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[ebarlow99]

Here is my first attempt at a HyperPin Logo. Will improve it as it only uses 2 colors now. This is so awesome Russ, thanks



Just place in Tables Dir.

thanks will do!

[russdx]

hmmm ok, might need to look into getting a vishay display my self, because the ghost pixel problem has been solved on my pinLED display, timings might be slightly diff for these vishay boards.

ill have to look into that
is it an improvement or nothing at all?

@kruge99 no Medusa is not fixed yet, will need to look into y thats not working right hehe

Edited by russdx, 06 April 2012 - 06:07 PM.

[Slydog43]

Dont know if everyone who has a Vishay Orange LED (128G032-1) has this same small issue. There seems to be a little ghosting above each group of pixels. Almost looks like a reflection in the row above the active pixels. Not very much, ever so slight. I think you can see in the picture below. Is this normal?

 IMG_20120406_140627.jpg   1.89MB   29 downloads

Edited by Slydog43, 06 April 2012 - 06:11 PM.

[ebarlow99]

here is mine..i got same board as you slydog

Edited by ebarlow99, 06 April 2012 - 06:14 PM.

[russdx]

heres a quick 3 colour hyperpin logo

Slydog43 - is that the original firmware or the new one?

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•  dmdlogo.txt   4KB   14 downloads

[ebarlow99]

i never noticed the ghost before but im cool with it....cant actually tell when playing a game and its flashing everywhere..thanks Russ
i am using original....says in install dont update unless told to...so i didnt..if i need to i will

Edited by ebarlow99, 06 April 2012 - 06:22 PM.

[russdx]

hmm i dont see this at all on my pinLED not sure if its a timing issue my end or a design fault in there displays
i think ill first get mine replaced under warranty then sell it, then order a nice vishay 0603 one
this way i see the problem direct (and hopefully solve it)

can some one plug one of these displays into a real pinball machine and see if it does the same thing?

Edited by russdx, 06 April 2012 - 06:42 PM.

[ebarlow99]

i only have an EM

[russdx]

cleaned the logo up a bit heres a better version

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[Slydog43]

Here is another HyperPin Logo version, at little better than my first try, and a little different from the one Russ just uploaded.

 IMG_20120406_142746.jpg   1.83MB   44 downloads


 dmdlogo.txt   4KB   10 downloads


Will try the Vishay in one of my real pins later and report back.


Wow Russ just uploaded another one, I like that one better than mine. Russ can you upload the png or bmp also so we can make small changes (I think I will make it a little bit bigger)

Edited by Slydog43, 06 April 2012 - 06:46 PM.

[russdx]

thanks Slydog

[sacredgaming]

I have the same vishay as chris and do get a little ghosting

[russdx]

heres my original image, had a real play with all the settings in BadBoyBill's flash app to get the colours to come out right though

i just got the image from the hyperpin website

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[chriz]

here is my hyperpin-logo, a little smaller and centered to the dmd

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•  dmdlogo.txt   4KB   16 downloads

[kruge99]

@kruge99 no Medusa is not fixed yet, will need to look into y thats not working right hehe

Understood - and no rush, and don't forget to test other games with similar alpha-numeric setups like:

-Haunted House
-Lightning
-Spirit
-and maybe the apron letters on Black Hole

are some examples I can think of off the top of my head.

btw - I love that after turning off UVP Server and settind ddraw = 0 in the registry gets rid of micro stutter on a bunch of tables (like Theatre of Magic night mod)


Best Regards,
Todd.

[russdx]

Haunted House works as iv tested this although its missing a few digits lol (are they important haha?) that Medusa is doing somin really weird to make it flicker the way it does, ill look into that

[kruge99]

Haunted House works as iv tested this although its missing a few digits lol (are they important haha?) that Medusa is doing somin really weird to make it flicker the way it does, ill look into that

All those snakes on her head and that gaze is turning the display to stone! :-O

[sacredgaming]

Haunted House works as iv tested this although its missing a few digits lol (are they important haha?) that Medusa is doing somin really weird to make it flicker the way it does, ill look into that

All those snakes on her head and that gaze is turning the display to stone! :-O

off topic but is there a full screen version i dont know about

[Zablon]

In regards to Medusa, Haunted House and Spirit -- these games all are scored on the backglass so the DMD does not need to work for those tables. Spirit works just as it should (because it's a B2S table). Medusa crashes for some reason with the patched dll's. When I say UVp doesn't work, what I mean is that UVP never even starts, which is an odd thing to happen since it should have no affect on it.It just doesn't run at all, neither does the DMD. It works fine with the original (unmodified) dll. I am not aware of a FS HH so can't test that. Oddly - I loaded up Rocky (which is UVP scored backglass), and the UVP works fine, but the DMD will sit there and flash the score on it occasionally (like one other one I mentioned before).

The new DLL fixed much of the stuff that was broke in the last release so yay for that! Thank you Russ and Snotz! All B2S tables seem to be working (that I've tested).

A few alphanumeric tables that do not work(for me) are: Cyclone(as we knew), F-14. Haven't had a chance to really go through anything yet.

I too see the "ghosting" affect but it is so minimal it's hardly noticable.

Edited by Zablon, 07 April 2012 - 12:07 AM.

[russdx]

ah Cyclone and F14 seam to use a weird alphanumeric/numeric arrangement, i haven't coded this case in yet, but will sort that out tomorrow so any game using this style of display should work once iv added it

also need to have a look at Medusa and see whats upsetting that hehe



looks like my ghost pixel firmware update only mended my dmd LOL, if some one could check there vishay displays in a real pinball and see if the ghosting is there, it would be a real help. just so i deffo know its my fault!!!