LedBlinky Guidance/Support

[Who_Dunnit_Roger]

Good Morning, I am in the midst of building out my platform for my  machine. Obviously I can play games on FB Neo or MAME. For integration with Ledblinky MAME is obviously better. That being said I am aware that it can be achieved in FB Neo just manually. is this done at a game by game level or can you get LedBlinky performance identical to MAME at a platform level for FB Neo. Has anyone done this? Is there a preference and is the difference in playability significant enough to choose Mame or FB Neo over each other. Thank you

[Fursphere]

The only time I used FBNeo (core, under RetroArch) was for the Netplay features.   (and RetroArch sucks in my opinion for arcade platforms due to its janky button assignment mess)

There is a choice you need to make (in LEDBLinky) - All platforms follow the MAME button config / mapping, or they're all unique.   I don't remember where the check box is off hand.   But this only tells LEDBlinky how to read keycodes vs button assignments.  I personally do not let MAME control everything, and setup each platform how I want.  

Now, open up LEDBlinkyControlsEditor.exe , then on the drop downs - Import - Unknown Games.  This will tell you what PLATFORM and GAME NAME Launchbox is passing to Ledblinky (after you launch the game from LB), and you can setup a button map here (one default per platform, then individual games on that platform if you want to map it individually).  

The Bad - Its a long and tedious process.  
The Good - You only have to do it once as long as you don't change anything. 


 

Edited 3 hours ago by Fursphere

[Fursphere]

I forgot to add - if you have LEDblinky use MAME for all platforms AND you configure FBNeo inputs exactly the same as MAME, you'll have that half of the battle done.  

You'll still need to create individual button maps per game.