I decided to give pinbrowser a shot to see if I could change out a few songs on my Stranger Things pro. I read through the info on the latest 7.50v and it said that any sounds over 10 seconds require the registered Pinbrowser version. Does this include music? So if a song can be over 10 seconds where I want to use it in the code/game, I need to download the registered Pinbrowser version? Any info or clarification is appreciated.

Also, I just tried to click on the link for 7.81v on the first page. It looks like it is searching but then it just times out and nothing happens. Is the link working or down right now?

Working.

When you add new songs, what volume level do you using use? I am adjusting songs in Aerosmith. First try the song volume was a bit lower than the background game sounds. Was able to find a video on Youtube that explained the SD card process for the Spike games. Thanks for the help!

Hi Oga
Download link on page 1 is dead ?
download.pinballbrowser.com

What about Mando-le 0.97
Is it working for somebody ?
I've got unknown firmware error

Yeah, I cannot download either.

edit: I used Edge and it worked. Did not work in Chrome

Rob

The file layout and binary format are completely different. Pinball Browser is a binary editor and would have to build support for Spooky files which is non-trivial to say the least. That binary support is significantly more complicated than just changing file names.

Any sites people use to download video content off Youtube successfully (with not too many viruses)? Thanks.

software called "4k video downloader"

Are there any posts that explain the process of swapping out videos? Songs are quite easy, as long as you use Audacity to keep the song length the same. But the videos seem to be by frame size. Not sure if they have to be the same frame length but I assume so? What program can I use to take an existing MP4 file and convert it to work with PB and keep the frame size the same? Thanks for the help!

Trying to figure out what information can be retrieved using the serial port. I've seen people retrieving high scores, but I couldn't find specific documentation on this. Is there some documentation on the serial protocol and the data that can be accessed?

Good morning everyone

I'm rather puzzled: I colorized using PB macro system a Stern Avengers (SAM version) ROM. So far so good, got a few out of memory, but in little quantity so thought I'd give it a try

I generated a serial version by adding the comm patch, and created the corresponding ROM.

Flashed it in the system, boots fine, start text is white, however even without using the serial cable I got some working colorizations, which seemed "OK", meaning hulk was green, captain america shield was red/white/blue, etc

So I'm confused, is it possible that a serial patch generated ROM actually includes in-band ?

Also, I tried to connect the PC to Stern SAM to check COM connection, but of course the serial USB adapter I have does not have a valid windows driver. Will Zadig USB drivers work ?

Regards

Did you also change the SmartDMD configuration to Store colors "Side Channel (serial) ?

Waiting on same thing any updates to Pinball Browser coming? Also wanting to update GOTG 1.08

Looks like the new Beatles code 1.15 that dropped a few days ago doesn’t work with PB.

Will a future update to PB fix this?

Yes I did

But I believe I figured out, turns out in this colorization the default palette actually works nicely for ma'y scenes. There is no palette switch though.

Will try to make it work with in-band first, and move to serial if it does not work

Does anyone get it to work to browse to the Mando firmware?

New to Pinball Browser. Tried to replace one sound request with a mono wave file, 24000Hz, and when I preview it in Pinball Browser it sounds perfect. After I import it, it is just straight static. Tried importing a dozen times, tried creating wav file with Audacity and Goldwave - all sound good on the preview but after I import they are just static. Anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause?

My only advice is to download and inspect the stock audio file you want to replace. Then make sure your custom audio file matches its same bit depth and sample rate. 24000Hz (aka 24kHz) seems like a red flag to your issue. That's an odd sample rate value in general for audio. Stern audio files are either 44.1khz or 48khz from my experience.

Have you done any AC/DC song swaps? Thanks

Yes, I swapped in Shoot to thrill. Can't remember which song off hand. Working on Iron Maiden currently. Swapping in three songs, Children of the Damned, Gangland, and Invaders (already done). Trying to figure out how to swap out the song images on start up right now.

Changing out the song images in start up for IM was pretty straight forward. Changed out 3 songs and images. Thanks to Mr_Tantrum for helping create the image files.

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Does anyone know where the song images are stored in the Scene folders for Aerosmith? Like to swap out a few of the images to correspond with the song changes I made. Thanks for your help!

That’s awesome! Can you share the link or process? I’d love to do that.

Will try to explain it best I can. The key was the post created by OGA83 below:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/78#post-5740605

Once you have the Iron Maiden file open in PB, you go to the Scenes tab. Under Scene 3 you will see a folder, "All members", you open that up and you will see each of the image files for the songs. For each song there is a Bitmap image and a secondary Image file. Then you right click on the image you want to change and hit 'import'. From here you select the replacement image and it is done. I changed both the Bitmap and Image files with the same image to be safe.

As noted by OGA83 in his original post, you have to make sure the image is translucent. Also, the image size has to be the same as the original, for IM they appear to be 512x512. If you search for PNG images on the internet, these seem to be the best replacements for the original files as I think most of these are translucent already. I had someone help me create the new PNG image files, so I can't help much with that process. Let me know if you have any questions.

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Cool, thanks for the rundown.

I’ve created clear logos with png files for my MAME, so that shouldn’t be a problem. If anyone wants to link to IMDN files, I would be appreciative.

Here the files I used. If you want me to email them to you, just PM me your email address. Hope this helps. Love to see what others come up with.

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Sweet! I’m planning to do The Evil That Men Do, Phantom of the Opera, Iron Maiden and maybe Wrathchild. I’ll upload to help others if I get it sorted out.

Could someone post a thread link with more details on how to do the new PAL/FSQ file method for Stern? I would like to learn how to get the dump and start colorizing for my Stern ST Premium. Thanks!

Some song icon changes for Aerosmith Pro.

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Pretty nice, be cool to have an insert decal so it matches the PF.

Probably the 3 songs I would want as well maybe mama kin and train kept a rollin.

Some

Insert decals would be a whole lot of work. Sky is the limit on song changes really. Also might resale value if the buyer wants the game stock. As is, takes 20 seconds to swap out the original SD card and get back to the original songs and icons.

Yeah a bit of work I just hate when shit doesn’t match, confuses the casual player. Looks janky but sounds good. Lol

It’s definitely something I would pay one of the modders to do though since we all change the music on these.

If anyone wants to update the Song images in Aerosmith Pro, they can be found in Scene 97. They have to be the same size as the original (pretty sure), 550x512. Thanks.

I would like to re-theme some modes in Elviras House of Horror. (replacing b-movies with blockbusters)
Therefore i would need a list of all movie-clip-sounds with their corresponding movie-clips.
Currently it seems impossible to assign the movie-clips to the used movie-clip-soundfiles.

Anyone know what scene controls the background image with the toy box in Aerosmith? The one with the text “decorations” in the background. Love to swap that out. Thanks.

Update the Setlist image as well with the three new songs added. Have to adjust the font.

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Anyone able to successfully replace the Stern logo on start up? Found the PNG files in Scenes, replaced them but doesn’t seem to work in game play. Thanks.

Think that is the issue, I changed the name. All the other files I changed accepted a different file name. I guess some need to be the same. Any general rule for file naming protocol? Thanks for your help.

Thanks for clarifying. I tried changing the name and it did take the logo change.

Hello. I have an AC/DC pro machine with a pin2dmd display installed, I am running code 1.70. I am looking for the color macro from MikeD. Does anyone know where to get the macro or who to contact to get one? I see the 1.68LE in the repository. There is updated versions for the v-pin but I just can't seem to find the real pin update.

Thanks for reading.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinballmiked

That’s the premium file. The Pro is different.

miked lost his files for ac/dc quite a while ago. I know because I was going to help out and fix what was still left to do about 3-4 years ago

Thank you for the info. Looks like I’ll have to go do a traditional coloring with the editor.

Usually the difference between Pro and Premium is a few shiftIDs. Probably worth checking