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D_Harris:


--- Quote from: Hoopz on April 25, 2010, 09:09:10 pm ---No I saw that.   ::)

On your Mini-pac, the older version, I'm going to bet you can do the same thing.  The pins on the left side of your Mini-pac, the older version, are for the optical controls.  I'd be curious to see if you emailed Andy and told him you had the older version of the Mini-pac, if you can hook up both at the same time. 

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I did e-mail Andy and he got back to me once, but didn't give me a definitive answer.


--- Quote from: Hoopz on April 25, 2010, 09:10:55 pm ---I do sincerely apologize for posting the wrong diagram.  It's clearly for the new Mini-Pac, not the old one.

It wasn't that hard to find the old one though. 

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

But then, I found it easy to find the prices that some others couldn't find.   ???

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Actually the prices are here: http://www.ultimarc.com/JShopServer/section.php?xSec=3


--- Quote from: Hoopz on April 25, 2010, 09:15:12 pm ---Here's a quote from Andy (the owner of Ultimarc) where someone asked about the instructions.  This may help.


--- Quote from: AndyWarne on February 01, 2009, 04:31:49 pm ---Those are the correct adaptors. You should have had at least one cable with the Mini-PAC, this might be a PS/2 male-male which you can use.

Take a look at this:  http://www.ultimarc.com/Mini-PAC%20Manual1.pdf

This is an old manual which was written by someone else, and shows the older version of the board, but the wiring information might help.

Andy



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Ironically, it was YOUR thread and YOUR question.  And as you can see, the pins that I referenced earlier are indeed the optical controls.

 :P

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According to that link that's the power header for optical controls. And the reason I purchased the Mini-PAC is so I could used optical controls. (But that still doesn't answer my question).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York

Havok:

Darren, just pay someone to do this; sounds like you're in over your head. At least that's what the hot chick in my Audi told me to say...



Turnarcades:

+1

It sounds like you need to a bit more reading up first, as our comments are likely to confuse things even more. If you really want the best advice, post a message with bullet points about what controls your cabinet will have, and what you want from your interface. Not everyone is familiar with every interface and as you are unfamiliar with the configurability of both emulator key mapping as well as interface connection/programming you ned to be more clear about what your cabinet has. Pics/sketches would help.

D_Harris:


--- Quote from: Turnarcades on April 25, 2010, 10:40:41 pm ---+1

It sounds like you need to a bit more reading up first, as our comments are likely to confuse things even more. If you really want the best advice, post a message with bullet points about what controls your cabinet will have, and what you want from your interface. Not everyone is familiar with every interface and as you are unfamiliar with the configurability of both emulator key mapping as well as interface connection/programming you ned to be more clear about what your cabinet has. Pics/sketches would help.

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Actually, I was clear and I did post a pic. To prove that I'm going to repeat what you can find above.

First. Look again at the diagram of the control panel in question...

Now consider that I have an older version of the Mini-PAC.(See second pic)...

What specific harness(or harnesses if you go by what Hoopz says) are needed to get that control panel to work completely?

By completely I mean if I'm playing Arkanoid, I can close the game and start up Asteroids without having to re-wire or re-program anything).

I really don't know how to make it more simple than that...

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Havok:

Seriously though - you should ask Andy from Ultimarc if he has any of the old harnesses left, or you could buy a new one and cut it. Connect the trackball and spinner side, and then connect those wires to the appropriate connections on the mini-pac. Just grab an old IDE cable and cut it to get the correct pin connections to plug into the mini-pac. However, make sure you get one that has all 40 pins available, or see if you can do without the one that is normally filled in for keying purposes.

Done.

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