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Astounding, the fervor for an Asteroids button layout
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 07, 2011, 06:27:48 pm --- If todays people are this pathetic.. its time to hit the big red button and end it already.
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Certainly faster than death-punching them all, you hater!
Donkbaca:
"How do you play this game?"
"look you CLOWN! IF you can't recognize the semi-authentic asteroids button set up STARING_YOU RIGHT_IN_THE_FACE then you don't DESERVE TO PLAY THAT GAME!!!"
"umm.. is it these buttons?"
"NO!!!!!! I WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN WHERE YOU STAND!!!!! You have just ruined all my hopes in humanity, yes ALL of humanity!!"
"These buttons?"
"Look mother F*r, you have about 3 seconds before I kill you!"
Xiaou2:
LOL thanks. I needed that heh
DaveMMR:
I'm really not a fan of putting more on a panel than absolutely necessary but I don't think the Asteroids layout plopped in the middle of everything is at all that terrible. I have seen worse.
But something like that is where lighted buttons is actually quite beneficial. I have your standard two-sets of six laid out straight. Using this, it's actually fairly easy to map buttons close to the arcade original. I do this with Asteroids, Defender and Stargate. Without the lights, I wouldn't even know what to press (let alone anyone else). But with the lights, it's a no-brainer.
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 07, 2011, 06:27:48 pm ---People today can operate PCs, DVRs, remote controls with 100 buttons... and yet, a simple set of arcade buttons is going to break their cranium?!
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You have a better opinion of people than I do. I always assume that average people can't operate these PC's, DVR's, and remote controls with 100 buttons (and they've proven it to me many, many times). Think about it: hack comedians have spent two decades making jokes about people not being able to set their VCR's. We never had a problem; we read the manual. ;D
Xiaou2:
You gota see the Irony in this though. A group of people who are not really all that interested in a certain game, spouting off (hating) about how crazy it is to cater to it.
And as said, if 5 buttons grouped together is impossible for a person to remember / learn... then really, they have special needs, or have downed enough booze that you dont want them anywhere near your machine, let alone anywhere else but the restroom.
Lets be real, just cause the average person might not know which buttons to press to turn on your tv/cable/dvd/theater system.. does not mean they will not use it. It take more time to teach them such a thing than to figure out what buttons do what.
In fact, if anyone has never played a certain game before, the basic way they do figure it out, is to start up a game and pressing each button until something registers. Ive ran into this with many games in mame, and finding the correct button were much harder to find on a keyboard full of keys, than a dedicated control panel as seen here.
Of course, thats also because of Mames Poor inaccurate labeling system... and hack-filled menu systems. If it wernt for various sparse and inaccurate sources on the net, one might never figure out how certain games were supposed to be controlled.