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Mini-Pac with Harness and Retropie
« on: March 24, 2016, 02:25:19 pm »
I'm building a two-player tabletop arcade courtesy of the MonsterArcades kit - using mini-pac with harness as my connector.

I'm about ready to attach my harness connectors to the joysticks and buttons. I did connect the Mini-Pac to my windows pc first and ran their utility to update the firmware to the latest version.

My question is this - does it really matter what connectors go to which buttons and joystick switches since Retropie / Emulation Station / Retroarch allows me to config it when it recognizes the new input device?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm not totally clear what the "correct" terminals are for each arcade button when I'm looking at the Mini-Pac wiring diagram. I've attached the wiring diagram with notes I made - I'm assuming that will work somewhat out of the box, but I may need to tweak inside of emulation station and retroarch.

I'm running a raspberry pi 3 with the latest version of retropie.

Does that look seemingly correct, or am I not understanding the wiring? I have two joysticks, 6 arcade buttons per player, 2 coin-in buttons, 2 player start buttons, and 2 buttons leftover probably for "escape" and "pause" or whatever.

Thanks for the help!
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Re: Mini-Pac with Harness and Retropie
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2016, 02:48:35 pm »
No, it doesn't matter one bit.  Not only is the Pac programmable, but MAME lets you configure pretty much every input as well.
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Re: Mini-Pac with Harness and Retropie
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2016, 02:58:32 pm »
Quote from: Slippyblade on March 24, 2016, 02:48:35 pm
No, it doesn't matter one bit.  Not only is the Pac programmable, but MAME lets you configure pretty much every input as well.

Cool - that's what I figured. I'll just let retropie discover the device and config it then. Thanks!
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Re: Mini-Pac with Harness and Retropie
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2016, 05:16:28 pm »
Missed that you were running RetroPie.  Still configurable, but since it uses RetroArch, config is a pain in the ass.  Doable, but painful.
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Re: Mini-Pac with Harness and Retropie
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2016, 06:11:04 pm »
Quote from: Slippyblade on March 24, 2016, 05:16:28 pm
Missed that you were running RetroPie.  Still configurable, but since it uses RetroArch, config is a pain in the ass.  Doable, but painful.

Okay - then is my diagram I attached pretty much the way Retroarch prefers for out of the box? Thanks again.
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Re: Mini-Pac with Harness and Retropie
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2016, 02:05:54 am »
Quote from: Slippyblade on March 24, 2016, 05:16:28 pm
Missed that you were running RetroPie.  Still configurable, but since it uses RetroArch, config is a pain in the ass.  Doable, but painful.
Finally got everything wired up, and yes, it is a huge pain. I can't really figure out what I'm doing wrong with the config. Any chance someone would be kind enough to help? It's not recognizing my joystick-left in emulation station.
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