It's a community discussion forum... Not each businesses' own sandbox. Respect each other obviously... But the whole 'these aren't customers' spiel has no legs when you are in a communal space.

That's not what he said... I'm sure he's quite aware of how Pinball Browser is designed to sidestep the ROM issues through macros. He said SmartDMD is dependent on having a modified ROM. Having a modified ROM is legal... under certain uses. Distributing the ROM is where the problems would arise, and hence why Pinball Browser is taking the direction it has.

I'm more suprised people haven't discussed the other important element that PinballMike's package is more a bundle of independent bits. That tends to lead to support/servicability issues... the one good thing being that your pinballs should be pretty static things once upgraded and not need support for 'the latest and greatest' typically.

No, it was a dodgy one. One that acknowledged the condition, but failed to justify it, elaborate on it, or appease the customer's concern about it. Note the 'reason' came from someone else explaining how the system works.. not Mike.

An honest, complete response would have been "Yes, those 8 pixels being empty are due to how pinball browser/SmartDMD handle the data. It is a known limitation and will be like that on all images/games at this time. We are aware of it, but have no pending plans to change it at this time. I will see if the developer has future plans to address it".

Add whatever sales pitch you want in there about how significant it is or not... but that's an example of acknowledging the topic/limitation... not just 'what you see is what you get'. That's an answer that doesn't want to face the limitation.

Why would it need to be configurable unless there is some trade-off??

Very cool - glad to see the responsiveness to the feedback!