[RESOLVED] Serum Colour DMD in Pinball FX 3

[Fiery Phoenix]

Hi all

Just wondered if anyone has managed to get the new Serum colourosed roms working in Pinball X / FX3?

The colourised .pac and .vpin files work fine, but when I drop the .crz (Serum) ones into the appropriate folder for an FX3 game it will not work 

Only Champion Pub released which is available on FX3 but CFTB also available to download on the Serum discord channel. Neither work in my FX3, but the older colour roms do

Anyone managed to get them to work? Guessing some line I will need to add in settings? Had a look and can't see this has been previous asked

Many thanks 

[Mike_da_Spike]

I didn't check yet, but what is your dmddevice.log showing when launching an fx3 table with serum file ? 

 

 

[Fiery Phoenix]

Thanks for the reply. Apologies for the late reply.

The dmddevicelog does not update after I run a Pinball FX3 game. Although the colour roms (non Serum) work in them.

I have attached the log after I ran Cue Ball in VPX using a Serum colour rom

Attached other logs to if needed

Ta

 

log.txt XDMDlog.txt DmdDevice.log

[Mike_da_Spike]

The log file needs to be from the Piinball FX game, as this game should show why the colorisation would not work for serum

Please follow these steps:

1. Check if you are using an environment variable to specify the location of the dmddevice.ini file. If so, the dmddevice.dll will be located in the same directory.

2. The log file will be present in the same directory as the pinballfx executable file.

3. Conduct a thorough search within the directory structure for the log file.

Regrettably, due to time constraints, I am unable to personally test this process.

However, please be assured that this is not a PinballX issue, and I will do my best to guide you through the correct procedure.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Thanks, no worries if no time / can't test

I will see if I can figure it out, but no log file in my FX3 directory...even when checked hidden items. Which is strange.

I'll do a full search tomorrow in the C drive for dmddevice and check them all out.  

The dmddevice log in my vpinball folder updates when non FX3 tables are played, but no update when an FX3 is played, even though colour roms work through PinballX 

Investigation tomorrow 

[Mike_da_Spike]

How did you setup dmdext (so dmddevice) on your system ?

With the environment variable or not?

[Mike_da_Spike]

On 4/9/2024 at 2:03 PM, Fiery Phoenix said:

Only Champion Pub released which is available on FX3 but CFTB also available to download on the Serum discord channel. Neither work in my FX3, but the older colour roms do

well. you got me too!

CFTB is Creatures from the black lagoon and not Champions Pub.

But indeed, not working

In my dmddevice.log located in C:\pinball\Steam\steamapps\common\Pinball FX\PinballFX\Binaries\Win64 (I installed steam completely in the c:\pinball directory for backup )

 DmdDevice.log

you can see in the first line :

 [1] 2024/04/11 06:31:27.231  INFO | Starting DmdDevice API 2.2.2-SNAPSHOT-r1 (93d3c52) (x64) through PinballFX-Win64-Shipping.exe. 

that it is launched by PinballFX-Win64-Shipping.exe 

on line 13 it find the game (1game nr : 131)

 [1] 2024/04/11 06:31:31.006  INFO | Setting game name: 131 

but on line 15 :

 [1] 2024/04/11 06:31:31.006  WARN | [serum] Found Serum coloring file at C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\altcolor\131\cftbl_l4.cRZ, but could not load colorizer. 

 

Edit : this tests above was with the serum file from 26/3
If I load the serum file from 30/3 , my log file is showing (looks like al is good):

 [1] 2024/04/11 06:43:39.047  INFO | [serum] Loading colorization at C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\altcolor\131\131.cRZ... 

but I don't see anything on my real DMD, so looks like the serum files are not correct yet.
Did the same with CP (table 121)
I got the same warning :

[1] 2024/04/11 07:35:59.678  INFO | Setting game name: 121 
 [1] 2024/04/11 07:35:59.678  INFO | Setting color: #FFFF6600 
 [1] 2024/04/11 07:35:59.678  WARN | [serum] Found Serum coloring file at C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\altcolor\121\cp_16.cRZ, but could not load colorizer.

As I had all the log files, I created a github issue for you : https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/issues/467

this issue can be closed as this is not an PinballX issue and will be continued on github