This video is really very informative. I have already built my own arcade wall mount (I have two hugly videos showing it 😅) but with the help of your videos I will build something much more better and beautiful (and bigger 😁). Thank you very much!

Thank you for this excellent how to. I always wanted to go with RGB, but I was terrified about the actual wiring of the I-Pac 2. With the guide I feel confident on converting my panel to full RGB. If all goes well, I might convert my old SlikStic to RGB as well. Again, thank you for the clear guide!✌

I decided to rewatch this to get ready for my second build. I notice you talk about mapping everything to keys. I ran into trouble doing so using a u360 stick and getting buttons wired to the ultimate io to combine as a controller. Using x360ce saved alot of head aches for me and alowed me to play games from steam with no isues because alot of steam games dont enjoy multiple users using a keyboard. So hopefully that helps someone whos trying to get it to work with everything and not just emulators

Great video. I really the software would highlight the button I pressed instead of me always trying to remember it. Would be great to show if you plug in the cable in the wrong pin

Your arcade cabinet is amazing. I am building my own and your design is making me rethink mine lol. Cup holders are genius level mouhahahah

Thanks for making these videos, ordering from ultimarc is a 2/5 experience.

Thank You. This thing is both expensive & overwhelming.

Just bought one! And, wow what a machine that is you've got there!!

Your videos are really amazing! I've been trying to purchase a custom 4 player PC based arcade from a few guys here in the USA and have been getting the run around from all of them. The only really legit sellers want like $5-$7k and that's just not in my budget. I just started looking into how to build my own and I feel like I'm in over my head. I know nothing about wiring up electronics or what parts to buy. I was considering buying one of those cabinet kits that you put together with the cam lock systems and then buying a PC loaded with Hyperspin or Launchbox from one of those ebay type sellers. Then attempt to wire up the whole thing after I purchase the buttons and joysticks etc. It just seems like a daunting task for a newbie and there doesn't seem to be any good step by step instructional videos out there. I'm telling you....if you were to do like a "How to build an arcade for dummies" type of series here on youtube, you'd have so many subscribers and views. You're really good at explaining things and seem really helpful.

I love this cabinet, looks like to has everything I want in my build I'm planning. Do you have plans for the build on this one you can share? Panel layout, what monitor you used, etc.?

Like the other tutorials you help explained a'lot for me thanks. I have a I-pac 4 but I will get this one for another project.

Amazing breakdown of the Ultimate IO board - thank you so much - One question if you see this, where do I hook up Player 3 & 4's coin and start buttons? I'm lost! Thanks for all the videos....

Hi, I'm confused about one thing and wanted to ask if you can help me. At 5:00 you're showing two different connector sizes for goldleaf or microswitch buttons. Are these two different harnesses, or does the harness have a mix of two different connectors? I see you can order a harness that has both types from Ultimarc but does that mean it only has the larger one for joysticks and the rest are smaller? Or how does it work? Can I have both goldleaf and microswitch buttons on the same console?

Why are are the harness cables so short? I have a two player control panel with trackball and the cables are too short? What do I do? Should I solder extra length in between each wire? I'm a bit annoyed that they just didn't provide crimp tips and extra wiring. I'm also confused about what extension harness to buy if I go that route.

Hi Daniel, why do you have two IO Board in your cabinet? And what is the best options to put the spinner and trackball directly to the usb port on the computer or on the IO Board?

I got a question. At 5:42 in the video the remaining unplugged connector, is that where you put the black daisy ground wire? Excellent guide, I'm just a bit confused.😵

Thank you again!

Great explanation, I have question though. What is the expansion used for? Only using 1 I-PAC io and I am running 4 player (8 buttons for player 1 and 2, and 6 buttons for player 3 and 4) I am wondering if I can use x1 and y1(trackball side) for player 3 buttons 5,6, and white and yellow (Spinner side) for player 4 buttons 5 and 6.

Your tutorials are very helpful! Do you know a place or Do you by chance have a layout for setting up 2 I-PAC Ultimate I/O. I have a 4 player controller with 6 buttons for players 3-4 and 8 buttons for player 1-2, spinner, trackball, admin buttons etc Such as for players 3-4 the two extra buttons for the bottom press, what part did you connect to on the I-PAC Ultimate I/O. And did you connect to The 2nd board? Thank you again for your awesome videos

I'm trying so hard to get my ultimarc lux buttons and two ipac ultimate boards working. The LED's only light up on the first pin set of each side. Any help would be awesome. This has been a pain CP is 4 players spinner and trackball (hence the two boards).

Hey Daniel, quick question. Your CP is quite large. Did you put on extensions on the main harness for the buttons? Mine literally hangs because the wires are too short to work with.

Great video, but im trying to figure out where do you plug in the menu buttons, or pinball buttons on your ipac ultimate? Been trying to find that out but to no avail

Nice video - what about RGB configuration? I just want to be able to program the RGB only, I have a Xbox controller board for connecting the buttons.

Thank you for the tutorial, can you connect three joysticks and a trackball or do you need a second controller?

Awesome guide! I'm looking to upgrade to this from the i-pac 4, but I need a total of 45 inputs for the joysticks and buttons. Players 1&2 have 6 buttons, 3&4 have 4 but all have a coin and start button. Can just one ultimate I/O board support this? I don't see any places for players 3/4 "coin" and "start" inputs printed on the board. Thanks!

Great video, what PC do you use or recommend.

Great video. I have a light gun. I am trying to get the uhid to output 5 volts when I push the trigger on the gun. I have a seperate pin allocated to this wire and I can get this pin to output 5 volts, but I can’t get it to link with the trigger. Its says in the u config manual I can do this under “uhid controlled leds” thank you

I'm setting up a 2 player arcade with trackball and spinner. I'm having trouble with Emulationstation and setting up my player two controls. Originally my Ultimate I/O board was in keyboard mode but then I asked Ultimarc and they mentioned I should possibly have it in mode 2 Dinput... do you have experience using mode 2 or possibly mode 4 Dinput user custom with the I PAC Ultimate I/O and any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? Love your videos.

Daniel, at 5:41 you can see there are two metal prongs that the connector would fit to. How did you know which one to pick? And what is the other one for?

have a pacled64 but dont know how to do the wiring. I checked your channel but didnt find a guide. Would you recommend the pac64led or something different if I wanted to add rgb led on my xtension arcade?

Hi, Great Video, Thx. What is the black keypad thing above the second joystick? Where did you get it and what is it used for (seemed like front end launcher from the video). Thx

Can it be configured to works in raspberry and works like an arcade controller separately? Example: I want to connect only player 1 on computer and play it without the raspberry operating. Im asking that because thar ultimarc io only have one usb exit, but can we choose what player to use?

Firstly, this video is great! I have a quick question regarding the ground, I have the harness but as you mentioned it only has one ground and because all buttons need to be connected to the same ground, how did you do it?

Thanks for this video. Love the cabinet. My question is - does this only work with windows or can I also use a Pi 4 ? Many thanks in advance

Amazing unit. I have an arcade machine but with the x-arcade controll panel which I want to update and make my own custom 2 player control pad. Can you let me know if you have a 2 player config and if you can also provide a list of parts. I love your setup and want to do the same for mine.

Man, you are a legend! Subbed!

Can the LEDs be programmed as latching for momentary press buttons ?

How do you jump between boards in the software when you have two boards?

Is there an ipac option for 8 button setups for players 1 and 2 and 6 buttons for players 3 and 4?

Thank you Thank you very much now I know what this shift key is for, I only have 32 buttons and this solution will be useful: P I have a question: Do you know how you can configure the ipac so that when you start a given game, the wheels recognize the wheels, switch between the keyboard and the pad (as you know, most new games for Pc like Mk9,11 etc only work on the pad, you cannot change the buttons on 2 players) great that Ipac is in multi mode but can you make a script etc to do it automatically ?

Could I get a little assistance. This video was very helpful. I was able to get the two IO boards, buttons, joysticks, spinner and trackball set up and they work. The issue is when I go to configure buttons on retropie it will only let me Map the controls for one player because it recognizes all the buttons as keyboard and not game pad. Is there a fix for this?

Hi, Newbie here. After doing research and watching your videos I went ahead and purchased the iPac ultimate, the gold leaf buttons and the servostiks. So…. My iPAC ultimate harness ground wire has the gold leaf size connector (small) and the daisy chain ground wire fits all the gold leaf connectors fine…. BUT the ground on the Servostick joystick switches are the larger size connectors. So basically my grounding daisy chain fits the button connectors but not the joystick ground connectors. I have another daisy chain with the larger size connectors but I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t see another ground terminal on the iPac ultimate harness. Am I supposed to bend or maybe solder the small connectors on the daisy chain to fit the joystick ground connectors? I can’t find anything online about this issue. I have hit a wall and absolutely ANY advice would be VERY much appreciated.

Hello everyone I am a bit lost I need help with finding a power connector for led power I can not find one so any help would be greatful.

Hi how do you get 2 ultimate io boards working at the same time? I only seem to beable to do it one at a time

Hi Daniel, great video. I had a question about your button configuration. How did you get your default colors to stay those specific colors? I was also trying to mimic an xbox controller layout but I cant get the colors to stay or show active. I also have the led blinky software installed for the front end animations so my buttons always just cycle regardless of what I have running.

Daniel can you use a trackball on the left and on the spinner side could these be used for buttons?

Does this work for retropie or does it have to be run from a pc?

Out of curiosity, what is the benefit of going this route as opposed to the gamepad setups available on Amazon? The plug and play feature is attractive to me, but if it robs me of something I'd rather go a better route.

what is the best joystick to use for fighting games that will work with this board?

My ultimate i/o has game mode greyed out. Why might this be? Tried it on retro pie and windows.

Having issues installing Ultimate IO here. Tried on 2 different CPUs with Win10 and Win11 and both give a msg "driver error" on Device panel. In Control Panel says " problem with Pnp devices". Removed all harnesses, driver, tried reinstall the driver, DX driver, .NET but no lucky.

You convince me to get this board for my arcade project I appreciate the tutorial. Also have to ask the screen for your Marquee where did you pick that up and what model is it? Thank you for the tutorial

Can you set up this IPac as Xinput 1. and still use led blinky ? 2. Can I move the button layout in xinput for example I usually run LB=low punch X= medium punch A= fierce punch 3. If in xinput mode will the IPac always be player 1/2 ? Or if I turn on a separate Xbox controller can it turn into player 1 as well?

On the I/O Board, where would the pinball buttons go?

Does this software also work with the pacled64?

Could you please make a video how to program a 2nd board. I am having a hard time with getting my PC to recognize it and where to plug in my player 3 and 4. Or should I plug in players 1 and 3 on one board and player 2 and 4 on the other. Please help. Thanks!

Is there any way to make two buttons mouse buttons and still shift them for keyboard inputs?

Hi thank you for the tutorial. I also ordered 2 ultimate io and have the goldleaf buttons. But one thing i did not pay attention to when i ordered is the power cable for the leds. I thought it was just all powered by the usb cable. I have a gaming pc i bought and theres no way to plug in the led adaptor. How would i power this another way? Thank you

You say MAME works better with keyboard inputs instead of gamepad. I'm using gamepad because I need to also play PC games like SFV and MK11. I tried mode switching but it was unreliable. I haven't noticed any issue with gamepad inputs.