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Vertical Games and Button Requirements
Drnick:
@ Paigeoliver, Yes I do know what a vertical game is. :badmood: I looked at this early morning and did not notice that Sortinfo does not remember your selection when flipping between video and input so what I thought I had selected wasn't what I was looking at. My apologies for this, yes Metal slug is 3 buttons and horizontal. This was my bad, I suppose that's what you get for answering before the morning coffee. :banghead:
Here is the list from Mame 145, of all vertical games that use 4 buttons or more. Any inaccuracies are not my fault this time. Looking at the list further you won't be missing out on much by using only 3 buttons :)
NOP:
you're missing the fact that he's on a cocktail machine, so that list is actually much smaller. Not many games support screen flipping.
paigeoliver:
Wow they have added a lot of garbage since I last updated Mame. Lets just concentrate on the titles showing more than 4 buttons.
I see they still haven't gotten much better at getting the control info correct. Just at a quick glance I see tons of bad information about well known games. Toobin has 4 buttons and a start button, not 5 buttons. Heavy Barrel has two buttons and an 8-way rotary, not 5 buttons. Birdie Try has 2 buttons, not 5.
Most of that list is trivia games that you aren't going to be playing (that indeed are hard to even properly play naturally unless you mimic their control panel).
Next biggest category there is driving games where they are inappropriately counting the shifter as a stack of buttons. Normally driving games can be ignored in this sort of conversation because they almost all need unique control combinations that you basically have to build a custom panel for.
I see a few newer shooters that I am unfamiliar with (like Psyvariar 2). It is possible that those might actually use the number of buttons they list or it can also simply be the common (post 1990) issue of the hardware platform supporting more buttons than the game uses. I have seen this on Uo Poko, Space Invaders 95, and most Neo Geo games.
wivelden:
Yea its a cocktail machine but it has a third 2 player panel on the front so I can play horizontal games then switch to the end when I want to play vertical games.
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 06, 2012, 09:53:08 am ---Toobin has 4 buttons and a start button, not 5 buttons.
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Actually Toobin's 5th action button (throw can) doubles as a start button. So it is a 5 button game.