Party Zone, like Gilligan and some others is a mounting problem. The DMD window is integrated into the translite art, and I believe mounted on the light board, isn't it? So mounting large colordmd display is an issue.

He wasn't wrong ... when he said it.

I have to be honest, I'm a little disappointed by the apparent lack of freaking out here. I mean, it's Tron.

No. Just, no.

You've never heard hulk hogan refer to his arms?

Holy understatement, Mr Brownstone.

Randy did say he hoped to "make it rain" once displays came in back at the beginning of the year.

That's the only thing I'm sure Randy won't do. He likes to do one at a time, so each has it's moment in the sun.

Tis true. So I guess by the letter of the law, I'm a liar. But there is more to the TPF news. The double announcement is a very special case

Yes, they're releasing a color dmd for a game you can't even get yet. That seems reasonable.

I just figured that kid was from a Hilfiger ad, lol.

I'm sure it'll get done someday.

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I so can't get into this mindset. Sure, having a color display on a game is an awesome upgrade - but it doesn't affect actual gameplay. The decision to buy or sell a game based on color being available baffles me.

I thought that was easily Star Trek

I love how far people are willing to stretch to make it fit the game they want, no matter what the clue is

CC Should stay on. There are far more CC's than run my junk. I'm sure there are owners waiting/hoping for CC to get colored.

"Created by prominent game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the slightly younger but taller fraternal twin brother of Nintendo's mascot Mario, and appears in many games throughout the Mario franchise, often as a sidekick to his brother."

Not sure how you can be "younger" AND a "twin brother" -- thanks wikipedia.

The only difference in the display board currently, is the amount of storage. SM is just bigger, data-wise. Nothing else "new" there.

There's nothing from CCC color that can be used on colorDMD, its an entirely different method. CCC uses a dmd asset format that pyprocgame understands, and the color is actually saved in the assets themselves.

Looks like the bulk of it won't affect things, but some of the update notes definitely point to things that will need rework, like:

- Removed "casket" text from coffin multiball start effect.

- Added super jackpot stage to snake multiball. After collecting 3
(adjustable) snake combo jackpots, all shots are lit for super jackpot
until the end of the multiball. Playfield shots disappear when
collected, and reappear when all have been collected or the snake
eject is scored.

- Fixed the player up display effect so it does not end with blank text.

- Fixed stray (bad) pixels in the BATTERY mode intro art.

Text changes affect the display but would not be apparent just thumbing through the graphics in pinball browser. The lack of "casket" on one screen will likely need adjusting, and if the snake super jackpots are labelled as such, they will also. Not that these are major changes, they'll just require some time to do and test.

I was actually going to look into maybe trying to borrow an Elvis, for um, no particular reason ... but then I watched some video of the game on youtube and I see that it's got video parts from lord knows what source.

I know of one I could borrow

Hand coloring video (depending on the scene) is extremely hard to make it look good, rather than blotched on color.

Next release isn't one of mine

No idear, I just work here.

Oh please. Like that would require staying up late.

Like SMVE?

Sorry, I thought it was amusing - I'm not confirming anything.

Also, the oldies, in general, are less complicated to do.

They would be wrong.

Randy had to feed me hints on every clue to get me to the right answer. I are dum.

It doesn't count because A) You didn't provide an explanation for each clue, and 2) You're wrong anyway.

Still no winnah. Step right up and make your guess. What about you sir? You look like a smart man?

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*Note: This image is in no way intended as a clue, just to help you read with the right accent.

The guesses so far:

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You guys need to stop trying to shoe-horn in what you want it to be and try to figure out what it actually is.

Nevermind: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/colordmd-announces-support-for-de-star-wars

Now, can you translate the clues?

Yeah, I didn't either. It helps if you think of the first and third as generic pictograms, and not so much the specific people. The second one is entirely about the movie title.

He's wearing a tie. A fighter in a tie.

What are the only soliders in Star Wars?

And where is that guy doing is walking?

Yep - so to sum up:

A fighter in a tie = Tie Fighter
"Soldiers in the Rain" = Storm Troopers
A tight rope walker in the sky = Skywalker

Fun fact: Colourdmd.com forwards to colordmd.com

Depending on what changes display wise, it can really be a PITA to restructure the logic for the new graphics. Avengers was a huge PITA to re-work to get all the gameplay changes fixed (and BFE still isn't finished) when the updated it a month after the ColorDMD was finished.

Colorized thumbnail apron screen? Sounds hot.

You're being generous.

He's not wrong.

Edit: about the complex bit, that's all I'm commenting on. Just covering my butt here.

There was a guy that made speaker panels with a clear window at some point. And another person posted that you could get the red tint off without killing the artwork with some kind of solvent, but I don't remember what that was.

At least wait for BSD to be released. Geeez.

There's always the order three and use the last one whenever approach. They all come with the chroma board now, so .. enh.

Whoa, boobs. Clearly it's Stern Playboy.

Hah. Misreading for the win. Wrath of Olympus is three years in the making -- not Avatar ColorDMD.

He's not wrong. Metallica without a Colordmd is a damn crime.

Isn't sigma green pretty much all you'd need?

Not doing any other titles where I don't have the machine locally. Too much bother.

Maybe eventually. I have to finish the current burden first.

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This is actually kind of an interesting concept. Not sure most would agree with you, but it's an interesting idea.

Yeah there's not a lot of color on that game. Just the hot pink around the inserts. Oooh, do all the text in hot pink.

The first picture is a picture of burnouts. The second picture is ratchet. This one seems pretty easy compared to most.

Seriously, look at all the pink!

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I'm confused by the logic here. Is there a Honey Nut Cheerios game? I'm not sure how this disqualifies it from being TF.

Avengers.

That was a complex game to start with. Hadn't had an update in years. Resources were pushed really tight to get the game done. Then a month later they released a new update that has a whole new battle for earth section, some of which is ridiculously complex to work with. It's still not 100% as of today.

But hey, enjoy your armchair.

Every picture *did* have lethal weapons in them.

Yep.

TWD rom will work in all existing ColorDMD displays.

Safecracker would have to be LED only, due to space.

If anybody wants to loan me a WOF, I'd do it. Kinda like that game.

Man. Dropping a bomb like TWD doesn't even buy a guy a week?

Randy was intending to announce today - but it looks like stock may have sold out over the weekend. So that's a bit problematic.

Edit: My bad - I had clicked on TWD from the front page of the store to check and it said unavailable. But that seems to be an anomoly. I checked a different title and it showed up available.

There's another locked and loaded and I'm on to the next after that.

WPC transitions are, to put it politely, a shit show.

I'm not sure enough people own Mustang to bother. Heeeeyyooooooooo.

I think BDK might be holding the low sales crown. Heh.

It won't fit.

BDK is out already, so not that.

It's my fault, really. I said "I'm gonna take it to a show next weekend"

Folks, I'm going to need your attention right here for one second...

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There are display differences, but it's mostly text.

Ya'll are like the Apple faithful before a Steve Jobs press conference. Getting all whipped up about fantastic crap you hope will be announced, so that when that information is wrong, the let down is EVEN WORSE.

That wasn't what you think it was, actually.

That part isn't wrong. It would only be wrong if they only released one more game ever.

Capcom currently "works" in sigma, if you figure out the mounting yourself -- but it's not officially supported. The signal isn't 100% correct (I think some of the brightness levels aren't shown correctly), and because of the mounting situation, they're not officially supported for installing at this time.

Several people have worked out ways to run a display, but no games are colored. Yet.

Palettes kind of have to be tuned for each display to really make the colors right. That's not really done. But, for example, I colored TFTC on an LED display and tuned the palette so the colors looked good for the LED because that's what I had. It probably doesn't look exactly as intended on the LCD because of that. Not that it would look BAD, just different.

Highly advisable. Then there's no worry of a sellout ;P

Here's a hot clue for the next ColorDMD release: It's one I didn't do.

Oh, hey look, there's an ACTUAL new hint:

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Some of the issue is that in the old games there sometimes just isn't much to work with. The stern stuff at 12 levels of brightness gives a lot more shading to pick out with color.

There's still a lot left (even if the next one is No Fear). Dirty Harry, WCS, Who Dunnit, Jackbot, Gilligan, Indy 500 ....

Now that the 'older WMS' display signal is working well, Gilligan could get done. The mounting even with the LED is still sketchy. I put one in a gilligan at my house as a proof of concept. LED hung where the DMD was, new weather stripping, and mounting the ColorDMD PCB on the back side of the light board worked pretty well, but I'm not sure if that's the install Randy wants to officially support.

Gilligan ain't done, foo.

There's always at least one guy.

Bahahahaha

Enh, that's not really fair - the code in SM Vault is the same as SM - just with new art. So it was "done".

Yeah, jack*bot has a decent amount of stuff, and the bold colors of the playfield would make it look great with a color display, I think.

I've got a standing offer of a loaner WOF. Just sayin'

Never found a loaner one of those. Working on other things.

I didn't say nobody was working on it. All I said was I'm not working on it. Maybe someone else is.

I have inside information

Aye.

Oh the antici.......

Short memory ya'll got there.

Randy was expecting a lot more people would still have September 16th 2014 fresh in their memory. It's ONLY almost three years and 50 (or so) releases ago. I mean, come on people.