Arzoo:
Just some feedback tonight on getting Nestopia hooked up to Mala and Ledblinky. Because Nestopia runs a windows menubar, you cannot use the default MAME mappings for Left Control, Left Alt buttons, as it activates Nestopia's menus. Thus, I've gone ahead and created an emulator remapping for this one emulator. This resolves the menu bar issue, but to make this work, you need to upload this new keyset to the ipac when that emulator is selected via Mala. Thus far, Nestopia is the only emulator on a different key mapping.
There are a few issues here. Led Blinky appears to map lighted buttons for Other Emulators based on the current keyset loaded into my ipac, and defined in the main mapping. At this time, I do not remember if I had to go back to the master port mappings and add two bogus entries, just so Led Blinky thought I had extra key bindings available for assignment.
Upon selecting a NES game, Mala will eventually upload that keyset to the ipac, but NOT BEFORE led blinky looks to see what keys are currently mapped to what. What this means is that when setting up the "other emulator" in Led Blinky, what you are really doing is setting up the emulator button handles to be whatever default keys those buttons WERE before the ipac key remapping happens. If you do not anticipate the key change, and assign your 'other emulator' buttons with the keys they eventually WON'T be, then Led Blinky will not know how to correctly light up your buttons. (Does this make sense?) Checking the "always light this button" didn't seem to light the button at all, despite the fact that I really don't give a rat's
if my other emulator never turns any buttons on or off.
I found setting up an Other Emulator while changing key mappyings to my ipac quite confusing. I really wasn't sure where to change data for quite some time, and after much playing around with different settings just to try to trick it into working.
If i'm being totally dumb, please let me know. Perhaps there's a few bugs in the system, perhaps another iteration on the interface is necessary for clarification. I did get it to work, but just wanted to let you know of my experience setting this up, in case you haven't tested this scenario of events. I get the feeling that Mala's order in which key remapping happens vs. led blinky plugin is called to light the buttons is off, or Led Blinky didn't really anticipate encoder remapping on the fly.
Love this app, would love to help make it better. Hope this helps.
-csa
-csa