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specksynder:
So I wired up on control panel on my cocktail cabinet and fired up the pc to see if it worked.  I'm using I-Pac and a mag-stik plus.

Fire up the game, and everything is backwards, so I swap wires.  Game works.

Exit to windows and try to shut down, but in the drop-down menu the menu selection is scrollling as if an arrow key is pressed down.

Did I wire the joystick to normal closed instead of normal open?  Is that why it seemed to be wired backwards?

I used the terminals farthest from the ground.
leapinlew:
Sounds to me like you've wired it to the wrong post
specksynder:
Alrighty then.... now I need to double check my buttons -- they may be miswired too.  Bummer, but better to know now.

Thanks, dudes.
somunny:
My problem was that I kept wiring the directionals backwards, as in left was right, right was left and so on.  I just didn't want to accept that even though you push the stuck to the right, it's hitting the left switch.   :dizzy:

But like Lew said, it sounds like you've got the wires on the NC instead of the NO.
specksynder:
yeah, that should have tipped me off... I made SOOOO sure I had the directions right, that if they were reversed then the switches were wired wrong.

I had ALL the switches wrong... don't know how I read them wrong.  Everything is much better now.  Thanks, everyone!
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