this might be a stupid question....but i'll ask it anyway

i have nearly finished my cocktail cab and now wondering how to wire up the CPs to my IPac2 - i have CPs on both the vertical and horizontal sides of the cab.
clearly for horizontal side (side by side games) both joys should be wired to joy1 and joy2 connections on the IPac.
but i am wondering about the joys on the vertical sides (face to face games). cocktail games used to have alternating play between P1 and P2. Isn;t this just flipping the screen? internally doesn't mame consider both P1 and P2 joys to be the same one? therefore should i wire both joys to joy1 connection on the IPac?
Would really appreciate advice from other cocktailers that are using IPac2. how did you do it?
cheers