Wanted to try out this awesome tool. Downloaded V3.00 and put facebook.dll and pinballbrowser.exe in same directory. Starts up fine, can search for text and replace. However, sound is a totally different story

If I select a sound (for instance request 308) and push play I hear nothing. If I click again than often the program just freezes for some time and does nothing. When it works again I can push Stop. I assume that during this waiting time? it extracts the song from the binfile?

Using W7 and ACDCLE 1.65 bin.

What am I doing wrong?? And yes, I checked if my sound on PC was really working with other programs

Thanks for any help

When I export the soundfile and doubleclik on it it plays fine, only when I push play in the pinballbrowser menu the button switches from play->stop but no sound

When I select the very first sound (which is a very short one) and tick the autoplay box it will go (without sound) to the next one and than the program will no longer respond for at least 30 seconds (where the sound is <1 sec) befor it jumpt to the next one. This all without sound.

Guess I should try it on another computer or any further hints?

Correct. Money sent

I bought a license but prior to receiving that license I did a job on ST PRO and was able to import with the free version 24K wav files and worked fine on ST PRO. So have to disagree with these findings.

And yes, the developer deserves some financial credit for all his excellent work so just make a donation if this solves your problem. This also will encourage Oga to keep on developing which is also good for you

The version I used was downloaded last Saturday and was rel 351

That's strange. Got a reply from oga within a day. Perhaps he is on holiday, drop him a PM would be my advice

Not made by me :

Great work, thanks !!

The best just got better

Don't know the songs but see no reason why not. Only if replacement song is shorter you will have a silence.

You can even try it without buying the RSLE. Download the firmware from stern website, open PB and see if you can make it Happen

I am not a lawyer if if I have bought the CD with the music on it am I than not allowed to make a copy of it for personal use?

Can tell you from experience that the licensecode is linked to the PC

Licensecode is linked to the PC. So if you install it on another PC (or you upgraded for instance W7 to W10 like I did) you will need a new licensecode from Olivier

If you are stating here you are using a pin2dmd rgb led display you are correct, no side channel possible. Side channel only works with total smartdmd solution with raspberry pi

I heard that with rel 179 apparently the sidechannel doesn't work anymore so think this is related. Don't know any details, just heard some side info

You can't color a flinstones unfortunately, only stern SAM games.

The only thing you can do with a flinstones is a fixed colorpalet for all scenes

There is a macro for smartdmd available which makes AC/DC fully colorized. So no need to do the work all over again. Is made by pinball mike d. Contact him to ask for the macro, run it with in-frame coloring enabled, flash the AC/DC firmware and enjoy.

See also

If the replacement is longer it will just cut of at the 3.05 mark. If replacement is shorter you will have silence at the end.

For those wanting the pinballmiked acdc macro sent me a PM with your Mailadress. I still have it and it’s not messed up. Are you guys using the right Smartdmd.txt file?

In another thread Kapsreiter is reporting that his AC/DC was no longer booting after updating with PB. That’s why he looked for the original firmware.

Anyone else having same issue, eg a new release like 6.31 is required??

In any case, my advise is to first backup the firmware on your AC/DC on usb prior to updating.

Thanks but AC/DC is a SAM system and you video is for Spike. Backup can go via the service menu on an USB stick.

Did you only exchange songs or also use it in combo with a smartdmd and or mikeD displaymod?

Opened ACDC 170 today to have a look at it.

Tried to run MikeD marco for Smartdmd (as it also contains the comm patch it also helps with the display mod). Got an error message when running the macro, clearly items have moved around. For instance picture at 0XB7 is now at 0XC8. Tried ShiftId,0,0XB7,0XC8 but got an error message at that one.

Afraid that this is above my capacities , how is best way to compare the 2 images? As I leave the sound alone,just Smartdmd, I assume I only have to worry about the location of the animations and where music/callouts are located is of no interest to me?

I was looking into pin2dmd with PB as well yesterday for a friends SMVE m. As far as I understand the European SMVE has a little more code (or less free memory) and it doesn’t fit anymore in the memory hence error 7.

Can only hope Oga finds a way to free up some memory which makes the patched code fit. Work in progress I hope so

That’s interesting. If the pin still plays well perhaps we are lucky. Are you seeing different shades of red? As coloring is different even in just the standard red you should see changes compared to the standard firmware.

Keep us informed pls when you have received the pin2dmd shield

Changing out graphics not but there is a smartdmd macro for potc.

You have to change yourself

You can adjust via settings in the Smartdmd.txt. Just run PB and get to the Smartdmd tab. There you can fiddle with settings to get this done.

Dear lucky1

Are you stating here that the in-frame coloring technique smartdmd also has doesn’t work with pin2dmd?

Playing a macro requires much less skill as making the changes.

Biggest problem here I think is that when a macro let’s say changes out a song. The macro is than told to look in a certain folder for a file-song called ..... In order to play the macro correctly you should have in a same folder the same named file-song.

Legally I understand this fully (you should own the IP material) but having this work in practice can be a challenge I am afraid of.

Or am I missing something?

You pay easily 20K for 3 pinballs and than worry about eur 20 for the greatest software package ever existed for pinballs??

Pinball browser is the only program I know of which can replace sound and video on stern pinball machines. Several people have made an alternative firmware as you described with PB so chances are very very very high you saw one of these.

This indeed lowers or increases the music volume compared with the rest. So exactly the setting you need to get it louder compared to the call outs.

Download link can be found on page 1 of this thread

The coloring of MET was done by smartdmd functionality. Don’t think that there was a ‘real’ pin2dmd version of it. Pin2dmd can read smartdmd

You will need to rerun the macro. Google smartdmd and pinside and you will find an old thread.