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Jimmy:

I have started build on my cab,  everything seems to be going fairly smoothly. But i have been doing my research and im a little confused wiring the controls.  Because ive counted something near 60 inputs needed.  Im really worried about ghosting. Which encoder should i buy?  I found threads on this in the faq, but none aswered my questions.

markrvp:

What joysticks are you going to be using?  If you are using 49-ways, then you will need to get one GP-Wiz 49 for each 49-way joystick you use.  Each GP-Wiz 49 has 28 additional inputs, so you would have plenty.

If you have no 49-way joysticks, then you have a couple of main stream "current technology" choices.  There are more, but these are the two I would reccomend. 

1.)  If you absolutely have to have 60 inputs then you could get a KeyWiz and a GP-Wiz which would give you a total of 64 inputs.  These two encoders come from Groovy Game Gear.

2.)  If you can get by with 56 inputs (which I'm sure you can - just show us your layout), then the IPAC-4 from Ultimarc would suffice.

Jimmy:

8 ways,  i think ive decided on p360s. 


56 is actually what i came up with.  Thats why i said nearly 60


player 1           6 buttons
player 2           6 buttons
player 3           4 buttons
player 4           4 buttons
1-4 start          4 buttons
1-4 coin insert 4 buttons
pause              1 button
exit                  1 button
4 joysticks      16 buttons
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total               46   


maybe a few more, i guess i added wrong when i came up with 56

markrvp:

Then either solution I listed above (Keywiz+GP-Wiz OR IPAC4) will work.

Jimmy:

wheres the bst place to buy thes from?

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