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LEDBlinky - Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor - v8.2
gstav:
Yeah, but I rather not change the emus default but change the game instead. I can give you a bit of my xml and you'll see what I mean if you want
here's a cutted part of my LEDBlinkyControls.xml with the MAME system as default blanked out, Street Fighter 2 with dedicated buttons and Operation WOLF with blanked out buttons as its a light gun game
<emulator emuname="MAME" emuDesc="MAME Defaults and Control Overrides">
<controlGroup groupName="DEFAULT" voice="" numPlayers="2" alternating="0" defaultActive="48,48,48,48" defaultInactive="0,0,0,0" jukebox="0" ledwizGlobalPulse="3">
<player number="0">
<control name="CONTROL_JOY8WAY" voice="" primaryControl="1" alwaysActive="0" color="0,0,0"/>
<control name="UI_CANCEL" voice="" alwaysActive="1" color="Red"/>
<control name="UI_PAUSE" voice="" alwaysActive="1" color="Yellow"/>
<control name="UI_SELECT" voice="" alwaysActive="1" color="Lime"/>
</player>
<player number="1">
<control name="P1_BUTTON1" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON2" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Red"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON3" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON4" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON5" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Red"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON6" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON7" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON8" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
</player>
<player number="2">
<control name="P2_BUTTON1" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON2" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Red"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON3" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON4" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON5" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Red"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON6" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON7" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON8" voice="" alwaysActive="0" color="Lime"/>
</player>
<controlGroup groupName="hsf2" voice="Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition (USA 040202)" numPlayers="2" alternating="0" jukebox="0">
<player number="0">
<control name="CONTROL_JOY8WAY" voice="8-way Joystick" color="Black" primaryControl="1"/>
</player>
<player number="1">
<control name="P1_BUTTON1" voice="Light Punch" color="Red"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON2" voice="Middle Punch" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON3" voice="Heavy Punch" color="White"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON4" voice="Light Kick" color="Red"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON5" voice="Middle Kick" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON6" voice="Heavy Kick" color="White"/>
</player>
<player number="2">
<control name="P2_BUTTON1" voice="Light Punch" color="Red"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON2" voice="Middle Punch" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON3" voice="Heavy Punch" color="White"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON4" voice="Light Kick" color="Red"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON5" voice="Middle Kick" color="Blue"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON6" voice="Heavy Kick" color="White"/>
</player>
</controlGroup>
<controlGroup groupName="opwolf" voice="Operation Wolf (Europe)" numPlayers="2" alternating="0" jukebox="0">
<player number="0">
<control name="CONTROL_JOY8WAY" voice="8-Way Joystick" primaryControl="1" color="" inputCodes=""/>
</player>
<player number="1">
<control name="P1_BUTTON1" voice="Button B" color="0,0,0" inputCodes="KEYCODE_A"/>
<control name="P1_BUTTON2" voice="Button A" color="0,0,0" inputCodes="KEYCODE_S"/>
</player>
<player number="2">
<control name="P2_BUTTON1" voice="Button B" color="0,0,0" inputCodes="KEYCODE_T"/>
<control name="P2_BUTTON2" voice="Button A" color="0,0,0" inputCodes="KEYCODE_Y"/>
</player>
</controlGroup>
theholmesplace:
That makes sense I believe, but I'd have to do this for every game within MAME then, because this button lights up no matter what game I launch. I believe this button is lighting up simply because 1 button is assigned to Shift and the other button is assigned to Shift + F7 which causes both to light up because I'm telling LEDBlinky to light up the Shift key, when only the Shift + F7 button should light up.
Is LEDBlinky not supposed to do that? Trying to figure out why that's happening I guess. Has this not happened to anyone else?
Mouse Button 1 is the same situation in this case.
On my arcade I have a button solely dedicated for the left mouse button click (which LEDBlinky shouldn't light up).
But MAME's default for the Player 1 button 1 is "CTRL OR Mouse Button 1 OR Gun Button 1", and because I want to light up this button with LEDBlinky, LEDBlinky enables BOTH buttons because of that Mouse Button 1 attached in MAME.
I had to remove Mouse Button 1 from MAME to fix that issue. Is this what other people are doing? :/ Right now, for the shift issue, I also changed the key assigned in MAME to not include shift. This is fine, it works, but I feel like I shouldn't have to change MAME defaults in these cases.
gstav:
I used Rocket Blinly to generate my base file, then I have edited each game actually 😅 but I'm kinda anal about it and only have around 300 mame titles, so it was doable. But you could have default and only change the games that needs it. Don't know if you can bypass some key through a title you edited though
arzoo:
--- Quote from: theholmesplace on September 22, 2022, 11:56:45 pm ---That makes sense I believe, but I'd have to do this for every game within MAME then, because this button lights up no matter what game I launch. I believe this button is lighting up simply because 1 button is assigned to Shift and the other button is assigned to Shift + F7 which causes both to light up because I'm telling LEDBlinky to light up the Shift key, when only the Shift + F7 button should light up.
Is LEDBlinky not supposed to do that? Trying to figure out why that's happening I guess. Has this not happened to anyone else?
Mouse Button 1 is the same situation in this case.
On my arcade I have a button solely dedicated for the left mouse button click (which LEDBlinky shouldn't light up).
But MAME's default for the Player 1 button 1 is "CTRL OR Mouse Button 1 OR Gun Button 1", and because I want to light up this button with LEDBlinky, LEDBlinky enables BOTH buttons because of that Mouse Button 1 attached in MAME.
I had to remove Mouse Button 1 from MAME to fix that issue. Is this what other people are doing? :/ Right now, for the shift issue, I also changed the key assigned in MAME to not include shift. This is fine, it works, but I feel like I shouldn't have to change MAME defaults in these cases.
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You should just be able to remove the mouse input code from the LED ports (using GenLEDBlinkyInputMap). If you turn on the Debug Log option (Misc Options tab), run your FE and a few games, them email me the debug.zip and/or debug.log files and I'll take a look to see what's going on.
theholmesplace:
@gstav
Yeah, I mean I guess I have been going through every game on MAME (like 2000+) and adding in colors to the Colors.ini file. But that's me only adding colors for buttons not lit up, not defining them all as black / off.
Thanks for sharing though how you work your config, it helps! :)
@arzoo
If I remove the mouse input code, will I be able to light up the button at other times though individually?
Yeah, I'll do a debug soon on this thing, because now I'm running into an issue where some games aren't respecting colors that I'm assigning them within colors.ini... Makes me wonder if I have a typo in a file somewhere. That's another problem though, that just started happening. I just haven't had a chance to mess with it for the last couple of days, and will be going out of town this weekend as well. So it might be a few days before I can get back in front of it.
Planning to run a debug to see if I can't spot out why Colors.ini is no longer respecting values I'm giving it.
Thanks for he offer to look though on the other issue! I'll send the logs in a few days once I get an opportunity to look through these things.