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struby:
I am going to complete my control panel, which is a 4 player one, i will have either 6 buttons and a joystick for all 4 players or the 3 and 4 players might just have 4 buttons, and I will pry have a trackball, but I don't think that is an issue for this situation, i'll just have to get a mouse hack together for that, so anyway, I use Mame 32, windows xp, and it will be set up on my current desktop pc  and I will pry get a laptop, so here's what i'm looking for:

An easy step by step from someone who will know the easiest and fastest way to interface the IPAC4, and get it set up to play in mame, meaning button configs and all, I don't want to wire things wrong and have to reconfig all of mame32 button stuffs if not necessary, so i have buttons, wires, and quick disconnects, can someone get me a step by step to playing games in mame assuming i have all necessary equipment?

Thanks a ton in advance.

ahofle:
The defaults of the IPAC coincide with MAME defaults.  Just connect the P1 button1 wire to the P1B1 input on the IPAC, etc.  Run all the grounds to the ground terminal.  Plug in the IPAC and you should be able to start MAMEing.

struby:
ok that sounds easy, mame will just recognize the ipac and i can go into mame and select the ipac interface as the controls, reset all my games to default, and they should work as they would in the arcade?
also, what is the button pattern typically?  1  2  3
                                                                    4  5  6    or is it different, and what is it for marvel vs capcom, if not the typical setup?

ahofle:
MAME won't know you have an IPAC.  The IPAC appears to be a keyboard to your computer, and MAME is already setup by default to accept keyboard input (left, up, down, ctrl, alt, space, etc).  You should be able to plug in the IPAC and start playing without mapping anything (assuming you correctly wired everything). 

I also have my buttons aligned as you mentioned, and I believe most games with that many buttons do too:
1 2 3
4 5 6

struby:
ok excellent thanks for the help, now if I only have one keyboard slot, what do i do, how do i use my keyboard for computer and setup stuff and then have mame use the ipac

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