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markrvp:

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--- Quote from: markrvp on October 13, 2005, 06:01:46 pm ---For reference, an Ipac 4 actually appears to the computer as 2 separate keyboards, but every one of the 56 inputs represents a different key on a keyboard.
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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: markrvp on October 15, 2005, 01:53:47 pm ---I think I'm right in saying that it appears as two keyboards.
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NoOne=NBA=:
You HAVE to put two GP-49's into the main CP, if you're going to use two 49-ways in it, so that part is kind of dictated by the design.
Where I would differ with some of the previous suggestions is that I would build an interface BOX for the second controller, using either a KeyWiz, an I-pac, or a GP-Wiz.

What I'm thinking here is to have the actual wires from the 2nd CP terminate in a 25/36/50-pin connector that could plug directly into a corresponding jack on the first CP, and use the interface inside that CP for 4-p operation.
The two GP-49's give you more than enough extra inputs to piggy-back the second controller onto the first without having any of the reconfiguration issues inherent in the multiple interface scenarios above.

When you want to use the 2nd CP as a standalone, you would just plug the cord into a box that has a Key-Wiz, I-pac, or GP-Wiz inside, and then connect the PS/2 or USB cable coming out of that interface box to whatever computer you like.

This is basically the configuration I am currently using on a bunch of my "test" CPs, although I am using an AKI, SJC, and an Oscar Mouse Hack while doing it.
If you are swapping interfaces around, you will probably have reconfiguration issues.
If the interfaces stay connected, and just the controllers swap in/out, you will not have those problems.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on October 15, 2005, 05:41:28 pm ---Where I would differ with some of the previous suggestions is that I would build an interface BOX for the second controller, using either a KeyWiz, an I-pac, or a GP-Wiz.

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I disagree for what he wants to do, but it depends -

If it were an arcade cab and he wanted to plug in an occasional panel for 4P games, then okay.

He wants to be able to use both panels on separate computers and combine them for 4P games.

Your suggestion would be simpler (software wise), if he wants to have the 49-Ways and play 4Player games on PC1 only and use the GP-Wiz Panel on PC2 only.

Mark and my suggestions are cleaner (people are used to seeing a USB hub that the CP plugs into, not a D-sub 36 connector) and better if he wants to use the 49-Way Panel on any computer (anywhere) and the GP-Wiz panel on either of his machines (once he sets the software up.

Mark's solution of two GP-Wiz49's and two GPWiz32's would basically allow either or both panels to be used alone or together on any PC, basically "out of the box".

Crazy Cooter:
So with Marks solution, it would be seen as multiple HID's in the system panel and there would be no interference between the panels?  I didn't know you could use multiple encoders like that.

I understand the joypad stuff because it's joy1, joy2 depending on FIFO (or hardcoded as in #1).

The rest is soooo above my head  :-[.

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