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Sinner:
On a side note...when it was working, I tried pressing the player 1 button, and the player 2 button...shouldn't that have sent the "ESC" key to the computer?  I also tried player 1 and sw1, to try and get a coin, but neither worked...I figured I would get the detection problem out of the way, and deal with this afterwards...

Sinner:
OK, I've figured it out...I'm such a boob...after I wired the player1 controls, I added wire ties to keep everything tidy, unfortunately I bent one of the connectors for 1SW4 and it was shorted against a ground...
I couldn't really see it...the lights of the IPAC fould just come on if I plugged it into the PS/2 port and turned on the PC...the way I saw the lights flash, was a reflection off the computer case, through the back of the cabinet, when I was disconnecting the regular keyboard, and plugging in the IPAC...
I also noticed that when I went to my desktop and tried doing some thing, that everytime I tried to click on an icon, it would select a whole bunch of them, like the shift key was stuck...I wish I had of tried this before posting this thread...
Oh well, thanks to everyone for their suggestions...

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: Sinner on October 17, 2005, 08:55:29 am ---OK, I've figured it out...I'm such a boob...after I wired the player1 controls, I added wire ties to keep everything tidy, unfortunately I bent one of the connectors for 1SW4 and it was shorted against a ground...

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Been there, done that.  Welcome to the club! 

It's frustrating when everything does not work right the first time.  I think it's worse when you think the wiring is good and the encoder is bad, onlyl to find out it was a very small thing with the wiring.  I re-built a control panel two weeks ago and it took a few hours to find where I screwed up.

Sinner:

--- Quote from: HooPZ on October 17, 2005, 09:22:41 am ---
--- Quote from: Sinner on October 17, 2005, 08:55:29 am ---OK, I've figured it out...I'm such a boob...after I wired the player1 controls, I added wire ties to keep everything tidy, unfortunately I bent one of the connectors for 1SW4 and it was shorted against a ground...

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Been there, done that.
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