selecting winipac files per emulator

[mlcampbe]

Up until now my cabinet was only used for MAME games. So I did not have a need to use a different button/key mapping. However, I have decided to add some PC games under a new emulator and these need to have different mappings.

The plan is to create a new winipac file to use for the PC games. From the mamewah wiki I see the question "How can I use WinIPAC to program my IPAC from MAMEWAH?" but it seems to indicate that each game needs its own file. Is that correct? Do I create a new .ipc file for each game under the PC emulator or do I just need a single .ipc for the entire PC emulator?

[Deadly]

Mamewah is no different than any other program. It's going to use the IPAC in it's current state. I would imagine your only option is to write a batch file that would flash the .IPC of your choice and then launch the game. Remember the IPAC is ram, which means it can only be flashed a certain amount of times before it'll burn out. Not really the ideal way to do things but if you want the IPAC to serve different configurations it's the only way you're going to get the results you want.