| Main > Main Forum |
| Need Help Wiring the Escape, Enter, Pause Buttons |
| (1/3) > >> |
| jmike:
???Hey all, I'm working on my first custom arcade control panel and well I've ran into a little bit of confusion, I noticed some arcades have an ESCAPE, ENTER, PAUSE buttons. (which I would love to do) but I don't really understand how to wire my i-Pac4 and which inputs to use. I've read the description @ ultimarc but it mentions that two inputs are assigned as shift keys to access two code sets. How do I wire these 3 buttons? Any help would be appreciated. I was smart enough not to drill the holes for these 3 button on my CP until I understand how to wire them. Thank you. :dizzy: |
| TheShanMan:
You could take a couple of different approaches. Wire them up as separate buttons, or use the shift keys to reuse other buttons. I have dedicated escape and pause buttons (wired to their own inputs), but I just reuse my P1 Button1 for enter. I use shifted buttons only for things that are administrative in nature. For instance, I have tab (mame menu) on a shifted button. Actually now that I reread your post, I guess you have decided on dedicated buttons. In that case, just wire them into your ipac just like any other button - they would get their own input. Shifting is just for re-using existing buttons to send a different keystroke. To illustrate, I have my pause button set as a shift key, and I get into my mame menu (tab) by holding pause and pressing escape. Does that make sense? |
| jmike:
Yes that makes perfect sense. Since it's my first wiring CP I wasn't sure how it worked. I know that on the regular keyboard the "P" key is pause, which input would that be on the i-PAC or would it be programmed later on? This is the link for my Portabel Control Panel project in case you want to see where I am... http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=83337.0 any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :cheers: |
| javeryh:
Just wire it separately. Then when you hit Tab to go to the settings in MAME, change "Pause" to whichever input you wired. You can still keep it assigned to "P" on the keyboard as well because MAME allows for multiple buttons to be assigned to one action. |
| jmike:
:applaud: Thanks. That clears things up. I'll go ahead and drill the holes for the extra buttons. ESCAPE and ENTER can be reprogrammed to these additional button as well, yes? |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |