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dema:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 20, 2005, 10:36:39 am ---
--- Quote from: dema on April 20, 2005, 10:11:57 am ---
Method 3 - Wire one Button to Terminal 1, which sends L Ctrl, and one Button to Terminal 2, which sends L Alt.
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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: dema on April 20, 2005, 10:46:05 am ---How does the computer distinguish between player 1 and player 2 when using a couple GP 49 Wiz's, and what keeps one from making a third encoder output the same thing as player 1?

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Think of the GP-Wiz49 as a hacked gamepad.  The first one plugged in becomes gamepad 1.  The second becomes gamepad 2.  You can't plug the third one in and re-program it or tell the computer that both it and gamepad one are the same thing, but you can tell MAMETM to use either gamepad one or gamepad 3 for the first player movement.

BTW, it would also be possible to do what you want using a KeyWiz Omni-Stick in 4-way mode on the classics panel, wiring it to the last 4 buttons of the first GP-Wiz49, and configuring MAME to recognize either input.  But you're back to microswitches, but it's a little less money.

IntruderAlert:
But why do you need the 49 ways if you are going to have all of those panels?
I thought the advantage of 49ways was so that you wouldn't need to have so many controls.
Couldn't you just use the real controls for each panel and come out cheaper anyway?
Or am I missing something in what you have planned here?

RandyT:
I think re-mapping MAME(tm) would work just fine, but it's only a solution for MAME.

If that is your only concern, then buy a 3rd unit and follow TigerHeli's advice.

Otherwise a manual switch is probably your best (and cheapest) bet.

RandyT

dema:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 20, 2005, 11:06:44 am ---
--- Quote from: dema on April 20, 2005, 10:46:05 am ---How does the computer distinguish between player 1 and player 2 when using a couple GP 49 Wiz's, and what keeps one from making a third encoder output the same thing as player 1?

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Think of the GP-Wiz49 as a hacked gamepad.
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