Why is there no one who has posted how awesome this mod is ?

I think the animations and art used are real spot on, they look great, colors are great, but still not convinced. Problem with this mod is I need to see this in person. I think only then you can make a decision if this is the one for you. Personally I like the black lagoon with the creature only poppin up once a while. Would love to play one with this mod. But when your hologram is toast and you have the cash, I think this one is very nice.

I have installed and enjoy the mod. It is what it is- a nice addon like all mods. Can you live without it - Yes. IS it cool, yes. Does it take a 90s DMD machine and add some video interest where no others have it- YES. Is it worth it- Personal decision. IS a $500 Munster topper worth it? Looking at what machines are going for now- its nuts.

It works well and follows the flow well. Is it redundant- YES- it repeats as features that are hit frequently are hit. You can customize how many videos show up, but I think everyone likes the most considering the cost of the mod.

But it does work as advertised and I too was skeptical although not ravenous as some of the posters.

I hope that helps

Quite a few people have on Facebook in more friendly pinball groups. It's funny, this thread was mostly active with haters because this mod took so long to complete. Once it debuted, they all disappeared.

Im still here..

Waiting for the author to release either a firmware update for his abondonware pin2dmd clone or to allow owners to load pin2dmd firmware on the mk66 dmd boards.

But clearly he is working on other stuff now..

You HAD to say that!

For Creature, I highly recommend ColorDMD, it's great!

I have to say that I am reluctant to post on this thread, not because of the Mod as it is really, really awesome, but due to the grief I received when I posted in support of the mod which resulted in a barrage of aggressive PMs. Its one the reasons I do not post on Pinside anymore, even though I have only recently joined.

That all said, and expecting the onslaught of nasty PMs and downvotes, it would be wrong not to reply and say how much me and my son love this mod. My machine is heavily modded and this is the icing on the cake. I had looked to by one of the high def repo holograms (around the 400 euro mark) but there are none around, so I bought a not so high quality one and though it was better than nothing both my son and I felt the disappointment when a murky, blurry and spotty creature appeared

I noticed how my son would apologise to his friends who played on the machine that the creature looked bad and actually asked me to disconnect it. With the new mod, there is now fun when hitting the switches and the dark hole in the playfield is colourful and responsive to our game play. My son is now constantly wanting his friends to come over to see it and we are now always playing on it again.

So in short (and knowing the grief I will get) this mod is AWESOME and well worth it and thank you Luis for persevering in this outstanding Innovation.

A few photos attached but as I was doing this one hand, I gave up trying to take more

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That’s great! Glad to hear your son is into the games; mine wouldn’t be caught dead near our collection!

Sorry some people did that to you. Please don't let that spoil your experience here. There are a lot of good pinball people around here that are quite helpful and friendly (most of the time). Thanks for posting your review, and I'm glad you and your son are digging the mod.

lol

I got him to help me restore our CFTBL and CV, so he treats both machines with respect, his friends on the other hand...Meh

Hahaha!

I was skeptical this mod would ever come out, and I’m really glad to see I was wrong, and people seem to really like it!

BigMo i for one can say i did not pm anyone... but to hear ur son apologize for how the hologram would look is pretty cool. He must really take a lot of pride in the game which is good to hear

Thank you for your words of encouragement

So what ended up being the final cost of this mod?

People can see it for what it is and make their own decision to buy... you no longer have to rely solely on future promises (well, you do if you want all the features he's sold.. but not for the basic premise). The so called 'haters' don't spam threads and they never 'hide'. It's just there is nothing to say at this point... if you like what he's offering, more power to you. It's your money - make your own decisions.

All your previous dmdmk66 customers have reached out to you many times about the pending firmware update that you claimed was weeks away from release about 3+ yrs ago.

When a pin2dmd artist asked about the colour editor that actually used a screen cap of his work, you got all in a fluster and self-banned yourself from pinside effectively abandoning your product.

Newsflash - we are still here, still waiting for your editing software and still waiting a firmware update that will enable frame editing.

That was a promise you made, about your product, as a creator of your product.

You do understand that pin2dmd really works well and many colorization projects are public domain and work seamlessly, making a great alternative for colordmd.

Not sure if you even recognize your own product was dmdmk66.

There is no reason to call us a mafia. Look at your first point. You said you support your products. We are previous customers of your product.

You returned to pinside to sell more of your new products.

These are facts.

Still having your crazy little troll rants I see lol

I am totally gob smacked this actually made the light of day and it actually sort of works. Like others have said I think support will be short lived and end up being another dead project like the dmd’s as the op moves onto another project.

russdx you are too generous in your definition of support....

I'm not one to post and flame, never do actually. I've been following this thread over the last few years out of interest on the technical aspect, not interested into all the drama

But your last statement is a slap in the face of the mod community, so I can't let it fly when you state that people are stealing your design ideas.

DMD: original development by @lucky1, you took his work and started selling it without his authorization, developed a so called custom version. This in turn resulted into lucky1 almost stopping development, until he was convinced there was a demand.

Here we are many years later, with Pin2DMD still well and alive, whereas your product has not seen a single update over, well, a long time.

Not to mention that since you stopped development, people are actually turning TO Lucky1 to update YOUR HW with PIN2DMD firmware
(source: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/dmdmk64-new-dmd-multicolor-by-pinballsp-is-on-the-way/page/24)

So lucky1 did not STEAL your idea, YOU DID. And there is a long list of posts to prove it.

Hologram kit: Pinball MikeD had a hologram replacement kit available 9 YEARS ago (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/creature-hologram-mod#post-449506). You started to post 4 years ago. Who's been copying the idea ?

Yes your mod is finalized, art content seems pretty good and that's your value add, but don't claim things which you know are not true (or if you really think they are you need to go see someone).

Sidenote: your price is ludicrous. I get it that you want to make money, but Compy implementation is miles above yours (detect sound commands, and I suspect inserts as well on TZ, triggers on DMD capture on Tron), and is way cheaper (by more than 30%, no less). He had the courtesy of not launching a similar mod to yours (he said that much) to avoid stepping on your toes, despite the demand, yet you do not seem to extend the same courtesy (Twilight Zone, Theater of Magic, just to be clear : https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/magic-mirror-mod-for-theatre-of-magic-by-86pixels , don't say he stole your idea, since his product is ready and shipping for TZ, and it's soon to ship on TOM, whereas you have not even posted anything on this topic until the last update).

I guess it will only be fair that he changes his mind

Geez

Note: I'm not affiliated to @Lucky1, @compy, steve45 or any of the other pinsiders who called out on your lies, I make up my own mind, and reading your post simply unhinged me

....and so it starts again....

I waited forever for this and gave up because, you know, life. So I'm guessing I'm SOL now?

I'm confident you can keep selling more for years if you continue to make them and support it. I still haven't gotten around to ordering it, but plan to for my Creature in the next month or two.

Just installed mine today. Love it! He was available immediately for a couple questions. Thanks

Pinballsp, I bought the upgraded kit. How do I download more videos? Thanks!

Thank you!

Whats the password?

Just installed mine down in Texas, and had it up in time for the tournament at our house yesterday! Everyone loved it, and some other CFTBL owners commented it's the best mod they've seen for the game. Having such a well-done screen near the bottom makes you think you're playing something more akin to a modern Jersey Jack game, until you look up at our orange DMD

Some notes about my installation:
- My original hologram bracket is different than the one sold at Marco (maybe it's from early in the run?) but in any event, I wasn't able to line up the mounting holes with any of the four original PF screw holes. Nevertheless, I managed to line it up nearly perfectly due to the alignment marks and looking at pictures.
- Removing J207 and J209 from the MPU board did not seem necessary.
- My power connector J119 into the driver board is barely long enough to reach the driver board as it is, and I really had to yank on it for it to reach the mod board, only for me to realize I couldn't even insert it without clipping one of the pins on the mod board because my connector is keyed. I opted not to do this.
- At first, I crimped a couple jumper wires to connect the too-short connector to the plug (and to overcome the keying issue), while keeping connections to other things like my PinSound board and lighted speaker panel. However, I believe this blew F116 (for the +12V line) and so any opto on the game stopped working, including flipper switches & VUKs.
- I eventually decided to use the barrel jack on the mod board, and a wall wart plugged into the utility socket. However, the docs don't mention it's a center-negative jack; I had to figure it out with a multimeter by confirming which pin on the barrel jack connected to ground pins on the RPi. Only having center-positive power supplies (how people usually make them, at least in the US ), I had to re-wire one of mine to reverse the polarity.

Once I overcame the blown fuse and rewired one of my 12V 2A PSUs to be center-negative, then I had a beautiful mod in my game! I have yet to perform any further upgrades, but it'll be fun to get those on at some point. Thanks!