Quoted from Vengeance

What did you have to do to have the buttons light up like that?  Is that something the software handles or did you have to do something special to get it to recognize which buttons to light up?

Mala frontend for mame handles it if you've got the LEDs plugged into this bad boy:

http://www.ultimarc.com/pacdrive.html

The pacdrive plugs into a USB port, then you wire each light to the pac drive and tell mala "this is button 1,"  "this is the credit button" etc... and it lights up whichever buttons you need automatically.  I'm guessing either mame or mala auto-detects which buttons are used per game and just lights those.  

Can't recommend the LED buttons enough.   Aside from looks they actually serve a useful purpose to tell players which buttons they need.  

Another cool thing is Ultimarc also has joysticks you can switch from 4-way to 8-way without digging under the control panel.  This is another super useful thing! You just pull the stick upwards and turn to the left or right and it switches.  

http://www.ultimarc.com/controls.html  (Mag-stick plus)

Dan

Sweet looking MAME

Quoted from dancadera

Another cool thing is Ultimarc also has joysticks you can switch from 4-way to 8-way without digging under the control panel.  This is another super useful thing! You just pull the stick upwards and turn to the left or right and it switches.  

http://www.ultimarc.com/controls.html  (Mag-stick plus)

Yea I plan on picking up those soon, I've got 4 x 8 way joysticks and 2 x 4 way joysticks on my CP.  I plan to replace the 2 of the 8 ways with the 4/8 way joystick, remove my 2 8 way joysticks and put in a tron handle and spinner.  

Maybe I'll grab the lighted buttons at the same time, but I like Hyperspin as my front end, I wonder if it supports the lighted buttons.  

I think there's an LED plugin for hyperspin.  (LEDWiz)

Nice mamecab !!!  

Very Slick. I agree with Grauwolf, a very "clean" cabinet. Slick with nice lines.