Flashing Atari games (what's the name of the exe)

[mimic]

Forum search is not working and I can't find on Google what was the name of the exe that (I think) came with MAME and was able to send signal to volcano type LEDs.

EDIT: ledutil.exe that's what it was!

EDIT2: Can't find it on my computer in MAME folder or anywhere for that matter. It seem it was only included with Mameuifx, but on their official page only modified mame exe can be downloaded.  Anyone knows where I can get said ledutil?
TIA!

[PL1]

Are you using a pre-2015 I-Pac2 to drive the LEDs?

If you are using a newer LED controller, you may want to consider LEDBlinky, MAMEHooker, etc.
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It seem it was only included with Mameuifx

The ledutil.exe tool is part of mainline MAME and MAMEUIFX, but AFAIK it isn't included in the default download packages.

Looks like you need to compile MAME with the "TOOLS=1" option.   

Related thread:  https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=110225


Scott

[nexusmtz]

v0178 includes it. v0179 doesn't. Since it varies with almost every version, you probably can't mix.

[mimic]

v0178 includes it. v0179 doesn't. Since it varies with almost every version, you probably can't mix.

Thanks! I'll try with later version see if it works ok.

[mimic]

Can I only use the ledutil.exe with mame version that it came with or will it work with ANY mame version (it's not working for me on .221 or something like that, HS with front end. (I know it used to work before I reinstalled the PC)

Are you using a pre-2015 I-Pac2 to drive the LEDs?

Yeah, I-Pac 4 with the proper leads. I had it working before so being too new is not an issue.

[PL1]

You may need to set "outputs" to "windows" in mame.ini.
Related thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,151464.0.html

Can I only use the ledutil.exe with mame version that it came with or will it work with ANY mame version (it's not working for me on .221 or something like that, HS with front end. (I know it used to work before I reinstalled the PC)

A search for "ledutil" in the MAME source code on github yields 3 results.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/search?q=ledutil

The third result is for ledutil.cpp.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/1a5b900759f491bf6b59be67b5446b0a1becb04b/src/osd/windows/ledutil.cpp

If you look at the history, there have been several commits since MAME 0.178 was released on September 28, 2016 that might change the way that MAME interacts with ledutil.exe.   
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commits/399515c7a783f84b5c40c5e1733500b3d62bf634/src/osd/windows/ledutil.cpp


Scott