winIpac shift help

[Keller888]

How in the devil do you assign shifted keys using the Ipac4?  I have all my buttons assigned, that was easy.  I want to give some buttons "shifted" assignments, such as the ~ (tilde) key, for getting into that menu while in MAME.  I can't figure it out.  I know i am missing something simple, help before i start beating my wife for no reason!!

[Sprucemoose]

I'll field this one...

Winipac software.  Select shifted player 1-2 tab.  Assign keys.  Select shifter 3-4 tab.  Assign keys

[jelwell]

Or go into the table view.

Can someone verify if I'm understanding the shift purpose? I think I get it, but I can't understand why you would use it.

The idea is that if I hold down the "shift" button then all my other buttons are suddenly mapped differently?

Or is that pressing the shift button toggles between shifted and unshifted?

I guess the problem is, on a cabinet, it doesn't make much sense to allow the user to F@#$ up the settings. So I want to make it a whole lot more difficult to get at anything other than the standard joystick and button presses. I figure I'm missing the point.
Joseph Elwell.

[Keller888]

ok, do i have to have a button wired into a special slot on the Ipac4 board, meaning, is the Ipac4 looking for a botton already marked as a right or left shift key?  Or do I pick a button on my control panel, and assign that button to be the shift key by highlighting the cp button and then hitting the Left Shift button on the keyboard I have connected to the pass-through?  This is where I think i'm losing it.

[DaemonCollector]

the "Shift" button on the IPAC is not actully the shift key on your keyboard. I have my shift key set to v if i remember correctly. I can't remember off the top of my head how to set it, bvut its in there, I know on the IPAC2 the shift key is player1 start as default, so try that.