Quick Wiring Question

[David Leedy]

Hi,
I'm working on a cabinet that will only have 1 joystick.

[ahofle]

I don't think you would even have to map them (pacman only had one joystick).  However if you did map them to the same keys (via mame or wiring), keep in mind any simulateous coop games like joust will not work too well with two players.

[CJK]

Umm, two player Pac-Man is played one player at a time, each using the same controls. You don't need to do anything at all with MAME, since that was the way the game was designed, and all you have to do is wire up the joystick to the Player 1 side of the IPAC.

Am I misunderstanding your question?

-- Chris

[David Leedy]

Thanks for the responses... 

There's no mis-understanding...  just a rookie thing...  I saw the 2 player connections on the ipac and just wondered if the were needed even though my cab will only be one player at a time... 

Sounds like it's a non issue..


Thanks a lot!!!

Dave

[CJK]

No problem!

And welcome aboard!

-- Chris

[Navmaxlp]

Just a quick thing though. If you were going to do this on another game not laid out like this, all you would have to do is double crimp it. Basically crimp two wires onto the connectors going to the joystick and wire them to both the player one and player two joystick terminal on the ipac. Though, you would always be controling both player one and player two so you'd only be able to play certain games. Just figured I'd throw that in there for info purposes.

[Tiger-Heli]

Just a quick thing though. If you were going to do this on another game not laid out like this, all you would have to do is double crimp it. Basically crimp two wires onto the connectors going to the joystick and wire them to both the player one and player two joystick terminal on the ipac. Though, you would always be controling both player one and player two so you'd only be able to play certain games. Just figured I'd throw that in there for info purposes.

Okay, I think Navmaxlp totally confused the OP (I even had a hard time following it.).

You can do what he says, but it's a BAD idea  . . . Basically, you are output two keycodes for each switch closure, and giving up one additional I-PAC input per switch.

What you might want to do sometimes is wire two switches to the same input - i.e. if you had a 4-way and an 8-way joystick for example and wanted either one to work for Player 1.

[Stobe]

If you've got the extra inputs for your Ipac, and dont plan on using them on your 1 player cab, you may want to wire them up to an external jack.

For example, you could wire the UDLR, plus 3 buttons and a common to a RJ-45 jack, and put that on the side or back of your cab.  Then you could always make a simple 1 player joysick that connects via a CAT5 cable.

Don't waste good inputs on the IPAC

-Stobe

[Navmaxlp]

Sorry about the wording of that post. I know he wouldn't want to do it for a general mame cab. I was just saying that if you wanted to wire a board to do that you could. I probably should have just kept it to myself hehe.