Question on IPac2

[eyal8r]

Hey guys-
Got the IPac2 for my 2 player cab. Got to looking at it- it has 4 directions for joystick, 8 other buttons, a start and coin button for each player. Not much room for other 'system' buttons.  Is there a switch button I can rig up so that when pressed I have a whole sleu of other buttons available to me?  I am using 7 buttons for each player- and would like to add in some system buttons as well as some pinball buttons on the side. How do I do this?

Also- how many buttons on each side for most pinball games?
Thanks
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[crashwg]

You should try checking the most obvious of places first...

http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html

[eyal8r]

lol- thanks- page wasn't working before. It is now.  Oh well.  Any ideas on the pinball buttons tho?
Thanks
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[SirPoonga]

Those 7 buttons per player, what do you plan on doing?  think you could souble up on the inputs to save some inputs?

[Silver]

You can use the same input more than once - so I would suggest just wiring your 'pinball' buttons to the same buttons as you have for player 1....

so make 'left pinball' same as 'player 1 button 1' and 'right pinball' as 'player 1 button 2'

This will work fine because with your hands on the pinball buttons you won't need the player 1 buttons - ie they can happily co-exist. You can wire more than 1 wire to each input on the ipac.

In mame/pinmame you can reconfigure the inputs as desired to make the pinball buttons player 1 b1 and b2 (or even better find what buttons most the pinball games default to and wire your pinball buttons as those, to save reconfiguring)

Hope that made sense!

[eyal8r]

yup- totally makes sense. Ummm- to the other question- I just thought that Players 1&2 were supposed to have 7 buttons. Am I mistaken on this?  There's six grouped together and one down at an angle on the bottom left corner of that group of six. Can you tell me if I don't need all that?
Thanks
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[subzero23]

you mean like this?

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That's what I'm doing, definately stick with it.
But probably all arcade games used at a max used 6 buttons so you might get away with doubling abutton

[eyal8r]

yup- exactly.  I'll keep the 7 buttons.

Damnit- I HATE having to redo CPs! I am almost done, and screwed up one last part. On top of that, the acrylic got scratched while I was cutting/routing it out- so I gotta redo that as well. Damn that just sucks BAD!  Back to the hardware store tomorrow- AGAIN.  LOL...