Nice!

Rock N Roll!

Amazing

Nice!!

This is a good thing.

cool. Now I can put a sigma display into Rocky and Bullwinkle so I can install the high res in that game

A Data East game..."bury" good news. Excited to see what comes next!

Sweet. I like this!

Not so sweet: I need 1200 bucks to do my current DMDs

Looking forward to the teaser video.

Can I get a " Hell Ya " !!

Just ordered it, can't wait to put this bad boy in!
I'm fairly new to all this though, have seen upscaled dmd's in place (CFTBL), is this something that can happen with the GNR one?

You can choose what setting you like in the ColorDMD set up menu , hi-res , scan , tile , dots , dotsXL etc...

Bump...back in stock.

Okay, awesome, Hi Res sounds like the way to go

Definitely play around to see what you like best, I think I've settled on Dots XL. Also start with your contrast setting at 3 - it really helps the skin tones pop on this game. When I filmed the trailer footage, I hadn't quite figured all this out yet so you'll notice it looking fantastic live. Glad you ordered one!

Love it!

Hey guys I am going to be doing a live stream of color GNR this Thursday night at 7pm CST. Please follow and watch us at twitch.tv/pinballafterdark and @dark_pinball on Twitter. Hope to see you there!

just ordered one myself!

Hello all. I've wanted to do some streaming for awhile but we finally arrived at a perfect opportunity to start. My best friend just finished programming the colorDMD for Guns N Roses, which officially launches Friday morning, so we will live stream the game Thursday night so people can see what it's all about. I'm extremely proud that my friend did such a great job, and thankful to colorDMD for letting me be the beta tester over the last month or so. Great team to interact with and they loved getting feedback.

So anyway, I am launching my channel on Twitch called Pinball After Dark. I will rotate guests in and out and we will stream a different game each week, with the first episode being Thursday night at 7pm CST, so I really hope you tune in. Follow us at twitch.tv/pinballafterdark, and @dark_pinball on Twitter. Thanks and hope to see you there!

Have the physical installation instructions for GNR been released yet? I'd love to read the install for Data East prior to purchase.

From ColorDMD's website:

http://www.colordmd.com/ColorDMD%20Installation%20Instructions%20for%20Data%20East%20Rev6.PDF

Installed mine Friday and spent some quality time with this over the weekend - as with every other title, it makes such a huge difference in this machine. GNR doesn't rely on a lot (comparatively) of animations per se, but does use a bunch of horizontal- and vertical-wipe type of stuff, and those have always seemed extra "flat" to me - the color really helps those simple screen wipes pop out.

The super-tight installation (DMD cable fighting for clearance under the light board) now adds an extra step whenever you need to remove the DMD/speaker panel, but not a dealbreaker.

Have seen a few anomalies in operation, though - wondering if everyone else has these or maybe a reload of my ROM is in order:

1) In Snake Pit mode, if you make the Snake Pit shot, at the end where you have Slash on a blue background and your mode bonus score across the center, everything is in blue for the last couple of frames - the background and the score.

2) On the scrolling credits screens, there's a spot in the middle that doesn't hold proper color - on the credits screen with Lyman F. Sheats, when his name gets near the top of the screen, the period after his middle initial changes from yellow into the various green/red/silver colors used in the background for a couple of frames. Later in that same screen another name (which I forget) not far behind Lyman's does the same thing.

3) Not really a bug, but the color just makes her stand out more - the girl on the left-hand side of the "1 More For Mystery" screen is quite the troglodyte. The other ladies on the DMD benefited from the colorization; Mystery girl though, nothing was going to help her. The pink numbers on the gal on the "modesty off" match screen are a nice touch.

Blog Post and Video Installation of ColorDMD's Guns N Roses

Blog Post:
https://pinballsupernova.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/mod-install-colordmd-install-and-game-play-of-data-east-guns-n-roses/

Website :
http://www.pinballsupernova.com/data%20east%20color%20dmd%20repair.html

Video :

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Timely post by wiggy07!

His video shows what I was describing about the end of Snake Pit mode. So it's not just me. Yay? Hopefully it's a bug or unfinished bit and not intended to be all blue like that.

Pic of right after you complete the mode, and then when it displays your mode score:

Before
After

installed mine last night ... pretty simple but a little tight as already mentioned ... ALSO as the video stated the "data east" holes shown in the instructions do not work because you cannot close the back box door at that height (it will hit the top of the color dmd)... Then when i dropped it down to the available next holes i still have to slightly lift the back box door to get it to clear but it works ... Seriously the hardest part for me was "Step 6" the tight space you have in removing the 15 pin CN6 and then installing the "power tap".... not much room to work in there ..... nice mod tho .. looks great and makes a big difference unfortunately I didn't get a lot of time to play and enjoy before i went to bed ...... off topic if you have the Pinsound Board this just makes adjusting that even more cumbersome but i guess those are the breaks and like BlackJacker already said definitely NOT a deal breaker .....actually if we could extend the existing 26 pin ribbon cable that goes to CN3 it would make accessing the lower part of the back box less frustrating ... I assume that would be possible by adding 26 pin ribbon extension to it but im not a computer guy ... definitely gonna look into it

Highway Starr, in reference to the ribbon cable and lack of length, what I did was remove the ribbon cable from the wire organizers in the back box, (White Clips that organize the wires). After that, the ribbon cable had more slack which made moving the DMD display easier in removing and installing from the back box when having to drop it down. The first time before removing the ribbon cable from the wire organizers, I bent the pins on the display board and had to bend the pins back to its original location. Give it a try.

GNR Colorist here! So you found the snake pit bug! When coloring a game there are rare instances where a frame or transition sequence is not able to be colored properly. This final frame of the sequence (which sorta seems like a glitchy frame to begin with) was one of those instances due to the score being a little too embedded with the artwork. I colored it all green for a while, then decided on all blue. The other option is to black it out if it really bugs you guys. You wouldn't even notice something was missing. (To be perfectly clear, I would only be blacking out the wacky blue frame, not the rest of the awesome artwork with Slash and the snake). If I get enough feedback on this, I'll make the change with the first update ROM.

I had a blast coloring the game and as a huge GNR fan I made every effort to be as accurate as possible. I researched what video/concert a sequence was sampled from and got the clothing colors right, same with the the color of the stripes on the Mustang GT from the Don't Cry video, etc, etc. I tried to leave no stone unturned. Hope you guys are enjoying it as much as I am!

I'm open to other feedback, and making additional updates within reason.

My vote: black it out.

I appreciate the insights, thanks for posting that! And thank you for tackling this game - it looks great!

Along those same lines, is that the reason that the display during Coma mode is all green? Countdown, score and text - everything on-screen is one color, seems kinda flat.

I like the red trucks and blue cars in Gilby mode - very nice touch.

Now thats what i call S E R V I C E !!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks .... Ill vote black it out myself!

Sweet!!

Snake Pit:

The people have spoken! I'll black it out.

Coma:

Yes this was one of those instances where the EKG line graph interfered with all the text making it impossible to separate things. However - old EKG machines were monochrome green, so look at it as an immersive experience... listen to that Coma heart beat / kick drum and you are right there in the hospital with Axl!

Gilby:

Thanks, this one hurt my brain and I was so happy to finish it. Colored vehicles make it much easier to navigate. Have you completed it and seen the sweet flaming skull?

Scrolling Credits:

These credits took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to color, there were no shortcuts, every frame as the letters moved upwards had to colored manually.... I was seeing them in my sleep. But I think they look pretty good. I will check out the Lyman area... this is likely something I can easily fix.

Mystery Girl:

Agreed she's a troglodyte! I don't know if there is much I can do here in terms of a makeover.. perhaps change her hair color.

I can't get the damn thing to work! When I hold down the initiate ROM Download button, 2 green lights on the back are on but the "prog" one flashes non stop & nothing loads - what have I done wrong?

Yeah, I imagine those were a pain. On that sequence with Lyman's name, it happens to every period on the screen - in Lyman's name (two of them), Lonnie Ropp, and Brian Rudolph. I did notice that in the credit screen with the song titles, the period in Mr. Brownstone is unaffected.

I'd leave her alone. I'm sure her family loves her nonetheless.

Will Guns and Roses ColorDMD work with Pinscore PJ-5047-HV Power Supply for Data East Dot Matrix Games? Will ColorDMD power tap daughter board for CN6 connector fit without clearance issues?
Good to know ColorDMD will work with Rottendog replacement pinball DMD driver board DMD004.
Reply from Dmod ColorDMD: Rottendog is fine as its a replacement for the DE/Sega board and matches the same timing. Stern boards have one small difference that throws off our frame recognition when used in a DE or Sega game.
I will work on a fix for this after TPF and issue a ROM update when available..
Thank You

Added over 8 years ago: Guns and Roses ColorDMD does work with Pinscore PJ-5047-HV Power Supply. Power taps fits. It is close. Also version received 5-18-16 has mounting holes for Data East and it fits without door or panel interference.

Regarding the Stern board which I have ... Please hurry I'm dying with this single yellow color

Installed one today, awesome

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It's glorious!

Any reason this is out of stock? Would love to order this!

Plenty of reasons. Mostly, because it's awesome.

Blame the coming SM/SMVE releases for the current out-of-stockness.

Get on their mailing list and you'll know when it's back in stock. Expected late this month or early July from what I understand from the SM/SMVE ColorDMD threads.

Got it. Thanks...