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fatfingers:


Andy -- the more I read, the more and more I think this looks like the bomb.

Great job!


stephenp1983:

I have a couple questions for you.  I'm pretty new to this and looking to build my first control panel.  How does the transition to 4-8way work.  Do you simple just change some settings, or is there a physical change you have to make.  Also how would you connect it to an IPAC intereface if its usb?

sirwoogie:


--- Quote from: stephenp1983 on June 09, 2006, 11:45:03 am ---I have a couple questions for you.  I'm pretty new to this and looking to build my first control panel. 

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Welcome aboard!


--- Quote ---How does the transition to 4-8way work. Do you simple just change some settings, or is there a physical change you have to make.
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It all depends on what you want to do. Based on what I've read and the documentation on Andy's site, the stick can be fitted with a restrictor plate. (not sure if the three he mentions comes with the stick as it doesn't exactly say so). This restrictor plate will limit the physical travel of the stick so you can't go diagonal such as you could with an 8-way. But, since the stick is programmable (maps), then you can tell it to act as a 4-way without needing the restrictor plate, but physically you could still move the stick diagonal, it just wouldn't register in your game. It's all a matter of how authentic you want the experience to be. It also appears that the restrictor plate is "bolt-on" so you can't physically switch between the two like you can with his other product, the Mag-Stik


--- Quote ---Also how would you connect it to an IPAC intereface if its usb?

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You have two options with this. You can wire it via USB directly to the computer and it will act as a gamepad. Or, you can use pinouts that are on the joysticks mainboard and wire it to an IPAC like any other joystick (up, down, left, right, ground). The only advantages I can see for wiring it to an IPAC is if you meet one or many of the criteria:


* You have a machine that doesn't support USB (or not enough ports), thus need the IPAC in PS/2 mode
* You want to simplify wiring in your cabinet control panel so you don't have more USB cables running from it (you could of course put a hub in there)
* You have more than 4 total joysticks you want to install in your cab
* You are just picky ;)
That help?

stephenp1983:

That does help alot, one more thing.  I would probably hook it up with usb, but I would still need to get an ipac for the buttons right?  What I'm wanting to build is just a small control panel with the stick and maybe 3 buttons and perhaps a trackball.  So I would still need to connect the buttons to the ipac right no other way around that.  Basicly I would have only 3 connections to the ipac since the trackball and stick would most likely go into seperate usb ports.

Forgot the p1 and coin buttons so really around 7 buttons.

alexandro98:


--- Quote from: stephenp1983 on June 09, 2006, 12:33:08 pm ---That does help alot, one more thing.  I would probably hook it up with usb, but I would still need to get an ipac for the buttons right?  What I'm wanting to build is just a small control panel with the stick and maybe 3 buttons and perhaps a trackball.  So I would still need to connect the buttons to the ipac right no other way around that.  Basicly I would have only 3 connections to the ipac since the trackball and stick would most likely go into seperate usb ports.

Forgot the p1 and coin buttons so really around 7 buttons.

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If I understand correctly, You will not need a ipac.
If you use the joystick with usb, you can hook up 8 buttons to the joystick and windows will see it as a gamepad with 8 buttons.  So it looks like you could totally build a arcade cabinet  with these and no need for a ipac or keyboard encoder, If you use the usb to hook it up.

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