Daniel has been fantastic helping me out via emails, i bought his plans and built the exact same unit and he still continues to help me some 10 months later. thanks for this video mate it goes hand in hand with your advice..
Very informative Daniel, now im sure i can do this, however, you need to keep pay attention or you get confused though, I think if you would have a complete map of your actual board there, with the corresponding keyboard mapping, instead of separate pdfs with parts of the mapping. However not every board you make is the same off course. But i enjoyed the video, always catches my attention and i get excited when i see you got a new video out. So keep them coming! groetjes!
Amazing tutorial, but you answered my most upsetting question throughout this whole process with this video! What the heck is that blue drink he's drinking, I kept thinking! And low and behold, you state what it is you're drinking! @ 6:40! Haha, amazing! Here, have a like! :)
Great tutorial! Couple questions about the admin buttons. What are the buttons mapped to? Do you need a start button on the admin row if have individual player start buttons?
Hi Daniel, I love your control boards with no visible screws. What size is the wood and laminate to allow the trim to cover them both? If I go with standard dimension the trim would not cover the wood board and laminate top.
Hi, the T-Molding is 18mm, the MDF panel is 19mm and the plexiglass is 3mm. So the Tmoling does not cover the plexiglass. This way, the side of the plexiglass is lit because of the LED buttons. If you like to fully cover the side of your panel; go for 16mm MDF and 3 mm plexiglass. That way the T-Molding will cover everything (you won't notice the 1 mm difference) Good luck!
@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades the company building my cabinet has never did this and said it would cause problems with dust getting in between panel and plexiglass. Have you noticed this on your builds?
@TheDanielSpies I have 2 ipac ultimate IO controllers, when I was setting up the LED blinky I only had one ipac connected to map all the buttons to LED blinky. However when I tried to do the other ipac controller (unplugging the one I already did) led blinky wizards states that it's already mapped and that it will wipe the setup if I continued. Any idea how I can make led blinky map both ipacs without overwriting the other? Or create a tutorial video that will help others in my situation. Any help is appreciated.
I would like to make a new botton box for my Farm Simulator Game as i've built a cockpit with 80+ buttons[ i've got Pictures]. Would you use the I-Pac Ultimate. i'm using 80+ 5v Led Buttons has 5 cables coming from it Power, Ground, Common Pin, Normal Closed Pin, Normal Open Pin or what would you recommend. the buttons are 19mm, i dont thing they have built in resistors, i can have the LED ring on all the time or off, when LED off you press the button and the LED Ring lights up. i've got it wired up to 4 x 20 output basic arcade encoder but when pluged into the computer only 5 out of the 8 outputs sections working [ it must be a game thing,when i fiddle about you get it to work but in different 5 Section 1-5, 8-4, 2-6]. the encoder has 2 x 10 led outputs for the switches. would the I-Pac Ultimate be best and if so who would you wire it up. can you use the RGB wires for three switches and the negitive on to a daisy chain. The power cable would daisy chain to all three switches. What wiring harnesses would we require to do the job are you on face book Thanks Kevin
Hi Kevin, this is s bit too much to respond to on RU-vid. You can email me with your questions and attached pictures and I will try to help out. Will be outside the country for the coming three weeks so take your time 👍🏼 thanks, Daniël
Awesome video again! Great help for us newbies. One question though, you do not seem to mention what kind of software you use in the cabinets you build. Mainly windows OS with hyperspin, or do you use game elf or pandora box also sometimes?
I’m going this route as well…question: When using two Ultimarc Ultimate I/O boards with Mister, do they show up in the Mister control configuration menu as separate PID’s? Presently, Mister seems to have a problem recognizing more than one PID at a given time (I.e. keyboard (IPAC) + USB joystick).
Hi, you should be fine with two Ultimate boards inserted in two USB ports of the Mister. Also, make sure the second board is ID2 (firmware update needed). Let me know if this works!
Hi Daniel! First of all my huge Respect to your work and to your Chanel! I really love your work and it inspired me to build my own cabinet for my Self. Do you have any tips how to Start? How to draw a plan of the cabinet? Is it better to go with a windows PC or a raspberry pi? Is it possible to use the i-pac ultimate also on a playstation 4/5? I. Hope i dont ask to much 🫣 Best greetings from Vienna
Nice pnbel, but should keep the control panel simple, having that flight stick on the panel makes it look like a Frankenstein panel. There is something to be said about streamlining, less is sometimes more.
Packled is only for driving the leds of the buttons. Not the button presses themselves. You would need another Ultimate IO board and set that ID number to #ID2
Hi, Wow that sounds awesome. I can't tell you if it will work. You better ask Chris this question! Let me know when your setup is running. Would love to see that. Thanks Daniel
If you wanna play on a real game console just how your build is already right now. Place your arcade on dinput mode. You also need a Titan 1 attached to the game console and the USB cord that comes with the Titan connected to the pc. Turn on the Gtuner software for Titan 1. Go to tools, look for device. Place the "output" on the game console you have. So if you have Nintendo switch. You put the output on Nintendo switch. Click close, then open "Max Aim DI" go to Direct input. Look for your IPAC controller that's in dinput mode. Go to device monitor to confirm controller is working correctly. After you found your controller. You must map the arcade buttons to the game controller layout. Save the layout you mapped by click on export. Import will load the profile whenever you need it. After you completely mapped controller, you can start gaming on your arcade system to real game console. Note ....PC must be running at all times with Max Aim DI running all the time. Also .....this method only allows 1 player to work. The hard truth is.... zero delay encoders are better than 1 IPAC. If you wanted true 4 player gaming on real game consoles. You would use a combination of 4 zero delay encoders and 4 Titan 1 adapters. The setup will be different from the first method I told you. You would map out each zero delay encoders with 4 Titan 1 one by one with xmapper instead of max Aim di so you don't have to keep the PC running 24/7. After you programmed all 4 Titan 1. Stick all the Titan 1 inside the game console. Then stick all 4 zero delay encoders USB cord inside the game console. You don't need the program cord for the Titan 1 anymore. Just the zero delay encoder cords. If you can offered it, go with 4 Titan 1 and 4 zero delay encoders. Right now you with the rig you have can only program 1 player for real game console.
One page I mapped with shortcuts to Hypermarquee, Hyperspin, RocketLauncher UI, Servo Stick 4 way, Servo 8 way, Led on off etc. Page 2 has shortcuts to classic arcade games, page 3 has modern STEAM games.
Hi, Daniël. Can you provide the link to the control panel button mapping images? Can't tell if they are on Ultimarc's site or some other site. Thanks, Nick.
They are on the Chris Shaw 'Hyper Arcade System Drive' by default. They are standard X-Arcade layouts. I don't have them at hand here. Send me an email if you need any help. Thanks, Daniel
Hi Daniel, can you assign player 3 and 1 on the ultimate IO as player 1 and 2 . And then 2 and 4 on the other or do you have to configure as you video . Thanks
Hi, I am working on a new building series as you might have seen already, in part 5 I will install everything in detail. And you are correct, I use player 1 and 2 inputs on Ipac board one as for player 1 and 3. Keep an eye out for PART5 of the Pedestal building series. Thanks Daniel
I have alot of questions. As you know I have the stream deck, raspberry pi 4, I pac 4, and the super starter kit uno r3 project. With that said make a video on what I can do with those 4 things please 🙏.
Oh by the way the waveshare 5 inch screen they was gracious to send me instead of 4 inches screen I knew it cuz I installed the raspberry pi behind the screen and it was a little bigger not saying nothing but thanks.
Are these key codes only for hyperspin or do they work for retropie as well? As I can't seem to find all the key codes for retropie 4 player anywhere 😔
Is it possible to just use player 1 and 2 ports on both ipacs to run all 4 players if you're not using rgb buttons? As I want to use a 6 button layout for players 3 and 4 and already have the 1 and 2 player wiring for both ipacs?
Hi, the RGB feature is not correlated to any of the button input ports. So yes, you can map any input port to be used as any button you desire 👍🏽 thanks, Daniël
@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades thanks for the help really appreciate it as a newbie to all of this your videos are helping a lot and inspiring me to make changes to my original design as I now want to add some light guns to my build 😁
Hello. Once again awesome stuff. I sent you emails about a custom build. Hopefully you will be able to make me something. :)). Sorry I’m nagging. Please don’t be mad at me. Lol.
