Wiring an I-PAC 4

[Willypill]

Does anyone have any tutorials on wiring my controls up to an I-PAC 4?  I'm about ready to do this..

[Franco]

http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html

[Willypill]

Ok, so can I just start wiring up my I-PAC 4 and stick the wires in any outlet on the I-PAC 4.  Then go into mamewah and configure it so that the buttons work for wherever I put them on the I-PAC 4?

[Silverwind]

Well I wouldn't wire them to "any" outlet.. to make it easy on yourself wire player start 1 to P1 START, etc.

They are setup for MAME defaults so for a lot of games it will work without configuration.  Some games, like mortal kombat, the buttons need to be in a specific layout so there may be customization for that. 

Wire it up, try it out, and customize from there.

[Willypill]

Ok, cool.

Got another question.  What is 1 SW 1?  Is that player 1's first button?

[Willypill]

Could you take a look at my CP and tell me how would be the best way to wire it to the IPAC 4.

http://img234.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf04284um.jpg

[Tiger-Heli]

Ok, cool.

Got another question.  What is 1 SW 1?  Is that player 1's first button?

Yes, by default.

Remember - 1SW1 sends L Ctrl, but you can do a lot of other things if you wanted to.

You could wire Button 1 to 1SW1 and off you go.

You could instead wire Button 1 to 1SW3 (Space), reprogram MAME so P1B1 was Space in all games, and off you go.

You could instead wire Button 1 to 1SW4 (L Shift), reprogram the I-PAC so 1SW4 sends L Ctrl and off you go.

Finally, you could instead wire Button 1 to 1SW5 (Z), reprogram the I-PAC so 1SW5 sends R, reprogram MAME so P1B1 was R in all games, and off you go.

I am just trying to point out that the input labels are guides, you don't have to really use them.