COLORDMD GAME 53: DON'T OPEN! DEAD INSIDE!

ColorDMD is excited to announce that The Walking Dead is the 53rd game to be supported by the ColorDMD multicolor pinball display platform! The original hand-drawn animation in Walking Dead ranks among pinball's best! Enhanced by the ColorDMD's multicolor processing, you can nearly taste the flesh falling fresh from the bone!

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Veteran developer Eric Priepke brings the gore, returning for his sixth title following work on Batman, Spider-Man VE, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Flintstones! His effort on this title and commitment to its completion has been commendable and greatly appreciated!

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Walking dead contains several complex animation sequences that change "on-the-fly" in response to playfield activity. These embody some of the most challenging sequences of any SAM game completed to date, and required Eric to develop innovative and custom solutions that could work within the bounds of the ColorDMD coloring engine.

This also required improvements to the ColorDMD engine itself, extending capabilities and adding new features that will also benefit future titles.

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Eric resides in Wisconsin with his wife and two children. When not spending time with family, or rolling with Wisconsin's infamous "Ballers for Dollars" crew, Eric can usually be found contributing something to the pinball hobby. He is the author of "Cactus Canyon Continued", and an active contributor to the Pinside and P-ROC pinball discussion forums.

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The ColorDMD for Walking Dead pinball machines shares the same easy-to-install hardware platform as previous ColorDMD releases. All displays ship with the factory installed SIGMA ROM that supports WPC, WPC95, SAM, Whitestar, and SPIKE platforms. Multicolor operation is enabled through download and installation of a game-specific color ROM file, available from our site. ROMs can be changed at any time, allowing use with any of our supported titles.

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Displays are shipping now from our store site or through our distributors. The color ROM for Walking Dead pinball machines is targeted for release by Friday, February 10!

For more information, please visit us at www.colordmd.com.

That's correct.

TWD ROM RELEASE!

It's OK... you can open it now. Eric has outdone himself with his work on Walking Dead... and lived to tell about it!

Thanks to Dino for his continued generosity and support during the development of this game, and to Keith, Justin, and Scott for all the hours spent beta testing.

The color ROM to support Walking Dead pinball machines is now available for download from our SUPPORT site.

http://www.colordmd.com/support_firmware.html

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ColorDMD ROMs are updated with Eric's bug fix. Still shows the same version number (3.0).

We're still waiting on a large order or LED modules. The supplier's factory closed for three weeks for Chinese New Year. Hoping to receive an update early next week.

The metal speaker panel shouldn't need one as the display bracket should be grounded through the panel itself. You can verify this by doing a continuity test with a DMM.

This is not a joke...

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Yes, it's an arm reaching out through the door.

Yes, the shield/standoffs are needed for all newer Stern games with metal speaker panels.

THE WALKING DEAD ROM UPDATE

The color ROM for The Walking Dead has been updated and is available for download on the firmware support page of our site. The update fixes changes in the V1.60 game code release for Horde, bug fixes for skill shot, and some other minor changes.

http://www.colordmd.com/support_firmware.html

Thanks to Eric Priepke for the update!

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You should replace the red shield with a clear one for a finished look but it's not necessary.

The display shields for wood speaker panels and metal speaker panels are different sizes. Anything that supports whitestar or sega games (which had wood speaker panels) won't be correct for TWD.

You can check with ColorDMD resellers (Pinball Palace UK, Ministry of Pinball, Pinball Universe) to see if they have any shields for new Stern games with metal speaker panels in stock.