i-pac shift buttons

[thintwowin]

I made 5 of the 6 shift fuction key on my CP.

I am trying to wire them so you dont have to hold player1(shift hey).

In other words I want 5 deicated buttons so i dont have to hold shift key.

I tried running 2 wires from the deicated "esc" key to the 2 different terminals...but then my player1 real button did "esc" also, instead of doing its player 1 function.

I i got a i-pac board

If anyone knows how to wire the deicated buttons on i-pac pls help

thanks

[The Loafer]

1 - Which IPAC do you have?
2a - How many buttons are presently wired up?
2b - How many spots are still available on your Ipac?
3 - You connecting through PS2 or USB?
4 - When you turn on your PC, does your IPAC's little green light flash? If so, how many times? Does it stay lit?

Check out this site, might help. THere are FAQ's there, but you need to select the right version matching your board.
http://www.ultimarc.com
Scratch that, the FAQ seems to be for all models:
http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac5.html

This may not be advice you want to hear but without seeing your setup, it's very difficult to tell where your problem lies. Run the tester software that came with your IPAC and test ALL your keys. The keys that are not working properly, I would remove the wiring on those and rewire each and keep testing.

[EVEGames]

Thintwowin,
I'm having a hard time understanding your problem. Do you want dedicated 'admin' buttons on your control panel, like 'ESC' and Pause? It sounds like you don't want to use the IPac's shift functions. This is fine, just wire up each button to a terminal on your IPac, don't worry if you are wiring your dedicated 'ESC' button to the terminal reserved for, say, 'Player 1 Button 7'. These labels are just guidelines. Just wire each button to one terminal on the IPac, set the jumper for custom configuration, and program the IPac as you see fit.

[thintwowin]

yea I want 5 deicated buttons

I have a ipac-1 I think bought it 5 years ago with friend and we never built cab...lol

I have have built mine now

I have 28 inputs all being used

coin1
coin2
player1
player2
joy1-4
joy2-4
player1 has 8 buttons
player2 has 8 buttons

so I have no terminals to program, I think the problem. I was just trying do it wiring it up.
I was running 2 wires from esc button to player1 terminal and player2 terminal tring to just wire the button to work cause i thought when the i-pac got 2 command it would do that function..it does esc but so does my player1 button.


I guess what i need is another i-pac. instead of a wiring problem

[EVEGames]

Thintwowin,
I still think you can pull this off with what you have, but I have a couple questions...

I have 28 inputs all being used
Forgetting about your 5 admin buttons for a second, you have 8 buttons per player on your control panel?? Or do you have the usual 6? If you could post a pic of your control panel, that would help greatly.

I'm going to assume for a moment that you have only 6 buttons per player. You can use the terminals for Player 1 & Player 2 Button 7 & 8, there's 4 of your admin buttons right there. Even 5 years ago, Ipacs were programmable. There is a jumper somewhere on that board for 'MAME' / 'ALT'. 'ALT' lets you program the board any way you want. Assign Player 1 Button 7 to 'ESC', P1 B8 to 'P' for Pause, whatever you want. As for that 5th admin button, sacrifice Player 2 Coin. It only makes a difference in a small percentage of games, and for those you can fall back on a Shifted button.

[thintwowin]

I made 8 buttons for each player.

I knew they are very rarely used, but i did it anyways.

I guess I could cut me another piece of mdf .

Or , I do have 2 extra i-pac boards the same ones ..can they be wired together? to get my 5 admin buttons?

[EVEGames]

I think you can hook up two IPacs at the same time, I think it's a bit tricky, never done it myself. I'd do a search on the BYOAC forums for that, or just ask Andy (fron Ultimarc) directly. Here's one last option, but it will cost you more money. The Ultimarc UltraStik360 is direct-to-USB, and even has its own built-in encoder terminals. In other words, a pair of U360 joysticks would free up 8 terminals on your IPac, at the very least. Keeping in mind the next version of HyperSpin will have LEDBlinky support, which in turn has automatic U360 remapping capabilities, you'd be on the cutting edge...