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Kaytrim:

--- Quote from: BobA on April 05, 2007, 06:15:31 pm ---Alternately you can buy a prewired and terminated harness for the minipac from Ultimarc.



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What's the fun in that????

btp2k2:
Well, that and I started this thread with the intention of finding an alternate to the minipac. I have had too many issues, and as I stated before I need more than the 28 inputs the minipac can provide. The Minipac has a bad habit of losing it's programming when you power down the PC. This has happened on every minipac board I have had on every computer I have setup.

BobA:
You know how these threads get off topic.  I have a GGG Keywiz an IPAC and a minipac and if you need a few extra inputs the Keywiz is the way to go cuz you can add all the shazam adapters you need to pick up the extra keys without touching the shazam button.

KenToad:

--- Quote from: bfauska on April 05, 2007, 11:55:53 am ---So far you're getting the same advice I think I would give as a current GPwiz user.  MAME allows flawless use of the GPwiz, some of the other emulators I run however have a few problems.  Nestopia doesn't recognize buttons above number 20 I think so it made carefull button assignment necessary, but I was able to make it work.  Either Stella, or my SNES emulator (I don't remember which SNES one I have, I've only used it to see if I should set it up) only allows inputs expected to be joysticks to act as joysticks, so while I can use all the buttons for player 1 and 2 I have no way of adding a joystick to player 2.  Little things like that are less likely with a KB encoder, but I think they are all workaroundable if you use the GPwiz with some extra software. 

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This is really great information that should be more well-known in the community.  At least, I didn't even consider a lot of those problems and definitely didn't read about them until I was actually setting up my hardware.

The fact that some emus will only accept up to input 20 or whatever really shows that the developers aren't BYOAC'ers, since what gamepad goes up past button 20?  The KeyWiz has been by far the most versatile encoder for me to have, although my bartop has two GP-Wiz49's and a Keywiz, which is pretty much only there for admin buttons and for Visual Pinball, which has the most pathetic system of remapping controls.  If I were to make a new panel without 49-way sticks, I would definitely choose a KeyWiz for it's virtually universal usefulness, from PC games to every emu I have ever tried. 

I tried and didn't enjoy RB Joy.  It's just too much hassle and kind of silly unless you have an overpowered machine to begin with.  If you're too poor to afford a KeyWiz, you're not likely to be able to afford a decent computer for running extra stuff behind your frontend/emus.  Well, maybe ....

I want to build all those developers their own arcade CP's, so they can stop playing their cool games with a keyboard and MadCatz gamepad and step up to real gaming excitement!   

:soapbox:   :D

btp2k2:
Now one thing I am confused about with the GPWiz.....I get the impression it only handles player 1 stuff? Do I need to add a second GPWiz for player 2 controls?

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