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TheShanMan:

Can you hook up multiple keywiz'es? I may want to add a 2nd for 4 player operation in the future.

Can they drive keyboard led's like the ipac or do I have to buy an ledwiz for that?

How long does loading a key profile (or whatever it's called) take if I don't use the default mame profile?

I was looking at the mini-pacs/ipacs previously but with my swappable panel design I want to use db25 cables, so the db25 version of the keywiz would GREATLY simplify construction. But I'm afraid one of these issues could be deal breakers. :(

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: TheShanMan on February 14, 2008, 02:39:22 pm ---Can you hook up multiple keywiz'es? I may want to add a 2nd for 4 player operation in the future.
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Not really, but you could use a GP-Wiz or USB I-pac for the second board.


--- Quote ---Can they drive keyboard led's like the ipac or do I have to buy an ledwiz for that?
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I don't think so unless RandyT added that to later models - it's somewhat over-rated anyway, though.


--- Quote ---How long does loading a key profile (or whatever it's called) take if I don't use the default mame profile?
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I think it's about 10 seconds on WinXP and about 5 seconds in Win98.  It's long enough to be annoying, but the default profile is very good so not much reason to load a different one (and you can load one at bootup) so for a true cab it would be less annoying (I have a desktop control panel.)

TheShanMan:

What do you mean "it's somewhat overrated"? I am currently doing it with my keyboard hack because I have a centipede cab with those cone player 1 player 2 led buttons. I definitely want to keep those working. Do you mean having those led's on your panel is overrated or something else?

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: TheShanMan on February 14, 2008, 04:22:52 pm ---What do you mean "it's somewhat overrated"? I am currently doing it with my keyboard hack because I have a centipede cab with those cone player 1 player 2 led buttons. I definitely want to keep those working. Do you mean having those led's on your panel is overrated or something else?

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Technically, I have a prototype KeyWiz that added support for the keyboard LED's, and have the LED's above the start buttons on my panel.

Before I got the panel I really wanted this feature, but unless you hack the MAME source, it only works for something like 16 games and wasn't a big deal to me - just my personal opinion.

OTOH, if it is a big deal to you and you have the skills to do a keyboard hack, you could always hack a USB keyboard and only use it for the keyboard LED's - if your mobo supports USB.

Just a thought.

TheShanMan:

Good point - I could still use that part of my kb hack.

Does the gp-wiz have any downsides compared to normal kb encoders? It must have SOME disadvantage, right? Other than that I can't get it in a db-25 version? Looking more closely, it looks like I wouldn't be able (out of the box) to use it to work the mame admin (tab) functionality? If so, looks like a good secondary encoder but not primary.

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