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Best keyboard interface for 3 sided cocktail?
vimfuego:
Hi All,
Hoping someone can give me some newbie advice. I purchased a three sided cocktail cabinet off Ebay about 4 years ago, the PC in it has since died so I am going to strip it out and refit with all new components and stick the latest MAME on.
On the control panels there is 24 buttons and 4 joysticks in total. I think I will go with the IPAC-4 as it has plenty of inputs for me, but I am just not sure how it all works as far as do I need separate inputs for all the buttons or would I hook up the fire button on the vertical control panel to the fire button on the horizontal panel too? In which case I could just use the IPAC-2.
Thanks.
SavannahLion:
Honestly, it depends on your choice of games. If you're playing games like 4player Pac-Man or Sprint 8, then you'll want the IPAC-4. If you only ever to expect two players (at most) to ever play at any one time, then use the IPAC-2 and wire the appropriate horizontal controls to appropriate vertical controls.
In other words, if the cab consists of panels 1, 2, 3, & 4. Then wire the controls of #3 in parallel to #1. The only catch is if, playing around someone mischievous, they can screw up player 1's game by manipulating panel #3. There are several solutions but the easiest is to add a manual switch to toggle between panel #1 and #3. Under that scheme panel #4 would be wired in parallel to panel #2. (Note, I am assuming panels #1, #2 is the vertical or head to head controls and #3 & #4 is the horizontal or side-by-side controls).
paigeoliver:
I would go ahead and get the 4-player interface. It doesn't cost that much more, prevents the aforementioned mischief and it allows you to set up for the very limited number of 4 player games that would play right from that kind of setup (like Gauntlet).
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 25, 2013, 09:22:57 pm ---I would go ahead and get the 4-player interface. It doesn't cost that much more, prevents the aforementioned mischief and it allows you to set up for the very limited number of 4 player games that would play right from that kind of setup (like Gauntlet).
--- End quote ---
Oh, Gauntlet, how could I forget?! If you can afford it, do the 4.
IMHO however, you'll do a bit more software acrobatics configuring for those games that use 3 & 4 as 1 & 2. It's not hard just requires a bit of patience.
divemaster127:
I have the ipac4 in stock at arcadeemulator.net, if you need them
dm
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