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Title: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: clickhea on June 22, 2008, 06:55:45 pm

i have a minipac which iam using to wire the trackball... i also have a tt2 spinner with its own interface board.

am i better off using the tt2 interface board, or putting both the trackball and spinner to the minipac?  or does it not matter.

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: DeLuSioNal29 on June 22, 2008, 08:44:47 pm

I would go with the interface that the TT2 came with.  The TT2 works at a higher resolution than a normal spinner so using another interface may not be the best thing to do.

~ DeLuSioNaL

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: clickhea on June 22, 2008, 08:50:00 pm

alright thanks for the info

one more question


my buttons are in this kinda layout


    oOo
    oOo
  o

would button 1 be the top left, button 2 middle top  button 3 top right, button 4 lower left button 5 lower middle button 6 lower right button 7 thumb button

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: nuka1195 on June 22, 2008, 10:21:28 pm

this is where we made the mistake.

we did the 7 button layout but placed the thumb button further away so our button layout is.

  456
  123

7

the bad thing is, it seems easier to reach down that up.

so i think if your thumb button is close to the bottom row i would do.

  123
  456
7

i should have read more, but did not find this answered.

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: DeLuSioNal29 on June 22, 2008, 10:46:55 pm

Yes, mine is:

 123
 456
7

Works great for me and I also made 7456 my abcd buttons in neo geo games.

~ DeLuSioNaL

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: clickhea on June 23, 2008, 09:52:26 am

oh alright i wasnt sure if they had to be wired a certain way for the games to work properly

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: clickhea on June 23, 2008, 11:23:10 am

right now i have my grounds from all my buttons daisy chained to the minipac.



i have 2 u360's with a wiring harness which also have a ground wire.


is it okay to leave all my buttons daisy chained to the minipac even tho iam using the u360 wiring harness to wire up my players buttons?

Title: Re: whats the best way to do this (control panel wiring)
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 23, 2008, 11:30:31 am

No. You want to use the ground from the U360 for any buttons hooked up to it.