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    Is there a later LEDBlinky controls.ini than 2011 ?

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    Seems like nobody has bothered to ever update this once the project was abandoned in 2011.  I just sucked it up and manually added a bunch of games to mine (my MAME/LB bartop has about 300 hand-picked arcade games on it).  Figured I could just do it once and be done with it.  In the end I think I only had to manually add 50 or so... but it's a bummer that there's no real way to automate this.  

    For what it's worth, in case anyone out there stumbles on this thread like I did... here's now I easily got the info to add my own entries:

    Look up the game here, making sure you have the arcade version... this site has a "controls" layout for about 99% of the games out there.  This will let you know basically all of the info you might need to do a manual entry yourself (joystick type, # of players, how many buttons ,and what to name them for voice feedback): https://www.gamesdatabase.org/

     

    9.3-beta-1 Released

    in Beta Testing

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    24 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

    Can you give me a screenshot of what you mean? The background image will blow up to fill the screen while keeping the aspect ratio, so it might be by design. It tends to look bad when you stretch a 16:9 to 4:3.

    Actually, I half figured it out.  It looks it's using the ClearLogo (stretched way out, half of it is off the screen). 

     

    What file(s) does the startup/shutdown function look for as backgrounds?  For whatever reason, it's falling back to using clearlogos for me.
     

    9.3-beta-1 Released

    in Beta Testing

    Posted · Edited by oakleez

    Is this the place to report potential bugs?  Apologies if it's not. 

     

    LOVE that the startup/shutdown screens have been implemented, but I'm having an issue where the background image is over-stretched (half off the screen) on the shutdown screen.  This happens in default mode or using one of the 4 currently available themes.  Is this a known bug? 

    I'm guessing it might have something to do with me using a 1600x1200 resolution.... but that said, the startup screens are flawless.

    Cheers and thanks for all your hard work!

    REQUEST - Show controller mappings before launching game?

    in Features

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    4 hours ago, stigzler said:

    Hi. I'm currently rewriting CPWizBiz which does exactly this on a controls per game basis. It'll also include the ability to show other game related media on other screens (dynamic  marquee etc). It's quite a project to do properly, so gonna take about 6 months. As I don't use launchbox as my FE I'm interested in making links here to ensure compatibility (eg on naming conventions etc). Anyone interested in being the lb rep? 

    That's awesome!  Thanks for all your hard work!  I wish I had the time/knowhow for this... but I'm sure this would spark some interest from the mods and/or Jason.  I personally have a custom bartop I built and have been looking for a good solution (other than LEDBlinky) for showing controls before games launch for both consoles and MAME.  Cheers, and good luck!

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