Best Ipac 4 Config????

[Phantom]

Olla,

I just redid my control panel. I had it hooked up with 4 modded PS2 controllers but decided to clean it all up and bought an I-Pac4. So far I love it.

I haven't actually played too much with it since I just now finished rewiring it, but I thought I would ask you guys ahead of time for some help before I spend hours testing the different possibilities....

The IPac by default seems to use some of the same keys for different players;

For Example

Player 1 Button 8 is V and so is Player 4 Left

&

Player 2 Buttons 5 to 8 AND Player 3 Up, Down, Left, Right all use keys I,K,J,L

Even though I only have 6 buttons is there a recommended configuration to use for the Ipac so that each player has its own Key, not only in Mame but also in other emulators?

I just want to avoid programming the IPac with my own settings only to find out that it does something else (especially with Mame having so many used keys)

What have you done to get around this?

Thanks for the help

[Brian Hoffman]

Olla,

I just redid my control panel. I had it hooked up with 4 modded PS2 controllers but decided to clean it all up and bought an I-Pac4. So far I love it.

I haven't actually played too much with it since I just now finished rewiring it, but I thought I would ask you guys ahead of time for some help before I spend hours testing the different possibilities....

The IPac by default seems to use some of the same keys for different players;

For Example

Player 1 Button 8 is V and so is Player 4 Left

&

Player 2 Buttons 5 to 8 AND Player 3 Up, Down, Left, Right all use keys I,K,J,L

Even though I only have 6 buttons is there a recommended configuration to use for the Ipac so that each player has its own Key, not only in Mame but also in other emulators?

I just want to avoid programming the IPac with my own settings only to find out that it does something else (especially with Mame having so many used keys)

What have you done to get around this?

Thanks for the help

As far as mame goes...It should be straight forward. Mame (New builds) allow multiple input... I beleve the IPAC4 is essenailly 2 keyboard controllers..

So in mame it will look like this

Player 1 (input 1)Key V is Button 8 and (input 2)Key V is Player 4 Left.

Not all emus do this... Id remap the keys to all be somthing diffrent.. Id also stay away from mappint the keys to CTRL,ALT,SHIFT,WIN KEY etc.... You will only run into issues.

[Creek]

Here's the key mapping for my Ipac4.

P1 Up = Arrow Up

P1 Down = Arrow Down

P1 Left = Arrow Left

P1 Right = Arrow Right

P1 B1 = Left Control

P1 B2 = Left Alt

P1 B3 = Space

P1 B4 = Left Shift

P1 B5 = Z

P1 B6 = X

P1 B7 = Insert <used for Start button in console emulators>

P1 B8 = Enter <used for GameEx navigation>

P2 Up = C

P2 Down = V

P2 Left = B

P2 Right = N

P2 B1 = Q

P2 B2 = W

P2 B3 = E

P2 B4 = A

P2 B5 = S

P2 B6 = D

P2 B7 = Home <used for Start button in console emulators>

P2 B8 = Escape <used for GameEx navigation>

P3 Up = Num 1

P3 Down = Num 2

P3 Left = Num 3

P3 Right = Num 4

P3 B1 = R

P3 B2 = T

P3 B3 = Y

P3 B4 = F

P3 B5 = G

P3 B6 = H

P3 B7 = Delete <used for Start button in console emulators>

P3 B8 = Page Up <used for GameEx navigation>

P4 Up = Num 5

P4 Down = Num 6

P4 Left = Num 7

P4 Right = Num 8

P4 B1 = U

P4 B2 = I

P4 B3 = O

P4 B4 = J

P4 B5 = K

P4 B6 = L

P4 B7 = End <used for Start button in console emulators>

P4 B8 = Page Down <used for GameEx navigation>

Player start and coin mappings is MAME default 1-4 and 5-8 respectively. And in MAME, I mapped Page Down to "Pause game" and Page Up to "MAME Menu"

That setup has been working perfect for me.