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Title: 4 - Player Arcade using 2 x Mini Ipac
Post by: viper221w on April 06, 2010, 08:44:15 am

Hi All,

I am in the process of building my first ever arcade system, my arcade is a 4 - player system and uses two mini-ipac's for the wiring of the controls.

I am currently at the stage now where I am using Winipac and have a slight problem, I have designed my 4 - player control panel in WinIpac but don't see the Player 3 & Player 4 connections illuminated in the ipac connection tab. This means I currently only get player 1 & 2.

Is there a trick to get two mini-ipacs configured, I wish to change some of the control mappings on the two mini-ipacs so it will work more smoothly with my emulators.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Paul

Title: Re: 4 - Player Arcade using 2 x Mini Ipac
Post by: HaRuMaN on April 06, 2010, 02:22:00 pm

You need a 4 player Ipac (Ipac-4) to use the software that way...

You have two mini Ipacs...  both of which have a player 1 & player 2.

Title: Re: 4 - Player Arcade using 2 x Mini Ipac
Post by: Dizzle on April 06, 2010, 09:42:36 pm

Yeah, I don't think the software is going to work in that config.  I've got two minipacs on my four player panel too.  I program each one at a time but I don't use the WinIPAC software.  I'm pretty sure the guy who runs Turnarcades uses two minipacs in has 4 player panels.  Maybe see how he programs them?

Title: Re: 4 - Player Arcade using 2 x Mini Ipac
Post by: mphuie on April 09, 2010, 06:02:20 am

It looks like you can reprogram the keys.  Why not plug your 2nd one in then remap the keys to the MAME 3rd and 4th player config?   I don't think it matters if the config software correctly detects which one is which.  Just config them each separately.