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Admin Buttons on a Control Panel
Thy:
Hola, I'm still in the process of planing out my first cab and I'm pretty close to complete with that side of things. I got thinking about how people have Admin buttons on their cabs, ie the Exit/Pause buttons and started wondering how these were wired up.
I'm planning on a 2 Player with 6 Buttons and the 2 Pinball buttons on the sides. Now from my understanding the ipac2 has spots for 2 joysticks and 8 buttons each, so where does one wire the admin buttons too?
Any help is appreciated, cheers.
-- Thy
Turnarcades:
i-pacs are programmed to accept any keyboard input for any connection. It has enough connections for 8 buttons each, but as most use 6 buttons for each player, the spare 4 can be programmed for whatever you want. That is how all of our arcades are done, and we have Enter, Escape, TAB and 'P'(pause) programmed into the 4 spare admin buttons as standard.
Thy:
So can multiple buttons be wire to the same spot on the ipac so that if either are pressed the same thing occurs? For example, the buttons on the side of the CP that would act as flippers in pinball, would be the same as button 1 and 2 on top of the CP.
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Thy on February 11, 2008, 09:56:25 pm ---So can multiple buttons be wire to the same spot on the ipac so that if either are pressed the same thing occurs? For example, the buttons on the side of the CP that would act as flippers in pinball, would be the same as button 1 and 2 on top of the CP.
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Yes. That's exactly right. Many people that have a 4 way joy along with an 8 way joy, wire them both to Player 1. Either can be used and both are active at the same time. Doing the same thing with buttons is fine too.
Thy:
Excellent, thanks guys, all making a lot more sense now :D