Posted by Andy Warne on 28, 2001 at 4:02 AM:
In Reply to: Multiple Ipac Question (actually, general encoder ?'n) posted by jarr_d on 27, 2001 at 8:08 PM:
This should work. You plug the first board into the second and the second into the PC. Another way which might be better would be to use USB. Then you simply plug both boards into the PC. USB allows a longer cable length too.
One input (coin 1) is tied to ground on one board to make it use a different set of codes. Or you can program both boards differently.
Andy
: I'm getting set to build my arcade controller this month.
: After lurking around this board & many others, I'll probable go with an Ipac, maybe adding the second in the future along with the opti-pac.
: I've drawn up the control panel as a 2 player unit. But then I got to thinking...
: Most of the gaming that's going to be done will be in my rec room, and the players may not be next to each other. So I started thiking about building 2 individual controllers.
: Could I run 2 Ipac's, one in each player's box, and somehow wire them together? I believe #2 has to be grounded to #1 to get the different keypresses?
: And could these, with their ps2 ends, both plug in a box that would run to my ps2 input on my computer? Like a Y?
: Or would it be better to run box #2 to Box #1 to Computer?
: Thanks for your time,
: jarr_d