Ledwiz / LED Plugin Question

[GotMame]

I have just completed my fourth cabinet for a friend and for this one I installed two ledwiz to control 21 buttons and a trackball. I have the ledwiz's configured through the led plugin included in Gamex. It works beautifully. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to make these systems.

Now, my question is this:

I have configured five of the buttons (esc, pause, coin, p1 and p2) to stay lit all the time along with being a certain color. It works fine until I start a mame game and then those buttons turn white. Do I have a setting configured wrong in the LED Plugin that is causing those buttons to turn white instead of staying at the set color?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

I will be posting pics in about two weeks of the completed cab.

[Brian Hoffman]

  GotMame said:

I have just completed my fourth cabinet for a friend and for this one I installed two ledwiz to control 21 buttons and a trackball. I have the ledwiz's configured through the led plugin included in Gamex. It works beautifully. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to make these systems.

Now, my question is this:

I have configured five of the buttons (esc, pause, coin, p1 and p2) to stay lit all the time along with being a certain color. It works fine until I start a mame game and then those buttons turn white. Do I have a setting configured wrong in the LED Plugin that is causing those buttons to turn white instead of staying at the set color?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

I will be posting pics in about two weeks of the completed cab.

Actually, I though it was supposed to read the controls.dat or something to lightup the buttons that the game uses.. EG.. fire and jump buttons.

I could be mistaken though. I do not have that hardware to test.

Have you used HK's CPWizard?

[GotMame]

The buttons that each game uses light up correctly. It is just the buttons that I have set for esc, pause, coin, p1 and p2 that are turning white instead of staying the fixed colors that I have them set too.

Example: esc is set to red, pause is yellow, coin is green.

[GotMame]

I see what the issue is now... I am scrolling through the game list in the LCD Plugin and it looks like you have to set the color of the buttons for each game?

I am hoping there is an easier way to keep those buttons the color that I set in the default setting.

Thanks.

[bkenobi]

Isn't the color data stored in colors.dat, not controls.dat? I don't use LED's, so I'm just going from memory. There's an LEDWizard thread here that has TONS of info that will certainly be useful.

[GotMame]

Yes, the colors are in colors.ini. And that should override any of my default color settings. I would expect that behavior.... but looking in the colors.ini file, it only sets the coin, p1, p2 and whatever controls it is using.

My Exit (esc), Pause buttons are being set to white when I start a game. The coin, p1 and p2 are being set to white also. Now most games in the colors.ini file set the coin and p1, p2 to white, so I really don't have an issue with that, but I would like the esc, pause buttons to stay the set colors I chose.

I setup the Daphne and Pinball profiles in the default setting and it works throughout all those games. Just not in the Mame profile.

Obviously, I think I have something set wrong.

Also, how do you get the leds to dance to music? Should it just automatically work when music is played?

[GotMame]

I am bumping this up as I am hoping Headkaze can shed some "light" on this issue.

This issue is different than the previous thread located at:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...p;hl=led+plugin

My issue is that the Esc/Pause buttons light up white instead of Red and Yellow after launching a game.

I have them set to Red and Yellow in the GameEx and Mame defaults.

And I read somewhere, and can no longer find it, that this plugin had the ability to make the lights dance to music. I can't find a setting for that in the plugin, though.

Thanks!