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I-PAC Pause Button
Frobozz:
I got a question concerning the I-PAC.
I'd like to wire up a dedicated button to do a keyboard "P" to pause MAME. Since the I-PAC I believe can do this via a "Player 1 + Joy 1 Down" sequence, could I wire a button up in parallel to BOTH those inputs to get the same effect?
Same with the "Player 1 + Button 1" for coin-up?
Zipper:
much easier to program the i-pac so that an individual button is mapped to 'p'. The i-pac has a utility for programming any characters you want in the downloads section of ultimarc.com.
Zipper:
I only suggest this instead of your method because I think you have to press the shift key first - and am sure that it will not work 100% if you connect them up together as you suggest.
Frobozz:
Yea, was just wondering if I could save myself some inputs.
Tiger-Heli:
I-pac has 2 dedicated inputs for coin-up, so you aren't losing an input if you have a dedicated button (unless you wanted to remap that to have an additional input).
What I plan to do is reprogram the Coin 2 input to "P" and wire a pause button to it, as there are very few games that require a dedicated Coin Slot 2 and the ones that would often need a dedicated Coin Slot 3 and 4 which I can't support anyway. Then again, I'm building a desktop controller, not a cab, so I can use the 5, 6, or 7 keyboard keys, if need be.
Hope this helps.
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