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dema:

Quick question for those who have wired this up. I'm threading wires through the axls of my rotating panel now and I want to make sure it's correct before I bolt everything into place for the umpteenth time.

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Toonces:


--- Quote from: dema on April 11, 2005, 04:44:40 pm ---Quick question for those who have wired this up. I'm threading wires through the axls of my rotating panel now and I want to make sure it's correct before I bolt everything into place for the umpteenth time.

1)  If I'm going to be using two of the GP49 Max's (one for each player), and a MiniPac for the spinner and trackball panel, can I run the respective USB cables for the encoders to a 4 port USB hub and then plug that single USB to the PC? Will this create a conflict with the three separate devices running at the same time? I'd ideally like to wire everything up in the panels and then have a single USB cable run through the axl if possible.

2)  Secondly, can these devices run symbiotically using some controls from the GP49 and other controls from the Mini-Pac? I'm thinking of mapping all the buttons to the GP49 (daisy-chaining redundant buttons on the other panels) and then mapping only the trackball and spinner to the Mini-Pac. How would this work in controlling movement by the trackball (via the Mini-Pac) and pressing buttons (via the GP49) at the same time? Would there be a lag or would you even be able to tell the difference?

3)  Can I assign a button using the GP49 to the same keyboard press as a button assigned to the Mini Pac? I ask in the event I need to throw in another joystick on a third panel, and want to assign it to the same presses as on my primary joystick panel.


Any help would be immensely appreciated.


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1. Yes, this has been working fine for me. I don't have a minipac but use a JPAC. Through my USB hub I have both GP-Wiz49's and 1 SuperJoypad (SNES to USB) and 1 Boom PS2/N64 to USB interfaces. So far this has not been a problem for Windows XP.

2. Yes. I use the GP-Wiz49's for joysticks only and my JPAC for all buttons. No operational problems here but you do need to think things out. A quick example of what I ran into is using the standard MAME mapping of the JPAC, Enter is SHift (player 1 start) and P1 Joy left. This no longer works as the JPAC is not geting joystick inputs. It's not a problem since you can define custom layouts but certainly something you need to take into account when using a "Hybrid" solution.

3. Yes & No. It's not that you can't make this happen, it's that the two use different technologies. The GP-Wiz49's buttons are seen as gamepad buttons and not keyboard keys. The IPAC/JPAC/MiniPAC are keyboard based devices so the two are just not treated the same way. Up on a GP-Wiz49 is not up arrow like it would be on the minipac. However, you could use joy2key or rbjoy to make the GP-Wiz49's buttons appear to windows to be keypresses so you can accomplish what you want. At least in theory :)

I am still mapping out my configs and keyboard mappings, etc after having the GP-Wiz's hooked up for a couple of weeks. It's not gameplay that is affected so much as it's FE navigation, etc. Most FE's support using a keyboard or gamepad but when you get into using parts of each, there are scenarios that the FE developers could not have accounted for so basic navigation may not work out of the box and you will need to remap either the FE's nav or your controller configs to make all of your functions come back.

Hope that helps,

Toonces

mahuti:

Ughhh.. all this stuff is getting so complicated... it's fantastic that all these functionalities CAN happen, but so complex in HOW they happen. Configure mame, configure front end, configure CPmaker, configure CPViewer, create CP art, create multiple configs, install hardware, mod hardware, wire hardware, configure encoder & encoder software. I love tinkering, but it's really out of control.

Did I mention I love it?

I think it's almost time for a new book ;D


Buddabing:


--- Quote from: mahuti on April 11, 2005, 06:33:50 pm ---Ughhh.. all this stuff is getting so complicated... it's fantastic that all these functionalities CAN happen, but so complex in HOW they happen. Configure mame, configure front end, configure CPmaker, configure CPViewer, create CP art, create multiple configs, install hardware, mod hardware, wire hardware, configure encoder & encoder software. I love tinkering, but it's really out of control.

Did I mention I love it?

I think it's almost time for a new book ;D


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If you have some CP art usable by CPMaker, please LMK. I could use some better examples.


mahuti:

I'll PM you.


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