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PL1:


--- Quote from: charliepr on January 28, 2013, 08:46:00 am ---Hello I have a PC with mame fully working, now I will be starting with my cab I'm thinking about a 2 player 8 way joysticks 6 buttons, trackball, spinner, and a 4 way joystick for my control panel. I have the 8way joysticks and the buttons, But I'm kind of lost when it comes to the I-pac2 and the Mini-pac encoders. Do I need both or will the mini-pac work for all my controllers? Thanks for any advice I can get. I'm new when it comes to the cab CP setup.

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8 inputs - 4 inputs x 2 8-way-joysticks -- 4-way in parallel with P1 stick
12 inputs - 6 buttons x 2 players
4 inputs - Start and Coin for P1 and P2
3? inputs - Exit, Pause, Menu?
2-4? inputs - Plunger, pinball flippers, upper flippers? (If you want to play Pinball.)  ;D

The Mini-Pac will connect all that, plus the trackball and spinner.

The optional harness makes it very easy to wire.

To wire the 4-way and 8-way in parallel, connect them like this.

When lines cross, a dot = connected and no dot = not connected.




Scott

charliepr:


--- Quote from: PL1 on February 07, 2013, 01:41:29 am ---
--- Quote from: charliepr on January 28, 2013, 08:46:00 am ---Hello I have a PC with mame fully working, now I will be starting with my cab I'm thinking about a 2 player 8 way joysticks 6 buttons, trackball, spinner, and a 4 way joystick for my control panel. I have the 8way joysticks and the buttons, But I'm kind of lost when it comes to the I-pac2 and the Mini-pac encoders. Do I need both or will the mini-pac work for all my controllers? Thanks for any advice I can get. I'm new when it comes to the cab CP setup.

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8 inputs - 4 inputs x 2 8-way-joysticks -- 4-way in parallel with P1 stick
12 inputs - 6 buttons x 2 players
4 inputs - Start and Coin for P1 and P2
3? inputs - Exit, Pause, Menu?
2-4? inputs - Plunger, pinball flippers, upper flippers? (If you want to play Pinball.)  ;D

The Mini-Pac will connect all that, plus the trackball and spinner.

The optional harness makes it very easy to wire.

To wire the 4-way and 8-way in parallel, connect them like this.

When lines cross, a dot = connected and no dot = not connected.




Scott

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Thanks Scott, So all I need for my idea is the Mini-Pac for this to work and follow your steps posted here, right?

PL1:


--- Quote from: charliepr on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 am ---So all I need for my idea is the Mini-Pac for this to work and follow your steps posted here, right?

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Just to be clear, make sure you get the "Mini-PAC Opti. With Harness and USB cable" -- No "Opti.", no built-in spinner/trackball encoder capability header.

Which spinner and trackall are you planning on using?

UTrak and SpinTrak are plug and play with the Mini-Pac.


Scott

Clarification:  GeoMan posted here that Andy told him that the basic mini-pac has the optical circuitry but no header pins -- you can solder on wires to connect a trackball/spinner.

DickTurpin:

I have a xin-mo a cheaper version of the controller interfaces available but it does the trick itself.



matsadona:

In order to reduce the Frankenpanel factor, I would ignore the 4-way joystick, and have joysticks that can switch from 4 to 8-way.
There are such joysticks that even do it automatically for you (http://www.ultimarc.com/servostik.html), depending on the game being played...

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