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What part do I need an IPAC?
Hawk Daddy:
Ok I want to run two joysticks players one and two. And I need to have
2-red
2-green
2-blue
2-yellow
2-purple
2-orange
2-black
1-Player 1 with the one person on it
1-Player 2 with the two people on it
1 of each color, and then one player one and two button. Do I need an Ipac to hook that up to the pc? Also can i make it to where say I hold down the player 1 & 2 buttons and it'll be like exit on the keyboard to back out of the game?
Thanks
Hawk
javeryh:
Yes you should get an ipac (you don't have to get one but it's probably easiest) and yes you can program it to register player 1 start and player 2 start pressed together as "exit" (but I wouldn't recommed that combination because you will be unintentionally exiting the game when you are playing something like Street Fighter).
ArtMAME:
--- Quote from: Hawk Daddy on April 06, 2007, 01:33:32 am ---Also can i make it to where say I hold down the player 1 & 2 buttons and it'll be like exit on the keyboard to back out of the game?
Hawk
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That is the default functionality of those two buttons, that is, you hook up Player 1 Start button to where it says 1STRT and Player 2 Start button to 2STRT and pressing both together (Actually press and hold Player 1 then press Player 2), will be like pressing ESC on the keyboard to exit game.
Check it out:
http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html
Also, if you press and hold Player 1 and press any of the arrow keys (UP, DN, LEFT or RIGHT) you can get various admin functions like ENTER, TAB, etc.
This is the way I got my setup hooked up and it works great. You can Press and hold Player 1 and use the Player 1 joystick to do admin functions like accessing the menu and assigning controls for each game.
Hawk Daddy:
Thanks, is Ipac the best part to do this, or should I get something like a gpwiz, or something else. I want to do this 1 time, and I want it to be the best that I can get at this time.
Hawk
scotthh:
You also need at least one coin button, maybe two, no? And although it's "cheating", I couldn't live without my pause button.