Need Instructions: U360 + Wire Harness + IPAC

[Dazz]

Ok, normally I can figure this stuff out, but I'm a little slow today... 

I just got my wire harness for my U360's today in the mail along with the longer shafts.  I've been looking at the Ultimarc site, but I can't put 2 + 2 together right now.

Are there instructions or images anywhere that show how to setup the U360's + Wire Harness with an IPAC?

[Ginsu Victim]

What are you out to do? I ask because the U360 with a wire harness shouldn't have anything to do with the IPAC unless you're outputting the U360 to the Ipac, thus losing the functionality of the U360. You might as well use any stick at that point.

[Dazz]

Isn't there a way to keep both digital and analog functionality?  Or am I just reading the Ultimarc site wrong?

I/O Port is used as Output.
USB is connected    I-PAC, J-PAC etc    Fully Mappable Analog/Digital joystick
Cell matrix mappable to any 8-way direction, sticky
or center, or analog.    4 Direction wires to emulate switches.
Responds according to the defined map (downloaded via USB).
Any analog cells are treated as center.

[drventure]

My u360s, they have a USB plug right on them, a usb cable goes from the U360 into a USB hub, no ipac at all.

Is the wiring harness possibly for the buttons ( you can connect up to something like 6-8 buttons on the U360, wish I'd realized that before I bought my IPAC4, by cest la vie 

[ivwshane]

Yeah the wiring harness is if you want the U360 to control your buttons. Each U360 supports 8 buttons so if you have more than that then you may want to either put everything on the ipac or do what I did and put buttons 1-8 together with the U360 and the others connected to a gp-wiz (or ipac in your case).

[AndyWarne]

Both options are correct. The harness can be used for connecting 8 buttons, or it can be used to connect the digital directions to an I-PAC, if you need keycodes to be sent to the PC from the U360 in digital mode rather than gamepad buttons.
For Mame there is no need to connect it to an I-PAC.

[Dazz]

So, what is the recommendation that people are doing for emulation of systems that don't allow joystick input?  Are they using Joy2Key with the U360's?

[Bender]

just curious

what emu's don't allow joystick input?

[Ginsu Victim]

So, what is the recommendation that people are doing for emulation of systems that don't allow joystick input?  Are they using Joy2Key with the U360's?

Joy2Key or the superior Xpadder.

[Dazz]

just curious

what emu's don't allow joystick input?

Zinc and Macaroon are two that come off the top of my head...

[Keechwa]

I have 4 U360s and I use GlovePIE for emulators that don't accept joystick input. I have it map the U360 input to a PPjoy virtual controller along with IPac inputs so that for emulators that only allow one input device I can have them consolidated. It works great. I wrote a little guide on how to do, I could find the thread I posted it in if you'd like.