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jcroach:
Hi, newbie here with some questions.

I received an I-PAC VE for christmas and I'm stoked to start building an arcade controller and maybe in the future a full cabinet. I e-mailed these questions to Ultimarc but I thought I'd also try here for some help. Please note that I have not yet plugged in my I-PAC VE or tested it.

The Ultimarc web site states that if a custom codeset is used, it is stored in RAM instead of EEPROM.  Can anyone elaborate on this for me? Does this mean that the code set must be recreated every time the I-PAC VE is unplugged or the PC is turned off? Can the code set be saved on my PC and then reloaded or refreshed?  Where is it saved and what would the file name be?

I noticed that there are some extra inputs on the I-PAC VE, labeled 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D.  Does anyone know what the default mapping is for these inputs?

The Ultimarc web site also states that the I-PAC VE will support caps/num/scroll LEDs but that they must be 

jcroach:
.....bump.......

Can anyone help me with this?

zabrin:
I hope someone can answer....I have the same questions... :)

I finished wiring my control panel and it works great...I hope someone can tell us about the extra inputs...

Z.

jcroach:
Well, I loaded up WinPAC IPD yesturday.  nice software.  It appears that the extra inputs are mapped as follows:

1A = C
1B = V
1C = '
1D = X
2A = J
2B = L
2C = 5
2D = ENTER

Which is weird, becuase 5 is the Mame coin-up button and C is Player 1 Button 7, I think.

I'm still tryint to figure out how to get MameWah to automatically reprogram the I-PAC VE based on custom code sets when a certain emulator is loaded.  Do I just put the codeset file name and location into the .ini for the emulator in the "ipc_file_or_path" location?

mcdo15:
why dont u just program emultors to match existing controls you have?

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