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Interface help.....
paigeoliver:
You want a JPac and one of andy's USB gamepad encoders, that pair will hook up all that 3rd and 4th player stuff that is only going to get used once.
Oscar has a USB interface available cheaply with his spinners and USB/PS2 trackballs are widely available and they need no interface at all.
Tiger-Heli:
I agree with Paige as usual, but I think I would consider the GP-Wiz (and maybe the no-solder Eco version) for Player 3 and 4 over the A-PAC, unless you plan to add a steering wheel or race pedals or SW yoke or other analog controls to the cabinet later on.
monkeybomb:
Even with the Jpac doesn't he still need an Arcade VGA or is there video built into the Jpac.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: monkeybomb on June 09, 2005, 12:32:44 pm ---Even with the Jpac doesn't he still need an Arcade VGA or is there video built into the Jpac.
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He'll still need either the ArcadeVGA or a vid card with AdvMame AFAIK.
My take on it:
You need the JPAC - that'll take care of the cab end of the monitor problem as well as players 1 and 2.
You need another encoder for players 3 and 4.... A-Pac, GP-Wiz, whatever... Now you have all 4 players ready to go.
You need a video solution - either an arcadeVGA or an AdvMame solution (which I know nothing about personally)
You need to hook up that spinner and trackball too, so you need either an Opti-Pac or a few of Oscars hacked mice.
Another possiblity: maybe you chould hook up a Mini-Pac and a JPAC in the same cab, which could elminiate the Opti-pac/hacked mice needs. I'm not sure if this is possible/worth it though, since I think the Mini-pac may conflict with the JPAC... unless you can reprogram it.....
my .02
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on June 09, 2005, 12:39:38 pm ---Another possiblity: maybe you chould hook up a Mini-Pac and a JPAC in the same cab, which could elminiate the Opti-pac/hacked mice needs. I'm not sure if this is possible/worth it though, since I think the Mini-pac may conflict with the JPAC... unless you can reprogram it.....
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Either the mini-pac or the J-PAC can be reprogrammed. Only the I-PAC VE and the KeyWiz encoders use SDRAM and thus must be programmed again on re-boot.
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