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megashock5:
I'm considering buying a minipac when I start build my cabinet (very soon) but had a couple of questions.

Do joysticks take up more than one input on the encoder since they replicate multiple keystrokes?

I'm counting 25 buttons on the CP I'm planning, two 8-way sticks, one 4-way stick, plus trackball and spinner.

Will all this fit on a minipac?

thanks in advance!

Knoxximus:
I have a minipac, and each joystick will take up 4 inputs, since each direction is an input.  So right now, your total button count is more like 20 (minus the trackball and spinner 'cause those are a different type of input).  If you're planning on havin' some buttons to go with your controls, ya better look into the IPac-2/4 and an Optipac.

OIC, you mean you have 25 buttons to go with the afore mentioned controls?....get a I-Pac4 and Opti-Pac....DEFINATELY.

Bgnome:
each joystick requires 4 inputs, 1 for each direction.  the only difference between a 4-way and an 8-way is that a 4-way isnt supposed to let you hit 2 at a time, (diagonals).

assuming the 4-way is mapped to the same inputs as one of the 8- ways, you will need 8 inputs for your joysticks alone.  that only leaves you with 20 other inputs on the minipac..  you may consider using the shift function or change your plans if you still want to use one.

megashock5:
Hmm. I was *very* intrigued by how much easier this one seems like it would be as far as hooking it all up. On Ultimarc's site it says, "Can be paired in any combination to increase the total number of  inputs."

Any idea what that means?

Also does this thing come with all the wires and stuff that you need to hook up the controls? It looks like it has a lot of wires in the picture...

thanks again!

Knoxximus:
Yeah, it does.  It's kind of messy, though.  It comes with a wiring harness, and you're gonna hafta play operation and crimp every wire from the controls to every wire on the harness (this is experience talkin' :o ).  No nice screw in connectors like the I-Pac2/4.  But once you do all that, it works as advertised.

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