LEDBlinky - Part 3 - Integration with Mame

[@shanzo85]

Congrats on the great content. Only just discovered it and it has been very informative. Can't wait to watch more to help with my latest build.

[@MavericksArcade]

Glad to help, more coming soon!

[@TruestMusic]

I have a question. When I'm filling in the portion in LED Blinky for main when I click on main and supposed to point at the main exe which I have in my lunch box emulators main folder LED Blinky does not see the main emulator folder inside the emulators folder. If that makes sense. Why is this?

[@kevinlongpre596]

Your videos have helped me a ton, so thank you!! I was wondering, similar to your ground effects, I have strips being controlled by my Ipac. How can I get those to change colors for specific games? since they are not mapped to a specific input? Thanks!

[@MavericksArcade]

Map them to an input that's not actually being used, like F13-F15 just so you have something to reference. For static lighting them, you can use a custom game LWA file in LEDBlinky, or if you want them to respond to events in game (that were part of the game) you can do like what I did in Chase HQ kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6naonqHfqp5p9E

[@DL-eh7ut]

Great Job will be watching more

[@MavericksArcade]

I'm trying to get back into a regular routine so more videos to come :-)

[@jamisono4436]

Firstly....great videos. Question does a person have to do anything different when they are using single color leds? My concern is the ini file that is specifying colors etc. Thank you!!

[@MavericksArcade]

No, the RBG is just the extra factor. The only difference is if doing one LED you wouldn't have the extra colors, just one LED programmed :-)

[@harpsitardo]

Will this program work with a standard commercially available fight stick/ arcade stick that has button and stick LEDs that plugs in via USB? Qanba Crystal is the example I'm thinking of.

[@MavericksArcade]

I would check with Arzoo (at LEDBlinky) to make sure, it depends on if the controller has an API that was encoded to work with LED Blinky, or if the stick has a third party compatible LED controller that would work. Again, just to be sure, check with Arzoo :-)

[@harpsitardo]

@@MavericksArcade Thanks for the reply! I'll check it out there and see what he says. I'm not sure what kind of board they use for the LEDs - it may be part of the overall Qanba board and proprietary - I haven't taken it apart to look yet.

[@CitznFish]

Love your tutorials Chuck. I have a question about this one in particular. in LEDBlinky 7.1.0.1 if I select Light Player Start and Coin Buttons, it only lights them up solid unless the game supported the feature where the start button only lights up after a credit is entered. Galaga does not support this feature, so my start buttons do not blink and are never off. Asteroids and Centipede DO support this feature and work correctly. In your video you show Galaga acting differently. How the heck did you do this? This is an option I would love across all my games. FYI, all your LEDBlinky videos fell off your Homepage>Videos. They only appear if I google search Maverick Arcade LEDBlinky. Maybe this was intentional?

[@MavericksArcade]

It was not intentional, but the get replaced with age. So perhaps I should make and put up the collection of LEDBlinky based videos :-) Thank you. Perhaps the version of Galaga I'm using was a newer build?

[@CitznFish]

@@MavericksArcade after some research I figured out it was a bug introduced with MAME v.221. I submitted a bug report to the MAME devs.

[@MavericksArcade]

@@CitznFish Good find :-) Sorry, my response was a little fuzzy, I was streaming going through all my back log messages while drinking wine on Twitch LOL

[@Regulator74]

I’m using Pixelcade with your product. I have the LaunchBox front end with Retroarch. So, I don’t have a Mame config folder or do I have a Mame.xml file. Any suggestions? Thanks!!

[@MavericksArcade]

Launchbox should be able to output to that screen, it's just really small images, does this not work.

[@Darkseid001]

having speech cut out after half a sentence even on pause im getting ledblinkey output error output id in settings does not contain any values any ideas what could be wrong it was working now it stopped thanks.

[@MavericksArcade]

Not sure about that, I would update to the latest version and if it continues, touch base with Arzoo. I'm not sure about the error IDs.

[@Darkseid001]

@@MavericksArcade figured it out had push any button to cancel checked off and a sticking button

[@joshuarupp6878]

Can I use LEDBlinky with a Raspberry Pi 4 that uses RetroPie?

[@MavericksArcade]

I do not believe so, I know there is a Linux LED controller and I'm going to be looking into that soon as I venture into the Raspberry setups. Stay tuned!

[@neutech]

Thanks for the vids, is there an upload for adding a non supported emulator yet? Wanting to get this working with Virtual Pinball.

[@MavericksArcade]

Yes, all the emulators will leave a trace in LEDBlinky the same as NES, later in the series I show how to setup non-MAME emulators :-)

[@tommorgan8053]

What troubleshooting steps should I take if no information shows in Mame Output Test - Win 10, set Mame.exe to Admin, Mame.ini Output set Windows, tried setting up a dedicated Mame folder with Galaga Rom. Running Mame 207 and tried MameUI64 as well. Any help is appreciated. Great video series!

[@MavericksArcade]

I will be testing this myself shortly, once I get Launchbox and LED Blinky running again, stay tuned. :-)

[@paulvin2010]

thank you. your videos are the best. !!! so much helpfull. i neeed \\\ more. i wil sub. thank you!

[@MavericksArcade]

no problem! working on editing some more this week!

[@vincefaro4970]

Hi , Why do I have to have .174 or above for MAME? I am running .161 is that a problem?

[@MavericksArcade]

0.174 added some functions for stabilization of IDs and some of the functions that feedback to LED Blinky like lighting the player buttons when coins are inserted on certain games. Definitely want to have at least version 0.174 or higher.

[@chiragjeram]

thank you for this video, will LEDBlinky work with TeknoParrot emulator and other arcade standalone games?

[@MavericksArcade]

Technically LEDBlinky will work with anything. You just need to define it yourself. Mame has more integration than other emulators, but you can map anything you'd like. In the video series I do show how to map to non-Mame emulators including the NES. You would map TeknoParrot similar to the way you do the NES.

[@sgawnmiller3958]

God i really need your help im trying to get my mame games to work with color change...like when you pass a level i want the lights to blink

[@MavericksArcade]

The ability for the lights to blink during certain events will work IF the game was originally programmed to perform events at those times. For example, in games where the start buttons would blink when a coin is inserted would still work because the ROM sends out a light button X type signal when the event occurs. However, you aren't able to just make these events occur if they weren't originally programmed, unless you know how to hack the roms themselves and add this code... which is way beyond my skillset. Otherwise, you would have to code your own solution to detect and respond to those events.

[@antonyhoch]

The later versions of MAME won't play Elevator Action - Disappointing as hell.

[@MavericksArcade]

I'll have to check, I believe it works on mine :-/

[@clintcastle]

My version of LED Blinky does not have launchbox as an option of front ends? Is there a way to add these as I'm trying to use Attract mode as a FE and its not recognizing LED blinkey. Ive got it working in Gameex arcade but that program keeps crashing for no reason so I cant use it.

[@MavericksArcade]

You should be able to just upgrade your version LEDBlinky to the newest version. Check with Kazoo first to see if the settings will migrate easily or not.

[@stevebarlow1969]

@@MavericksArcade Likewise mine doesn't either, have the latest 7.0 version?

[@rellikfolla]

Hey Chuck, Billy again here.. I found a new issue with LEDBlinky where my 1 player control buttons dont light up but second player does.. wanna make another video? lol

[@rellikfolla]

Oh and to be clear, I'm talking about Mame integration. currently working on mame and LEDBlinky.. (not using retroarch for it anymore either)

[@MavericksArcade]

We can do that. Check your email :-)

[@Steve-jo8zm]

any suggestions with ledblinky saying the wrong name and switching my servostik to the wrong position. This only happens on some games an then it gets stuck there on that name .

[@MavericksArcade]

I have not yet encountered this issue. I will watch for it though. Perhaps check and make sure there isn't an extra instance of LEDBlinky running?

[@Steve-jo8zm]

I have a update well sort of. I find that is only does it on clones and not the parent rom. Like it works great with Puckman, but says the wrong name with pacman. I am baffled by this. I wouldn't bother me so much, but well its Pacman. By the way thanks for the reply and love the channel. The tips have helped me out greatly in the pursuit of the ultimate arcade machine.

[@knightrdrx]

Next time software screen bigger less of your head