Spider-Man
Stern, 2007Did I hear or read somewhere that the Color DMD folks now have a DMD for Spiderman? I think I saw a post from Phoebe, or someone talking about one of the games that she brought to Expo...being an example of Spidy with a color dmd. Can someone shed some light on this for me as am not seeing anything on their website. Thanks.
Only thing I heard is they are working on it. Sigma displays will come out first which if understand is just a solid color you can choose including white. Later on they will program the dots for the color dmd effect.
You're thinking of my post. Phoebe was running a ColorDMD on her Spider-Man, but not in full color, it was upscaled-style purple. So still just one color.
I doubt you'll ever see full color frankly. Those movie scenes would be seriously crappy to do by hand. The sigma smoothing did clean them up a little though. I could be wrong, just a guess.
Quoted from Aurich:I doubt you'll ever see full color frankly. Those movie scenes would be seriously crappy to do by hand. The sigma smoothing did clean them up a little though. I could be wrong, just a guess.
Yeah, the only way SM would look great via Color DMD is if the display ran higher res clips from the movie rather than trying to unjunk the Stern DMD stuff. And I can`t see that happening due to license issues.
You could homebrew something, but that would be an insane project.
Quoted from Jhanra:Did I hear or read somewhere that the Color DMD folks now have a DMD for spiderman? I think I saw a post from Phoebe, or someone talking about one of the games that she brought to Expo...being an example of Spidy with a color dmd. Can someone shed some light on this for me as am not seeing anything on their website. Thanks.
Yes I had a Color DMD Sigma 2.2 in my SM and Metallica at Expo SM was in blue and Met in purple. The Sigma allows the dots to be smoothed out and filled in. They are not individual colored screens like the displays for AFM, MM, etc. They are single color you choose in the menu which of the many colors you choose.
Phoebe
Here's a couple of quick photos from Expo. SM was set to a light blue. First shot shows a scene from one of the Venom animations. Second shot shows the enhanced scaling with sharper text.
EDIT: Phoebe beat my post while I was searching for photos!
I would love to see a video of the Spider-man DMD running Sigma 2.2, especially to see how the smoothing looks overall. The picture above certainly looks like an improvement.
I just read that my friend Herg has built a power cable and got his Metallica running with a ColorDMD.
Hahaha, that Sparky was hilarious. Whatever the dreads were made out of they're flexible enough to shake around with him.
Quoted from jackal2001:Hopefully they will get the different color dots worked out for sterns. Take my money then.
Nothing to get worked out....they just have to decide when to code them....just like any Williams title that hasn't been done.
Quoted from Dmod:Here's a couple of quick photos from Expo. SM was set to a light blue. First shot shows a scene from one of the Venom animations. Second shot shows the enhanced scaling with sharper text.
EDIT: Phoebe beat my post while I was searching for photos!IMG_0523.JPG 3 MB
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Can't wait for the video!! 
I didn't have any photos or videos so I didn't beat you to it Randy!!
Phoebe
Hmmm, I guess I will need to see the video before deciding if it is really that much of an improvement. Unless the smoothing of the dots really looks great I don't see myself getting a new display for just a color change. I really like the improvement that is accomplished on the other games. And 400 clams is a lot to drop for just a color change. Thanks for all the responses.
Quoted from DCFAN:I would love to see a video of the Spider-Man DMD running Sigma 2.2, especially to see how the smoothing looks overall. The picture above certainly looks like an improvement.
I just read that my friend Herg has built a power cable and got his Metallica running with a ColorDMD.
It was actually my Tron, but that's not all that important. I stole the display from my Scared Stiff, and I have another on the way to replace it. If you want, I could build another power cable and we could play with it in your Spider-Man before I put it Scared Stiff. Just let me know.
I currently have a european rohs compliant led dmd in my spiderman and it sucks, it is just a blurry mess with all the video clips.
A friend of mine replaced his led dmd with a regular dmd which is much better and I was ready to buy it.
Luckily I found out that the sigma color dmd would be stern ready in the near future, so I really can't wait for this to hit the market and put it in my spidey.
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