What Input Controller for Buttons / Joysticks

[csimmons222]

I purchased a number of items from from GGG years ago.  I am just not getting around to installing everything as kids and building a home took priority. 

With that said, I have 43 Electric Ice Buttons with RGB LED lights, 4 Servo Stick Joysticks, an Electric Ice RGB Trackball, and a Turbo Twist Spinner and 5 32-Port LED-Wiz boards.  I also have one extra spot on my control panel for another Joystick but I am unsure what I will be using in that spot at this moment.

Apparently when I placed my order with GGG, I totally forgot to buy input controllers for my buttons, joysticks, etc.  Will you please advise on what I input controller(s) that I need to purchase to wire all of this up?

I am complete noob at wiring up an arcade control panel so all advise is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

[DJO_Maverick]

That is a tremendous amount of buttons...  My first thought would be, do you really need that many?  To the best of my knowledge, I don't think any 4 player game needed more than 4 buttons, and 6ish for 1-2p stations...  7 for people that really want to have it both ways for Neo Geo games.  That's 20-22, plus 8 for a coin/start per player, and even four system buttons would bring you up to only 32.

Anyhoo, assuming you got the USB interfaces for the TB and Spinner, sounds like you would have 59 other inputs ((4js x4) + 43pb).  If you could shed 3 buttons to come down to 56, you could fit it all on one I-PAC 4 from Ultimarc.  Otherwise, sounds like you could work with 2 GP-Wiz40s from GGG.

I haven't used the LED-Wiz boards...  it sounds like they're designed to daisy-chain some quantity of LEDs off the same outputs, so you should have more than enough to work with there.  I just don't envy you that wiring job.