Spiderman Vault Edition

[Thalamus]

c:\visual_pinball\vpinmame\altcolor\smanve_101c\pin2dmd.pal <- exists ?

c:\visual_pinball\vpinmame\roms\smanve_101c.zip <- exists ?

Start ‘setup.exe’ in c:\visual_pinball\vpinmame – press test – verify that the rom smanve_101c filesize isn’t 0 – if its a bad checksum, thats fine. It should be.

Now, go to options, make sure you have ticked use 4 color and also use ext dll.

You have a dmddevice.ini in c:\visual_pinball\vpinmame folder – with dmddevice.dll ? This part is done, right ?

You have set cgamename = “smanve_101c” in the table script ?

The pin2dmd.pal file should come from the same archive as the patch itself. Can’t really think of anything else, if you did manage to follow the excellent guides from roar and freelunch.

Of course, you might have visual_pinball installed somewhere else, and need to adjust accordingly.

Hope this helps.

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robwaade

[robwaade]

looks like how you have it laid out i have it still cant get color

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[freelunch]

robwaade wrote:

looks like how you have it laid out i have it still cant get color

That’s odd. Are you using this SAM build? http://vpuniverse.com/forums/forums/topic/2933-sambuild29-beta-thread/

“Copy the files into your VPM directory, and run setup.exe again. There, press the install button (with each new build) and remember to setup the defaults again!”

I’m afraid I wouldn’t know what try next other than starting over from the beginning.

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robwaade

[roar]

@robwaade Can you confirm you can get the colour rom to work from the ‘setup.exe’ referenced by Thalamus above? Let’s get to it working in the game later, let’s just confirm you’ve got the coloured ROM done right first.

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robwaade

[robwaade]

the rom works has name of creator when going through the onscreen stuff when testing it it has orange as the color

 

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[Thalamus]

Then I’m sure … there is only for you to check your folder inside vpinmame – it should be named

ALTCOLOR

and a folder inside there named

SMANVE_101C

inside that … this file ( not with the .txt extention – just not allowed to update a *.pal file )

Attachments:

1. pin2dmd.pal_.txt

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[robwaade]

alt color need to be capitalized

 

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[Thalamus]

You don’t have a log file to provide maybe ?

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[robwaade]

whats a log file

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[robwaade]

not as comp savy as most

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[freelunch]

robwaade wrote:

whats a log file

I think it’s the DmdDevice.log in the VPinMAME folder. Copy the text and paste it here.

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robwaade

[roar]

Is this on a virtual DMD or a physical DMD? Can you share your dmddevice.ini as well? And what locations you’ve copied it to? Try searching for dmddevice.dll on your system, lets make they are all the latest version. Also, can you share a screen shot of the spiderman rom selected in the vpinmame setup.exe? What are you thoughts on using Team Viewer? This may be easier to have someone actually walk you through this live on your computer :)

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robwaade

[robwaade]

open to anything i got it to work couple issues i am using a 2 screen setup i have a colored dmd and original dmd dont know how to get rid of original dmd window and colored doesnt stay in place when resetting vp also vp locks up when exiting when using colored rom any ideas appreciate all your time and help you guys rock

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[freelunch]

Change Line 90 in the Table Script to “.Hidden = 1”, that should get rid of the original DMD.

In your VPinMAME folder, edit DmdDevice.ini with Notepad. “left = 0”  and “top = 0” will need to be different numbers. Not sure what numbers exactly since I don’t have a 2 monitor setup, so you can trial-and-error your way to victory here unless someone else mentions what they should be.

I also get crashes sometimes with this DMD. I can’t use command lines to launch the table, I have to open open VPX and then the table to avoid crashes. The software is pretty new/experimental, so I suspect there are bugs being ironed out.

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[jbg4208]

I’m having the same issue as Rob. Got the rom patched but it is not in color. The only thing I cant find is the dmddevice.ini. Do i need to create this file or should it be downloaded somewhere?

3 screen cab with 10″monitor as a dmd.

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[freelunch]

jbg4208 wrote:

I’m having the same issue as Rob. Got the rom patched but it is not in color. The only thing I cant find is the dmddevice.ini. Do i need to create this file or should it be downloaded somewhere? 3 screen cab with 10″monitor as a dmd.

https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/releases/download/v1.5.0/dmdext-v1.5.0.zip

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[freelunch]

robwaade wrote:

open to anything i got it to work couple issues i am using a 2 screen setup i have a colored dmd and original dmd dont know how to get rid of original dmd window and colored doesnt stay in place when resetting vp also vp locks up when exiting when using colored rom any ideas appreciate all your time and help you guys rock

I just noticed freezy had an update burried at VPUniverse that has fixed crashing for me. http://vpuniverse.com/forums/forums/topic/2728-sam-build-with-modular-dmd-drivers-for-pindmd123-and-pin2dmd/?page=20#comment-33674

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[Thalamus]

Great support job Freelunch … !

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[Andypc]

I just followed these instructions. I installed C++ 2015 and re-booted, as it wasn’t installed.

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Install Instructions

1. Get the latest release, copy the content of the zip file to your hard drive, preferable in your PATH, and unblock the .exe file (right-click, properties, unblock).
2. Download and install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

Test

1. Open a command prompt ([Windows]+[R], cmd, [enter])
2. Type dmdext test [enter]

You should see a test image on your DMD as well as on a virtual DMD.

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This is what happened:-

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Pinball>cd c:\temp

c:\temp>dmdext test

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer fo
r ‘DmdExt.DmdExt’ threw an exception. —> System.MissingMethodException: Method
not found: ‘Int32 System.Environment.get_CurrentManagedThreadId()’.
at NLog.LogFactory.<GetCandidateConfigFileNames>d__a..ctor(Int32 <>1__state)
at NLog.LogFactory.get_Configuration()
at NLog.LogFactory.GetLogger(LoggerCacheKey cacheKey)
at NLog.LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger()
at DmdExt.DmdExt..cctor()
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at DmdExt.DmdExt.Main(String[] args)

c:\temp>

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Even the Test Fails

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[jbg4208]

Got mine all working. had to make sure the dmddevice.dll was not in the pinmame folder. It only should be in the syswow64 folder.

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