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| Hoopz:
A lot of the admin functions can be handled by the "shift" function on the I-Pac. Load/Save/Enter may not need dedicated buttons. The same goes for Vol up/down, pause, and a few others. A lot depends on your needs, the space on the CP and the desire to have everything easy for guests or first timers. I think the list looks fine. More than I have but it's what your comfortable with. I don't see anything that you are leaving off that you absolutely must have. |
| Rick:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 25, 2010, 02:10:48 pm ---A lot of the admin functions can be handled by the "shift" function on the I-Pac. Load/Save/Enter may not need dedicated buttons. The same goes for Vol up/down, pause, and a few others. A lot depends on your needs, the space on the CP and the desire to have everything easy for guests or first timers. --- End quote --- That's what I'm concerned with. Personally, I don't want to double-map any button to 'shift' if I don't have to (i.e. "Hey Steve, press and hold Player 1 Button 1, and then move the Player 1 Joystick down and to the left to lower the volume, would ya?") and would like to keep mine pretty simple. |
| Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Rick Elphinstone on August 25, 2010, 02:24:17 pm --- --- Quote from: Hoopz on August 25, 2010, 02:10:48 pm ---A lot of the admin functions can be handled by the "shift" function on the I-Pac. Load/Save/Enter may not need dedicated buttons. The same goes for Vol up/down, pause, and a few others. A lot depends on your needs, the space on the CP and the desire to have everything easy for guests or first timers. --- End quote --- That's what I'm concerned with. Personally, I don't want to double-map any button to 'shift' if I don't have to (i.e. "Hey Steve, press and hold Player 1 Button 1, and then move the Player 1 Joystick down and to the left to lower the volume, would ya?") and would like to keep mine pretty simple. --- End quote --- There's a need for balance between simple and not cluttered. You can have a zillion admin buttons and everything is easy to use but then you have a lot of buttons on the cp. You can use shifted buttons which eliminates buttons but then it's a learning curve for everyone. I keep a keyboard connected and stashed in the cabinet for some things. Others, I go with shifted. Turns out, I dont use the shifted buttons very much so it's not a big deal. Again, it's what makes you happy. And you may find that once you've built it and played for a few months that you have a list of things to change. Add this and take this out etc. Hence, cabinet #2 (aka the divorce causing cabinet!). ;D |
| Rick:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 25, 2010, 02:32:42 pm ---There's a need for balance between simple and not cluttered. --- End quote --- Agreed. My personal point of view (sorry for the threadjack, but maybe the OP will have more questions - or better still, answers - when I'm done) is that I'm going to have Maximus Arcade loaded, and for now, just the MAME emulator loaded up. While I wouldn't need the "Home" key mapped, I hope to have a button for that. (I believe many people use the "Lists" decal for that one, but I might be wrong.) If I add any other Emulators, I'm praying that they should work with the buttons I'm including - but if there's one I'm definitely missing, I'd appreciate the feedback. That's button one on my Admin Panel. From there, I was going to have "Esc" mapped as button two, "Enter" mapped as button three, and then a large blank space, and "Pause" mapped as button four and then five and six will be "Volume Up" and "Volume Down", respectively. I believe that this is the 'balance' that would make it easy for anyone to use the games installed, and also without looking too cluttered. Six buttons across a dedicated panel of two feet should still be pretty easy on the eyes. |
| Hoopz:
At the risk of further hijacking this thread, here's one example of buttons gone wild. And the obligatory link to crapmame that will make some laugh while offending others. NSFW language on that link... http://wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/ |
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