For what it's worth: it looks like your board has the signal enhancer bypassed according to the text on the board. so if you checked signal enhancer in the tool this might cause an issue.

What if you just uncheck the signal enhancer in the tool and keep the jumper attached? I think you basically have bypassed the signal enhancer by what you did.

Hey lucky I believe I have this same shield version from uncle sash. Do you know the exact version that is affected? Do you have any recommendations on a way to fix the issue so we could use the signal enhancer(like run some jumper wires and cut some traces or something? I know it's not your board design so I don't expect you to be thrilled about it, sorry about that... if you don't have any suggestions could you draw up the signal enhancer pinout so I could figure it out myself. Thank you very much for any help!

But is there an error in the board design? If so, I want to fix the error by running traces or cutting traces from the board so that the enhancer can work properly. Any help would be appreciated.

To answer your questions: right now there are a few places to buy hardware. The cheapest way is to buy led panels off aliexpress, a shield from rappelbox or uncle sash(or get your own made). And an stm32 discovery board from say mouser(I also think rappelbox and uncle sash can sell you this stuff). Oh, you need to either make or buy a bracket too which those guys sell(I made mine). Also you need some way to supply 5v ~5amps or less of power. I did this with a $4 voltage regulator off eBay and hooked it up the same way colorDMD does it(snag 12v off open driver board connector). A more expensive yet also more elegant solution is buy the stuff from pinballsp. His boards integrate all of the hardware into one board including the bracket to mount in a real pinball.

As far as games that are "colorized": There are really only a few newer stern games done well. This project is an open source community based project and to be honest it's pretty young. It's up to users like you and me to spend time colorizing games and posting the files up for all to use. There is an editor program that has come a long way to accomplish the color data and you can also use pinball browser for newer stern games. It's much easier to color newer stern games because they already have more shades to work with before you have to start actually drawing in your own colors for each frame.

Needless to say if your even remotely interested in this go to the vpuniverse forums and there is a specific pin2dmd forum with all of this information and more. Also check out Pin2dmd.com for the basics.

Pin2dmd is a diy open source project and is very fun IMO. I built 2 of them so far and they cost me about $140 each(actually a little less). I needed a dmd anyway and figured I could get a used regular dmd for about the same as this. Hopefully someday people like you and me will upload decent color renderings of many titles for all to share

What's pretty promising about Pin2dmd is that it is geared toward virtual pinball and all the development applies to virtual or real pinball machines. This gives me hope that many VP users will work to color games in the future.

Hope this helps,

-Tom

Even if you replace frames with colorized ones I don't think you are technically storing any copyrighted info because the original info was a greyscale in 3 shades and your really only storing a fully colorized version of that, not the greyscale original version. Probably would have to talk to a lawyer if you really cared, personally I don't. I can buy the parts to build 3 pin2dmds for the price of 1 colordmd and if people start releasing more and more colorizations I will build more and more of them. The editor has improved so much over the past year and even the past month that I am excited to see some more colorizations using the editor. Great job on the project and keep up the good work!

To be fair, the project was clearly started as a virtual pinball solution but upgraded to also work using real pinball signal input. I really like colordmd but I can't spend $400 on my $2000 pinball machine just to make the screen look cool(I realize I might be a minority on this forum). also just because colordmd costs too much that is not luckys fault.

It is all conjecture my friend.

I like the colors you used in T2 taxman. I will copy them exactly for my Pin2dmd.

Will the firmware be different? If so will you continue to make firmware updates for the old version as well? Please say yes.

Oh also, this looks great. Thank you for continuing the support for this and continuing to make improvements.

Thank you.

There is also like 6 or so basic color palettes selectable on the device without adding any palettes. You can select them with the menu buttons on the Pin2dmd.

Can I recommend including this on the shield? Would be a little more streamline to have this included.

It is possible to build these for close to $100 if done very thrifty and with a lot of diy. You could easily do it for about $150 or less. If your building more than one it helps with shipping. I've been able to build them for about $100 recently maybe $110 but that's for multiple units splitting shipping.

This topic has gotten derailed. This post was supposed to be about PIN2DMD which is a very capable color display. DJB seems to have a different type of display "RGBDMD" which is much less capable from a colorization standpoint and it confuses this forum topic.

Pin2DMD has full color replacement possible for most games. Please don't spread information that is misleading. There are full colorizations including hundreds of colors(up to 16 per frame, more actually possible I believe) for B/W games, data east games, stern games etc. The colorizations if done well can be on-par or sometimes superior(IMO) to what other more expensive companies sell. Plus if you don't like something you can change it to whatever you want. You could write your name in the background of an animation if you felt like it using the pin2dmd editor. Don't get me wrong, colorizing a game is very time consuming but there are already many games people have done and freely distribute the files (props to malenko and martin).

here’s an example of an animation used in HS2 on a PIN2DMD.
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