LedBlinky/Ultrastick/hyper spin issue

[dislecksea]

I am trying to set up hyperspin and LedBlinky to swap my u-360 maps when I launch a game.  But It appears to me that LEDBlinky is always passing the 8 way map to my mame games, regardless of what game it is. For example, here is the relevant portion of my log from QBert, Pac Man and Popeye. I suspect that I am missing something basic, but would appreciate any guidance anyone can provide.

[04/05/2012 14:04:28] 1057 games loaded from controls.ini
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] 2266 games loaded from Mame.xml
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] 0 clones loaded from Mame.xml
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] FEEmulaterSelected Event Completed.
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] Event: FEListSelected
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] Event: FEGameSelected [qberta] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[3~qberta].
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] Event: FEGameSelected [qberta] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] Event: FEGameStart
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] ROM/Game: [QBERTA] Controls: [MAME-QBERTA]
[04/05/2012 14:04:28] Set UltraStik JDR Map [joy8way.um] for QBERTA.
[04/05/2012 14:04:46] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[4].
[04/05/2012 14:04:46] Event: FEGameQuit
[04/05/2012 14:04:46] Set UltraStik JDR Map [joy4way.um] for FE.
[04/05/2012 14:04:48] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~qberttst].
[04/05/2012 14:04:48] Event: FEGameSelected [qberttst] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:50] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pbobble3u].
[04/05/2012 14:04:50] Event: FEGameSelected [pbobble3u] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:53] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pow].
[04/05/2012 14:04:53] Event: FEGameSelected [pow] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:57] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~paddlema].
[04/05/2012 14:04:57] Event: FEGameSelected [paddlema] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:58] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~sxyreac2].
[04/05/2012 14:04:58] Event: FEGameSelected [sxyreac2] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:04:58] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmod].
[04/05/2012 14:04:58] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmod] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:00] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacman].
[04/05/2012 14:05:00] Event: FEGameSelected [pacman] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:04] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacland].
[04/05/2012 14:05:04] Event: FEGameSelected [pacland] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:05] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmanbl].
[04/05/2012 14:05:05] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmanbl] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:07] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacland].
[04/05/2012 14:05:07] Event: FEGameSelected [pacland] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:10] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmanbl].
[04/05/2012 14:05:10] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmanbl] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:11] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacheart].
[04/05/2012 14:05:11] Event: FEGameSelected [pacheart] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:12] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmod].
[04/05/2012 14:05:12] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmod] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:13] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmania].
[04/05/2012 14:05:13] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmania] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:13] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmod].
[04/05/2012 14:05:13] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmod] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:14] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmanf].
[04/05/2012 14:05:14] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmanf] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:16] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacmod].
[04/05/2012 14:05:16] Event: FEGameSelected [pacmod] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pacman].
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] Event: FEGameSelected [pacman] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[3~pacman].
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] Event: FEGameSelected [pacman] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] Event: FEGameStart
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] ROM/Game: [PACMAN] Controls: [MAME-PACMAN]
[04/05/2012 14:05:18] Set UltraStik JDR Map [joy8way.um] for PACMAN.
[04/05/2012 14:05:51] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[4].
[04/05/2012 14:05:51] Event: FEGameQuit
[04/05/2012 14:05:51] Set UltraStik JDR Map [joy4way.um] for FE.
[04/05/2012 14:05:54] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pandoras].
[04/05/2012 14:05:54] Event: FEGameSelected [pandoras] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:55] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~peterpak].
[04/05/2012 14:05:55] Event: FEGameSelected [peterpak] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:56] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~phoenixj].
[04/05/2012 14:05:56] Event: FEGameSelected [phoenixj] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:05:57] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~phrcraze].
[04/05/2012 14:05:57] Event: FEGameSelected [phrcraze] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:00] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~polariso].
[04/05/2012 14:06:00] Event: FEGameSelected [polariso] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:02] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~ponpoko].
[04/05/2012 14:06:02] Event: FEGameSelected [ponpoko] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:03] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pooyan].
[04/05/2012 14:06:03] Event: FEGameSelected [pooyan] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:03] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~pooyans].
[04/05/2012 14:06:03] Event: FEGameSelected [pooyans] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:04] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~popnpopu].
[04/05/2012 14:06:04] Event: FEGameSelected [popnpopu] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:05] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~popeyebl].
[04/05/2012 14:06:05] Event: FEGameSelected [popeyebl] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:08] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~popeye].
[04/05/2012 14:06:08] Event: FEGameSelected [popeye] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:10] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~popeyebl].
[04/05/2012 14:06:10] Event: FEGameSelected [popeyebl] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:12] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~popeyef].
[04/05/2012 14:06:12] Event: FEGameSelected [popeyef] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:14] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[3~popeyef].
[04/05/2012 14:06:14] Event: FEGameSelected [popeyef] [] []
[04/05/2012 14:06:14] Event: FEGameStart
[04/05/2012 14:06:14] ROM/Game: [POPEYEF] Controls: [MAME-POPEYEF]
[04/05/2012 14:06:14] Set UltraStik JDR Map [joy8way.um] for POPEYEF.
[04/05/2012 14:08:06] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[4].
[04/05/2012 14:08:06] Event: FEGameQuit
[04/05/2012 14:08:06] Set UltraStik JDR Map [joy4way.um] for FE.
[04/05/2012 14:08:10] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[2].
[04/05/2012 14:08:10] Event: FEQuit

[arzoo]

The reason most games are setting to 8-way is because your mame.xml does not include any rom clones. For example, pacman is a clone of pucman. For memory and performance reasons, LEDBlinky only stores the control info for the primary rom and keeps a "clone-of" link for all the clone roms. But without the clone roms in the mame.xml file, there’s no links so blinky just defaults to 8-way.

The simple solution is to recreate your mame.xml form the mame.exe using the –listxml command.
http://www.dndw.com/ledblinky/Support.htm#MAMEXMLFile
That should solve the problem.

[dislecksea]

FYI - Arzoo sent me an e-mail about this and worked with me on it.  His fix was spot on - works like a charm now.