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iPAC QUESTIONS FROM A NEWB

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reptileink:
You guys are kinda missing the issue....lol.

I bought the X-Arcade, and took it all out of the factory housing to install into my CP because I was originally using an Xbox as the brain of the arcade.

For some reason, no matter what I tried, the controllers would only work with Xbox games, and not roms/emus. I tried to configure every Emu, with no success. Then buttons stopped working, blah blah blah.

So I wanted to strip off all the wiring, and just wire the buttons/joystick to the Ipac.

My question was this: Do I have to "jump" the buttons together? On the X-arcade, each button is connected to the next with a "jumper" and then to the PCB. With an Ipac, can I just wire each button directly, or do I have to mess with jumping wires to each button?

Also, does the Ipac have instructions?

BobA:
Buttons on an xarcade are in groups of 4 with a ground.  These go back to the xarcade PCB.  Once the xarcade wires are taken off the switches and joysticks then you wire all the COM or common connectors on the buttons together in a daisy chain.  This is your ground for the ipac.   Each button NO or normally open is then wired to the ipac. 

This is the instruction page for wiring and ipac.

Ipac Wiring

llars:
It shouldn't make a difference where the pushbuttons come from they all wire the same. You will have two wires coming off of each switch, one ground and one to the NO post. You run a single wire from the NO of each button to the terminal for that button on the ipac. For the ground you typically chain all of them together from button to button to button, and then finally it connects to the ground on the ipac.

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