New Artwork Updater – Use this to update artwork on demand Support for the latest CoinOps versions including high scores Front end arcade wizard remembers prior installation paths Cycle mode can be enabled by LEDBlinky config that will cycle scrolling text / high scores and game marquees during game launches Updated artwork – mame and consoles (big thanks to James T) LCD – Console mappings now controlled by console.csv file on arcade PC
4.3.0
11/25/21
Support for the Core arcade front end
Updated LED artwork
Atari 2600
Visual Pinball
Dreamcast
4.2.0
10/12/21
Updated LED artwork: mame and consoles
Some console renames for Big Box
Pixelcade Exit utility changed to native vs. curl with pop up
Updated Pixelcade LCD config, reboot, shutdown, and test utilities. If Pixelcade LCD is not detected by host name, the utilities will also work now by IP address.
Added an updater (Check for Updates) to Pixelcade LCD
Huge thanks to JamesT who created some awesome pixel perfect LED artwork
Added error handling and LCD paring shortcut to Pixelcade LCD configuration app – Windows.
Added cancel button to the arcade front end wizard utility allowing the user to quit the utility if the arcade front end was already configured.
3.6.6
8/15/21
Added cycle mode API that will toggle between scrolling text and a PNG or GIF. The use case would be to toggle between high score scrolling text and a PNG or GIF. See cycle mode on https://pixelcade.org/api
No longer sending black frames to LCD (black frames come from LEDBlinky)
The LCD pairing utility will also write the IP address of the discovered Pixelcade LCD, also changed to show a pairing JPG vs. scrolling text which reduces the delay and is much more user friendly without the delay.
Added a LCD check to the Pixelcade Listener at startup, it will first look for an LCD by host name (mDNS) and if not there, will look by IP address and then if not found run a scan and see if a matching pixelcadedx-xxxxxxx-x is there.
3.6.3
7/26/21
Added enhancements to the Pixelcade LCD pairing utility
The LED + LCD installer will launch the Pixelcade LCD pairing utility automatically if LED + LCD is selected.
3.6.2
7/22/21
Added support for CoinOPS Retro Arcade. From the Front End Arcade Wizard, select “CoinOPS” and not “CoinOPS Legacy” for Retro Arcade support.
3.6.1
7/4/21
LED: New MAME artwork: Marvel vs. Street Fighter, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Carrier Air Wing, Passing Shot, Time Scanner
AtGames ALU: ALU detection logic changed to path vs. environment variable
LCD: Port scan skipped for LCD only installations. Re-install and be sure and remove the existing settings.ini to enable this feature. This was causing an issue with Sinden light guns for LCD only installations. It will not be an issue for LED installations.
LCD: More user friendly message in Pixelcade Listener for LCD only installations.
[INFO] Pixelcade LCD Only Installation, Skipping Port Scan
[INFO] Please ignore the 'Waiting for underlying connection' message below
[INFO] as this means Pixelcade is looking for the Pixelcade LED hardware
Games can now have up to 3 different animations that will play at random when the game is selected. Name the animations like this: pacman_01.gif, pacman_02.gif, pacman_03.gif where the rom name is pacman in this example.
Experimental support added for WS2801 LED strips. Known issue when LED strips are turned on in settings.ini is that Pixelcade will run the first time but must be powered down to run the second time ( you won’t see this issue if the LED strip are turned off which is the default setting). Note WS281X strips are not supported at this time.
Animations will play on select games, added additional artwork, fixed where where games with a . were not displaying, screen saver integration on RetroPie, full release notes here
2.6.6
2/5/2020
Changed default mame to an animation, added a new mapping in console.csv for CoinOPS (- arcade,mame)
2.6.5
Fixed bug where non-mame game marquees were not displaying, changed default display to 128×32 for Pi, added console image for most common consoles
2.6.0
Added sub-display support, bug fix animations from “Browse Artwork” now working
2.5.3
Added support for P2.5 LED panel which had the blue and green color lines crossed,
The last saved marquee image or animation will now play when the pixelcade listener starts instead of a blank screen
Bug fix when space in platform like “Atari 2600” vs. atari2600, Added more GIFs
1.5.6
Added more 128×32 GIFs
1.5.5
Experimental Stream mode which is faster than LED writes. Stream mode does not work with Maximus Arcade due to admin rights issue. Removed PIXEL LED board driver installation as this was causing problems on some PCs. Driver is now installed manually in the pixelcade/driver directory.
