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Left handed player button layout
Scottk:
--- Quote from: TOK on September 09, 2010, 06:05:43 pm ---Left handed here, too. I actually consider the standard layout an advantage for lefties since you get to use your dominant hand for control. :dunno
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I am left handed here too.
I absolutely agree!
I always felt I had the advantage over my friends and my sis, back when I was a kid, because I was able to use my dominant hand on the joystick,
where quick and precise movements are a must!
With buttons, it doesn't take much to be able to control them, heck, I could do it with my nose if I needed to!
Thenasty:
I'm right handed and learned to play with the LEFT layout describe here by OP (R-Hand for Joy, L-Hand for Buttons).
DaveMMR:
Your hand can learn pretty quickly to adapt either way. Pushing a button or a stick is nearly as complicated as writing or throwing a ball. I'm a righty but my left-hand fingers are quite adept at working the W,A,S,D in shooters. (Yeah, I'm contradicting my last post. But I was just being a "purist".)
--- Quote ---Never felt a compulsion and many UK customers have questioned the common act of 7-button layout creation favoured by many American gamers. In my experience, it's just not something we ever did here and just feels wrong; it's not like holding a joypad.
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The whole 7-button thing is more about replicating the Neo-Geo layout and SF II layout in one swoop and less about using your thumb. I think, for me, that 7th button is an uncomfortable position for it's secondary function as that single "stand-alone" action button. YMMV. I actually think it's better left off the panel and really should only be considered by the hardcore Neo-Geo fighter fans. But if it works for someone else, then no harm either...
quarterstringer:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on September 09, 2010, 06:35:46 pm ---I constantly catch him crossing his hands on the control
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Since he's playing cross handed, then he's used to playing with the right-handed button layout. You could build the cab with the right-handed button layout and put one joystick on each side of the buttons. Now anyone could play the cab and you'll have a two joystick setup for games like Robotron.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on September 10, 2010, 06:37:26 pm ---I'm a righty but my left-hand fingers are quite adept at working the W,A,S,D in shooters.
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I'm a lefty, as I said, and there's no way I could do WASD. I use the left hand for mouse and right hand for num key pad.