My Ultimarc.com order came in – 2 ServoStik joysticks, Ultimate I/O board and a SpinTrak Spinner.  The board is much smaller that it looks on the website..  I’ll have to get posts to mount it to the control panel when the time comes.

I had to play with the parts.  The USB adapter powers the board for controls.  Open “Notepad” in Windows and you can test the parts. Each movement equals a keyboard keystroke.  The arcade emulators see the keystroke and perform the action mapped to that key.  One thing I learned – Use player 2’s connections for testing.  Player 1 keys map to invisible characters (like arrows and backspaces, etc..)

When you plug the USB cable into the board and your PC – the green light on the Ultimarc board will light up.. If you are not using the LED features of the board – it seems this is all you need.  However – purchasing the Ultimate I/O board means you WANT to use the LED features.

The LED Joystick option is pretty well designed – you replace the existing stick with the new (longer) stick.  The wires go into a small headphone jack so the stick can rotate freely and the wires will never twist.

You CAN put the connector to the Ultimate I/O board backwards and it sorta will light..  I went looking for directions and then common sense kicked in.. it has Red, Green, Blue – wires..  match them to the board..  Then it worked better.

The LED functionality does need 12V connectivity.  The kit comes with a 12v – 4 pin MOLEX connector that would normally go to a PC power supply.  My PC has some newer connector so I could not tap into it..  I did have a 12v power supply laying around and it made the LED work fine..