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clanggedin:
My player 2 buttons 5 and 6 weren't working in MAME either, but I found out that for some reason they are not given values by default. Go into a game and press "tab" then select "General Input" and map button 5 to "i" and 6 to "k".

That fixed it for me. Now, I have an IPAC4 ps/2 version and when I try and program p1 b7 to "p" I get a "device not found" error in WinXP.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Soulcon on August 09, 2004, 04:17:36 pm ---Sounds like you might be un married ;)

My wife is very understanding in the aspect of cab building. That is as long as I build her a pacman Cocktail ;). But this whole thing is the same thing that is happening with me. How I am fixing it is I am double wiring. What this means is basically this.

You have one ground four your purple button that is shared with all other grounds. And one power button for your purple and one for your other button. So lets say youwant to wire the exit key to th epurple button what you would need to do is. Solder two positive wires to your Poistive tab. Then run one wire to P2 start and p1 start. Now when you press the one Purple button it will simulate you pressing Both P1 and P2 causing you to exit the game. Do the same for Pause ;) and you should have both buttons as happy as a clam.

-Soul

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If I read this right, what you are doing is wiring one button to both the P1 and P2 Start inputs to have an exit button.

This won't work reliably b/c the I-PAC expects P1Start THEN P2Start, not both simultaneously.

You can do it if you wire a resistor and capacitor into the circuit as shown at http://www.ultimarc.com/extra_shift.html

Scoobie:
Okay, I was able to get all the buttons working.  It turns out that when using the Ipac VE, you need to program in "Table View" and not "Panel View".  The Table View shows all the inputs on the Ipac VE, where the Panel View only shows the inputs on a regular Ipac2 (even though the Winipac software is recognizing my board as a VE and not a regular Ipac2).

So now that I have the buttons working...the Ipac doesn't load my new panel/settings on the next power up.  I have saved and resaved, but I'm still getting the same result.  I'm only having a problem with the Pause, Esc, Tab and Enter buttons saving/loading.

Any thoughts on saving/loading the new panel settings on power down/up?   ???

Thanks!!

Scoobie:
Here is what Andy at Ultimarc said about the Ipac VE:

"This is the main difference between the regluar I-PAC and the VE: it does not save settings.

So you will need to save your IPC file, and then run WinIPAC from a command
prompt each time you reboot. This can be placed in the startup group so it runs on re-boot. The command is Winipac.exe myconfig.ipc. myconfig.ipc being the name of the saved IPC file.

Andy"

Can someone explain how exactly I can set this up?  I haven't been able to reach Andy in the last couple days.

Thanks!!

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Scoobie on August 14, 2004, 05:17:02 pm ---Here is what Andy at Ultimarc said about the Ipac VE:

"This is the main difference between the regluar I-PAC and the VE: it does not save settings.

So you will need to save your IPC file, and then run WinIPAC from a command
prompt each time you reboot. This can be placed in the startup group so it runs on re-boot. The command is Winipac.exe myconfig.ipc. myconfig.ipc being the name of the saved IPC file.

Andy"

Can someone explain how exactly I can set this up?  I haven't been able to reach Andy in the last couple days.

Thanks!!


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Right-click on C:\autoexec.bat and select Edit.  At the end of the file, type in

C:\winipac myconfig.ipc

Save the file and close NotePad.

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