Is this still the best method in 2019? I noticed the latest build of LEDBlinky includes a colors.ini file that has presets for the majority of MAME games. My question is will the colors.ini file conflict with LEDBlinkyControls.xml? Wasn't sure if there is a newer approach to easily adding colors to every emulator and rom.
LEDBlinky has included the colors.ini for years. This expands that to cover tons more MAME games, not to mention all the other systems. To answer your question, yes, this is still the only tool of its kind, gets you up and running faster, and on tons of systems that you'd have to manually configure, per game, in a few minutes
@@osak00006 Awesome! Can't wait to try test this out. I have a 4 player cabinet I am working on for a friend. Not sure if this was designed with only 2 players in mind, but this will be a great start either way. Thanks!
www.ledblinky.net My program is supplemental and you should already be familiar with the software / hardware, before trying to use my software. LEDBlinky is software, Ultimarc and GroovyGameGear both offer compatible hardware. My tool shortens the time required to map individual systems/games
I’ve set up LED blinky.. what advantages does this add on do.. just simplify it? Also I think you should set active control demos when in your list (see active buttons on the game or system you select before launching it)
drewjbx RocketBlinky is a quick-start tool that generates a replacement LEDBlinkyControls.xml, customized to your unique cabinet, containing per game/system mappings for nearly all systems out there. In a nutshell, it saves you hundreds of hours
Been checking out the xml... lot of work has been put into this. Are you still adding mame titles? thanks for sharing. Had a couple of questions, you have quite a few mame titles ending in '2play', do those titles already exist in colors/control ini's?what is the purpose of the renamed roms?
I see, hope you don't mind the questions, have 3 questions..I have startup script with a LEDblinky executable entry. But it wont start properly unless enabled in HyperHQ, did I miss something? Also in MAME when having game highlighted game controls wont light up, after launching game they do of course but when exiting all game controls light up when highlighted. And lastly in RLUI is there a difference in enabling LEDblinky with the MAME entry in global vs individual systems?
Hi Acey, I'm running Windows 7. For Windows 7, you'll need to install a different TTS voice. The only compatible voices that I've found, and I've searched a bunch, are the TTS voices from Ivona. They're not free, but once installed, it's as easy as selecting the newly installed TTS voice from within the LEDBlinkyConfig GUI. After installing the voice in Windows and selecting it from within the LEDBlinkyConfig, you'll need to restart LEDBlinky before the voice will be used.
I'm also running Windows 7. I haven't been able to find any that seem to work on my 64bit system. I'll search Ivona now and see how I go with it tomorrow, Thanks.
Hey Owen, I recently set up Ledblinky and Rocketblinky and just wow:)! I ran into a few glitches using Hyperspin but luckily found a post by newoski who recommended using Rocket launcher instead. This has worked so much better. When starting Hyperspin my buttons are no longer lit. Is there a way to set ledblinkyconfig.exe to light buttons on Hyperspin startup? I saw Rocketlauncher/Ledblinky/Wiki had something about setting a profile for "rocketlauncher" Thanks, Marty.
Just had to set FE option to other and followed your instructions for Rocketlauncher. In your above video it seems your using hyperspin. How are your buttons lit when in Hyperspin? Mine are unlit until Rocketlauncher submits a game. I understand when entering a game, Rocketlauncher sends CDI's and takes control over. How are your buttons lit before Rocketlauncher takes over? Tremendous work! I don't think people quite understand what you've accomplished. Marty
I'm traveling, so can't look at my cabinet at the moment, but it requires creating a Frontend profile, I believe. There is a tab in LEDBlinky for that, I believe. Shoot me a via HAS forum or RL and I'll be happy to login and get you squared away
Owen, You're awesome!!! Let me see if I can figure out how to set up the LedBlinky frontend profile first. If I can't, Then I will accept your offer and hopefully not interrupt your vacation:). When you get a chance, Is this Ledblinky profile that is needed a "Hyperspin" or "Rocketlauncher" profile? Please enjoy your vacation and respond to this afterwards. Love your work. Thanks so much. Marty.
Yes, that is what I mean - disable the start/coin part of the process (as this is the same for each game and doesn't need to be spoken out each time). Is it not possible to disable this for all games?
hi how do I delete a mistake in the app that generates the file. I've chosen an option for player 1 button 7 but I don't have a button 7 and can't remove my selection...
My program just creates/customizes an XML for LEDBlinky bases on your unique control panel. LEDBlinky works with any FE that can send it the correct command line arguments, but I don't know whether Coin Ops has been programmed to do so or not
@@osak00006 any idea why this program won't run I get the application was unable to start correctly 0xc000007b error. This is a new install and I just downloaded and configured LEDBlinky. Your program came with it of course.
@@GCS2000 are you getting the error w RocketBlinky or LEDBlinky? Not sure about either, but I believe LEDBlinky will throw an error like that when there is no LED board (like a PACLED64 etc) plugged in
@@osak00006 ledblinky is working fine np. Rocketblinky will not run. Initially it gave me the msvcr100 dll error so reinstalled .net framework and Visual Basic based on my searching and now it gives the above error.
wasn't sure whether to contact you here or on the HS forum, i am sure this program has saved me several hours of programming. the issue i am having is every system is working except MAME. lets say for example the game 1942 it will say the "player 1 start" and lights the player 1 start button, player 1 coin and light about 5 or 6 different buttons and it does the same thing for the other buttons that go with the game. also instead of saying "primary control 4 way joystick" it actually says up, down, left, right. any suggestions?
I'd need to login and take a look. Shoot me a PM on HS forums with your TeamViewer info and I'll try to help. Sounds like your LEDBlinky config/settings are wrong
whats your user name on the HS forum? i played around with it a bit and maybe i got an old version of RocketBlinky? most of my mame games are not in there and i cannot get my Select Game Exit Game or Pause buttons to stay lit, Pause which is setup in RL isn't lighting at all?
My bartop setup is an Ultimarc MiniPac, Ultimarc PacLED64 + Ultimarc ClassicRGB lights, my buttons are GroovyGameGear CLASSX in White. I basically frankensteined the buttons together, which is to say, Ultimarc LEDs inside the GroovyGameGear buttons.
I used this to setup a Launch Box/Big Box arcade and it works great with it. Big thanks for this!
Is this still the best method in 2019? I noticed the latest build of LEDBlinky includes a colors.ini file that has presets for the majority of MAME games. My question is will the colors.ini file conflict with LEDBlinkyControls.xml? Wasn't sure if there is a newer approach to easily adding colors to every emulator and rom.
LEDBlinky has included the colors.ini for years. This expands that to cover tons more MAME games, not to mention all the other systems. To answer your question, yes, this is still the only tool of its kind, gets you up and running faster, and on tons of systems that you'd have to manually configure, per game, in a few minutes
@@osak00006 Awesome! Can't wait to try test this out. I have a 4 player cabinet I am working on for a friend. Not sure if this was designed with only 2 players in mind, but this will be a great start either way. Thanks!
@@Hymanator Flexible. Will work for your setup
Nice, but what is LEDblinky? I see LED's blink. Is it software/hardware. What kind of LEDs do you need. Doesn't really show it tbh. Ty
www.ledblinky.net
My program is supplemental and you should already be familiar with the software / hardware, before trying to use my software.
LEDBlinky is software, Ultimarc and GroovyGameGear both offer compatible hardware.
My tool shortens the time required to map individual systems/games
Does this work with RetroPie? If so, can you direct me to instructions on how to set it up and make it work? Thank you!
RocketBlinky is a tool for setting up LEDBlinky and LEDBlinky is a Windows program. If LEDBlinky ever expanded to other OS, then perhaps
Owen Sakovics welp guess that explains why I can't find anything on "retropie ledblinky"
I’ve set up LED blinky.. what advantages does this add on do.. just simplify it?
Also I think you should set active control demos when in your list (see active buttons on the game or system you select before launching it)
drewjbx RocketBlinky is a quick-start tool that generates a replacement LEDBlinkyControls.xml, customized to your unique cabinet, containing per game/system mappings for nearly all systems out there. In a nutshell, it saves you hundreds of hours
Been checking out the xml... lot of work has been put into this. Are you still adding mame titles? thanks for sharing. Had a couple of questions, you have quite a few mame titles ending in '2play', do those titles already exist in colors/control ini's?what is the purpose of the renamed roms?
drewjbx 2play are leftovers from my own customization. No harm, but no benefit
Yes, still adding when I find data for additional titles
I see, hope you don't mind the questions, have 3 questions..I have startup script with a LEDblinky executable entry. But it wont start properly unless enabled in HyperHQ, did I miss something? Also in MAME when having game highlighted game controls wont light up, after launching game they do of course but when exiting all game controls light up when highlighted. And lastly in RLUI is there a difference in enabling LEDblinky with the MAME entry in global vs individual systems?
How were you able to change the voice in LEDBlinky?
Hi Acey,
I'm running Windows 7. For Windows 7, you'll need to install a different TTS voice. The only compatible voices that I've found, and I've searched a bunch, are the TTS voices from Ivona. They're not free, but once installed, it's as easy as selecting the newly installed TTS voice from within the LEDBlinkyConfig GUI. After installing the voice in Windows and selecting it from within the LEDBlinkyConfig, you'll need to restart LEDBlinky before the voice will be used.
I'm also running Windows 7.
I haven't been able to find any that seem to work on my 64bit system.
I'll search Ivona now and see how I go with it tomorrow,
Thanks.
I'm on Windows 7 64 Bit. The Ivona work. I have no affiliation with them, they're just the only ones I've found that work, and I've tested a bunch.
Hey Owen, I recently set up Ledblinky and Rocketblinky and just wow:)! I ran into a few glitches using Hyperspin but luckily found a post by newoski who recommended using Rocket launcher instead. This has worked so much better. When starting Hyperspin my buttons are no longer lit. Is there a way to set ledblinkyconfig.exe to light buttons on Hyperspin startup? I saw Rocketlauncher/Ledblinky/Wiki had something about setting a profile for "rocketlauncher" Thanks, Marty.
Marty Fenwick glad you're enjoying it! (I'm newoski, so glad to hear the comment was helpful!)
Just had to set FE option to other and followed your instructions for Rocketlauncher. In your above video it seems your using hyperspin. How are your buttons lit when in Hyperspin? Mine are unlit until Rocketlauncher submits a game. I understand when entering a game, Rocketlauncher sends CDI's and takes control over. How are your buttons lit before Rocketlauncher takes over? Tremendous work! I don't think people quite understand what you've accomplished. Marty
I'm traveling, so can't look at my cabinet at the moment, but it requires creating a Frontend profile, I believe. There is a tab in LEDBlinky for that, I believe. Shoot me a via HAS forum or RL and I'll be happy to login and get you squared away
Owen, You're awesome!!! Let me see if I can figure out how to set up the LedBlinky frontend profile first. If I can't, Then I will accept your offer and hopefully not interrupt your vacation:). When you get a chance, Is this Ledblinky profile that is needed a "Hyperspin" or "Rocketlauncher" profile? Please enjoy your vacation and respond to this afterwards. Love your work. Thanks so much. Marty.
Marty Fenwick from memory, the RocketLauncher profile is for RL Pause. The Frontend one is fir HS
What is the name of the fronted you are using?
HyperSpin
Can you get it to leave it the “start game” and “insert coin” speech each time, as saying these doesn’t seem necessary.
frabulop not sure I understand your question. You can disable speaking Start/Coin via LEDBlinky settings, to some extent, but some are in the XML.
Yes, that is what I mean - disable the start/coin part of the process (as this is the same for each game and doesn't need to be spoken out each time). Is it not possible to disable this for all games?
Somewhat, per previous reply
hi how do I delete a mistake in the app that generates the file. I've chosen an option for player 1 button 7 but I don't have a button 7 and can't remove my selection...
Rich Jones you mean in the ini? just edit the ini or delete it and start from scratch
No I mean when you run rocketblinky.exe there's a selection I've made for button 7 I can't remove...
Rich Jones edit the ini. that's where is is saved
OK, just pointing out that there's no blank option in the drop down menus for buttons to remove entries...
Thanks I'll take a look at the file..
Does this program work with Coinops front end and where can I get rocketblinky and a guide for it please. Thx
My program just creates/customizes an XML for LEDBlinky bases on your unique control panel. LEDBlinky works with any FE that can send it the correct command line arguments, but I don't know whether Coin Ops has been programmed to do so or not
@@osak00006 thank you. Where can I find your program and is there a guide to using it somewhere
@@osak00006 any idea why this program won't run I get the application was unable to start correctly 0xc000007b error. This is a new install and I just downloaded and configured LEDBlinky. Your program came with it of course.
@@GCS2000 are you getting the error w RocketBlinky or LEDBlinky? Not sure about either, but I believe LEDBlinky will throw an error like that when there is no LED board (like a PACLED64 etc) plugged in
@@osak00006 ledblinky is working fine np. Rocketblinky will not run. Initially it gave me the msvcr100 dll error so reinstalled .net framework and Visual Basic based on my searching and now it gives the above error.
wasn't sure whether to contact you here or on the HS forum, i am sure this program has saved me several hours of programming. the issue i am having is every system is working except MAME. lets say for example the game 1942 it will say the "player 1 start" and lights the player 1 start button, player 1 coin and light about 5 or 6 different buttons and it does the same thing for the other buttons that go with the game. also instead of saying "primary control 4 way joystick" it actually says up, down, left, right. any suggestions?
I'd need to login and take a look. Shoot me a PM on HS forums with your TeamViewer info and I'll try to help. Sounds like your LEDBlinky config/settings are wrong
whats your user name on the HS forum? i played around with it a bit and maybe i got an old version of RocketBlinky? most of my mame games are not in there and i cannot get my Select Game Exit Game or Pause buttons to stay lit, Pause which is setup in RL isn't lighting at all?
@@Speedracer50 newoski
What the hardware your using for your buttons to light up?
My bartop setup is an Ultimarc MiniPac, Ultimarc PacLED64 + Ultimarc ClassicRGB lights, my buttons are GroovyGameGear CLASSX in White. I basically frankensteined the buttons together, which is to say, Ultimarc LEDs inside the GroovyGameGear buttons.
Owen Sakovics sound a lot to wire up.
I have 2 player cab and wanted to upgrade
Just didn’t know what’s best to get.
I found Ultimarc's hardware to be infinitely easier to work with, but I prefer the feel of GroovyGameGear's buttons