dmdext
08:19 updating lucky1's pin2dmd
09:50 updating Zedrummer's Serum
10:50 updating Vpinmame
13:55 Tip for issues with pup packs not playing properly because of the dmddevice.ini file
15:11 What folders are needed to be created, where all the of the files go in, and spots to click on/off for color dmds to work
20:43 How to get color roms working
Baller Installer link:
www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/...
Freezy/DMDEXT update link:
github.com/freezy/dmd-extensi...
Lucky1 PIN2DMD file link:
vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/7...
Serum file link:
github.com/zesinger/libserum/...
Vpinmame update link:
github.com/vpinball/pinmame/r...
VPUniverse color dmd files link:
vpuniverse.com/files/category...
VPUniverse Color Rom Patcher link:
vpuniverse.com/files/file/480...
Visual Pinball 10.73 update link:
github.com/vpinball/vpinball/...
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Never got into these until an hour ago with your valuable help. Almost a year later and you are sill schooling me.
You've been schooled!!! Lol. I'm happy to help ya out ! Thanks for the watch!
Bruv, you're a life saver. way to break it down for us dummies.
Glad I could help you out and that you like my teaching style! Thanks for the watch!
So many good people in this community thank you for showing it.
No worries, happy to help out people in this awesome hobby. Cheers!
Thank you for putting the time and details into your videos and stuff like this. Very appreciated sir!
You're very welcome Ryan! I'm glad you are enjoying the series. Feel free to share out my channel on your social media so I can help more people. Cheers!
Thank you! After setting up the tables with original roms, it now came time to move to color. I thought it was something more complex but the solution with altcolor and pal files is really simple and works! Thanks for the tutorial - first 3 tables already converted :)
Awesome, glad I could help you out! Thanks for the watch and your support for the channel!
You’re videos are so informative and with simple step by step instructions. Thank you! Im going to update my cab this weekend!
Awesome to hear, happy to help. Good luck on your upgrade!
Great tutorial as always pal! Thank you in advance from all the newcomers you will greatly help. 😊
Thanks dude! Yeah hopefully this can help people out. Thanks for the watch! Cheers!
I already knew how to do that, but I appreciate your time showing others how to do it.
Thanks for letting me know, these videos take a lot of time to make so it's always nice to hear back from people. Cheers!
Great tutorial - will start updating to color this weekend! Looking forward to PUPpack creation. Thanks much as always.
Hope you enjoy it! Cheers!
way of the wrench always clear tuturrials ! :D Very nice explanation !
Glad you liked them! Thanks for your support for the channel.
Emil, once again: thank you so much for another premium tutorial! Happy to get into this beloved hobby through your videos and also take part your progress step by step. Greetings from Germany bro!
Prost Sam! Glad you enjoyed the video! Wish you were here to help me with the sanding and prep for the paint....lol. The weather in Germany should be awesome right now, have a cold beer for me. Thanks for the support!
Thank you so much for the video. The Stern color ROMs are the one type that I had not been able to figure out. Your step by step will help immensely. Keep up the great work!
You're very welcome! Yeah the color roms are a bit tricky but with this vide, it's easy peasy. Thanks for the watch!
Can't tell you how thankful I am that you made this video...I've been lost on colorized ROMS for months...copied all the instructions you gave down into OneNote, and now I understand what to do....thank you!
You're very welcome Jim! Glad this worked for you. If you deem me worthy, I'd really appreciate it if you could share my channel on your social media so I can help more people. Cheers!
Thanks for this kind of video. I've been so busy making FP stuff that I haven't touched DMDExt related stuff on VP for a long while.... but now I had to because of my new Indy release on FP that requires everyone to learn how to use it with FP now :) At least I didn't have to make this video too. Great job!
You're very welcome Terry! Glad I could contribute to the vpin community too. Yeah I've been so busy with Visual Pinball so I haven't done anything for Future Pinball or Fx. Your stuff is amazing and thank you for all the work you do for the vpin community. I am behind in my FP stuff but I will catch up once my vpin is back together ( torn apart for paint/vinyl) and check out all the Pinevent tables and BAM using a kinect camera. Thanks for the watch!
Thank you so much for putting the time and effort into your tutorials. They're always informative and helpful! I've got so many colored DMDs because of this.
Awesome! I'm glad the video is still working for people! Gotta love pinball....am I right? Thanks for the watch!
Absolutely! I can't get enough of pinball!@@wayofthewrench
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I can't imagine the amount of work it took to colorize these, amazing work by the community as always. Thanks for the fantastic tutorial, it was well explained, the links were in line with what was being said on screen, and I was able to FINALLY start updating my DMD to utilize some color, haha - thanks so much for this! Now to work on the rest of my tables XD
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and it got you going! Yeah there's an unbelievable amount of work put into this hobby by it's members and I'm super happy to contribute. Thanks for the watch and your support for the channel! Cheers!
Very cool! Makes a table that much more visually enjoyable! Looking forward to the tear down and paint. You're almost there!
Yeah these color dmds are pretty awesome and add a lot. Yeah Sanding is getting done this week and then on to paint......and more sanding. Lol. Thanks for the watch!
Hes enjoying his vpin too much to worry about painting!...... slacker.........graded c+ Prof. Emil....haha
LOL...Prime coat done today....more sanding tomorrow.....the sanding...it never ends
I've ordered my parts and will be starting my first build, with my grandson apprenticing. Your videos are great thanks!
Awesome! Thank you! You win Grandpa of the year in my books. Good luck on your build and I'd love to see your vpin when you're done. Cheers!
the level of detail in these videos is highly appreciated, and your pacing of info is on point.
As recommended by you, I'm slowly acquiring the parts (hopefully some deals to be had on Amazon Prime day July 11-12).
cheers
Awesome, thank you! Yeah hopefully there's some deals, don't forget to start your Amazon purchases by clicking on my video description link so you can help support the channel! Good luck on your build, when you're done I'd love to see some pics. Cheers!
Thanks for posting. With this video tutorial and the links, I was able to easily update my files to restore all of the colored DMDs from the 1.5 baller install. Cheers! 🍻
You're very welcome! So you did a fresh install of the new popper and just added all your tables and DOF over? Wondering about just doing this instead of updating everything. It went smooth eh? Thanks for the watch!
Yes, I got lucky with the recent cyber monday PC deal from Walmart. A MSI Codex R. I went from a much older Asus/GTX 750 with a very buggy Pinball Emporium to the MSI/GTX4060 with Pinup Popper. Night and day difference you can imagine! I got the info from "RudysArcade" here on TH-cam. Everything you need is pretty much included, except I don't know why they leave out Freezy's and Lucky's .dlls. But they were easy to replace thanks to you! ⚪@@wayofthewrench
Glad I could help ya out! It's always nice to upgrade, can't wait to do mine. Cheers!
That's Awesome!! Thanks for this Video and great job as always. I now have some more work to do on my cabinet.
Lol, a vpin is never really finished is it? Glad you liked the video, cheers!
Best walk through ever. Especially the stern patching. I did an update using the 64bit version of vpx/mame etc a bit ago and the old color roms stopped working. I'll try stepping through it again. Thank you!
Thanks dude! Yeah I was shooting for an all in one resource for people to use. Hey, let me know if this works to fix your issues after upgrading to 64bit. Thanks for the watch!
Great video - again! I had figured all this out previously, which was very time consuming. The thing is, with my poor memory, to do it again would take another long time. This is a great resource for me - as have all your videos been. Thank you!!!
Thanks! Yeah it'll be a resource for my build when I forget how too! Like an owner's manual...lol. Thank for the support of the channel! Cheers!
So true, once you wade through all the hundreds of websites and configs, to eventually get it setup, you forget it all quite easily.
Yeah it's all very particular to vpin so it's easy to forget. Cheers!
Love your work thank you, next project for tonight.
Thanks Andrew! Hope this makes it easy! Cheers!
This was great. Thank you.
Sweet, glad you enjoyed the video! Lots of good stuff in that one. Thanks for the watch!
Another way I found to find the rom name it's using, is to press f1 in the table, then at the top of the dialog box it's listed there too 😊
Oh yeah? Cool, I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the watch and the tip!
Excellent tip. I forgot about that one.
Lot's to remember that's for sure.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Hugs.
Thanks for watching!
that missing _ in the Metallica bin file name had me wondering what I was doing wrong. Thank you.
Glad you got it figured out. Thanks for the watch. Cheers!
Absolutely loving your pinball series. I found myself watching videos not even relevant to me just because I was so fascinated with your interesting DIY tips and tricks (like building a custom lockdown bar). Any estimate when you'll paint and vinyl wrap your cabinet?
Awesome, glad you're enjoying the content! I work hard to make good content so it's always nice to hear from people. The vpin cab is torn apart right now and almost done painting so videos are coming up after a few diy auto clutch replacement videos. Thanks for the watch!
Very nice Thank You
You're very welcome! Thanks for the watch!
Very cool.
Thanks dude!
Thank you 👍 after a full backup i will try this in the next 2days. Have only 2 displays and bad overlapping (i think it is topper over backglass 🤔) hope this helps by running colorDMDs & backglass showing correctly. Its so hard to setup all 👀 i did not find a setting to deactivate any topper 😬
No worries, color DMD Rock! Once you're all set up, you'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the watch!
This is great, but it would be really nice if this video was split into chapters. Thanks
Yeah good idea! Thanks for the watch and your support for the channel! Cheers!
Amazing thank you and no nasty ness
Glad you enjoyed the video and hopefully it helped you get color DMD going. Thanks for the watch.
thanks again for a great tutorial cactus canyon worked great. the stern example worked by i'm on getting white for the color. did you run into this issue during your research?
You're very welcome! White eh? Some of them are white like the Star Trek one and then like 10 seconds in you see more colors. Which one is it?
never mind, i believe i didn't name the .bin correctly. working great now.
Perfect, happy it worked for ya!
I've got the Pal and Vni down, but what are the naming/folder conventions for PAC and CRZ? Just need to figure out these buggers and i'll be golden!
All 4 types are in the video and how to use them. You got this! Thanks for the watch!
Any chance you could do a guide on getting color dmd working with pinball fx3?
In the future sure. I don't even have fx3 on my PC because I use fx3 on my PS4 but might in the future. Thanks for the watch!
Is there a service or someone who could log into my pc and set this up. I have tried for about a month and still dont understand how to set up baller installer stuff. I have vpx and i can run the tables from their, I can see the DMD, but no back glass. I start the games thru VPX and play them that way. None of that other software works. I dont understand.
If you haven't already, I'd suggest you watch my series from the beginning because I go through everything including how to install baller installer and installing vpx tables/ back glasses. Thanks for the watch and welcome to the channel!
Excellent tutorial thanks so much for it. However, I messed mine up somehow. I followed the tutorial and everything worked great, but the next day I updated Flex DMD and afterwards I discovered that none of my colorized dmd's were working and had reverted back to there previous state. I had saved my vpinMame folder and went back to the previous state and reinstalled everything again but that did not fix it. Any ideas or suggestions to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.
Glad it worked for you. Not sure but it sounds like something got over ridden. I would suggest that you re install the updates in the same order until they work again. So start with Freezy and then check all of your color dmds, etc. Good luck!
@@wayofthewrench Update!!! Got them back up and running after using your suggestions. Discovered Serum colorization was not affected and did not have to reinstall it. Everything seems to be fine now. Thanks again for your assistance and especially this excellent tutorial.
You're very welcome!
but you cant have both pal and pac files running in one setup they just overtite themselfs ?
Usually there is only one option when you download the color DMD file for a certain table. Drop it in like the video and it should be good. Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench not what i was on about
It will only use what file type you put into the altcolor folder, you don't put both.
ps. does this e xplanation also work if you do it on a "Desktop" modus ? or with 2 / 3 screens (monitors/tv, but no pinball cabinet)
Yes it does! Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench great great !! Gonna try it for sure ! Like your explanation......straight forwarward, just like i would do it @home..... a hobby-ist
Awesome, good luck!
Hi Everything work, But the altcolor Videocolors doesn t look good. How can i patch this? Thanks
What does it look like? It works or it doesn't so I feel like you might have missed something in the video. Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench yes i think i Need the altcolor patch. Where do i get and put it again? Thanks
Yeah probably. The last part of the video is for color rom style that need patching, just watch that part again and everything is there. Good luck,!
you must make a video how we can makethe sound on metallica louder then the effects, please help there a great problem for all, thanks
Do you have Pinvol installed? That would fix it.
no but i have no ssf i mean the music vol in metallica are low and the effects from table are loud i think i cant it manage with pin vol without ssf@@wayofthewrench
@@wayofthewrench i have now testet it but dont work i can set global sound vol and table sound vol thats both the same the mechanical sounds and the music not seperately sooo sad please help for that problem, i think much people have this with metallica
You should get pinvol anyways cause you can tweak volume for each table and it saves it on the way out.
Try going into vpx preferences and sound manager. There will be volumes for everything in the game.
Is this still relevant to the new 2024 baller installer ot do i still need to do this? I know. Newbee question
Yup. Baller installer gets the programs set up but for each table you want color ROMs, you need to do this and how you do it is exactly the same. You just don't have to update the programs like I showed, jump to the how you do the color DMD files. Thanks for the watch!
Thank you for replying. appreciate the video and explanation. @@wayofthewrench
You're very welcome! Hopefully I earned your subscription today. Thanks for the watch and your support for the channel!
I want to make my own tables. I have experience with Blender and animation, but for some reason I'm only finding 2 tutorials on youtube about how to create a table, and none of them show how to import 3D objects. Does anyone know of a channel that has tutorials about making your own boards?
Yeah there are not a lot of videos on this subject....I looked and am also interested. Maybe in the far future, I'll try to learn this and make a tutorial. Cheers!
@@wayofthewrench Hey man, so I've been looking around and it took a while, but I found something of interest. There's a program called Visual Pinball Engine. It uses Unity to make VPX boards. Then while in Unity, you can add game logic, and animations to 3D models. So there are a ton of Unity tutorials, but there's still no direct VPE tutorials that I can find on TH-cam. But I feel like I'm getting closer. I hope that helps you.
@@chillasslofi8962 Perhaps you already found out but Visual Pinball Engine is the next Visual Pinball program (the next VPX if you will) which is still in development. Last I read is that it is at least one and a half year away from completion.
Cool, soooo much stuff to learn and make out there.....I wanna try it all!
Yeah I heard about it but I'll wait because it seems things progress so fast these days. Cheers!
We have several sayings in the UK..... The dogs bollox........The tits.........both these describe this video. jolly good show old chap x
Thanks dude! I didn't know you were from the UK Richard. Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench originally mate, but Ive lived in Spain 17 years!
Woah....cool!
Rescue 911??
Huh? The game? Does it have color DMD? Not sure what you're asking. Cheers!
Is there a color for the Gottlieb Rescue 911? I asked this. If it doesn't exist, how can you request it?
Not sure, you could look on VPUniverse. I don't know how to request one but you could ask in a comment on one of the other color dmds already done by an author. Good luck!