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Title: Ultimarc Minipac and Xbox 360?
Post by: Dizzle on July 10, 2009, 01:20:33 am
I've got a 4 player control panel with two minipacs.  Is there any solution for getting minipacs working with an xbox 360?  Ultimarc makes ps2/ps3 adapters but nothing for the 360.  And I know there's a ps2 to xbox360 adapter, but from what I understand, it's terribly laggy.

Anyone have any ideas?
Title: Re: Ultimarc Minipac and Xbox 360?
Post by: northerngames on July 10, 2009, 02:17:23 pm
talk to HarumaN about wiring you up some 360 pcb's with a terminal block and then you could put the wire from the mini-pac into them.

there also natural with no lag that way and the actual controller pcb's on the actual system are the actual best results anyhow.

probably be cheaper then buying 3-4 different adaptors for one console too.
Title: Re: Ultimarc Minipac and Xbox 360?
Post by: stephenp1983 on July 14, 2009, 11:26:34 pm
I've got a 4 player control panel with two minipacs.  Is there any solution for getting minipacs working with an xbox 360?  Ultimarc makes ps2/ps3 adapters but nothing for the 360.  And I know there's a ps2 to xbox360 adapter, but from what I understand, it's terribly laggy.

Anyone have any ideas?

Your only option at this point is a 360 pad hack.  There aren't any adapters for the 360 because of the security encryption the controllers use.
Title: Re: Ultimarc Minipac and Xbox 360?
Post by: TPB on July 15, 2009, 01:30:12 pm

Even Xgaming haven't had any luck in persuading Microsoft to allow them to produce adaptors for the 360 ...

http://www.xgaming.com/xbox-360-arcade.shtml


But they do reference this article, which describes how to get the X-Arcade Tankstick working on the 360.  You need the X-Arcade PS2 adaptor.  This plugs into the PS2 port on a 360 adaptor called the "XFPS" :

http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=987


You should be able to do the same thing using Ultimarc's PS2 adaptor.    :)

Cheers.

Title: Re: Ultimarc Minipac and Xbox 360?
Post by: Dizzle on July 15, 2009, 01:56:57 pm
I've got the PS2 adapters, but I think the XFPS adapter is the one that is so laggy it's almost unusable.  Anyone have any experience with it?
Title: Re: Ultimarc Minipac and Xbox 360?
Post by: northerngames on July 15, 2009, 03:55:58 pm
they cost as much as controller 2 hacks so go with the controller hack with no lag