LEDblinky and LB Playlist problem

[Mr.Miguardi]

Hi,
I'm migrating all my emulator to BigBox and i've found an issue trying to setting up LedBlinky with some MAME Playlist.

I've imported a MAME full set and then start creating some extra playlist like Model 1/2/3, Sega Naomi, and autopopulating the list based on the .cpp mame driver (Sega naomi list containing only games from the naomi.cpp, etc...)
Launchbox can successfully launch all my games on the playlist with the selected Emulator but LB is still searching for LED layout always in the "MAME" system of LEDBlinky, so all my game layout under "Sega model 2" are basically ignored.
LEDBlinky is working good with all the other "non-playlist" system console

Is there a way to bypass and send a different LEDBlinky system/playlist name like it was in Rocketlauncher? Using RL for the playlist can be an option but for now i want to try fix this issue.
It will be agreat idea to add this feature or maybe creating a custom plugin that do this magic.

Edited November 10, 2022 by Mr.Miguardi

[C-Beats]

I don't think there is currently a way to tell LED Blinky to look in a playlist name for the game instead of the platform list. You'd need to change the platform on those games to "Sega Model 2" (make sure to also add the platform to MAME's associated platforms via Manage Emulators) to get it to perform the way you are wanting it to. Or migrate your Sega Model 2 LEDBlinky data to the MAME list (though I admit I don't use LEDBlinky and so don't know how daunting that task is)

[Mr.Miguardi]

The problem is that Sega Model 2 is a Playlist auto-generated in the "Arcade" section and LB keep searching all the game Layout in the MAME tab of LEDBLinky.
So for the moment i need to create a true platform called "Sega Model 2" instead of a playlist, moving all the game layout to MAME section of LEDblinky it would be a big mess since i need to move one at time...

I don't want to redownload all the media file for that platform (all the file are already downloaded and aivable in the "Arcade" platform) so I've remembered having created some custom .bat file some years ago (link) for a better MAME system import.
now my plan is to use my "MAME Dummy rom maker" to import some fake rom in a new "Sega model 2" platform with no scraping but only creating the metadata, and then pointing ROM and media folder to the "old" arcade media folder.

I think this should work.

Anyway it would be a great addiction a feature to pass a custom system name to LEDBlinky, very useful for all this MAME playlist that don't use MAME emulator at the moment

[C-Beats]

You should able to bulk edit change the platform on all the games in the platform. When doing so the wizard will ask if you want it to move media for you. Just tell it yes.