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Ginsu Victim:

The wire harness and USB plug into two different spots.

The Ipac is an excellent product used by MANY of us here. Unless you're planning on having a lot of admin buttons, the wire harness isn't needed if you're getting the Ipac (plus, you can set shifted functions through the Ipac).

BrianP:


--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on September 04, 2008, 11:32:36 am ---Unless you're planning on having a lot of admin buttons, the wire harness isn't needed if you're getting the Ipac (plus, you can set shifted functions through the Ipac).

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So, you would suggest using joy2key rather than getting the wiring harness?

cadmium:


--- Quote from: BrianP on September 04, 2008, 11:30:01 am ---I was planning to get an iPac for the button layout.  Unless there is a better way to do it (can you tell I know nothing).  Looking at Ultimarc's site, it looks like the wiring harness is used instead of the USB connection?  Correct?  So I can't really run both without changing the cables?

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Unless you have a strong need for more buttons, you shouldn't need an I-PAC.

If you have a u360 you can wiring up to 8 buttons to each one using the wiring harness (Ultimarc refers to this as inputmode). The only thing connected to your computer is the usb cable. So:

buttons -> [wiring harness, input mode] -> u360 -> [usb] -> computer

In my case, I already have my whole panel wired through an I-PAC and I'm replacing some happ comps with u360's, so it's easier for my to use the wiring harness to output a digital signal (this is called output mode) to keep me from reconfiguring all of my non-mame emulators (daphne, kaga, nestopia, mess, etc). So:

u360 -> [usb] -> computer
         -> [wiring harness, output mode] -> I-PAC -> computer

But that only makes sense to do because I've already invested in the I-PAC, if i were to do it again I would probably stick with just the u360's  and use the wiring harness in input mode.

Clear as mud?

BrianP:


--- Quote from: cadmium on September 04, 2008, 11:48:41 am ---If you have a u360 you can wiring up to 8 buttons to each one using the wiring harness (Ultimarc refers to this as inputmode). The only thing connected to your computer is the usb cable. So:

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Ah, so using this, I could define 7 buttons for each player and 2 admin buttons?  I assume joy2key will work for the buttons also (for non-USB emulators?)

(this is all starting to make sense now)

Ginsu Victim:

Supposedly, if you use the harness, the 8th button is shifted, but I've never tested it.

I have too many buttons for the harness to be my main source of buttons (7 buttons, plus start, pause, coin (wired to coin mech), coin (hidden under panel), tab (hidden above marquee), reset (under panel), and F2 (under panel), including several shifted functions).

Plus, you'll have to use joy2key for emulators that don't use gamepad buttons, because that's how windows sees it.

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