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jukingeo:
Hello All,

I had a question in regards to Mame and outputs in general.

I remember that you could set Mame to flash a keyboard LED in relation to the output of tickets on a redemption game.  So it did get me to wonder if Mame could be set up to turn on/off those lights that are on the front panel of Lunar Lander.

Since I been playing Lunar Lander on MAME for so long AND it has been a long time since I SEEN an actual Lunar Lander cabinet, I completely forgot about the front panel lights.  (Mind you, the last time I saw a real LL in person when when I was about 10 years old).

Does Mame support these lights?  If so, how would one go about hooking them up.  Furthermore, if memory serves right, those lights lit up buttons for certain game plays.  That is another thing I don't know how to do in Mame (is to access those other game levels).

I am curious if anyone out there might have some additional information on this and in general how mame supports outputs.

Thank You,

Geo
jukingeo:
Bump:  Does anyone have any information regarding MAME outputs?
milhouse:
Mame Hooker. I just setup a Q*Bert knocker using Mame outputs.
http://dragonking.arcadecontrols.com/static.php?page=aboutmamehooker

arzoo:
LEDBlinky supports mame outputs - and as I recall, Lunar Lander does work with them. There's also a mame outputs test app included so you can see which outputs are working for each game.
jukingeo:

--- Quote from: milhouse on February 22, 2011, 09:54:30 pm ---Mame Hooker. I just setup a Q*Bert knocker using Mame outputs.
http://dragonking.arcadecontrols.com/static.php?page=aboutmamehooker
--- End quote ---

Wow!  I just took a look at that site, and I am surprised I never heard of this before.  It looks impressive.  One of the nice features is that it seems like you can interface it to a common parallel port and directly access 8 outputs.

This would definitely allow me to directly control the 4 Lunar Lander output lights using white LED lamps.   Then I could also use the other 4 outputs to control other features in Mame.


--- Quote from: arzoo on February 23, 2011, 09:03:35 am ---LEDBlinky supports mame outputs - and as I recall, Lunar Lander does work with them. There's also a mame outputs test app included so you can see which outputs are working for each game.

--- End quote ---

Hi Arzoo,

Ok, going this route though I would need the Led Wiz that GGG sells, correct?  I probably would go this route IF I decide to go with a commercial controller for my project.   Since this project is going to be based on a set of single player controls in a bar top style cabinet, I am thinking of just going with a standard game controller hack.   The motherboard I am intending to purchase for this project (A fan-less Intel Atom based ITX board) does have serial and parallel ports.  At least I could test out the function using MAME Hooker with the parallel port and a few LED's.

Thanx for the info guys, that was a "giant leap" in the right direction.

Geo
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