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drventure:
I used a shifted key on my ipac to get to the hot key. Since my shift key is the player 1 start button (the default i believe) it's pretty unlikely that'll get hit in combo with the other required buttons during an actual game.

Finchbyrd:
That's what I figured, except the shifted keys are the number 5, p, and 2 or 3 others. I can't do just that as the hotkey, its asking for ctrl+shift+ and I can add a key, ctrl and shift are defaulted to some joypad buttons, guessing randomly player 1's button 1 and 5, so id be pressing those and shifting by pressing player 1 start to access P, its a octopus of hand buttons because pressing player 1 start isn't the actual shift button, it just allows the ipac/jpac to allow additional keys, which you knew of course I'm just stating for those reading along who may not.

drventure:
Yeah, it was a bit byzantine to get something set that would work AND be able to hit it on my control panel.

One thing that was VERY odd that I noticed was that using a modifier button (ie a button that normally is mapped to Ctrl/shift/alt) with an IPAC SHIFTED BUTTON required that the modifier being in THE OTHER BANK from the shifted button. Get that? Yeah, it took A LOT of playing around to get that setup to actually work.

For instance, if your IPAC SHIFT button is P1 start, and you map the P1 button 5 to a SHIFTED key of F11, then, in order to be able to press Ctrl-Shift-F11, Ctrl and Shift have to be mapped to buttons for players 3 or 4. If you try and map them to players 1 or 2, they just won't work (or they wouldn't for me).

If you look at the WIN IPAC TABLE view, you'll see P1 and 2 in the TOP SECTION and P3 and 4 in the bottom section. Those appearently make some sort of "bank", and modifiers can't be applied to buttons in the same bank? I'm guessing, maybe someone from Ultimarc coudl verify, but that's the way it appeared to work for me.

Finchbyrd:
Wow that's bananas. Thanks for the replies, this part of the setup is still new to me, I just got the J-pac today and haven't hooked it up, I was trying to get all this on the mame pc setup so I can throw it in there and connect remotely to it if I need to do anything else, but it lags a lot visually with ultravnc but not remote desktop, which I know why but can't fix. Anyway, thanks for the help so far

protokatie:
BTW you dont need a special program to do this, windows comes with a command line for dealing with shutdown and reboots.

http://www.computerhope.com/shutdown.htm

Throw the command with the appropriate arguments into a .bat file and use autohotkey to activate it (or have mala run it via CMD.exe upon exiting)

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