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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: numbnutz48 on October 05, 2009, 10:47:48 pm
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I am wiring my control panel as we speak. I have my joysticks wired. 1- 4 way, 2- 8 way. I have a jump and a fire button for the single player 4- way wired up already.
The 8- way sticks each have a 6 button setup :
1 2 3
4 5 6
I have an IPAC4 encoder, running only 2 player CP. For typical mame configuration, how should these 6 buttons be wired?
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Pretty much any way you want. You can always remap them in WinIPAC later if they don't work out. No need for rewiring anything.
For me, I used a 7 button layout wired like so
b5 b6 b7
b1 b2 --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type--
b3
But that's because I wanted the most oft used buttons on the bottom row.
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It doesn't really matter how the buttons are wired, as long as the buttons are wired as seperate inputs: just remap in mame.
Most people wire like thus:
b1 b2 b3
--BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- b5 b6
I prefer:
--BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- b5 b6
b1 b2 b3
because I too like the most used buttons on the bottom.
The nice thing about mame is you can remap on a game to game bases (and at several grouping levels if you use a ctrlr file). So with remapping, you could do this ('mb' = mame button):
1-3 button games:
mb1 mb2 mb3
mb1 mb2 mb3
6 button games:
mb1 mb2 mb3
mb4 mb5 mb6
and MK 5 button games:
mb1 mb2 mb3
mb4 mb2 mb5
Note that for player 2, you're going to have to remap buttons 5 & 6, as mame has no keys mapped for defaults for these buttons.