Please, I need help to make work Altcolor

[regismaltais]

Please, I need help to make work Altcolor

Thanks

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

I'm thinking @xenonph might know.

At first I was thinking you simply need to check the extra box in the F1 DMD panel, but after a little googling, realised that it could get a little more complicated.

Also, would probably help if you were more specific about your issue.

 

[xenonph]

I have never actually tried the altcolor roms,
But here is info that should help you..
Info wrote by weisshund and can be found here..
https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=47230#entry482336

To display colorized ROMs you need the following

1) A color capable display, which you have because an LCD can display anything

2) A color enabled version of VPinmame


I suggest grabbing the latest build from here


Actions · vpinball/pinmame (github.com)


You will need to make a github login so you can download, but just click on Actions


Then VPinmame on the left


and then the latest action in the list
and then download the file with a name like


VPinMAME-sc-3.4-277-f7f5b87-win-x86


SC means Sam Color basically


You do not normally want the 64bit build, not at this time anyways, VPX in 64bit has some compatibility issues etc.





3) You need colored ROM patches, and these come in 2 flavors


a) Stern ROM patches, which actually edit the ROM itself, and have an accompanying pallet file


b) Pin 2 DMD color patches, which are completely external and need no changes made to the ROM itself





In both cases, the .pal pallet file goes in the vpinmame\altcolor\romname folder


and in case b) the VNI file goes in the same place


and both files are named pin 2 dmd (without the spaces but the forum wont let me type it that way)





In the case of a patched stern ROM, you have to have the table script call that rom
Like instead of acd_170h you would change it to acd_170hc for the color patched ROM





For a non patched ROM, which is only Stern roms as far as i know, all you need to do is have the color files in the romnamed folder


in the altcolor folder, like for austin powers


c:\visual pinball\vpinmame\altcolor\austin\





4) You need the latest version of freezy's DMD extensions installed, and then in the ROM settings, you want color enable, use external DLL enabled, and show dmd disabled





The end result will be something like this

Author created, non ROM provided DMD's will simply be in color if the author made them that way
and usually require Freezy's DMD extensions and FlexDMD installed


(See JP's Slimer or Diablo or Serious Same etc.)

Hope this info helps you get altcolor working.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

Just randomly bumped in to the below. Included are a couple tutorials:

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