This post is about pin2DMD. I am not a seller or a rep for them, just a customer giving feedback.
I wanted a colour DMD (dot matrix display) but was not willing to pay the price for a 'colourDMD' as they are the same price here as I paid for an entire machine last year (Rollergames £500). I heard about pin2DMD as an alternative, and looked around to buy one in the UK, but there isn't a distributor so on the advice and recommendation of several pinhead friends, I contacted a guy called Andrew in Australia who has a website called http://retrocity.com.au/ via this forum where he is known as @Terranigma . It was less than half the price but it was 9000 miles away. WTF!
Anyway I organised a group buy after contacting some pinhead pals, and ended up buying over 30 of them from him, delivered from Australia to UK in five massive boxes. He offered me a great deal, the more I bought, the cheaper they got. He was a great communicator throughout, they were expertly packed and came with free extras and useful packaging - each of my friends had their own envelope with their game-specific info, and leads, and hardware, and preloaded software. It's a different setup for Williams or Stern/DE/Sega, and some games need extra pegs or posts or acrylic and whatnot, and some cost a few quid extra for the software, but he sorted all that out. Andrew even gave advice and help regarding warranty and after-sales help, and his communication was top notch every step of the way.
Good service deserves good feedback, so if anyone reading this wants to upgrade their vanilla orange DMD to a full colour screen, consider this option. In my opinion the only really worthwhile mods for any 90s/noughties game are a colour screen and non-reflective glass (and maybe a shaker motor). It makes a huge difference - in my South Park, I can now see the red blood and white bone when Kenny in his orange hoody gets killed and eaten by rats! Buy with confidence people. Andrew is registered also on Pinside as Retrocity.
I wanted a colour DMD (dot matrix display) but was not willing to pay the price for a 'colourDMD' as they are the same price here as I paid for an entire machine last year (Rollergames £500). I heard about pin2DMD as an alternative, and looked around to buy one in the UK, but there isn't a distributor so on the advice and recommendation of several pinhead friends, I contacted a guy called Andrew in Australia who has a website called http://retrocity.com.au/ via this forum where he is known as @Terranigma . It was less than half the price but it was 9000 miles away. WTF!
Anyway I organised a group buy after contacting some pinhead pals, and ended up buying over 30 of them from him, delivered from Australia to UK in five massive boxes. He offered me a great deal, the more I bought, the cheaper they got. He was a great communicator throughout, they were expertly packed and came with free extras and useful packaging - each of my friends had their own envelope with their game-specific info, and leads, and hardware, and preloaded software. It's a different setup for Williams or Stern/DE/Sega, and some games need extra pegs or posts or acrylic and whatnot, and some cost a few quid extra for the software, but he sorted all that out. Andrew even gave advice and help regarding warranty and after-sales help, and his communication was top notch every step of the way.
Good service deserves good feedback, so if anyone reading this wants to upgrade their vanilla orange DMD to a full colour screen, consider this option. In my opinion the only really worthwhile mods for any 90s/noughties game are a colour screen and non-reflective glass (and maybe a shaker motor). It makes a huge difference - in my South Park, I can now see the red blood and white bone when Kenny in his orange hoody gets killed and eaten by rats! Buy with confidence people. Andrew is registered also on Pinside as Retrocity.
