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KeyWiz 1.5 & Assigning 2 buttons to one command???
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stace:
Thanks!

Last time I built a cab was about 9yrs ago with a keyboard hack, things have move on alot since then  :cheers:
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 13, 2007, 03:45:30 pm ---I was going to suggest Shazaaam!, the above. You'll go down to 29 inputs. Use the data lines from Player and Coin 1 & 2 to minimize any conflicts during play when hitting the Pause button.
But Tiger-Heli's and Fozzy's method don't require the use of diodes. Mine would.
Hell, now that I think about it. You could gain even more free inputs if you combine all our techniques.

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Personally, I would recommend avoiding the one-click Shazaaam! adapters if there's a way not to do so.

Not that there's a problem, but you're really going beyond what the board was designed for.

If you have (somewhere I posted one) a four-player panel and are using all 32 buttons for action items and don't want to spend the money on an I-PAC/4 or GP-Wiz for the other admin buttons or you absolutely need 2 more admin inputs, they're fine, but if you can figure a way to not use them, I would do that.
SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on November 13, 2007, 04:31:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 13, 2007, 03:45:30 pm ---I was going to suggest Shazaaam!, the above. You'll go down to 29 inputs. Use the data lines from Player and Coin 1 & 2 to minimize any conflicts during play when hitting the Pause button.
But Tiger-Heli's and Fozzy's method don't require the use of diodes. Mine would.
Hell, now that I think about it. You could gain even more free inputs if you combine all our techniques.

--- End quote ---
Personally, I would recommend avoiding the one-click Shazaaam! adapters if there's a way not to do so.

Not that there's a problem, but you're really going beyond what the board was designed for.
--- End quote ---

How do you figure that? Randy has the "one-click" wiring diagrams right there on his website. As long as you restrict the use of the Shazaaam! to admin functions and not try and use them for action buttons, there really shouldn't be much of a problem.
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 13, 2007, 04:39:18 pm ---How do you figure that? Randy has the "one-click" wiring diagrams right there on his website. As long as you restrict the use of the Shazaaam! to admin functions and not try and use them for action buttons, there really shouldn't be much of a problem.

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Basically what you said in the second part of your reply above.

For some reason it's easier for me to keep track of "Okay, don't hit the pinball flippers b/c it will send a High Punch when I don't want to" than  "Okay, I'm going to press Enter now, so I need to be sure not to press any of the action buttons b/c they will send a different key than they normally would."

In practice it works fine, but the concept bothers me - but that's mostly just me ....
SavannahLion:
Oh I see. Different strokes, different folks.

I'm just giving the OP all of his options. My personal opinion is that I abhore the use of admin buttons on the CP. Put them under, put them on the side, put them up near the speakers, whatever. But putting admin buttons on the CP is like having volcano zit on your forehead. You don't want anyone to notice, everyone pretends not to notice, but everyone knows it's there.
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