PUPDMDControl.exe......This is how ROM based PUP Packs seem to be activated. Mine will no longer be called properly - pup packs will not run

[Mikeypin6]

PUPDMDControl.exe - This is how ROM based PUP PACKS seem to be activated and controlled. In one of the directories of the pup packs there is a directory called ""PupCapture" which is a collection of bitmaps that trigger the different PupPack video scenes in the puppack (this is how it HAS to work). I tried running the program directly but it will not run on it's own (at least you don't see it doing anything). There is a log file in the vPinmame directory that sometimes records when a puppack is being activated (not all the time). Who wrote this PUPDMDControl.exe is a mystery...and how it is getting in the vpinmame directory, and ultimately installed when you run baller installer....Is the "Nailbuster" guy the guy that writes these programs? I can't find any record of that program on GitHub...My problem seems to be that the program is no longer being called by the DMD when a VPX game starts running. Maybe someone with more knowledge of this will chime in.

 

[emptyinside]

I'd imagine the nailbuster guy, or whatever his name is, created it along with the rest of the PINUP stuff. In case you haven't figured it out in the last few months (I'm sure you have or gave up destroying everything Hulk style) when you run PUPDMDControl, PINUPDisplay, and PINUPPlayer and other pinball apps like PinVol for controlling overall volume, they should always run in the background when playing and their icons will be in the icon box at the bottom right of the desktop. So you can close them and know that they are running I suppose. If they straight up don't open then you have corrupt files. I don't know how any of that frontend works and assume it's pure witchcraft but use Pinball Emporium which uses the PUP part and struggled to just get that going. Good luck fellow masochist. Haha!