[RESOLVED] Pinmame in Frontend

[Lizard]

Thought i would update the cab, it's been awhile. Updated to VPX 10.7 then pinmame 3.4, The use pinmame in frontend stopped working after the pinmame update. I next updated to pinballx 5.33.

The use pinmame in frontend is now not working, I have tried going back to previously working versions with no luck. I know Tom looked at this once before for me , hopefully he can again. 

Cheers

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for the report. I will look into it.

[Lizard]

Thanks Tom

[Tom Speirs]

I found the problem and 5.34 is out now.

Cheers.

Tom

[Lizard]

Unfortunately it is still not working for me. There was a change though, 5.33 would still play a video if it was available even if use pinmame in frontend was enabled.

5.34 is not playing the video now as expected, it's just not showing the DMD. Also forgot to mention i am using freezys 1.9 dll.

Cheers

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Tom Speirs]

I think we have two issues here. The remaining due to new pinmame and freezys. Ill look into it.

[Lizard]

Thanks Again Tom

[Tom Speirs]

Should be resolved in 5.37, now available.

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Tom.

[Lizard]

Still not working sorry Tom. The real dmd images also have something weird going on, thought i would mention it in case it is related.

For a table using a real dmd image in pinballx, if hide dmd for that table is true in the database the dmd image will still show in game sometimes fully or sometimes corrupted, when exiting back to pinballx the images scroll properly.

If hide dmd for that table is false the image shows perfectly every time in game but when exiting back to pinballx the image from that table becomes locked to the dmd when you try to scroll to the next table.

Sometimes scrolling past tables it will start showing the correct image again other times i have to restart pinballx to get the dmd back.

Thanks for persisting Tom.

 

[JimmyCoupe]

Not sure if this is helpful but when i recently upgraded to 10.7 and 3.4 some games lost there sound so becareful and review roms after upgrade,  the troubled rom I had was Dr Who and it refuses to have any sound unless you use 3.2 or the earlier Sambuilds of Pinmame.  I went with a Sambuild and the sound now works for all my tables and I am convinced it also sounds better but might be a placebo.

[Lizard]

Yeah i am yet to test all tables, hopefully won't find too many issues.

[Lizard]

On 1/19/2022 at 8:10 PM, JimmyCoupe said:

Not sure if this is helpful but when i recently upgraded to 10.7 and 3.4 some games lost there sound so becareful and review roms after upgrade,  the troubled rom I had was Dr Who and it refuses to have any sound unless you use 3.2 or the earlier Sambuilds of Pinmame.  I went with a Sambuild and the sound now works for all my tables and I am convinced it also sounds better but might be a placebo.

Download the Dr Who rom from VPU, that one works with sound on 3.4.

[Lizard]

Hi Tom 

Any progress? Maybe i am the only one using this feature in pinballx, possibly not worth the effort if thats the case.

I would probably just run videos like everyone else must be doing but i get a lot of color bleed with most videos that are available.

[Tom Speirs]

Its finally fixed now in 3.40.

[Lizard]

All the other image swapping issues are gone, but pinmame in frontend is still not working.

i have today also updated to freezys 1.10.

While checking for other copies of the dll i came across a dmddevice64.dll in the pinballx folder. 

If i rename that dll the DMD stays blank in pinballx so pinballx is using that dll. Is that correct? I would have thought it would have used the pinmame folder where the dll is.

 

Cheers

[Mike_da_Spike]

@Lizard, I'm using a PInDMD3 in my cab and today I enabled "Use VPINMAME in frontend"
Loading a table that has a good rom is working for me.
I don't have DMDdevice.dll (or the64bit)  in my PinballX log and I asume that tom is using pindmd.dll

In the past I need to change pindmd.ini for the correct com port, but If your videos are showing on your  DMD, I assume that all is setup correctly

I never used it in the frontend, as I prefer Video's to display.
Here's an example with the latest version of PinballX :
 

[Lizard]

Thats odd that you don't have the dll, i deleted it and then reinstalled pinballx 5.4 and the 64bit dll is coming from the install. Maybe its part of the pin2dmd support as i install with pin2dmd support.

Anyway thanks for the info. I have just worked out how to make videos without the color bleed so i will be joining you in using the videos i think.

Cheers

[Tom Speirs]

Yes, its for pin2dmd support. Maybe try replacing it from the one from the pinmame install. PinMAME 64 bit aslso needs to be registered.

[Mike_da_Spike]

But is freezy's dll working with a pin2dmd ? I thought you need lucky's dll for it

[Lizard]

12 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Yes, its for pin2dmd support. Maybe try replacing it from the one from the pinmame install. PinMAME 64 bit aslso needs to be registered.

Didn't even think about PinMAME64, running the install has it now working. Thanks for spending the time Tom.

 

12 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

But is freezy's dll working with a pin2dmd ? I thought you need lucky's dll for it

Yeah its working great now with the latest release.

Cheers