GarageMakerGuy

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Beautiful mod Siggi,

Thank you so much.

Once I updated the rom (to fix the sound problem – not related to the table), I was able to play this amazing eye candy you created with all of the sounds. Very cool.

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

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Siggi

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Great build Sliderpoint (and everyone else involved).

Once I updated to the latest rom (which fixed the missing sounds), this table is a lot of fun to play and looks great.

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

 

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trochjochel,

Thank you so much for this fantastic piece of work.

Absolutely amazing! One of my favorite Pup Packs.

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

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I am fairly confident that this is a false positive but this is at your own risk:

1.) Go to Windows Settings:

2.) Select “Update and Security”:

3.) Select “Windows Security” from the left navigation pane:

4.) Select “Virus & threat protection”:

5.) Select “Protection History” and view the details of the entry that yields the following:

6.) The workaround for this (aka fix) is to click the “Actions” dropdown menu and select “Allow threat”

 

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Hi everyone,

I am Jeff (Garage Maker Guy) and a big silver ball fan and have been for many years.

Happy to be part of the crazy good Virtual Pinball Community :)

Used to be an exhibitor at the California Extreme shows.

Got tired of moving real pinball machines and doing all of the maintenance:

A lot of MAME/MAME32 experience.

I am amazed and so happy to see the virtual pinball community thriving

The quality of the tables and effects available today are outstanding and truly provide an immersion level that just wasn’t around 20+ years ago.

Thanks to everyone in the community for sharing.

 

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

 

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Ugh…I did not intend to post this in the VPVR section.

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Just fixed this perplexing problem with the Pup pack videos stuttering…

Thank you Nailbuster for the following (this helped me resolve the problem):

https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=puppack_troubleshoot

The solution for the PC with the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super installed:

Set the “FPS Limiter/VSync” and “Maximum pre-rendered Frames” to “1” and check the “Force exclusive Fullscreen Mode” checkbox in the VPX->Preferences->Video/Graphics Options:

Note: I did not have to do this on my other machine that has a Nvidia GTX 1080Ti installed.

Hope this helps someone :)

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

 

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Fullscreen Cabinet Mode (2) monitors and (1) PinDMDv3

VPX & PinDMDv3:

I have no problem with VPX (standalone or launched from PinUp) with the intermittent exception of certain UltraDMD games i.e. America’s Most Haunted where it initially works perfectly but over time the PinDMDv3 resets and goes back to the default startup screen (Pinup can’t even display the “Pinup Popper” default screen on the DMD until it is restarted). This is the behavior I have seen with other UltraDMD tables i.e Diablo (now using FlexDMD which seems better but it eventually happens).

At one point it looked like the PinDMDv3 display has an overflow, closes the connection, and simply resets because it can’t handle it and the communications to COM 3 are done until you exit out of VPX and restart. This might be addressed in the firmware update (btw: how do I get Russ’ info so I can get the update?)

Deleting the “FlexDMD.log” and relaunching the table miraculously resulted in the first full game of an Ultra DMD table without the PinDMDv3 resetting. Don’t know if this a long term fix or I just happened to get lucky.

FX3 & PinDMDv3:

After using Nailbusters solution: “https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=pupdmd_fx3”, when I launch an FX3 table from the Pinup menu it works fine as long as I exit back to the Pinup menu before selecting another game (usually).

I have not been able to get the PinDMDv3 working reliably with FX3 standalone (aka: not being launched from Pinup Player).

Future Pinball & PinDMD3:

I don’t think I have ever had this working. If I did it was probably a dream and didn’t really happen…lol

I’m almost certain this is mostly an error on my part with the configuration but I have no reference point to a working configuration because I’ve never had one.

I don’t want to give up on the real DMD because it has such a cool factor and just looks amazing (when it works).

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

 

 

 

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Chriss4198

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So here’s where I am at with the “real DMD” dilemma:

Preface: I am not trying to offend anyone so please don’t take any of the following personally or negatively. This is only out of frustration and my attempt and getting a “real” solution for my “real” DMD configuration.

1.) I think the biggest problem is that there are too many DMD solutions/drivers that are accessible (and multiple versions of each):

a.) pinDMD

b.) UltraDMD

c.) Freezy DMD

d.) Flex DMD

e.) XDMD

f.) pupDMD

2.) There is no comprehensive documentation available (that I can find) that covers how to make this work for all of the emulators. A troubleshooting guide at this level would also be very helpful.

3.) User error is always about %85 of the problem (myself included) and after following the setup for each emulator which results in multiple instances of the DMD dll and ini files located in different directories of your “Gaming Directory Structure”, this is problematic.

4.) At one point I found mention that the PinDMDv3 firmware needed to be updated but I’ve heard mixed results and actually finding the update requires some form of secret handshake where you have to email someone with the serial number of your authentic PinDMD display and if you are deemed worthy you might get the update (aka: difficult to find). Flashing the firmware with no way back does not appeal to me and why this is not available on the manufacturers sit is a little disappointing.

I’ getting tired of typing and will come back to this and add some more info in a bit.

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Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

 

 

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Chriss4198

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Terry, Thanks for the reply and I apologize for the topic change below but maybe it will help some people not waste $$$ and a lot of time on DMD displays.

I agree with your reply. However, I recently spent ~$6000 on (2) WPC-style Widebody Virtual Pinball Cabinets – Fully Trimmed from VirtuaPin and ~$540 of that was for (2) PinDMD3 displays. I’m building one for my brother and one for myself. I had one of the displays shipped to me so I could work on getting the software configured while waiting for Paul at VirtuaPin to get the cabinets built (which I ordered in May and they are still “Queued for production” but I knew it would take a long time based on his backlog).

Although I love the look of the real DMD display it is turning out to be a major pain and it will never be able to render the amazing eye candy that you and several others have put together. Thanks for all your hard work and taking the time to share with everyone. The videos and documentation that you and Nailbuster put together helped me tremendously.

I will reach out to Paul at VirtuaPin and try to change my order. This may be difficult if he has already cut the speaker panels and done the custom printed acrylic.

The LCD DMD screen that Paul has available is 1366 x 768 (720P) (https://virtuapin.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=254&zenid=7s4f1jc1f77g2ilrmk1dqq1s46)

I think this will work fine.

Is that high enough resolution for the videos? Is there something else you would recommend?

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

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Ugh…why is getting a real DMD display to work reliably with all emulators such a pain?

Works great with VPX every time.

Kind of works with FX3 (when launched with PinUp)

Had it working once with Future Pinball but that was it.

Although I really like the LCD emulated DMD, I am a purist and love the look of a real DMD (using PinDMDv3).

If I ever figure this out and get it working reliably, I will post my solution.

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

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Amazing table, great game play, and even better installation instructions   – Thank you and everyone involved in making this super fun table!

Cheers,

Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)

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