This is a good thing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.