I have replaced sounds on a wpc with a switch mp3 trigger board.

DMD animation I have not tackled.

Yes, it is absolutely possible! With the use of a new controller board, like the P-ROC ( http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/ ) you can take any WPC or Stern DMD game and make it your own. Take a look around in the pinball controllers forum. There is lots of info there.

http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/index.php

Thanks! It has been a long road, but a very satisfying one!

Unfortunately, the programming is not as simple as your example. That being said, it is not impossible to learn and there is plenty of help out there to get you going. There are many who have had little to no programming skills that have developed their own code. Everyone is different in what they find easy to pick up and understand, but if you have the time and patience to devote to learning about it, it is something that almost anyone can do.

There are a few key words in there. "time" and "patience". For someone with zero programming background like yourself it can become overwhelming very quickly, especially if you don't have a lot of time to devote to it. I was in the same boat when I started my project. I had zero programming skills and not a lot of time to develop them. What is great about the P-ROC community is that pretty much everyone there is willing to help in one way or another. Because of my time constraints I decided early on that if I wanted my project to be completed before I died, that I would need some help. I ended up seeking the help of another forum member (MOcean) to aid in the programming of my project. This turned out to be the best decision I could have ever made as my project would not be anywhere near what it is today if it wasn't for him. My point with all this is, don't let your lack of knowledge be a deterrent from starting your project. Even if you decide that the programming thing is not for you, there is likely others out there that would be willing to help you through it. It is quite satisfying to see and play something that you have had a hand in creating. I would strongly encourage anyone that is interested in this kind of thing to at least give it a shot. At a bare minimum, spend some time on the pinball controllers forum and read about others projects and see what they have gone through.

Also check out the under-development Mission Pinball Framework. It's looking very good already and will support both the P-ROC and FAST controllers.

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Conversion is very hard. It depends on how firm they are in their beliefs.

P-ROC is fairly straightforward to use. Even with limited programming experience, you should be able to create something out of the other shared projects.

There are also great instructions for creating DMD animations provided you have digital source media

http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/index.php?topic=224

I haven't tried it myself. I'm waiting to gather more source material before I get the free trial of the Camtasia software

Even if you don't use the excellent lcd vga dmd fork of pyprocgame for the p-roc (*cough cough* blatant self promotion), you can still use free tools like GifCam to capture video. It does essentially what camtasia does, and I have no issues with it.

Here's a thread I posted on my video capture/conversion workflow for the Buffy pin:

http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/index.php?topic=1028

These tools work almost identically if you're prepping video for a traditional dmd.

Oh, man. That looks awesome! Thanks!

Sure thing. Bear in mind that those videos are old and things look better now Even still, the work flow is the same.

If you have questions about anything feel free to post them here, there, or in PM.

I think someone converted a JM (DMD) to the matrix, so it is possible.

I can, but I'm not cheap.

Same.

Yeah, I was kidding, though I don't know how you'd know that.

In practice I tend to be pretty cheap. Ask Nelly: I work for parts, except when I'm working for free and releasing things on GitHub.

I agree that browser would be better if he could get it working for WPC games. I remain surprised that there isn't a well known process to change sounds/images in wpc ROMs that would run on PinMAME --then since I can run PinMAME on a p-roc, I'd be very happy.

This is true and Mocean is worth every penny......err, I mean part!

You can't do this with non Stern DMD games at this point. There are no tools for replacing audio and dots in anything else. So if you're looking to do a "simple" re-theme, you'd have to use a Stern game as a base.

I'm more expensive, but worth it