Pixelcade Marquee Sceensaver

[zoopcrewkid]

Hi,

In the recent build of GameEx Arcade edition there seems to be a bug with the Pixelcade software/LEDBlinky. Prior to updating to the latest build whenever athe MAME screen saver would play in GameEx. The Pixelcade marquee would display the title of the game and high score if available. Now it just plays an animation. I reached out to Pixelcade support and nothing has changed on their end. I checked with LED Blinky support and did a debug and looks like GameEx is not sending the correct parameters. I have attached my config, log, and LEDBlinky debug.

 

Thank you.

GameEx.ini log.txt Debug.zip

[Tom Speirs]

Hi,

What is it supposed to be sending that it isnt? I see screensaver start etc.

[zoopcrewkid]

When the screen saver starts it suppose to show an image of the marquee. If I select a MAME game and play it the marquee shows, but it seems to no longer work with the scree saver. The attached photo shows what is displayed when the screen saver starts a random game.

[Tom Speirs]

Ill take a look and see if I broke something.

Cheers.

Tom.

[zoopcrewkid]

Thank you

[Tom Speirs]

I couldnt see anything wrong but fixed another issue that might be related. Id need to know what commands its not sending and is supposed to be sending to do more.

[zoopcrewkid]

I'm still getting the same result. I did some test and looks like it's suppose to be sending the following. I selected the game 005 and it launched and the correct Marquee displayed. I exited out and let the screen saver run. It looks like it's not sending and event-queue [07/06/2021 22:14:09] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~005]. When I scroll through the games list it switches the marquess as you can see the attached debug log.

 

[07/06/2021 22:14:07] Event Completed: LIST_SELECTED
[07/06/2021 22:14:09] Received Event - Queue:[1] Msg:[9~005].
[07/06/2021 22:14:09] Event Started: GAME_SELECTED [005] [] []
[07/06/2021 22:14:09] Pixelcade FEScroll Command: /arcade/stream/MAME/005?l=0&event=FEScroll

 

Debug.log

[Tom Speirs]

It actually looks like LedBlinky isnt picking up game start but I can see nothing wrong. Game select is not sent from the screenaver but game start is.

You say it is only GameEx that has changed and it used to work so it is on me but I really cant see anything, sorry, orther than game run/start isnt being sent to LedBlinky but I can see the code in GameEx is still there.

You say the wrong commands are sent but can provide no useful detail. Not sure what I can do right now. Sorry.

[Tom Speirs]

PS: I have no problem talking to the developer if he wants to reach out. Ill fix it if I can.

[arzoo]

There's a bug in the LEDBlinky GameEx plugin causing this issue. I'll get a patch ready asap.

[Tom Speirs]

On 1/13/2022 at 9:06 AM, arzoo said:

There's a bug in the LEDBlinky GameEx plugin causing this issue. I'll get a patch ready asap.

Thank you Arzoo. Hope you are doing well.