Hi guys,
First I would like to thank you Jason for your work!
LaunchBox/BigBox are simple, beautiful and useful. That's a really good job!
I'm now using BigBox on my arcade cabinet. But I have two requests for you :)
The first one is about LedBlinky support.
I have a PacLED64 board to handle my LEDs (www.ultimarc.com/pacled64.html). It's working with LedBlinky.
It's quite easy to add LedBlinky.
Ideally we need to choose in LaunchBox the path to LedBlinky.exe
Then, when LaunchBox starts, you need to execute "LEDBlinky.exe 1".
When LaunchBox stops: "LEDBlinky.exe 2".
When a game starts: "LEDBlinky.exe ".
When a game quits: "LEDBlinky.exe 4".
All commands are at the end of this document: http://www.ledblinky.net/Install.htm
I didn't lied when I told that it's easy :p
The second request is about UltraStik 360 support (http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_info.html).
It's an analog joystick. But for some games, it's good to change its configuration to just handle 4 or 8 ways, else it's really difficult to play :(
The good news is that it's as simple as to add LedBlinky support :)
We have to first set the path to "ultramap.exe" in main configuration and set a default configuration file.
When LaunchBox starts, it will call "ultramap.exe .ugc"
Then for every emulators and every games, we could set a file map that LaunchBox will call when the emulator is start: "ultramap.exe .ugc".
You have some examples at the end of this page ("Running from the Command Line"): http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_prog.html
As an example, for Mame, I will launch by default "ultramap.exe 8ways.ugc".
But for PacMan on Mame, I want to launch "ultramap.exe 4ways.ugc".
And for some games I will launch a special configuration ""ultramap.exe .ugc".
So this is important to let the ability to choose the config file name for every emulators / games.
I hope you will add those features.
It would be awesome, especially as my arcade cabinet is not fully working without these 2 features.
If you need some more informations or a alpha/beta tester, I'm your guy :)
Thank you sooooo much :)
Adrien