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Quick and easy tutorial for installing color roms


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#1 hitman2304

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Posted 29 January 2025 - 09:34 AM

Many people has problems with pac, serum files and this is very easy tutorial to install everything and enjoy color roms:

1.Install Freezy dmd extensions from github

2.Download FlexDMD from github and copy all files into Vpinmame folder and run flexdmdui.exe to check installed components of FlexDMD and DmdExt.

3.To correctly read PAC files You will need vni license key, otherwise colors will be blue/orange. I can send key by pm.

4.Copy this vni key to dmddevice.ini file using notepad and put on top but below Global. Leave spaces between text lines.

5.If You have in Vpinmame folder files like serum.dll and pin2color.dll this files have to be deleted because they are causing conflicts with dmdext.

This solved all my problems with color roms.


Edited by hitman2304, 29 January 2025 - 06:58 PM.


#2 Teucho

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Posted 03 May 2025 - 06:25 PM

HI ENTHUSIAST

 

Thnaks for the post, my tables only working on serum every pac files not, please can you send me the vni license key ? I like to try so see if it works to me

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Posted 03 May 2025 - 06:46 PM

HI ENTHUSIAST

 

Thnaks for the post, my tables only working on serum every pac files not, please can you send me the vni license key ? I like to try so see if it works to me

Best regards

Matthew

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For .pac colorization to work, you need this in the [global] section of your dmddevice.ini file

 
; the key to decrypt PAC files, in hex.
vni.key = f0ad135937ffa111c60b24d88ebb2e59


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#4 Teucho

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Posted 04 May 2025 - 09:43 PM

Hi VIP  many thanks for your help !



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Posted 24 January 2026 - 09:02 AM

Thank you sooooo much for this information!  :dblthumb:



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Posted 16 April 2026 - 05:41 PM

I added the above key to my DMDdevice.ini but I'm still getting orange and blu only. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 



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Posted 18 April 2026 - 06:04 PM

Thank you very much for your help.
I've been trying to understand how to install colored roms for some time, I'll follow your guide.
I read that license keys are needed, could you be so kind as to send them to me?
This is my email:
 
I also have a bit of confusion, the files for coloring the roms are .cRZ .pal .pac? are they different things from each other?
are there also serum files?
 
Thanks for the help

Edited by alessandro1971, 18 April 2026 - 06:06 PM.