Well, the good thing about this upgrade is you can choose to have original dots or the new art! Sure, you won't have ColorDMD's colorizations ....but the new art is so sweet that doesn't bother me.

(I still love ya Randy!)

Well that's pretty darn snazzy!

Competition drives innovation and this is by far the best dot colorization work I've ever seen... Congrats to the guys working on this effort. Truly stunning.

Wow, that's awesome sauce (now apparently an official word in Oxford dictionary). Now hopefully I get my MMr soon, and yes I'd pay some for this upgrade

Knocked the cover off the ball on this one Doug. Still hoping it's discounted significantly for LE buyers.

This is a great idea! If you plan on charging "x", why not give LE buyers a 50% discount for a limited time. It would, a. Expedite people purchasing this and b. Show a sign of good faith.

I assume this will eventually be available for regular MM's through a LCD mod? There is so much money to be made on this.....wow!

This is very exciting! Ordered my game at expo, can't wait to get it!

Teekee, JFH, and O-Din are in the war room right now planning their next move. Let's take a sneak peek.

TeeKee: ...hmm....
JFH: ...hmm...*scratches head*
O-Din:...hmm...I'll dig up a pic of peter noone and say "Noone wanted upgraded graphics". What do you guys think??

All in fun guys. All in fun.

There is a "Defender of the Crown" quality about it .

O-Din deactivated!!!! Whut the!?

Looks great! Not too much detail. Still retro.

Pretty sure the whole "back-end royalty" guarantees it's not going to be free for anyone .. Hard to get paid a royalty on free.

I saw that. Weird.

What's your point? Of course any colorization effort (including ColorDMD) is a step away from the original. But it's an optional step. Those that love an original look can choose stainless siderails and not purchase this color upgrade, and are in no way hurt by the fact that others can customize their pins in new and very cool ways.

It's weird to think of royalties on only a potential customer pool of 1000 machines. Low six figure sales potential. I don't see the math here. Makes more sense big picture wise looking at the future sales potential for future remakes and just to eat the cost.

Yeah, that would be kickass! Totally. No one would ever bitch about the Colordmd price point again!

I hope they can figure a way to factor the royalties into MMr machine sales instead of software update sales. I think it will benefit all parties.

So it is ummmmm.... Free to LE owners, right.

Ps. I call bs that no MMRLE $ were used on it.
You have 1 revenue line, it goes in the bank and it gets used on business.

No excuses, to justify charging for and keeping more margins on the MMRLE high price point & giant volume multiplier.

It's just greed & ok to have the balls to say it.

Think it's about time to cancel my day-1 order that still hasn't arrived 2 years later and absolutely no ETA for it

Amazing I can't wait for it to be released.

Care to make a wager?

No way. I'd lose. Bitching is a part of this hobby.

I'm sorry Labnip.

I cancelled years ago. Never regretted it. I'll pick up a HUO MMRLE later.

Definitely cool! Much more impressive than the real wood bottom! Get your check books out… but it looks to be worth the extra cost.

I think I want to be added to the waiting list!

Wow amazing now im really mad I didn't buy the mmr I just had a chance to ugh.

OK. Who's gonna be the first to mod this so it will work in an original MM?

Kickstarter project! I'm in!

How would that even be possible? The code/art is running off the computer thingamabob that runs the MMr emulation. If you could do full on replacement frames using WPC, I think ColorDMD would have taken a few liberties with art by now. But who knows, I know nothing about programming....lets see what you mad scientist geniuses cook up!

Took the words right out of my mouth...

(I miss Cinemaware)

Holly crap they impressed Teekee. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

Is that Jay and Silent Bob to the far left?

*credit to RareHero for pic screen grab I just cut and pasted.

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*let us pray*

Dear Lord,

We come to you right now with a request. Please soften the hearts of CGC and move them to give this upgrade to us free or at a low cost ($79.99)...

Amen.

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Just the shading and illustrations are top notch. From a graphic design element - the decision to match the colored original score titles/numbers was EXACTLY the right choice. Well done.

Here's hoping you can switch back and forth between the old and new in the settings!

Holy cow...that is beautiful work!

My vote: free for le buyers.

And in other news of the day...

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You've clearly not been paying attention to my support of MMR since the beginning. My issues are with Rick and communication, not MMR.

Very pleased to see Doug come here with an update; perhaps he now understands the importance of keeping the community informed and/or getting Rick out of the spokesman role for the project.

The colorization looks terrific -- I'd love to see CGC leverage the asset by making it available in some way for MM owners too.

That castle multiball scene looks so legit. They all do but that one for me really shows how they used different colors and shading for a really cool effect.

That is beautiful. Nice work!

Its like going from cga to a Amiga all over again. Everything else in comparison now looks like dog shit. Awesome.

All good JFH. I actually like your opposing viewpoints at times. And sometimes I agree with you. But a lot of your comments do seem to come with a side helping of doubt on the system, the reliability of it, the viability of the project, and on and on and on. I just want to be excited about my game without worrying about all the negatives. Wouldn't you if you were sinking $8k+ into something? Let's not sidetrack this thread. I think you and I can both agree that these graphics are pretty damn legit.

HELL YEAH ON AMIGA. I miss them too Pete. # stooges and King of Chicago where epic.

Very impressive indeed but its still just a display which is very very secondary in pinball. Nice though…

Ha, right.

Amiga Pinball Fantasies is what got me into pinball it was the first time I realized their were actually rules in pinball not just bating the ball around. Kings quest kicked ass also the only adventure game I ever liked MM always reminded me of it now more then ever.

Even more screen grabs. Because: Glorious

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I don't expect it to fail, but Rick and others claiming how reliable it is are just way to premature and have a tiny fraction of the data needed to make such a claim at this point compared to what we know about the reliability of the original.

Wearing rose colored glasses and blissfully ignoring anything that might taint the view is naive and rarely ends well. I was in on MMR since day 1 - yes I was excited, but also realistic.

Absolutely. A wonderful improvement over the original, and the first improvement that is a significant difference maker between MM/MMR.

That looks really great. I wonder why ColorDMD cannot aquire the license to remake DMD assests. They would have to before they did anything like this. Maybe that would step on CGC's toes but CGC is not making these animations for older machines which I would think would differentiate the two.

1.) Can the ColorDMD technology even do it?

2.) Anyone can "color a coloring book". New art is expensive and time consuming. If ColorDMD attempted to do this level of work on every game, you'd see a fraction of the games supported & the cost go way up.

Would have to keep this far away from the other pins with the colordmd... it will really make them look bad..