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Keyboard LED lights, all 3?
spauldingd:
I got my IPAC and Optipac from Ultimarc yesterday and for that extra adde bling factor I also got their 3-LED light harness for the keyboard LED indicators.
Can anyone tell me of a game that uses all 3 LED's? Ms. Pacman is a good example of one that lights up 2 lights, but I have yet to find a game that lights up the Scroll Lock LED.
Mainly, I want to know if I really need to drill a hole in my future panel for an LED that will seldom if ever be lit.
Thanks!
Dave
SirPeale:
I believe only the first two get used for credits, but the third lights up for games like "Spy Hunter" for the 'van' light and 'Out Run' for the brake, but I could be wrong about that. Off for testing!
SirPeale:
Well, Out Run uses the caps lock light, and I couldn't get Spy Hunter to do anything.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: spauldingd on March 20, 2004, 11:08:58 am ---I got my IPAC and Optipac from Ultimarc yesterday and for that extra adde bling factor I also got their 3-LED light harness for the keyboard LED indicators.
Can anyone tell me of a game that uses all 3 LED's? Ms. Pacman is a good example of one that lights up 2 lights, but I have yet to find a game that lights up the Scroll Lock LED.
Mainly, I want to know if I really need to drill a hole in my future panel for an LED that will seldom if ever be lit.
Thanks!
Dave
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I know Ajax uses all three, but I could never figure out what the Scroll Lock one meant. I was planning to leave it off, but if it turns out I need it for the Van Light in SpyHunter, I'll be bummed.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 20, 2004, 02:03:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: spauldingd on March 20, 2004, 11:08:58 am ---I got my IPAC and Optipac from Ultimarc yesterday and for that extra adde bling factor I also got their 3-LED light harness for the keyboard LED indicators.
Can anyone tell me of a game that uses all 3 LED's? Ms. Pacman is a good example of one that lights up 2 lights, but I have yet to find a game that lights up the Scroll Lock LED.
Mainly, I want to know if I really need to drill a hole in my future panel for an LED that will seldom if ever be lit.
Thanks!
Dave
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I know Ajax uses all three, but I could never figure out what the Scroll Lock one meant. I was planning to leave it off, but if it turns out I need it for the Van Light in SpyHunter, I'll be bummed.
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Did some more digging -
SpyHunter definitely does not use the LED's however, newer builds flash the Van light onscreen under the bezel artwork.
Ajax flashes the scroll lock LED when you collect a power-up, but the power-up also flashes in the game on-screen, so it's not really important.
If you do a search in the MAME source code for files containing "set_led_status", you will come up with about 70 drivers which flash the LED's, but I couldn't go any further than this.