Wanted to share some of my findings running the Pinup Player 1.2 in combination with dmdext 1.6. This is in combination with a real dmd (pin2dmd, running firmware v2.50). Initally everything seemed to be working fine. until I played some of the Data East tables (T2, LW3). The sound was screwed up and also I noticed the coloring of the colored roms was off. I tested out some more tables with colored roms and Sherk for one was also not displaying as it should. I reverted back to the latest dmddevice.dll from Lucky and everything was working again as before. I crossed my fingers to see if the PinUP player was still working with the dmddevice.dll from Lucky in stead of dmdext. The PinUP Player works but not fully. Some of the video’s are not working, but others are. Need to do some more testing and in de meantime check with other pin2dmd users if they have the same issues with dmdext 1.60.
I mentioned before… Freezy’s DLL won’t give you as many Colour features as Lucky’s will for Pin2DMD, and since PuP needs to use an updated version of Freezy’s DLL, you won’t get those features with Pin2DMD. The only reason PuP needs to use Freezy’s DLL is because Pin2DMD isn’t open source, so NailBuster can’t update it for you guys. So without using the updated PuP version of dmddevice.dll, then PuPCapture won’t work….and therefor PuP won’t do anything with PuP-Packs that use PuPCapture…which will be most of them from this point on. Batman didn’t use PuPCapture, so that’s why it may still work for you. I’ve had no issues with any tables for sound since installing PuP. rablack97 uses Pin2DMD and has no issue with VPX, FX3, and FP using PuP. So, currently if you want to use PuP….then you need to lose some roms having Coloured features…but not all.
I have no issues with loosing some color in some games but the sound issues are a pain in the butt. T2, Batman, LW3 all have similar issues. Only option (next to the suggestion of Nailbuster :)) is to switch dmddevice.dll files when I want to play DataEast tables. Hope Freezy will give NailBuster access or help out on solving this.
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