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LEDBlinky - Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor - v8.2
drjmoney:
Can someone point me in the right direction. I have LED blinky up and running. Is there an easy way to make EVERY game in MAME just work? I have the input map setup correctly. Currently I am doing each game by hand individually and its going to take forever. Is there a master XML file somewhere? Please help
Roland_001:
Hi Arzoo,
For the Ultimarc Servostik (and 360 stick, and possible others), I wonder if it's possible to add some kind of output that informs the user of the current state (4-way or 8-way). I imagine something like a pair of LED's that get selectively turned on/off when the stick is in 4-way or 8-way mode. They could even be connected to the main I-PAC (eg. the Ultimate I/O has the ability to control stand-alone LED's as well as RGB buttons).
I ask because, a) it would be a cool and logical feature b) it's not always intuitive when a game doesn't "feel" right while playing, if it's due to the joystick being in the wrong configuration (case in point, I was playing a version of Street Fighter the other day, it felt "off", but I could still execute the moves occasionally - turns out the Servostik was in 4-way mode, but this wasn't obvious. As there are 11,000+ MAME games, at some point it's easier to just look down at which LED is on, and determine if the configuration is correct, than to try and trouble-shoot thousands of games by feel alone).
I emailed Andy Warne, the main contact at Ultimarc, and he says that their Servostik does not operate on a toggle basis, but that the program JoyTray (and the PacDrive32.dll library) should be able to report the last command it received.
In theory, this could then activate/deactivate a dedicated LED via LEDBlinky, giving visual feedback to the user.
-Rolyen
arzoo:
--- Quote from: Roland_001 on January 24, 2023, 01:38:01 pm ---For the Ultimarc Servostik (and 360 stick, and possible others), I wonder if it's possible to add some kind of output that informs the user of the current state (4-way or 8-way). I imagine something like a pair of LED's that get selectively turned on/off when the stick is in 4-way or 8-way mode. They could even be connected to the main I-PAC (eg. the Ultimate I/O has the ability to control stand-alone LED's as well as RGB buttons).
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You can already do this; using the GenLEDBlinkyInputMap, assign the ports for the 8-way LED to JOY8WAY and the ports for the 4-way LED to JOY4WAY.
Roland_001:
What?! That's amazing, thank you! I'll work on that over the weekend and update my post with the results, thanks again.
-Rolyen
Onslaught23:
Hello All,
LED Blinky has been giving me issues. For the life of me been trying to figure out how to reset or turn off these two buttons that no matter what will not turn off or will go into different colors when booted. I have unplugged from the board unplugged power and everything and still no dice. Please Help or show me the way