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Title: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: Diewrecked on August 31, 2008, 01:43:40 pm
Hi guys,

I've got a 3" Happ trackball, two GGG TT2's and an Optipac.  The spinners have their own USB connector board and the trackball has the Optipac, but the Optipac can also handle two spinners. Would you recommend connecting them with the Optipac or their own interface? What's the easiest to hook up/configure?

Thanks all
Jon
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: Diewrecked on September 02, 2008, 04:20:42 pm
Anyone? Can I even plug a TT2 into an Optipac?

Thanks guys :)
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: ideft on September 02, 2008, 09:20:17 pm
No the TT2 need there own interface board.  There is a list of spinners that work on GGG website.
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: Diewrecked on September 03, 2008, 02:21:09 am
Quote from: ideft on September 02, 2008, 09:20:17 pm
No the TT2 need there own interface board.  There is a list of spinners that work on GGG website.

Great many thanks for your advice Ideft.
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: scotthh on September 03, 2008, 09:30:06 am
Try the search (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=search) function. I searched for: Optipac tt2
ideft asked basically the same question last year. One of the replies (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66193.msg668858#msg668858) contradicts his advice.
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: ideft on September 03, 2008, 06:55:01 pm
Sorry my bad,  TT2 spinners don't work with the optiwiz unless you have the special board that comes with it.  Not sure about the optipac. 
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: u_rebelscum on September 04, 2008, 02:42:41 pm
Quote from: ideft on September 03, 2008, 06:55:01 pm
Sorry my bad,  TT2 spinners don't work with the optiwiz unless you have the special board that comes with it.  Not sure about the optipac. 

I thought the board that comes with the TT2 is the optiwiz?  Sure you can't plug the optiwiz into another optiwiz, same with plugging optiwiz into optipac.

TT2 slave version, which AFAIK is the same as the normal version minus the optiwiz, works fine with the optiwiz or the optipac.  (So the normal version minus the optiwiz part should work with the optipac, too.)

edit: Okay, the page (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=268) says "Special Opti-Wiz™ based board".  What the heck does that mean?
Title: Re: Connection question for a trackball on an Optipac and two GGG TT2's
Post by: RandyT on September 04, 2008, 06:13:34 pm
Quote from: u_rebelscum on September 04, 2008, 02:42:41 pm
edit: Okay, the page (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=268) says "Special Opti-Wiz™ based board".  What the heck does that mean?

It means that it is different than the stock Opti-Wiz.  The TurboTwist 2 required a different component to be installed than the one on the stock Opti-Wiz.  The stock Opti-Wiz has been tested extensively (Thanks Kremmit!) with a good number of optical arcade devices, so I did not wish to alter the original design.  This has no bearing on the TT2's ability to be used with other optical interfaces (I understand that it has been done successfully), only that the TT2 requires a special Opti-Wiz.

Anyone wanting to connect a TB and TT2 to the same device should use the Master version of the TT2 and connect the trackball to the interface supplied with it.  However, given the issues with the Z-axis under Windows and the fact that MAME no longer adjusts for it, I find myself recommending that folks just use a separate interface for each unit.  That way, the TT2 can use the X-Axis, the TB can use X and Y, and MAME can keep track of them as MOUSEx.

RandyT