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Arcade cabinet running N64 - Controller question!!!
OverrRyde:
Hey guys, new to the forum here, great source of info from all of you!
I am currently working on setting up an arcade cabinet with a pc, running emulators.
One of the emulators i would be running is Project64 for n64 games.
My question is for some of you who might have done this conversion and how you play the games.
Do you just use n64 control pads or use arcade controls?
What i want to be able to do is play my n64 games by using the arcade controls of my cabinet, but wow those n64 have lots of buttons! (12 iirc!)
Now im not going to go around and build a 12 button arcade CP now! But i was thinking of getting atleast 8 "actions" buttons per player + joysticks (plus the usual start/coin button on the arcade). Have any of you done this before, or is 8 button just not enough to play "most" n64 games? i would mostly be playing fight games and sports (hockey, blitz, soccer). Im trying to keep it as "Arcade-ish" as possible.
What have you done for this? did you just use n64 control pads or went the arcade control and how many buttons is enough/not enough?
Thanks alot!
XCVG:
Analog sticks and different maps for each game maybe? The d-pad is almost never used IIRC, and the same goes for the L button. Then you have eight action buttons- R, Z, C, C, C, C, A, B. And of course start, which would obviously be mapped to start.
OverrRyde:
I see!
I thought the n64 controller had 2 upper (L-R) button, like the Playstation remote!
This makes sense now, 8 buttons should work fine!
Thanks!
milkit:
personally ive never found a way to do it to where the layout feels right. The trigger button is the hardest as well as the top bumper buttons. just no good way to lay them out. Plus, n64 has the d pad + the joystick. No way to do that.
I use wired xbox 360 controllers. can be found cheap and they are plug and play with windows, with enough buttons and functions to play any system
XCVG:
Yeah, I gave myself a headache just trying to design an N64 arcade cabinet and the controls for it. However, I inferred that you could make it pretty epic for Super Smash Bros, if that was the only game you plan on playing.