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Green Giant:

--- Quote from: headkaze on August 08, 2007, 05:14:09 pm ---I probably should have put a smiley after that, but then it looks like I'm laughing at my own lame jokes.

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If Letterman can do it, why not you.   :dunno

slsimon:

--- Quote from: headkaze on August 08, 2007, 05:14:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: SGT on August 08, 2007, 05:01:18 pm ---I understand what you are saying, but if its GG's opinion that Mala is the best FE for this user, its certainly within his right to say so.  Its not like he's closely associated with a FE like you are.

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Yeah, he's entitled to an opinion and so am I. If this is about the religious nut comment, orginally it was more of an obvious joke comparing users to Mormons, FE's to bibles and thread posting to door knocking, but I toned it down to avoid offending anyone. I probably should have put a smiley after that, but then it looks like I'm laughing at my own lame jokes. Which is kinda like enjoying the smell of your own fart :)

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Thanks for the reply's headkaze.  From reading your comments, sounds like you are the one to talk to for the GameEX and Atomic FE's.  I am assuming that both these FE's also support the GGG hardware that I am going to purchase.  I am also going to assume that the following is supported by both FE's, Dual LightGuns, EmuMovies, all Randy's GGG LED hardware and what I would like to attempt to accomplish with the Led-Wiz controllers and Led buttons.  I am also going to assume that all three FE's (Mala, GameEX and Atomic) have active development to support new functions and hardware. 

I think it was GameEX that I have previously read a post concerning having to purchase the software to be able to utilize all the configurations and controls that are offered with the full blown release of the FE. 

I guess I will choose the FE that will be easiest for me to figure out.  Really, what I am looking for is just to be able to do the following: 

Here is what I would like to accomplish with the led-wiz controllers, to start with anyway.  I would like player 1 through player 4 buttons to have a specific color per player, (player 1 buttons red, player 2 blue, player 3 green, player 4 yellow).  At the sametime to make things more interesting, I would like to have the player buttons cycle throuh a number of colors every so many seconds or minutes, while at the sametime no player buttons will cycle through the same color.  Once a game starts, I am wondering if it would be possible then to allow for only the game specific buttons to be lit up a specific color and those that are not used to be another color.  Sounds like alot of work going on here but I am thinking the request is reasonable for this controller. 

I don't think that I was given a concrete answer concering if the above is possible or not.  GG suggested that it is possible for game specific led button support but I am not sure if that would be as important to me as being able to cycle through colors for each player's buttons while no player buttons ever getting cycled to the same color. 

This would require a setup such that every so many seconds/minutes a cycle would have to occur similiar to the following:  To be honest, I have not even looked at any of the LED-Add-On software for Led-Wiz configuration yet...

player 1 is red
player 2 is blue
player 3 is green
player 4 is yellow
player1 is yellow
player 2 is red
player 3 is blue
player4 is green
player 1 is green
player 2 is yellow
player 3 is red
player 4 is blue
etc... and continue the cycle with predefined colors. 

Green Giant:
About the features you want with the ledwiz, I am not sure if that is possible yet.

It sounds like you want it to cycle when you are just browsing through the game lists.  Then when you select a game it lights those games buttons to the originals.  The latter option is currently possible with Mala.  I don't know if the other two support the colors.ini portion that lights the game to the original colors.

All three FE's can light the game controls to a set color, just not sure if they auto switch the colors on a per game basis.

The other thing you want with the colors cycling is not currently possible, however it shouldn't be too hard.  You might ask Arzoo if he can do this with the ledblinky.  He usually gets updates out pretty fast.

Although having all the same colors when cycling through the front end is not the best option.  I have mine set with certain colors for skipping to letter, by page, checking the game information, or whatever you could want.

arzoo:
slsimon,
If I understand correctly, you want the player buttons groups to cycle through different colors when the FE is active (not during game play). This could be achieved with an animation file. With MaLa and the LEDBlinky or LEDWiz plugin, you can play a LED animation when the screen saver is active. I'm sure this is also true for Atomic and GameEx. I think this meets your first requirement. The only problem is we don't currently have any decent animation editors (actually, I think Atomic or GameEx has its own proprietary editor, but I'm not sure which it is). Anyway, that will be resolved shortly as both RandyT and I are actively working on animation editors.

As for your second request - lighting the buttons during game play, the LEDBlinky allows you to define both active and non-active colors. This can be the same for all games or you can define the colors by emulator or on a game-by-game basis. The other LED apps may be able to do the same. You really have a lot of choices! Bottom line, I think the vision you have for your cab is doable. ;D

rockin_rick:
So you want each players button block to have a defined 'normal' color that the buttons are always lit with.  But then every so often, you want the color blocks to rotate sequentially like a "movie marquee" a trip or few around, then land back in their 'normal' positions, right?  Sounds cool, would like to see a video of it when completed.

Rick

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