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Ipac/4 Not registering certain keypresses?!?!?!
nipsmg:
I tried posting to the ultimarc forum and e-mailing andy, but that might take some time..
I've got a problem:
My setup is like this:
Control panel -> 2 parallel cables -> ipac4
EVERY button on my CP works except for the ones I'm using for emulator options, which are P1B7, P1B8, P2B7, P2B8, and the higher P3 and P4 buttons.
I at first thought there was a problem with the wiring.. so I hooked up the parallel cables, put a contact from my voltmeter on the wire inside the control panel, and touched a contact to the screw on the terminal on the IPAC for that button. I got a beep (there's definitely continuity). so I got a microswitch, hooked the ground wire up to the common ground inside my cabinet, then touched the wire to one of the connections in my panel that already work (like Player 1 Button 1), and clicked the switch. WinIPAC IPD responds.
When I touch the wire to one of the connections for the buttons that don't work.. NOTHING.
So I wired a microswitch directly to the ipac tesing random connections that worked in the panel, and they worked here. Then I wired to gnd and P1b7 AND/OR p1b8.. none of the clicks register in the panel designer. Am I doing something horribly wrong here?
Help me!!!
--NipsMG
Zathras:
Do those buttons have a default program? If not you may need to program in a keypress to those in order to work.
I know my IPAC ocassionally "loses" its programming and suddenly my admin buttons act like they aren't hooked up (I believe I have them on similar if not the same buttons - higher # buttons). I don't get anything when using the keypress shower application - but then I click program and it works like a charm.
Trying to figure out if it is anything I am doing to wipe out the programming but it only happens once a month or so.
nipsmg:
I just tried what you suggested, no dice.
:-/
It's really weird how only these few don't work..
Player 2 buttons 1-6 work fine, but 7 and 8 don't?!? it's really getting on my nerves. >:O
Any other suggestions?
Apollo:
Don't you have to program those for the individual game i.e. play the game press pause, press tab then program the buttons? There is no support for those buttons on the I-Pac ( same for player 2 buttons 5 and 6 ).
nipsmg:
The IPAC Panel Designer allows you to program the keys for all the inputs on the board.
It also responds when you press programmed keys. I've programmed values for all the inputs on the board, but only certain ones don't respond.
I tried going into mame and seeing if I could set a game key to one of the buttons in question, but there was no response in mame either :-/
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