New Product: 49-Way USB Interface - The GP-Wiz49 with DRS Technology (TM)

[armax]

That rotary adapter is great.  Personally, I feel it's one of the best things to come along in the joystick world.  Every joystick has it's pros and cons but this adapter has advantages that far outweigh the petty cons I've seen come across this board.  This along with the wiz, really does do away with the need for modular, multiple joystick setups.  Get a balltop with a trigger and you've got the most versatile joystick out there (though as of this moment, the 49-way with the wiz and the rotary adapter is pretty darn close).  I'll put it to you this way, I'm gonna have quite a few things to put up on the BST boards in the next couple of days...

[markrvp]

How do you love it markrvp?


I'm itchin' for the Retroblast review.

[Magnet_Eye]

Where are the balltops? 

So, for my next cab, all I need are 2 49-way sticks and the GPWiz? No IPAC needed? The GPWiz has enough extra inputs for all my buttons/coin door/etc?

Anyone try the rotary interface yet? Does it work with an Opti-Pac?

You need two (2) GP-Wiz 49s, one for each joystick.  Each one has 23 additional non-shifted inputs, so that gives you 46 buttons you can add to the panel with no keyboard encoder needed.

Fl0yd's rotary adapter works well.  It is a mechanical rotary adapter instead of optical rotary, so it does not interface to the Optipac.  To interface it you will need a Druin's Interface Board (which is what most of us have done) or use analog MAME and wire each rotary lead to its own input on the GP-Wiz 49 (which I understand won't actually work with Ikari Warriors).

Thanks for the reply! Now i just to figure out what the difference is between the Eco and Max version. The website has the exact same description for both! 

[KenToad]

I have a few impressions over on my project thread, the Gargantuan Multi-Williams inspired Bartop with Dual Rotary 49-Ways.  I'm still in the testing phase, so nothing final yet.

Cheers,
KenToad

[markrvp]

Thanks for the reply! Now i just to figure out what the difference is between the Eco and Max version. The website has the exact same description for both!

[conseit68]

After spending 2 hours reading this thread...has anyone come to a solution for automatic mode switching with the midway 49way and mamewah?...Maybe I missed it, but at this point my eyes are foggy

Thanks in advance...

[Tiger-Heli]

After spending 2 hours reading this thread...has anyone come to a solution for automatic mode switching with the midway 49way and mamewah?...Maybe I missed it, but at this point my eyes are foggy

Thanks in advance...

Only things I've seen:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35927.0.html

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35681.0.html