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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: MameMe on April 22, 2004, 08:25:48 pm
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What I want to do
Create a control panel with 3 joysticks. The two joysticks on either ends I want will be 8-ways with 6 buttons each for the fighter type games. The joystick in the middle I want is a 4-way dedicated for games like Pac Man and having NO buttons (unless I need one or two).
Question from experienced group
1) Is this possible to configure?
2) If it IS possible, what kind of special control panel wiring will I have to do so that when I want to play Pac Man I can simply grab that middle 4-way and start playing? Do I wire 2 of the joysticks to the same connection? One 8-way & the 4-way to the same connector on the I-Pac? I plan on using an I-Pac by the way.
3) Has anyone done this before? Please show me with pictures if possible because I've a visual guy, how you did this. Plus I've been planning for a month or so now and still second guessing my ideas.
4) Is this a dumb idea? I thought of this idea because I'd hate to play Pac Man off to one side, hence the middle 4-way in the center of the control panel.
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Yup that's how it's done. The 4-way and the P1 8-way are wired to the same connection or just daisy-chained together.
Then you can just grab the right one depending on the game.
You'll find most mame CP's have a 8-way on either side, trackball in the center with a 4-way and spinner above it
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Yes exactly my first CP layout, although you will probably want at least a couple of buttons for the 4 way.
Just wire up the 4 way stick and buttons to the same terminals that the 8 way stick and buttons are wired to. Easy peasy.
Check mine out
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=12212;start=msg95105#msg95105
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Why don't you get a 4/8 way joystick?
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Why don't you get a 4/8 way joystick?
Like I mentioned I don't want to be off to one side when playing Pac Man. It would be much better to be standing straight in front of the game since its a "one-player at a time" game anyways.
Yes exactly my first CP layout, although you will probably want at least a couple of buttons for the 4 way.
Just wire up the 4 way stick and buttons to the same terminals that the 8 way stick and buttons are wired to. Easy peasy.
Apollo, that is pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Thank you very much for the picture. Do you have a T-Stick PLUS in the middle? What are your joysticks on the ends?
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For anyone that followed this small thred I ended up buying a WICO 4-way leaf joystick off eBay for my Pac Man joystick. It was $24.95+7.00 US shipping to Canada.
As for the other 2 joysticks, I think I'll end up buying 2 Happs Supers or Happs Competition controllers. I don't care if these are switchable 4/8 way, as long as the "feel" is good. I guess the Ultimates are garbage from what I've been reading.
By the way, I had bought an X-Arcade single player controller and those things are horrible. The joystick "clangs/chunks" when moved in circular motions. That's my 2 Canadian cents, so roughly 1.5 cents US.
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if the 4 way is at the same level as the other sticks, and the buttons are not far away... you can actually use existing buttons for the 4 way games....
but you have to try it to see if you feel comfortable or not...
(that's what I'm going to do and I kinda like it...)
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The 2 joysticks on either end are Happs Comps which are great and the stick in the middle is a MsPac/Galag reunion stick also from Happ.
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this is exactly what I"m going to do for my PS2 cab, but I'm going to have the Ms. Pac-Man 4-way attached to both P1 and P2 (cuz namco Museum is funky, if you have 2 controllers plugged in, it forces you to use the second player, but if only one controller plugged in, you gotta share like the original cabinets. I may rethink this though and just hook it up to p1)
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this is exactly what I"m going to do for my PS2 cab, but I'm going to have the Ms. Pac-Man 4-way attached to both P1 and P2 (cuz namco Museum is funky, if you have 2 controllers plugged in, it forces you to use the second player, but if only one controller plugged in, you gotta share like the original cabinets. I may rethink this though and just hook it up to p1)
I could be wrong but I don't think you can do this without some kind of of inline resister.