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DMD compatibility

Cryptkeeper

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Supposed to be going to see(hopefully picking up) a jurassic park 2 tomorrow for little money.
Haven't seen it yet but apparently the DMD has issues/is ****ed.

I was looking at this DMD

http://www.bestofpinball.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/86

A friend says he has one I can have (a choice of two)
ones from a creech and ones from a sttng
All 3 games are listed on the best of pinball compatibility list.

so

my Q is really will both the creech dmd and the sttng simply drop in?

Sure while I have a DMD thread.
How come my TFTC DMD needs a rom and my getaway doesn't?
Thanks again!
 
Top man Carl,
one thing I've yet to mess around with is a DMD (thank Jubus)
when I updated the roms for my TFTC I had a rom chip or the DMD.
Not he case when I updated my getaway hence the question .
Thanks again!
 
Urbanledge said:
Sure while I have a DMD thread.
How come my TFTC DMD needs a rom and my getaway doesn't?
Thanks again!
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Carl's right about the DMD controller boards, but there's also that issue about a display-specific Rom chip. It boils down to different generations of hardware. Data East were the first to use a Dmd, with their equivalent of a System 11 main board (it even resembles a Sys 11 board). That hadn't been designed to use a Dmd, so the display controller had more to do (needing extra software), while the later Williams WPC system simply uses a larger memory chip on the main board, and sends dot images to the display controller.
 
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you'll never believe it.
went to see the pin and the guy couldnt find the keys.
he had a **** ton of keys but no joy,
anyway he powered it up for me and no DMD.
He left to find more keys and I rebooted it and the ROM version came up clear as day!
So he didnt see it on.
Couldnt find the keys so i coined it up and had a game.
made him a silly offer and he said yea!
got one of his lads to help move it down the stairs and gave him 20 euro and I was gone!

Got it home.
drilled the locks.
DMD ribbon was disconnected!
plugged her in and all systems go!
Found a NOS topper under the PF too!

games needs a real deep clean but seems to be 100% inc the snagger!
 
I find releasing them from the hands of an operator is never easy.

I've made a few offers so far and they just don't want to sell - unless of course you want to pay silly money for a busted up pin.
 
Yea it's the Sega one.
It's the white star system.
Seems a million miles ahead software wise of my HS2 and tftc.
Am I right in saying it's still used in modern stern pins?

The Gi is out. only fault I've found so far. And the t Rex egg is cracked where it's bolted on.
 
Stern Currently use S.A.M.

Whitestar went through a couple of iterations, after they bought SEGA over they created a modified version of the Whitestar system where they upgraded the audio hardware.

Last machine to use the original Whitestar was T3.
 
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