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happyfunball:
after collection arcade controller hardware, tools I didn't have, wood, etc and freezing my butt off in my first winter in Ohio, I finally have a couple of control panels built to try out some configurations to see how I like them.
my main issue is the first one, a slightly modified multi-williams style layout. two 4/8 way joysticks, coin button, 1,2 player buttons, and 6 buttons for gameplay.

it seems to work pretty well until I tried robotron, which really doesn't seem to work at all. the 2nd joystick isn't firing and the 1st isn't moving anywhere but down.

this seems odd since the 1st joystick is working with no problems in every other game I've tried, as well as at least the first two buttons.
Defender and Stargate won't fully load with the minipac plugged in, and if I wait till it gets to the attract screen, nothing I press or move will register in the game. its very odd.
I built the control panel to play williams games, and they spurn me.

does anyone have any suggestions on this bizarre circumstance?

many thanks

Dervacumen:
You've probably already done this, but hook a keyboard up to the minipac, load up Robotron and try going in to the configuration screen (Tab key).  Then go to Input (this game) and reassign the keys to the ones on your controller.  For example, move the cursor down to P1 UP, press the ESC the field blanks out and then you can just move the player 1 joystick up and reassign the input to that joystick direction.  Try that for all directions on both sticks and see if Robotron works.  I think I had to reassign the player 2 joystick on Robotron.  I can check tomorrow if someone else doesn't get you going first.

happyfunball:
I haven't tried much of anything yet. mostly just been dorking around with it and testing it with games. I only thought it might be a problem after 3 williams games didn't want to work.

not sure what you mean by hooking a keyboard up to the ipac.. could you sort of step through that in a bit more detail?
before last weekend I hadn't really gotten my hands dirty into this, just had a big pile of parts to put together. its been a fair bit of a learning experience.

MTPPC:
Try holding the Player 1 start button while pushing Joystick 1 to the right and see if the menu comes up where you can set the controls.

happyfunball:
that worked. robotron is now playing perfectly. I've been looking how to set specifc controls for specific games but hadn't been able to find that in the documentation.

now if only I could get defender/stargate to work..

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