Okay, I got a message on January 16th, as you can see here, by fellow pinsider and shenanigander, Pastor 69. It is now April 2nd, and basically, um, pastor says that he was he's been watching my YouTube videos for quite a few years now. So, thank you very much. I I appreciate that. And in one of your latest videos, I heard you say that you don't have a color DMD for Batman yet. So he says, "Allow me to introduce to you the PPU/DMD project." And then he speaks a little bit in Chinese here. It's able to run Serum colorizations, which are available on VP Universe. Those specifically developed for VPens at first. I'm not really sure what Serum colorizations are, but he provides me all the information and the links. And uh I I looked this up a little bit and um but this is like 4 months ago so I don't really remember any of it. It's important to mention that DMD strictly runs Serum colorizations to not conflict with whatever the Pin2DMD guys are doing. So this is basically your third option. You got color DMD, you got Pin2DMD, and now you have PPU/C DMD. Doesn't roll off the tongue quite like the other ones do, but that's fine. So, he says this has no relation to Pin2DMD at all. It's completely separate project. Uh there are way less complexities. He colorized Tron, Iron Maiden, Tron. I love Tron. That's my favorite game. Star Trek Next Generation, Ghostbusters, etc. AFM and now he's focused together with a German friend Marcus on this forum on bringing this out in the world to show that color DMD quality can be exceeded for a lower price especially and it's all community driven. So that all sounds very dandy. So, he his proposal is that he'd be willing to sell one to me at a discounted price in hopes that I might do a video about it and show off the device. Doesn't have to be an advertisement, do what I like, but it sure would be cool to see it in one of your videos and perhaps a chance for the project to be mentioned. So, check it out. I sprung for the opportunity and uh today finally is the day. I've been a little bit procrastinating cuz I'm not great with, you know, this type of technology. Go watch my South Park Pin2DMD installation video where I named it uh something like 10 mistakes that I made that you don't have to if you watch this video where I blew up my DMD driver and uh all kinds of other issues that I had. So, I've been a little bit procrastinating on this. I don't know how technical it's going to be, but we're going to find out. So, let's see what we got here. Okay. We've got a connector and some packing materials here. And then the color display. So, it is LED. It's uh you know LED square. So, it's not like LCD style. So, that looks like I think that's a Raspberry Pi, isn't it? See, like I really don't know my stuff. But this should be for the most part plug and play. Should I dare say that? I mean, like, it's I think it's already got the Batman color files on here. So, I just got to figure out how to mount it. Um, I'll look at some instructions online and uh I'll try and colorize some Batman. Okay, I clicked on the link to the thread here that pertains to the PPU/DMD. So, that's what you're looking for if you're interested. And, uh, I didn't really see any specific instructions, but look at this. Tron animations here. That looks amazing. So, I'm just going to wing it. Okay, I just lowered my display panel down and I laid this guy here on a towel so I don't scratch anything up. This connector here looks pretty straightforward. It appears as though this is going to go here and then this probably goes here. Oh, maybe. No, that is not the correct connector. So, wait. Oh, look at this. What's this here? Oh, no. That guy's occupied. So, I'll figure out where this goes and report back. But DMD ribbon cable. Oh, you know what? You know what Stern likes to do? You got to be careful of this. They like to add some hot glue. So, you really got to like score that before you just tear up the ribbon cable. Okay, this is my strategy I'm going to employ here with this razor blade. Just shove it down in there like so. We're almost free. Got one little piece on here. I imagine uh red is on the left. Yep. Look at that. Okay, that part's done. Okay, just in case I get this thing to actually work, let's just do like a 30 second sort of before I got the towel on the playfield so I can't see what I am doing. Oh, I think I heard the scarecrow. Your parlor tricks won't work on me anymore. As well. I can kind of cheat by glancing under the towel a little bit. Let's just try and get Oh, there's a joker here. The joker is coming away. All right, that's good enough. Lot of orange dots. Okay. So, I was looking in the backbox and then it dawned on me that there is an option inside the cabinet in the front door. And that is why they made this cord so long. And sure enough, there is an auxiliary cord plug right here. So, I just got to fish that uh wire through. And hopefully I don't have to lift up my playfield. I mean, I can, but you know, I've got obstacles. Okay, I decided that it was foolish to attempt to fish the wire down all the way to the front using a measuring tape or an old guitar string. So, after 5 minutes, I'm like, "No, I'm just going to lift the playfield like so." And voila. Got it fed to the front. No problem. And it is connected like so. You want to see a neat trick for putting the playfield back in on these Stern games that took me like 10 years to learn? Literally just push down here and here. So you get to the like hump, right? You can just push down here and you don't have to smash it over the hump. Okay, I got everything hooked up. I think I got a sliver in my finger cuz every time I touch it, it hurts. And it's one of those really fine ones where you can't see anything and it just annoys you every time you touch anything. I managed to find the instructions online. I just wanted to be sure. I like winging it, but you know, I don't like destroying things. So, sure enough, I did wire it up correctly. So, let's power this on and see what we got here. Ooh, look at that. Just like that. Plug and play. Oo, very cool. This is pretty awesome. Okay, I'm not going to show off too much just yet. I have to uh mount this onto the existing speaker panel and then um then we'll have a real look. Oo, look at that. That is amazing. Okay, so time to transfer the hardware, which is actually the more challenging part cuz the rest has been a breeze. And uh going to start with quarter inch magnetic nut driver and remove the eight screws on the metal brackets. Don't forget when reinstalling you got two ground straps that are secured to the brackets. So don't forget to install those. Let's move this out of the way. Zoom out so you can kind of see what's going on and remove our DMD. All right, there we go. Now, I read that there are some spacers that are no longer needed, but uh it's not the metal spacers. There's little black spacers in the instructions. But I don't see those on here. So, I guess we don't need to worry about those. Okay, I lied. Well, kind of. Here's the spacers, but uh these ones are white. So, those apparently are no longer required. Okay, next we got to remove this plastic cover. I don't think we're using that anymore either. Okay, I got my screws removed. The spacer was attached, so I actually didn't need to remove that screw. But this is no longer needed. I imagine that's just a shield to protect the back of the display from shorting against anything in the backbox. This is high voltage and this um PPU/DMD is only 5 or 12 volts. Okay, now I just need to swap the metal brackets. And I've had difficulty with this before. I got all disoriented and I forgot which way the brackets went and all the spacers and the screws and was it this way? Was it that way? It took me an hour. So, I'm just going to do this a little more carefully. One side at a time. I think that's a good strategy. Okay. So, there's the before. Don't need these spacers anymore. And then you don't need these spacers anymore. Instead of having the spacer here, it just gets screwed right flat to the bracket like that. It's all plastic, so there's no metal shorting on any metal. It's a nice design. I like that. So, I'll rinse and repeat for the other side. Okay, hardware has been swapped over. That wasn't so bad. And we no longer need all of this crap. We don't need the plastic shield because it wouldn't fit even if you tried. You don't need this whole board anymore. The high voltage display board or this cable. You could really remove this cable. You don't need to use that ever again. I don't know. I'll probably just tuck that cable in there because I don't know if anybody would ever want to go back to plasma display, but just in case, it is reversible. So, I'll give my window a little bit of a cleaning and then install the display. Okay, I got my new display mounted. I remembered my ground straps and uh you know, you can sell off your old DMD. It's got to be worth 75 to 150 bucks, help cover the cost of your new DMD. But I I got thinking about I wonder what the price differences are nowadays between the three options. So, before we power this on, let's go take a look at the price differences. Okay, let's compare prices. We'll start with Pin2DMD. You can find more information at that website there. Dino Zorbus, he is the Canadian Pin2DMD guy. So, reach out to him. Tell him pinball shenanigans sent you. I just messaged him and he replied right away and he said, "It's the same price. It's been for 5 years, 290 Canadian, plus you uh tip the um person who colorized the files and spent 1,000 hours of their life doing so. That can be around 40 bucks and of course plus shipping. So then PPU/DMD pastor told me that they sell for €250 and I just checked out the conversion there and that works out to about 400 Canadian plus shipping of course. So a little bit more. And then we've got color DMD LED. We can't really compare to LCD cuz that's apples and oranges. This option is $439 US and um that works out to 611 Canadian plus shipping. So basically 300, 400, and 600 roughly are your price ranges. I mean, I've used two or three Pin2DMDs now and probably like eight color DMDs. Obviously, it's my first PPU/C DMD, but uh there you have it. There's your prices. Uh the LCD is my favorite really though because then you can blend all of the dots together and you get out of dots entirely. But uh that's even more money. $479 versus $439. $479 USD to Canadian nowadays. Oo, $666 plus shipping. And you know, we're going to get hit with a uh 13% tax here. So, see what that works out to. So, if you add the 13% tax, it's $750 and then the shipping on top of that. So, pretty much $800 landed for color DMD LCD. So, it's getting to be a pretty expensive um mod, but they are all so worth it. I pretty much colorize all of my games. Okay, let's reassemble everything and have a look. There's always got to be some shenanigans involved. Watch for your wires. Okay, last night I kind of thought I was done the video and I did a gameplay video for I don't know maybe five or seven minutes, but I had the camera facing far away and you couldn't really see the DMD as well as I would have liked. So, also I didn't quite realize the technological um advances of this PPU/DMD. I knew it looked amazing. I just didn't really know why. But here is the answer. Why it looks so fantastic is because Serum/PPU/DMD offers the largest color palette of a uh a single frame can handle. For Pin2DMD, this is only 64 colors and I believe color DMD is around the same amount. This is coming from Pastor 69. For Serum, it is 65,000 different shades of all colors on the spectrum are possible in one frame. That is why the movie scenes look so good. So, I didn't realize that there was that much of a difference until I saw it, but I didn't quite grasp why. But so it has just a greater technological capability than than maybe Pin2DMD and color DMD. So I'm going to insert a video right now that focuses on the DMD up close and then at the end I'll include my gameplay video. So, I just wanted to, you know, point that out because that is what makes this PPU/DMD so awesome. All right, let's see what we got. I got the basement lights turned out to minimize any glare or reflection. I am Gotham's protector. I'll just play uh for a couple minutes and we can just sort of appreciate the animations. That really is amazing. Good shot, son. The Joker has is uh tempting. You know, next time I'm thinking of buying a color DMD, I don't see why I wouldn't go this option. It's cheaper and uh better. Obviously, the library is not quite as fleshed out as uh color DMD is, but feel like this project's going to just keep growing. It seems to be pretty popular. It's like Chan is having a hard time keeping up with demand. Let's see what I've got, Dwayne. And I think I even tried to add Batman to my cart just to see what would happen. And I I think it just said notify me when available. So it might not even be available at the current moment. Well, might as well start Joker Multiball here. See what this looks like. Really really Wow, that's cool. I love that as well. Really brings the machine to life. Like once you see this, how can you ever go back to orange dots? You just can't. Jackpot. There's the super jackpot. Jackpot. A lot of jackpots. Maybe another super. One more super. Here it is. Okay, I'll do one more thing before ending this video and that is scarecrow. Let's see how smart you really are. See what these animations look like. Try and start this multiball to take the edge off. Am I the way? At the end of this video. Are you afraid? Or this segment. I'll show the gameplay video I did last night that you can see the whole playfield and everything if you care to watch instead of just the display. You can see everything. One more shot to the scarecrow crane. And there's that multiball. Look at that horse blowing fire. I didn't know that was a thing. You just don't really see that with the orange dots, right? And I haven't seen the movie, so you know, shame on me. I know. How about an extra ball animation? I mean, there's a lot going on right now, so extra ball should be prioritized. Very cool. One more crane shot left. Oh no. I need the crane super. Last chance. Oh, I got it. I got it. Another impostor. Uh, nope. Here's the real Batman. Okay. Well, since we're here, let's go left orbit. You can't see what I'm doing obviously, but this is to start the mini wizard mode. There it is. Might as well see all the animations, right? Or at least a good chunk. I'm in no condition like yourself. My clothes are dirty. My is all speed. I took my shotgun. I'm holding you all hostage. So, I need to just hit uh three major shots here. There's one. Oh, that's also a rescue Rachel shot. Now left orbit to start bat signal challenge multiball. This is the mini wizard mode. So, what I'll try and do is get one jackpot and then I think that'll be sufficient. I can't look at the display. Oh, there's a shot I need. There's another shot I need. There's too many balls. I can't keep track of what is actually happening. Okay, I think I just want to get this jackpot here. I think I need a scarecrow shot really fast. Is that it? Okay, now left orbit. Here it is for the jackpot. All right, I'm just going to drain out now. See the end of game animations. Should have cranked the tunes actually, too. It's not too bad, but louder is better. Let's get this skill shot. Oh, I have an extra ball. Let's see the shoot again. Ball saved animation. Let's try a super skill shot on the last ball. The Joker is getting away. That was really cool. Where is the Joker's force coming from? Might have to try a shot here. That is cool. This is the beginning of the end for you, Batman. All right, one more Joker shot. Nope, that was Batmobile. You don't rarely uh don't often get that one. Sitting a bunch of right orbits and I'm like three more things away out of eight things to qualifying the main wizard mode which I've never been to. And we'll watch the end of game animation here and then call it. It's pretty amazing. I am definitely sold. Thank you, Jan aka Pastor 69 for this opportunity. Um, your product thus far is awesome. So, let's play a quick couple balls here. I am Goth and see how it goes. I'm going to be like playing so bad cuz I'm going to be too busy staring at the animations. I almost want to like just zoom in right on the display, but Oh, that's wild. That was a lovely shot, sir. The quality is just amazing. I don't know how quality could vary. It's all just colored dots, but it's pretty amazing. Look at that. It's this uh colorizing a display really brings the machine to life. It is like going from freaking I was going to say black and white, but at least you know it's better than just black and white, probably better than just straight orange. Good work, Alfred. But it really is night and day. See if I can get a multiball going here. Would you like to take the edge off? Oh, I tickled it. Oh, that was not a good drop catch. Let's go for a super skill shot. Hey. Hey, does that count? Oh, I'm sorry. I blocked you. No, I I don't think it was Jan that colored these files, but whoever did. Amazing job. It's going and please keep doing what you're doing. You know, if I can uh get this Joker multiball going. Play a little maybe quick uh bat signal challenge mini wizard mode action here. I just got to actually hit the darn drop target. View of the whole display once I'm editing cuz now my goal is to uh get the mini wizard mode. Then we can see all of the animations. Well, maybe not all, but you know, lots of them. Okay. Oh, I hit Alfred. That was out of all. Okay, one more joker shot. Get out of my way, crane. Oh, I snuck right through there. That was pretty impressive. Now, during ball save, I can kind of stare at the display a little bit more. I like how it like the background changes colors. It's purple there. There was just sort of like this skin tone. That's amazing. All right, ball saves off. I must pay attention again. Well, I've qualified the bat signal challenge here. I just need to backhand this left orbit. Oh, a little weak. A little weak. Okay, let's forehand it then. There we go. That's pretty awesome. So now I got to hit the three major shots and then go back up there to start the bat challenge multiball. It's like phase two. That's cool. Rescuing Rachel. All right, let's go. Batmobile. It's like a whole new game. Okay, backhand of the crane. Uh-oh. On the fly flail to the crane. Now, Joker, which is also a Rachel shot. Okay, now Michael, don't mess this up. Left orbit for uh-oh. No, don't do it. For the multiball. Yes. Oh, that almost rejected on me. And I've got four of the eight other requirements for the main wizard mode. And they all have to be in a nice symmetrical pattern. Isn't that cute? If I hit Alfred, I can add a ball. Well, there's only four balls in the machine, so it's kind of pointless. Oh, yeah. By the way, I'm supposed to be hitting all the major shots. There's Batmobile. And I need a scarecrow. And then I can cash in. There we go. Now, left orbit for the jackpot. Did it work? What happened? Shoot flashing shots. Scarecrow didn't count here. How about that? Why did that not count? Oh, you bugger. Oh, there it is. Now I need left orbit. Try and sneak one in. Uh, you won't miss. Well, I got one more achievement. I got five. Playing all the modes is another one. Coming from oh, that's really cool. Locate the Joker animation. I want to be Joker. I'm really demoing a lot of the animations on this uh what is it? First ball. Maybe I need to set up my machine a little bit harder. That's super cool though. Oops. Missed my lane change. Okay, let's locate the Joker. Batmobile missed. Scarecrow. I got lots of time. You know that right orbit. Oh, that's trouble. We should see the tilt animation. There it is. All right, I think I'm going to end on that note. Again, thanks, Jan. Appreciate the opportunity. PPU/C DMD is awesome.