This repository contains both the colors.ini and controls.ini file used by LEDBlinky.

controls.ini originated from the "Controls.dat" project, created by Kevin Jonas (SirPoonga) and Howard Castro. This project was hosted at controls.arcadecontrols.com (archive.org snapshot) but appears to be dead. Forum discussions around this original project can be found here. Originally created to document the controls of MAME games, this file has been used as the basis in other emulators.

From the archive.org snapshot:

Controls.dat is a project started by Kevin Jonas (SirPoonga) with the help of Howard Casto. This project was started to accurately document the controls and button labels of the arcade control panels from the games in M.A.M.E.. The goal of this project to accurately document M.A.M.E. outputs by using the labels the games used on their control panels. The benefit of this is frontend developers can use these resources to display the controls for the games.

Many volunteers have entered in the data for this project. I'd like to thank all the volunteers for the hard work they have done.

colors.ini was originally created by headkaze and is now hosted by LEDBlinky, a great piece of software that controls your arcade LEDs. It has been used as the basis for other similar color configuration files/utilities.

As controls.ini appears to be dead and colors.ini is not versioned and out-of-date, I created this repository to:

• Maintain a current/up-to-date version of these files
• Allow for the community to contribute updates, fixes, etc

The original controls.ini and colors.ini are devoid of any license and provided freely on the web as-is.

All changes and contributions in this repository are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.