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| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Apollo on March 25, 2007, 06:22:53 pm ---4 joys=16 inputs 6 buttons each=24 inputs I'm not sure where you are seeing a problem as that is only 40 inputs? --- End quote --- I know what he's done.... He's counting 8 way joysticks as being 32 inputs. What he's missed is that joysticks only use 4 inputs not 8. and the diagonals are read as being a combination of two switch presses at the same time. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| am_monkee:
good catch fozzy. in any case, quack, the ipac should work fine. |
| Arcades R Fun:
QuackMasterDan Congrats on your 4 player panel project! :applaud: Nothing beats your first time............................................building a panel. Looks like you have several days until you buy/receive your 4 player encoder board. I'm currently documenting a customers 4 player wiring job. The "How To Wire A Control Panel" guide will be done in about 2-3 weeks and will be posted in the "How To" section of our site. It will be a step by step guide with example pictures throughout the process. If you are recessing your trackball mounting pate there will also be a how to guide for the seamless install with auto body putty ( known as BONDO to many of us). Good Luck with your panel! Jack |
| QuackMasterDan:
First off, thankyou for the many replies. I havent had the chance to check back on the thread and now I am, here is how my setup works: I did a kind of strange setup. I have three main admin buttons: Load, Save, and Pause. The load and save buttons save to 4 save/load slots. I also have P1-P4 Credit & Start And finally 3 function buttons to do whatever (sound, get through menus, etc) 4 players x 6 buttons each It adds up to 4 Joystics = 16 inputs 6 Buttonsx4players = 24 inputs P1-P4 = 4x2= 8 inputs Function x 3 = 3 inputs Save,Pause,Load = 3 inputs Save Slots = 4 inputs The total is: 58 inputs. Thanks for clearing up the wiring block and crimping methods. I saw a photo of a person who attached his wires to small clamps. So it was easy to switch his buttons. How hard is this to pull off? Now as for what kinds of physical wires? Do I need AC wires? Is the AC wire another name for the ground? And I believe that is 18AWG wire Also, to wire my buttons to the iPAC I should use 24AWG? I hope that clears things up, and thankyou again for this great board. I haven't made many post and I can already tell it is a great community of great people. P.S. A photo album of the arcade machine is available on my facebook at http://fresno.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7803&id=702100424 |
| Spaz Monkey:
First, there aren't (to my knowledge) 6 button 4 player games. The most would be like 3 or 4 for P3 & P4. So I think you can get rid of some of those buttons. In addition, you will have the shift function for some of the things too. |
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