I just rushed to adapt LCD from another machine into GB, then went to d/l the update and see that the firmware is not released yet, ha. No, I didn't read the full announcement. Anyway, sigma looks pretty nice for now, and I'm ready to go.

For those that might want to adapt one yourself, it's pretty easy if you have a little hardware lying around. I trimmed the bottom middle bolt down about 1/4" with dremel, installed lock nuts on bottom corner bolts about 1/3rd down for display to sit on, lock nuts on top corner screws about halfway down and small hex spacers on top of those, popped the display in, two nuts at the bottom and two machine screws at the top to hold it, done.

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Come on, the tip of a bolt... doesn't affect anything. That's what I was thinking anyway...

I'm not worried that my permanent change affects the value, lol...

Not trying to persuade anyone, just used what I had on hand. But I do like the display angled up as I'm tall, so it works for me.

It's not the same as recommending an under-powered cooling fan that can't reach shut off temp and runs constantly, which I'm guessing your sore at for me questioning.

Yup, my way angled it slightly more, which I'm fine with, since I'm tall. If I had more suitable hex spacers on hand, probably would have used them, but sacrificing the tip of a bolt vs ordering parts or running to the hardware store, is a trade-off I'm happy with.

Nice to see slimer in green!

Advance it to 1 minute, youtube didn't process the start right or something.

There's a couple of areas where I could have hoped for more.

Storage Facility Multiball: watching the monochrome animation start, I always imagine the scene from the movie with the multi-colored spirits escaping. It would be nice for the spirits to be done in different colors here, even just red, green, blue alternate would be nice.

Tobin's Spirit Guide pages don't stand out too well, I'd be curious to see what it would look like with the images being colored, even just a single color per page and changing per page might be interesting.

I'm guessing there's so much animation on this game, there couldn't be a lot of attention to detail in all areas and some short-cuts or compromises had to be made on where to spend time. Would be nice if colorizing software were released and customers could do some customization to experiment.

I think the pages had glowing images in color, yeah, but I've lent out my copy of Tobin's, so I can't check right now.

What does source material have to do with it? It's just selecting different colors for the pixels that make up the different spirits. Maybe there's a technical limitation of ColorDMD that I'm not familiar with, I thought it was more robust than what you suggest.

Again, unless there's a ColorDMD limitation I'm not aware of, you can set any pixels to any color. It's not that they don't exist, they're just set to black.

Interesting, sounds like there's no way to set the "background" color then? I'm surprised at that, I thought even the primitive color-swapping solutions allowed that, and ColorDMD was more robust.

Awh, man, why are things never as cool as you remember them?! Ha... I haven't watched the movie in a while, I wonder if I'm cross re-constructing another scene. Anyway, it looks cooler in my mind, I'd take creative license on this one! Just kidding, chuckle.

It's not that I don't think the color is appropriate or I just want color for the sake of color. I like those pages flipping by on the monochrome display and there's good contrast. For some reason the contrast isn't as good or maybe it's the LCD refresh/fade rate or something, but particularly those pages seem to lose clarity and I was brain-storming how to improve it. I wonder if it's better on the LED version.

If the "ink" can't be colored, I wonder if tinting the pages different light colors might help, and maybe also make the transitions more obvious. If the same page is always the same color, it would also make certain pages like the extra-ball more recognizable.

I picked up an LED when EBAY had 20% off and ColorDMD still had some listed at the time. I put it in my ST. The one thing I couldn't get over was the visible off pixels / poor blacks. I experimented with a number of different display covers until I found one I liked. Now black looks black and contrast is much better.

I couldn't find anyone selling a solution, so I made it myself. If anyone needs one, I can make them for $20, pm me. Or if you want to use a clear cover you have, can also provide polarized film for $10. It will also be a big improvement, but it's not as good as the custom plastic one. Here's a couple pics from my ST for comparison to the GB ones posted. That's how my ST used to look too.

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