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TheFallenOne:

Looking over the Ultimarc site, looks like the IPac 4 is a pretty nice deal. I may have to go with that after all! :) Also, I noticed on their site that they were selling the OptiPAC and trackballs pretty cheap - I was planning on leaving a trackball/spinners out, as I could only find them for $100+. Anyone had any experience with the trackballs from Ultimarc?

Thanks for the pointers so far, looks like the IPac could be the right way to go. :D I'll go ahead and PM ponyboy, I don't mind spending extra for quality, as long as shipping isn't massively expensive.

nickbuol:

Hey, and I will second the great comments about ponyboy!

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: TheFallenOne on July 21, 2005, 12:24:11 am ---As well, I'm looking at setting up 4 joysticks with 8 buttons each (For general emulation as well as MAME) and am trying to decide whether I should go with the KeyWiz or X-Arcade's board (Or anything else, feel free to recommend). Once again, any advice would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!  :)

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Neither one supports 4 joysticks and 8 buttons each.

Only get the X-Arcade board if you want to use it with a console system as well as the PC.  Even then I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

The KeyWiz is a good option for MAME and general PC usage.  If you really want 4-players and 8 buttons each, you either want the I-PAC/4, or a combo of KeyWiz and GP-Wiz, or two GP-Wiz's.  If you don't mind hacking an IDE cable, the combo option will run you $46 and provide 8 more inputs than the I-PAC/4.

Lilwolf:

I would personally go with 4 supers.  Great all around sticks and their cheap (8 bucks each or so).  Cant go wrong with them.

ponyboy is the best prices around for happs (and I think about everything hes selling).  So get what you can from him.  Then you might want to look at therealbobroberts.com for any additional items if you need.  Hes hard to order from (you think it will be anyway with the email orders... but it seems to work out fast anyway)...

But the reason for the reply.

There aren't any 4 player games with more then 4 buttons each.  So you want player 1 and 2 with 8 buttons (I think you can get away with 7 personally) and 4 for players 3 and 4. 

And I love my ipac4!  Highly recommended!

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Lilwolf on July 21, 2005, 07:34:08 am ---There aren't any 4 player games with more then 4 buttons each.

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In MAME!!! . . . The original poster said for general emulation.

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