Thanks for the quick reply.
I wanted to make sure that my maps were being applied correctly so i replaced the Joy8Way map with the mapping info from Joy4Way. I then tried playing street fighter and it was obvious i was in 4-way mode. so i'm confident that my maps are being applied.
i only recently realized that mame was doing my mapping! i checked the debug log from ledblinky and found that it couldn't load any of my maps. i went into the directory and all my maps were named 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. that must have been from the previous version of ledblinky. i renamed them to the appropriate names (Joy8Way, Joy4Way, Analog, etc.) and ledblinky appears to be working correctly.
One more question...
When i'm adding games in the Controls Editor, is there an easy way to copy the buttons from player 1 to player 2, 3, and 4? or do i need to enter the button colors for each player?
For example, let's say i wanted players 1, 2, 3, and 4 to all have buttons 12 be white, and 34 be blue.
It really is great app. Thanks for your hard work developing and supporting it!