Is this going to be shown at TPF? It all looks very interesting and live to see it in action (and buy if ok)

I think smartdmd didn't gain as much popularity as hoped for as people just find it to big a hassle to colorize a game. Also only Sam stern can be colored per frame

In the beginning there was the hope that for instance 30 people each did a game which would be a good base to start from but only a few people did it who were willing to share

Colordmd provides a turnkey solution and most people want that apparently.

Pitty as Smartdmd works great and costs less than half the price of color dmd

Afraid this initiative will go the same route or people should just see it as a replacement for a standard dmd with 1 fixed color. Smartdmd can do this to but is more expensive. However, you can than select upscaling

I have tried it on a GnR but Data east only has 4 grayshades eg you can only select 4 colors which remain fixed during the whole game and than it is not easy. As I already had a colordmd in my GnR I didn't spent more than 15 minutes in this. I think perhaps shades of red are perhaps best choice

If you wanna get pin2dmd editor working choose the 32bit version and don't forget to install the license key !!

Apparently pin2dmd editor has the possibility to colorize frames like colordmd but that's a time consuming task. Not for me

Simple. Put the key on SD card. Make a fixed color palette to your liking with pin2dmd editor, export this as palettes.dat file on the SD card and ready to go

However, fully colorizing each animation in place of 1 fixed color palette is a different cookie .....

With the pin2dmd.exe program you can control for instance brightness

All to be read in Spinner 2 or more likely 3

Yup. Export is required and tool pon2dmd.exe needs to be connected to PCB

I will sent you my article when the draft is finished and you can input. Thanks for the offer. Pls do note however the article is not meant as a manual but to let people become aware that things like pin2dmd exist and what it can do for them and how it looks like

Pls don't forget to register the pin2dmd editor with same key as licky1 sent you

That's strange. I have pin2dmd.dat and palettes.dat on same sd card

I did notice however twice I had to set it to a mode I didn't want (like wpc) and than set it to stern befor it accepted stern

Pin2dmd.dat is required I think to determine which mode (stern, virtual, etc) and I think it also contains simple palettes data you can set in pin2dmd.exe. However when it finds a palettes.dat file the palette in there overrules the 'simple' palet. However, this is my thinking and not 100% certainty. That's for lucky1 to give

Smartdmd incolor works with palettes.dat, see my

Hmm didn't notice that while playing. To busy keeping the ball in play I guess

What I can syate is that the upper led display looks in real life MUCH better as captured on film. On film now the LCD looks much better as led while in real life this wasn't.