Selecting a control panel

[Froca]

I am building a 4 player cabinet and would like to know the standard control board to use.

The cabinet requires 52 inputs (including joysticks) and will be used for fighting games and Mame.

Originally I selected the I-PAC 4 as it allowed for a single board to handle all the inputs, but started to question myself when I read that current games (E.G. Street Fighter IV) ran into difficulty allowing two players to use the keyboard.

I found a program to map some of the keyboard controls to a joystick emulation (PPortJoy) but wonder if there is a better solution?

[Donkbaca]

There is a patch for SFIV that lets you use the keyboard for 2 players.  Its even stickied here somewhere.

[Froca]

Great, that makes this much easier! I-Pac 4 it is.

[clickaus]

Here is the info you need
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=96377.0