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Ginsu Victim:
edit: nevermind. Read it wrong.

BrianP:

--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on September 04, 2008, 12:00:00 pm ---I have too many buttons for the harness to be my main source of buttons (7 buttons, plus start, pause, coin (wired to coin mech), coin (hidden under panel), tab (hidden above marquee), reset (under panel), and F2 (under panel), including several shifted functions).

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I forgot about things like coin, start, etc.  Looks like the harness for an iPac is a good idea....

Combine with a spinner (Ultimarc SpinStik?) which can be wired into the iPac.  Then just figure out the mouse and mouse buttons and I think I an set.

Anyone know if the Ulitmarc Utrack USB interface supports buttons?  I don't see anything on their web page).

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on September 04, 2008, 12:00:00 pm ---Supposedly, if you use the harness, the 8th button is shifted, but I've never tested it.

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Yes it is.  I use the harness myself, each one supporting six action buttons, a Start (which doubles as the SHIFT button) and a coin.  On P2's control, I mapped each one of the action buttons to an admin control when P2 START is held down.   I only tell guests about PAUSE and EXIT, but the rest I use for administration.

I can see though, if you have 7 separate action buttons and you still want a dedicated coin button/door plus start, you may need to go with an iPac.  


--- Quote ---I forgot about things like coin, start, etc.  Looks like the harness for an iPac is a good idea....
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You don't NEED to buy the harness if you're going with an iPac.  You would just use standard wires to hook up the buttons to it.   The harness is only if:

* You want to skip the iPac and attach your buttons to stick as "gamepad buttons" (Input Mode)
* You want to attach the stick itself to the iPac the same way you would a standard 8-way to produce "keystrokes"(Output Mode)
With the latter option, you lose the built-in mapping functionality.

BrianP:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on September 04, 2008, 12:11:58 pm ---
--- Quote ---I forgot about things like coin, start, etc.  Looks like the harness for an iPac is a good idea....
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You don't NEED to buy the harness if you're going with an iPac.  You would just use standard wires to hook up the buttons to it.   The harness is only if:

* You want to skip the iPac and attach your buttons to stick as "gamepad buttons" (Input Mode)
* You want to attach the stick itself to the iPac the same way you would a standard 8-way to produce "keystrokes"(Output Mode)
With the latter option, you lose the built-in mapping functionality.


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Ahh, I am getting it now.  So the idea would be to use the USB line for the U360s and joy2key for any emulators that can't use a USB joystick.  Then (because I want more admin buttons) use an iPac to wire the buttons.......

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote ---You don't NEED to buy the harness if you're going with an iPac.  You would just use standard wires to hook up the buttons to it.
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Unless he means the minipac, which you pretty much require the wire harness that it uses.

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