One Last LCD Led-Wiz plugin question

[DJ Infinity]

Headkaze,

I am having problems lighting specific NeoGeo configuration buttons. (I.E. the bottom row on my slikstik) only things that will light up are the p1 & p2 coins and player 1 button 5 the rest of the panel does not light up. Here is what I have in the colors.ini

[samsho]

P1_COIN=Cyan

P1_START=White

P1_BUTTON7=Blue

P1_BUTTON4=Blue

P1_BUTTON5=Cyan

P1_BUTTON6=Blue

P1_JOYSTICK=Black

P2_COIN=Cyan

P2_START=White

P2_BUTTON7=Blue

P2_BUTTON4=Blue

P2_BUTTON5=Cyan

P2_BUTTON6=Blue

P2_JOYSTICK=Black

I got to thinking when I made this post should it be this instead? I am at work now and can't test this till later. Thank you

[samsho]

P1_COIN=Cyan

P1_START=White

P1_BUTTON1=Black

P1_BUTTON2=Black

P1_BUTTON3=Black

P1_BUTTON7=Blue

P1_BUTTON4=Blue

P1_BUTTON5=Cyan

P1_BUTTON6=Blue

P1_JOYSTICK=Black

P2_COIN=Cyan

P2_START=White

P2_BUTTON1=Black

P2_BUTTON2=Black

P2_BUTTON3=Black

P2_BUTTON7=Blue

P2_BUTTON4=Blue

P2_BUTTON5=Cyan

P2_BUTTON6=Blue

P2_JOYSTICK=Black

[headkaze]

Colors.ini isn't really supposed to be modified. Do you have your buttons configured differently in Mame for Neo Geo games? If you do, then in the LEDWiz configuration associate your buttons to keys in the LED Options.

For example I have my P1 controls set to the following:

P1_BUTTON1 -> KEYCODE_LCONTROL

P1_BUTTON2 -> KEYCODE_LALT

P1_BUTTON3 -> KEYCODE_SPACE

P1_BUTTON4 -> KEYCODE_LSHIFT

P1_BUTTON5 -> KEYCODE_Z

P1_BUTTON6 -> KEYCODE_X

P1_BUTTON7 -> KEYCODE_C

Now in Mame, I have cfg files setup for all NeoGeo games that remap buttons like so

P1_BUTTON1 -> KEYCODE_C

P1_BUTTON2 -> KEYCODE_LSHIFT

P1_BUTTON3 -> KEYCODE_Z

P1_BUTTON4 -> KEYCODE_X

As long as you have your keys setup in the LEDWiz configuration, the plugin will automatically remap the colors to the correct buttons for games you have cfg files for. Your not really meant to edit colors.ini because this is supposed to be all automated for you.

Let me know how you go.

[DJ Infinity]

Colors.ini isn't really supposed to be modified. Do you have your buttons configured differently in Mame for Neo Geo games? If you do, then in the LEDWiz configuration associate your buttons to keys in the LED Options.

For example I have my P1 controls set to the following:

P1_BUTTON1 -> KEYCODE_LCONTROL

P1_BUTTON2 -> KEYCODE_LALT

P1_BUTTON3 -> KEYCODE_SPACE

P1_BUTTON4 -> KEYCODE_LSHIFT

P1_BUTTON5 -> KEYCODE_Z

P1_BUTTON6 -> KEYCODE_X

P1_BUTTON7 -> KEYCODE_C

Now in Mame, I have cfg files setup for all NeoGeo games that remap buttons like so

P1_BUTTON1 -> KEYCODE_C

P1_BUTTON2 -> KEYCODE_LSHIFT

P1_BUTTON3 -> KEYCODE_Z

P1_BUTTON4 -> KEYCODE_X

As long as you have your keys setup in the LEDWiz configuration, the plugin will automatically remap the colors to the correct buttons for games you have cfg files for. Your not really meant to edit colors.ini because this is supposed to be all automated for you.

Let me know how you go.

Hehe,

editing colors.ini works in some cases (I.E. I have speedup cheats on my pacman games so I have one button lit up) Hmm I am also gonna have to do some digging because it used to work. so I need to edit the .cfg in Mame for each game is what you are telling me? I have all buttons mapped correctly for the led-wiz plugin. I'll tinker with settings til I get it right. On another note you accepting donations for further plugin development? If others want to see further plugin development I'll get the ball rolling with $40.00 USD. Thanx for the help

[headkaze]

If you want to change colors.ini manually you will probably need to change controls.ini to match it.

[DJ Infinity]

If you want to change colors.ini manually you will probably need to change controls.ini to match it.

Ugh,

I give up I ended up unistalling everything and reinstalling. By the time I got through nothing lighted correctly. So I am gonna implent changes one step at a time and see what happens.

[headkaze]

The LCD Plugin on the forum is the latest version, so you could have just downloaded that and overwritten your old ones rather than re-install. Oh well nevermind.

If you have futher problems, posting your LCD.ini file might help me understand the problem.

[DJ Infinity]

The LCD Plugin on the forum is the latest version, so you could have just downloaded that and overwritten your old ones rather than re-install. Oh well nevermind.

If you have futher problems, posting your LCD.ini file might help me understand the problem.

Thank you I will do that! after I get everything setup again. We'll see what happens.

[DJ Infinity]

Thank you I will do that! after I get everything setup again. We'll see what happens.

Ok,

I am still having problems with the in game lighting. Especially for neogeo. Here are my ini file(s).

DJ_Infinity_Ini_Filez.zip

[DJ Infinity]

I posted my ini files. I went back and enabled always stay lit for all of the buttons etc but as soon as I go into Mame it doesn't work. Buttons light randomly and change color. how do I get it to light up and stay lit and don't change colors? (This is how the panel does when Daphne is ran)

[headkaze]

If you have your keys mapped in Mame for NeoGeo games, the plugin should remap the colors to the new buttons. I have my bottom row of buttons assigned differently in Mame for NeoGeo games and they light up okay for me.

Not sure I understand the issue your getting where buttons light randomly and change color. Noone else has reported these kind of problems to me. You could try turning of MameInterop/Audio Attract and Demo Attract.

I noticed on BYOAC your trying out Mala. If you need to map your buttons to different controls you will need Mala's LEDBlinky plugin not the other LEDWiz plugin. Arzoo should be able to help you set it up.

[DJ Infinity]

If you have your keys mapped in Mame for NeoGeo games, the plugin should remap the colors to the new buttons. I have my bottom row of buttons assigned differently in Mame for NeoGeo games and they light up okay for me.

Not sure I understand the issue your getting where buttons light randomly and change color. Noone else has reported these kind of problems to me. You could try turning of MameInterop/Audio Attract and Demo Attract.

I noticed on BYOAC your trying out Mala. If you need to map your buttons to different controls you will need Mala's LEDBlinky plugin not the other LEDWiz plugin. Arzoo should be able to help you set it up.

Ok Thanx the buttons are mapped in Mame accordingly. I think what I am gonna do is reformat the machine and reload everything. This is the only mamecab I am having such problems with (out of 3) & I think it's maybe because the computer had 2 different game ex installs on it the first was D:\Program Files\GameEx & the other one was C:\Program Files\GameEx. I probably won't get to that till tomorrow or Sunday. Once I get all this done I will post the results this problem has to be with the computer itself. I would much rather use Game Ex than Mala. Mala has lil' or no documentation. Game Ex also does everything I need for it to do in a easy to understand manner. I figured out how to change button lighting for my Vanguard buttons on my vertical cab so I am convinced that the problem is the computer. Here is a pic of the panel with Game Ex launching Daphne. If push comes to shove I would rather just light the whole panel up like the encolsed pic. Thanx for all your help it was much appreciated.

[DJ Infinity]

I noticed on BYOAC your trying out Mala. If you need to map your buttons to different controls you will need Mala's LEDBlinky plugin not the other LEDWiz plugin. Arzoo should be able to help you set it up.

Just for the record you don't have to have the LED Blinky plugin to pull that off in Mala, the one I was using works (after the howto was explained to me) thank you for all the help. I will be keeping an eye out for further development of your plugin in the future In the plugin I was using it's just a matter of setting up .cfg files for each and every game you want special lighting for. I opened up the mame source to get the rom names for neogeo and am slowly adding each rom to a seperate .cfg file after neogeo is finished I will proceed to the other games I like create a custom list then I am done. (shouldn't take more than a month )