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PowerMAME plug-in??
Havok:
--- Quote from: southpaw13 on January 08, 2007, 08:42:13 pm ---My two cents. And Mike I am not made at you at all.
Here I send a lot of money on two LEDWIZ controllers, lights, buttons, and re-wiring my control panels. The LEDWIZ was rushed to market with only the hope that software would support it. So here I sit with Mame 105 and can't go any furthur. Maybe I can buy ADDITIONAL chips to run Mala or have hope that AtomicFE or GameEX will fit the bill.
Just my frustration....
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AtomicFE supports up to 16 LEDWiz controllers.
arzoo:
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 08, 2007, 10:42:15 pm ---Mike, would sharing your code with Mala, Atomic FE, and Mamewah be so bad? I appreciate all you did for us, and I still use powermame to this day even with my dual monitors. I know a lot of the community is sooo happy Randy came out with the led wiz that they can't appreciate my frustration with a lack of software, but whatever. That thing cost me $60. I am really impressed that you stepped up out of the blue to contribute what you have and I know many others feel the same way. Thanks again, and I hope that you will be willing to share it with the active developers of the community.
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MaLa and AFE both support the LEDWiz. You can also use Johnny5 with most any FE to light your LEDs. But none of these solutions work the same way as PowerMame - PM is a modified version of the core mame code and it interrogates the i/o ports directly to determine which buttons are active for each game (Mike - please correct me if I'm wrong here). All the other solutions use auxiliary data files (primarily controls.int) to determine which games use which buttons. Looking at it another way, PM maps each LED to a specific keycode (Keycode_A, KeyCode_Shift, etc.) where as the others map the LEDs one level higher - at the control mapping (Player1Button1, Player1Button2, etc.). PM does not require any custom config files for individual games with custom control mapping.
That being said, MaLa and AFE are great options - and both are being actively developed and enhanced. My cp uses two LEDWizs to light the 16 RGB buttons and various other LEDs and I've been searching for the best FE to meet my needs. I've decided to go with MaLa and possibly help the LEDWiz plugin devs (loadman and edge) with future enhancements. I'm also working on a MaLa plugin for the GPWiz49. AFE will be out with a new release in a few weeks and I've heard it will have some really cool new features. So there's plenty of good options. ;D
squirrellydw:
I am not mad at you or Randy at all. I bought my two LEDwiz's knowing that PowerMAME may not be around forever but knowing something out there would work for it.
Thanks for the great contribution o the community.
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: squirrellydw on January 09, 2007, 09:36:20 am ---I am not mad at you or Randy at all. I bought my two LEDwiz's knowing that PowerMAME may not be around forever but knowing something out there would work for it.
Thanks for the great contribution o the community.
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Your guys are not who I'm referring to. I get a lot of direct email through the website. I think that is something people don't realize. They see PowerMAME only through the forums. Most people here are decent in a public forum. However, a lot of peoples tone changes in private emails. They are demanding and want the kind of support you get from a commercial product. Or, they want some obscure modification done to PowerMAME because it was in some other version of MAME that they used prior to switching to PowerMAME. When I tell them "no" or "later", they get annoyed or constantly nag me about it. There are a lot of giving people in this community but there are also a lot of takers that want, want, want and think you owe it to them.
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: arzoo on January 09, 2007, 08:47:03 am ---
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 08, 2007, 10:42:15 pm ---Mike, would sharing your code with Mala, Atomic FE, and Mamewah be so bad? I appreciate all you did for us, and I still use powermame to this day even with my dual monitors. I know a lot of the community is sooo happy Randy came out with the led wiz that they can't appreciate my frustration with a lack of software, but whatever. That thing cost me $60. I am really impressed that you stepped up out of the blue to contribute what you have and I know many others feel the same way. Thanks again, and I hope that you will be willing to share it with the active developers of the community.
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MaLa and AFE both support the LEDWiz. You can also use Johnny5 with most any FE to light your LEDs. But none of these solutions work the same way as PowerMame - PM is a modified version of the core mame code and it interrogates the i/o ports directly to determine which buttons are active for each game (Mike - please correct me if I'm wrong here). All the other solutions use auxiliary data files (primarily controls.int) to determine which games use which buttons. Looking at it another way, PM maps each LED to a specific keycode (Keycode_A, KeyCode_Shift, etc.) where as the others map the LEDs one level higher - at the control mapping (Player1Button1, Player1Button2, etc.). PM does not require any custom config files for individual games with custom control mapping.
That being said, MaLa and AFE are great options - and both are being actively developed and enhanced. My cp uses two LEDWizs to light the 16 RGB buttons and various other LEDs and I've been searching for the best FE to meet my needs. I've decided to go with MaLa and possibly help the LEDWiz plugin devs (loadman and edge) with future enhancements. I'm also working on a MaLa plugin for the GPWiz49. AFE will be out with a new release in a few weeks and I've heard it will have some really cool new features. So there's plenty of good options. ;D
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I can't speak for any of the FE's but yes, PowerMAME does not require any config files per game unless you want some custom lighting scenario that is different from what PowerMAME calculates. PowerMAME also adds custom menu options for 49ways on the MAME Game Input menu. It also computes the best DRS mode for the 49ways based on the inputs. If you wish to override them, you can. I was planning on supporting the UltraStik too but decided to call it quits before it was done. It also can do in-game things like custom pause messages and speech of control names all without config files.
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