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Bumblebounces:


--- Quote from: MameJunkie on November 22, 2005, 01:46:55 pm ---Switching to desktop may not be a I-PAC problem.  Certain key combination is a windows will minimize/maximize/shutdown the window with the focus.  For example Alt-F4 will shutdown window.
Since the MAME P1 buttons are default to the shift/ctrl/alt on the left of the keyboard. 

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Good point.  Although I am not sure if this is what was happening for me as I did extensive testing in a Notepad window while jerking the stick and hitting buttons as you would while playing a game.  I was never, ever able to duplicate what was happening intermittently (but often) within MAME32 while running a game.  The only things that I mapped differently than the MAME jumper was the 4 inputs (P1 button 7 and 8 and P2 button 7 and 8 ) I wasn't using in games to be used for P (pause), TAB, ENTER, and ESC.  None of those buttons were ever used in the games (with the exception of the occassional pause) and the admin buttons were far enough way to not be hit accidently.  I also didn't touch the .cfg files in MAME(32) so they were whatever they are supposed to be by default (even threw out default.cfg a few times to be sure).

Installed the MAME jumper and I have not had a lick of trouble since.  I just have 8 buttons on my CP (the 4 mentioned above, one set on each side of the CP) that do nothing at all. 

Like I said, not knocking Ultimarc, just sharing experience.  I think Andy has done great things for advancing this hobby and I would never wish him ill.  If not for my own laziness in not wanting to continue to exchange email with him, I probably would have received a new IPAC to replace this one long ago.  I actually kinda felt bad about complaining at the time I did.  I had ordered the IPAC and the joysticks I bought from him close to a year before I began construction on my cab.  By the time I actually had it in use and noted the problem, it was probably about 18 months after purchase.

Bumble


MameJunkie:

Yea...from the time I got my mini-pac from Andy to actually hooking it up was a good 6 months.

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