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1 Philips a mBX™ On line Hel p[...]
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2 Table O f Content s See, Hear and Feel More of the Game with Philips am BX™ PC Gaming Peripherals! ......... ......... ....... ......... ..... 5 Getting Help ..... ......... ......... ......... .......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ....... ......... ........... ......... ......... ..... 7 Philips amBX™ PC Gaming help ..[...]
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3 Define the Overall Brightness ........ ......... ....... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ....... ......... ......... ......... ....22 Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes........... ....... ......... ............ ......... ......... ........ ........ ......... ......... ........23 Scene Settings Screen ......... ......... ....[...]
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4 I Cannot Add a Ne w Scen e .... ......... ......... ....... ......... ......... ......... ............ ......... ....... ......... ......... ........37 Maintenance ............. .......... ......... ......... ....... ......... ........... ......... ......... ....... ......... ......... ......... ......... ....37 Cleaning the Peripherals ........ [...]
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5 See, Hear and Feel More of t he Game wit h Philips amBX™ PC G aming Perip herals! Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Online Help version 1.0 Welcome and congrat ul ations on your purchase of the Phili ps amBX™ PC Gaming P eripherals. The Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peri p her a ls take entertainment bey ond audio and visual, changing your complete room [...]
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7 Getti ng Help You can rely on diff erent kinds of help during the use of the Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Perip herals. • This Philips amBX™ PC Gamin g Help assists you during co nfiguration and set up of the Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peri p her a ls. • The help text in Philips amBX™PC Gaming Direct Control g ives you a context while yo u ar[...]
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8 What Is i n Your Box? Starter Kit SGC5101 BD The Starter kit lets y ou see more of the game . With it yo u can enjoy: • 16 million colors with hi p ower LEDs; • Light effects with other ga mes; • Light shows with music from your PC; • Mood lighting. The Starter Kit contains: • 1 Wall Washer & Controlle r; • Left and Right Front Li[...]
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What Is in Your Box ? 9 Pro Gamer Kit SGC5102 BD The Pro Gamer kit lets you s ee and hear more of th e game . With it yo u can enjoy: • Multidirectional sound fo r added realism; • 2.1 sound system with 160W po wer; • 16 million colors with hi p ower LEDs; • Light effects with other ga mes; • Light shows with music from your PC; • Mood [...]
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What Is in Your Box ? 10 Premium Kit SGC5103 BD The Premium kit lets yo u see, hear and feel more of th e game . The Premium kit contai ns the maximum number of Philips amBX™ P C Gaming Peripherals that ca n be connected to a singl e Wall Washer & Controller unit. With it you can enjoy: • Game reactive fans and v ibration; • Multidirectio[...]
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What Is in Your Box ? 11 Extension Kit SGC6101 BD The Extension kit al lows you to add air and vibration e ffects to either your Pro Gamer kit or the Starter kit . The Extension Kit con tains: • 2 Fans; • 1 Wrist Rumbler.[...]
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13 How to Ge t Started? Connecting Your Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripherals Connect th e Starter Kit To get started with yo ur Starter kit, unpack the Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals and position th em on your desk a round the monitor. You connect the P hilips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals as shown on the image. Once connected, t he peripheral[...]
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How to Get Started? 14 Connect th e Premium Kit To get started with yo ur Premium kit, unpack t he Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals and position th em on your desk a round the monitor. You connect the P hilips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals as shown on the image. Once connected, t he peripherals will automatically start up. After installing the[...]
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How to Get Started? 15 Installing the Philips amBX™ PC Gaming software Before you are ab le to use the Philips amBX™ PC Gam ing Peripherals you need to insta ll the software that comes with the kit. Yo u find this software on the d elivered CD. To take f ul ly adva nta ge of the P hilips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals you need to install: • th[...]
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How to Get Started? 16 • Help to op en Phil ips amBX™ PC Gaming Help; • Register to open the website where you can register your software; • Software update to o pen the website where you will find t he newest releases of the Ph ilips amBX™ PC Gaming software; • Exit to close Philips amBX™ P C Gaming Direct Contro l and remove the ico[...]
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17 Config uring the Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripher als Configuration Screen You use the Configuratio n screen to prepare the Philips amBX™ P C Gaming Peripherals to interact with the amBX™ enabled games . Next to def inin g the p osition of the peripherals and cus tomizing their settings, you can also test your Phi li ps amBX™ PC Gaming Pe r[...]
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Configuring the Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripherals 18 Peripheral Overview In the Peripheral Overvi ew you see the Philips amBX™ PC Gami ng Peripherals you connected to the Wall Washer & Co ntroller. Note : The Speakers a nd the Subwoofer are not displayed i n this overview, since Philips amBX™ PC Gami ng Direct Control does not control the [...]
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Configuring the Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripherals 19 Lights Fans Wrist Rumbler Peripheral Settings Panel You open the Peripheral Settings panel by clic king an ico n in the Peripheral Overvi ew. The Peripheral Settings p anel contains the following se ttings of the Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals: • Intensity : yo u define the maximum perc[...]
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Configuring the Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripherals 20 When an icon on the Pe ripheral Overview glows, a signa l is sent to the corresponding har dware. • The Philips amBX™ PC Gam ing Peripherals that respond to that signa l (by flashing their lights or starting the fan) are i nstalled correctly , active and ready to use. • When a Philips amBX[...]
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Configuring the Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripherals 21 The Stop button is a toggle button . When you p ress the button, an action starts and the label of the button changes, describing the op posite action. Toggled Sta te 1 Pressed Toggled Sta te 2 To r esume the Phi li ps amBX ™ PC Gaming Peripherals and sce nes, • When Direct Contro l is not o[...]
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Configuring the Philips amBX PC Gaming Peripherals 22 Defin e the Overall Brigh tness You use the Bright ness slider in the left pane to con trol the brightness of all Philips amBX™ PC Gaming lighting Peripherals relat ive to their own individual sett ings. On the side of the Speaker Light you can also find a brightness slider to adjust the brigh[...]
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23 Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Scenes Scene Settings Screen The Scene Settings scree n is the place where you can creat e your scenes. A scene is a setup of the lighting devices and fans to create a m ood in your room while y ou are playing music or just relax ing. Move the mouse over the imag e below and click the elemen ts you would like to ha[...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 24 Scene Overview The Scene Overview is t he visual representation o f the scene you selected in the Scenes Selector . Y ou see the connected peripherals, their statu s (represented b y the icons), and yo u get feedback about the peripherals' settings by the reference box located beneath t he icon. Note :[...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 25 Scenes Selector The Scenes Selector contai ns 15 sc enes. There are 3 dif ferent scene types: • Static scenes : are scenes w here you set the color and/or i ntensity of all Lights and Fans indiv iduall y. You define these settings in th e Peripheral Scene Settings Panel . • Dynamic scenes : are animated[...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 26 Peripheral Scene Settings Panel You open the Peripheral Scene Settings panel by clicking an icon on the Scene Overview. The Peripheral Scene Set tings panel contains the following settings f or Lights and Fans: • Brightness : you de fine the brightness of the light. • Color : you define the co lor of th[...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 27 Starting point End point You decrease the range by sliding the handles towards each oth er. The moment you move the starting handle over the end handle (the han dle on the bottom of the slider) the color ed bar of the slider will flip and the outsid e color range is selected. By changing the direc ti o n of[...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 28 Change the Peripheral Sce ne Settings 1. Select the static scene you w ant to customize in the Scene s Selector. The current settings of the scene appear in the Scene Overv iew. 2. Click the icon of whic h you want to change the settings in the Sc ene Overview. The 'Peripheral Scene Settings' pane[...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 29 Warning You can only tes t an an imation when the scene is selec ted in the Scenes Selector. Disab le a Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripheral in a Scene Note Disabling a pe ripheral in the Scene Settings Screen has no effect on the stat us of the peripheral while you are ga min g. You merely define that the [...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 30 2. Click the Animation button. The 'Animation Settings' p anel appears. 3. Click the Disable button. The animation will not be used in the scene. When you start the sce ne, the lights and fans will reac t like defined in the Peripheral Scen e Settings panel. 4. Click the OK button to confir m the [...]
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Setting Up the Philips amBX PC Sce nes 31 brightness of 30% and the Wall Washer & Control ler with a brightness of 60%. 1. Select the Scene Settings ta b. The 'Scene Settings' scree n appears 2. Drag the Brightness slider in the left pane to the left to d ecrease the overall brightnes s. -or- Drag the Brightness slider in the left pan[...]
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32 Config uring for Us e with Other Games and Music Apart from using the periph erals with amBX™ enabled g ames, you can also exp eri ence the effects of the Philips amBX™ PC Gaming li ghting Peripherals when you are play ing other PC games or w hen you are listening to music via your Windows Med ia Player. All Philips amBX™ PC Gaming P eriph[...]
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33 Using Philips amBX PC P eripherals See, Feel and Hear More of the Game Using the Philips amBX™ PC Ga ming Peripherals together w ith the amBX™ enabled games takes the entertaining value of PC Gaming to a higher level. P hilips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals take entertainment beyond audio a nd visual , c hanging your complete ro om into an en[...]
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Using Philips amBX PC P eri ph erals 34 Get More out of Your Music Thanks to the Philips a mBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals, list ening Music on your PC v ia your Windows Media Player is no longer a solely a uditive experience. Philips amBX™ PC Gaming P eripherals take entertainment beyond audio a nd visual , c hanging your complete ro om into an ent[...]
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35 Stop th e Philips amBX™ PC Gaming Peripherals Tempora rily When the Philips a mBX™ PC Gaming Direct Control w indow is not open : 1. Right-click the Direct Con trol icon in the task bar. 2. Select Stop from the po p up menu. The peripherals no longer render the Philips amBX™ effects. When the Philips a mBX™ PC Gaming Direct Control w ind[...]
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36 Support Troubleshooting The Connecte d Peripherals Do Not React During Testing Try the following tips to solve this problem. • Make sure you connected the peripherals to the Wall Washe r & Controller correctly. • Check if the Wall Washer & Co ntroller is connected to the PC (with the USB cable and the audio cable) and is powered up. [...]
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37 If the peripherals still not resp ond when you started t he scene, your peripherals might be in Standby mod e. To awake your peripherals, p ress the On/Off button on your hardware (Wall Washer & Con troller or Speaker Lights) so the LED-light in the button turns on. I Cannot Add a New Scene It is not pos sibl e to add a scene to the Scenes S[...]
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38 Gloss ary A amBX™ enabled games: are games that are designed so they can communicate with the amBX™ software. When you are playing a n amBX™ enabled game, yo u can enjoy the full-blow n amBX™ experience with the Lights, Speakers, Fans a nd Wrist Rumbler. Animated Scene: is a scene defined for the lights that are enabled i n the overview.[...]
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39 I Icons: are the graphical repre sentation of the hardware p eripherals. According to their status, the icons have a different look in the ov erview. Intensity: is a pe ripheral set ting you can make in the Periphe ral Overview (for all pe ripherals) a nd in the Scene Overview (for t he fans). Intensity range: is an anima tion setting that you c[...]
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Glossary 40 Speaker Light: is a compo sed peripheral that is normally placed next to the monitor a nd interacts with the events on the screen. In the overview, a Light icon rep resents this compo sed peripheral since the Direct Control cannot interact with the audio p eripherals. Starter Kit: allows yo u to see more of the game. You can ad d an Ext[...]
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41 Index A Add Animation ..... ......... ......... ............ ....... .........27 Peripheral . ......... ......... ......... ......... ....... .......16 Scene ............. .......... ......... ......... ...... ..........38 amBX™ enabled g ame ..... ......... ......... ......... .....34 amBX™ PC Gaming Dir ect Co ntrol Close ........ ........[...]
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42 Peripheral in a scene ........ ......... .......... ...... ...29 Peripheral in Configuration scr een .... ......... .....18 Disabled icon In Configuration screen ... ........... .......... ...... ...16 In Scene Settings screen........ ......... ......... .....23 Duration ............. ......... ......... ......... ...... ..........26 Dynamic sce[...]
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43 P Panel Animation Settings .. ......... ......... .......... ...... ...26 Peripheral Scene Settings......... ......... ........ ....26 Peripheral Settings ....... ......... ......... ....... .......17 Peripheral Add ..... ......... ............ ......... ......... ...... ..........16 Disable in a scene .......... ......... ......... ......... ..[...]
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44 Static..... ......... .......... ......... ......... ...... ..........25 Stop ............. ......... ......... ......... ....... ...... 27, 35 Scene Overview ......... ......... ......... .......... .........23 Scene Settings screen Icons ..... ......... .......... ........... ......... ....... .......21 Peripheral Scene Settings......... .....[...]