RGB LEDs installed in everything, LEDBlinky controlling everything and will light lights based on game.

TMNT running, only the buttons used in the game are lighted... FUCKING AWESOME

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9889/ledblinky.jpg

Will try once I get to the point of adding in all the emulators, probably need a better computer to run it. Mine has been barely getting by lately.

Nice work!!

Suhwheet!

Nice man.

How does it know which lights to light?

LEDBlinky Software outputs to the controller board based on a file that has all the rom information on it. It's a massive document. I have had to play with it a little to readjust the joystick intensity, because they are a lot brighter than the buttons without being turned down.

Thankfully someone wrote a file that has all the MAME roms on it. I just have to find replace what I want. This is what the TMNT part of it looks like, you can see how I had to make the joystick colors =JColor. I was able to just do a find and replace on all joystick= to joystick=J to fix the entire file for the joystick intensity.

[tmnt]
P1_COIN=Blue
P1_BUTTON1=Blue
P1_BUTTON2=Blue
P1_JOYSTICK=JBlue
P2_COIN=Orange
P2_BUTTON1=Orange
P2_BUTTON2=Orange
P2_JOYSTICK=JOrange
P3_COIN=Violet
P3_BUTTON1=Violet
P3_BUTTON2=Violet
P3_JOYSTICK=JPurple
P4_COIN=Red
P4_BUTTON1=Red
P4_BUTTON2=Red
P4_JOYSTICK=JRed

Whoa... back down some of that nerdy talk...

How bright are the buttons in the dark? Can you dim them?

The way I have them set up right now, its not ungodly bright, but not dim either. This is as bright as the buttons get. The joysticks get omg thats too bright, but I have them set on the low end of their dimming.

Yeah I can change the intensities to make them dimmer.

I want to play. :(

Damn, I'm a bit jealous.
Seeing this reminds me of how dumb I was for selling my Suzuka 8HRS arcade game. That thing was fun as hell.