I’m looking for a SMB pin to add this to. It’s one of my favorite pins. Thanks for your hard work! When I find a SMB, I’d be happy to contribute and help with testing, if needed.

I found a SMB and Dino from VPUniverse is hooking me up with a Pin2DMD. I’ll happily test this out. Is there anyone currently working on this to iron out the bugs and “finalize” what’s been done so far?

Thank you ScottyC and Lucxor !!!

turbomensh — did you end up working on this further?

I might be interested in learning how to colorize this further.

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Hello Tlw7409

Congrats to your Mario
Nice to see a new enthusiast.
I am not sure if turbo Mensch has worked on the project any further.
If you want to start to work on that project I would recommend to check all YouTube tutorials wich are aviable. They startet to support 64 colors now so it is possible to make great coloring but it can also be very difficult also. Sadly my Mario is still in parts. I will be happy to send you all the files so you can see and try by your self.
I would recommend to first make some recordings with your pc and try to colorize them wit some YouTube tutorials to get a feeling. And take the work wich is already done to Lern or see how things were done.

Let me know and Send me a pm.
Luc

You can also download the sources to all of my projects and get a "behind the scenes" look at how it all works.

I picked one of these Pin2DMDs from a guy named Dino (his user name is dzorbas) on VPUniverse. His website is https://www.cdnpin2dmd.ca/contact-me

He charged $268, but is was packaged very well and everything arrived working great. Very impressed and would definitely buy from him again.

Did you ever get the Scotty Image to show correctly? Everything seems to look pretty good when I am playing, but the Scotty Image still doesn’t look colorized.

I made sure my Pin2DMD was set to Gottlieb v1.

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Hello to all im new... i'm from Italy, i've buyed some months ago my SMB Pinball!!

I'm interested in how i can make my Pinball DMD with colors.
I'm new of this world so can someone help me to find what to buy and how to set up?

Thanks
Simone

Since ScottyC released the complete project in his dropbox you can open the project in the latest pin2dmd editor and change the scene to your liking.
Just confirm press PROCEED on the old project message, CONTINUE on the 16 color message, and OVERWRITE on every palette message.
Scene is called NoToDrugs.

Contact Dino on VPUniverse. He got me mine. He will even load the program on the Pin2DMD for you so it is all plug-and-play. Very impressed in his product and service. He’s the only person I know if that’s still selling them. His prices are very reasonable too.

https://vpuniverse.com/profile/16945-dzorbas/

Thanks so much! Ill write right now!

I'll Take Two for Super Mario Bros. & Two for Super Mario Bros. Mushroom World as well

I tried Lucxor's files but it causes too many other frames to only be in one color. Maybe they will get fixed one day.

Can you attach a video? Would like to see how it’s all looking with these updates. And what all works and what bugs are there.

Was the video mode ever completed?

If you look back one page you can see Lucxor's videos. When I loaded those files many parts were changed to be only in one color from Scottyc's files. If you have a Pin2DMD it's easy to switch between files with a micro SD card reader.

I need to grab a Pin2DMD, would love to help out on this too.

ScottyC Can we use this in a physical machine? I can burn the REV3 rom.

I'm happy to give it a try too if you need some more testers. I have a new PIN2DMD sitting on the shelf that I've been meaning to install

Please keep me updated on this, would love to try this out in my machine and would totally purchase a Pin2DMD if this is the case, Scotty did such an incredible job with the update!

Also very interested about a adaptation for a physical machine.. incredible great work from ScottyC and Lucxor for Mario fans around the world

Is there a place where I can find a Pin2DMD for dummies? I’m used to the other guys where it’s just wham and done. Very interested in updating my current files to something newer if available

I just got my Mario pin this week as well and I would be willing to test on real hardware as well. Keep us posted!

Again thank you a lot for your work.
Its just great that you always share this.
You again inspired me to do a little rework on the castle scenes.
I now should also have a REV3 Mario.
The frame timing on the new Rom seems a lot better. And with the replace no retrigger on the Pin2dmd editor stuff is a lot easyier to color.
Can anyone with a REV3 Mario trying the files from ScottyC and tell me if the catsles work on your pin?

For you trying with V3 i also woul like to send a file with only the castle scenes to test if they work correct on your pin.
After that i been happy to give them Scotty to implement in his project.
And try some other things on the pin

I tested with ROM REV 3 and the original game ROM. The castles work great on both. I can also do more testing.

I just upgraded my machine to the rev 3 ROMs and tried the latest pin2dmd files that scottyC linked above. I have some comparison videos of it versus the original pin2dmd files that came on my machine linked below.

I do see the castle destroyed animations, but they are "stock" ones, not the Super Mario World / Lucxor ones. Not sure if that is intended or not. Here's the other things I noticed that were different/problematic:

- Super Mario World Yoshi graphic
- Yoshi graphic stays when castle destroyed animation plays
- Colorized, but stock, Castle Destroyed graphics
- Partially colored red/green text when selecting bonus rounds
- Slot machine is fully colorized, but very low FPS
- Background has shimmering and stuttering during the scrolling sequence during attract
- The Super Mario initials screen during attract has spots of yellow on the otherwise red initials
- High scores during attract are not colorized
- Fully colorized Gottlieb/Premier logo

Video comparisons:
- scottyC's version from post #125:

- The version that came with my cabinet:

I'm available for testing any other versions on the rev 3 romset, or any other romsets if needed. Thanks for your hard work!

Seem like i had the same kinde of problem. Castle destroy only show in original version.
I think i will have the castles ready over today.
I would like to see if these work on both of your machines (Ripple/Justin)

Would you test them for me? I then send you a pm with the test files.

I also found am error in the rom V3. I think if you are invincible and destroy the castle the castle is still activated untli you lose the ball or get it to the outlane.
Someone else regognized that?

I just had a look at your project folder and recognized that you use txt dumps only. If a scene has triggering problems you should try raw dumps.

So here is a test file of Only the 7 Castles on ROM 3.
let me know if they work on your machines
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qzut5escw9pemq92ir2ge/h?dl=0&rlkey=l28ltl69dgv8mgo3ob7j9u2z0

All the testing was done using PIN2 DMD set to Gottlieb V1 firmware version V4.46 . The Lucxor castle animations are all working for me. The PIN2DMD must be set to Gottlieb V1. Maybe the firmware needs to be updated to use the newer files (still checking on this).

I tested with ROM version 3 (this is the ROM chip on the board) and the original ROM version. The files worked with both ROM versions .

Okay, so with DMD firmware v4.40 with the rev 3 game ROM, the castle animations do not show.

I updated the DMD firmware to v4.46 and the castle animations are showing! They look great by the way.

I went back and tested scottyC's files from post #125 with v4.46 and I'm still seeing mostly the same issues that I listed in post #128; no custom castles and most of the issues I listed are still present.

I hope this helps!

I was able to reproduce this on the rev 3 ROM as well!

My lower ramp rollover switch is broken right now, so it takes a while to reproduce as I only get one question block per ball and getting a power star is random. Once I have a replacement switch (hopefully later this week) I'll try to reproduce on rev 2. But it does seem like this is a rev 3 bug.

As an aside, I've read that rev 2 was the last official version released, but no explanation was to what rev 3 is, where it came from, or what its differences are. It seems like it introduces at least one bug. Does anybody know the differences between the revisions?

You can try one more thing.
There is a setting on the pin2dmd wich can be changed to Gottlieb V1.
And then test scottyC s file.

I have tryied it. Sadly it did't fixed the castle scenes and haven't check the other things.
I have done my castles on Pin2dmd gottlieb V3.

If the castle test worked on your machine. thats good so its changeable.
Im not sure what makes some problems here as on Ripple machine the test castle work but seems to be to long.
I don't know why diffrent machines in the same state Pin2dmd v4.46 REV3 with Rom REV 3 seems to have diffrent frame delays.

is there any file with ScottyC new scenes (slot machine and so on) AND the castle files and so on from Lucxor (newest version to test on real Pin). Also tried colorization some scenes on my own but don’t get the logic how the Pin2DMD editor works..
I‘m running Pin2DMD v4.46 and SMB GPRom Rev3. Pin2DMD is set to Gottlieb v1

I LOVE THIS Luxor Great work!!

Also curious about this.

a bit more details

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Check this Post from Scotty:

I am Still working on new stuff.
The new Castles 1 and the new gifs i postet are not integrated jet.
And Castle scenes seems not to work on all machines.

Pin2dmd editor is not easy to understand and there is not a lot of information.
You can start wit the instruction here:
https://pin2dmd.com/editor/

The video here is an old instruction but gives some clues. Its a bit long but helps to understand:

Best is to load scottys work and check how stuff is made.
The editor is hard to work and start.
It does vorgive nothing.
And always save twice and make backups.