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Darq:

I've done the standard searching and reading but wanted some clarification.  I'm planning on building a CP with joystick, 7 game buttons and 1 player button for players 1 and 2.  This effectively leaves me with 8 LEDs per player (9 if I get a lighted joystick).  I wanted to go with RGB but as far as I can tell there is nothing out there that will support (3 x 8) x 2 = 48 outs.  I read this was a possible to do with the LEDwiz but probably a far off future item.  Other than grouping LEDs or cutting down colors do I have any other options for animated LEDs in game Mame?

Feel free to tell me if I'm and idiot and over looked something obvious.

MYX:

RGB will eat your channels quickly. You have the option of running more than 1 LEDWiz at a time and I believe that it is MALA that is currently in development of a more intensive user platform for the Wizs. BUT!, you have to purchase a set of replacement chips to do so.

I chose to use RGBs on the main buttons and single colors on the rest. Remember that not all games used that many buttons. So, if you hit the main jump / fire buttons and made the rest a single color you can make it work.

BTW, remember that for every color you add, you have just added a wire and resistor. The wires build up quickly. Eventually you look down and say, crap, that is several hundred feet of wire sitting there.

I chose PowerMAME through MAMEWah, but am running up against a wall with it right now. I can not make the attract mode work with MW. It will work with PM32. Also the buttons lit durring the game seems to be un usable right now too. But I am still working on this.

Darq:

I thought that you "could" use 2 LEDwizs but they wouldnt be in sync

loadman:


--- Quote ---I believe that it is MALA that is currently in development of a more intensive user platform for the Wizs. BUT!, you have to purchase a set of replacement chips to do so.
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FYI MaLa works right now (not development)   ;)

* Either with a LedWiz (replace one chip) for basic support see Here
* Or Mala Hardware see here



Some MaLa Screens for LEDS and LCD:

RandyT:


--- Quote from: MYX on August 27, 2006, 05:07:51 pm ---RGB will eat your channels quickly. You have the option of running more than 1 LEDWiz at a time and I believe that it is MALA that is currently in development of a more intensive user platform for the Wizs. BUT!, you have to purchase a set of replacement chips to do so.

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Also keep in mind that if you go this route, you are essentially crippling the LED-Wiz by removing the PWM (48 brightness levels) and hardware pulse FX.  This means only 7 colors are possible with RGB LEDs using the replacements chip instead of the LED-Wiz's normal 110,592.

Just thought this needed to be brought up in case that kind of thing is important to anyone ;)

RandyT



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