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isucamper:

--- Quote from: TPB on February 19, 2008, 02:51:40 am ---With the mechanical rotaries, in addition to your I-PAC4, you'll need an interface such as this :

http://www.ultimarc.com/rotary.html

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Hi.  Question from a confused noob here (1st post!!)

Why do you need to use this interface "in addition to your I-PAC4"?  The description on ultimarc says that the rotary interface connects directly to USB.

Sorry if this is a dumb question.  I'm at the breadth of taking in the massive amount of information on this site in an effort to learn how to build my own CP.  Thanks in advance. 
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: isucamper on March 27, 2008, 08:42:13 am ---Why do you need to use this interface "in addition to your I-PAC4"?  The description on ultimarc says that the rotary interface connects directly to USB.

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First -- welcome.

To answer your question, the rotary interface is, for lack of better terminology, a rotary interface. I know that sounds smart-assed, but what I am saying is that the rotary interface only handles the rotation aspect (e.g. Twist Left, Twist Right) of the sticks -- the actual directional movement (e.g. Up, Down, Left, Right) of the sticks needs to be handled by something else (e.g. the IPac).
isucamper:
ah ha!

makes sense.  thank you
DrFrag:
I'm building one to be able to play Ikari and Midnight Resistance, so I did a bunch of research on this too.  :)

I ended up choosing an IPAC4 with an OptiPAC for the rotary part.  I haven't assembled my control panel yet, but I laid out a test setup and it worked very well.  Really easy to set up once you've got the parts in your hands.

For the joysticks, I went with Optical Rotary Joysticks.  Although the Mechanical Rotary Joysticks seemed to be more true to the original (softly clicking into position as you turn your character), I read some posts that the emulation in MAME isn't too accurate on this.  That is, you turn the joystick one click and your character might turn two, or none at all.  Not wanting to go through any problems with this, I went with the Optical ones.  As a bonus, I should be able to use them as spinners, and maybe even as X+Y mouse controls for any frontend work provided I boost the sensitivity.

The pin outs on the joysticks weren't labelled properly, but it didn't seem to do any damage connecting them the wrong way.

Good luck!
Minwah:

--- Quote from: DrFrag on March 27, 2008, 11:09:27 pm ---
Although the Mechanical Rotary Joysticks seemed to be more true to the original (softly clicking into position as you turn your character), I read some posts that the emulation in MAME isn't too accurate on this.  That is, you turn the joystick one click and your character might turn two, or none at all.

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This is worth repeating I feel...
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