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Per-game panels and wiring

The My games tab of LedManager Setup customizes one game's panel: its colors, and for arcade its full wiring — which game actions land on which buttons, which lamps light where.

My games view

Picking a game

  1. Select the system (arcade: mame…; consoles: snes, megadrive…).
  2. The template follows your real panel; you can preview the 2/4/6/8-button layouts and a system's special templates.
  3. Type in the search box (game or rom name) and pick from the list.

The panel shows the final colors (pack + your system configuration + your game configuration). Click a button to change its color — saving writes a light patch under overrides\; the Data Pack is never modified.

The wiring bay (arcade)

Below the panel, the wiring bay shows the game like a cabinet:

  • on the left, the game actions (cyan);
  • in the center, the panel: SELECT/START and the buttons, in the game's colors;
  • on the right, the native lamps (MAME), grouped by family — fully unwired families are folded, click the header to open them;
  • at the bottom, the peripherals (joystick with its ways, wheel, pedal…) with one socket per axis.

Key gestures:

  • Drag a socket to a button: the cable snaps. An action can sit on several buttons; a lamp re-homes (including onto START/SELECT).
  • Remove a link: drop again on the wired button, or drop in the void to return to the original setting.
  • Click a chip, a button, a peripheral or START/SELECT to see its ramifications (echoed on the virtual panel, and on the real one during a live test).
  • Double-click a chip: technical details of the channel.
  • Dashed = current setting · solid = your change.

"Save the wiring" stores your configuration; "Update this game" (the Controls card) pushes it into the emulator. The Repair this game button realigns a MAME configuration broken by a version change, by querying your installed MAME — your settings are preserved.

Test my system

In My systems, the "Test my system" button launches the selected system's controller diagnostic rom: press every panel button to verify the wiring end to end. The programs come from the ES-Panels collection (see its credits and origins).