I'm interested in a Bally/williams version. Do I need to buy an extender or will DIY instructions be provided for that as well?

Oh, and this is incredibly awesome!

Sweet. I have all this stuff lying around (except the pass throughs, but I'd be replacing my DMD with this, so I may not need it), so I'll build the cable up ASAP. Of course only having Williams machines I guess there's not a huge rush, but I'd love to drop this into my Roadshow.

I don't suppose you want to work on P-ROC DMD timing

Yeah the same, and I'm coding the Buffy (SoF retheme) pin which is also full VGA color /but/ I have P-ROCs in a bunch of machines and not all are getting the development time they deserve and they wind up frequently running original roms on pinmame. I was just curious to try and I admit it seems pointless, though weirdly recently at least two folks are using the official ColorDMD in their P-ROC'ed machines.

Okay... You talked me out of that one

On the DMD to Pi cable:

Do you connect all pins from the DMD board to the Pi?

Does pin 1 on the Pi get connected to pin 1 on the DMD board?

I understand that in the long run soldering the resisters is better, but why bother with headers? Why not just jam the resisters into the female receptacles?

Thank you!

Thank you! Just what I needed. I didn't see it in the OP. I'll build a simple breadboard with headers on either side. I'm very excited for Williams support!

Also, I've changed my mind and having this work on the P-ROC really would be nice. When running stock roms on pinmame, there's DMD output. That means I could change inputs on the LCD panel and use colorized output for pinmame, different than the native color from the desktop of the controller PC when running p-roc code.

Wow! I can't wait until this is released; it looks awesome! My RS would love some color dots.

How did I miss that Bally support was already in the code base!???!

On it now!

Seems colorizing individual frames for Williams/Bally isn't supported (yet) by Pinball Browser... bummer. Any chance that I'm wrong? Fixed palette only, right?

Most 15.6" monitors contain garbage panels with respect to viewing angles and contrast. I have one of those generic 15.6" in my T2 (p-roc) and it's pretty awful. I've also got a B156HW01 V.4 in another proc project and the difference is night and day. Those controllers take forever to arrive but it's worth the wait

The LP is supposed to be just as nice with respect to contrast. Supposedly the B has a slightly wider color gamut but I doubt you'd ever notice in this application.

I'm using DVI not HDMI, but it's a PC/P-ROC project, not Pi controlled. The T2 is VGA to garbage 15.4" monitor, making it look even worse. The biggest problem on that monitor is it's totally terrible black levels. Black looks like gray at best.

I don't know anything about that. Every ColorDMD I've seen looks great, and I know that they use both of these panels (LP156 and B156). Maybe you saw a bad or early model? Anyway, I'd be all over a ColorDMD if they allowed me to color my frames myself or if it were cheaper. That said, I don't think they're making much profit between hardware, labor (colorizing) cost, and licensing.

I'm just thankful that SmartDMD provides an alternative.