System by button configuration

[dprush83]

I am going through several emulation options now and have searched with no results.  Does anybody know if people have gathered how many button configurations are needed per system?  I am using a 6 button configuration and looking at old controller images, thinking that perhaps this has been discussed in the past.  Does anybody have such a list, or know of a thread that may provide something like this? 

[Yenome]

at most consoles used 20 (jaguar pro pad) average is 8. so id stick with a max of 8 if i was to build for consoles. tho most console games people play on there cabs use only 6 buttons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamepad

[05SRT4]

8 seems to be a good number.

[paigeoliver]

Are you talking about console or arcade games here?

[dprush83]

Are you talking about console or arcade games here?

Both. I'm setting up my system and trying to figure out what to run, but trying to limit everything to systems that run smoothly on a 6 button config.

[paigeoliver]

Most of the consoles that had more than 6 buttons also had multiple analog controls and did quite a few other things that would make playing titles that actually used the full control set very awkward on arcade controls.

[05SRT4]

Most of the consoles that had more than 6 buttons also had multiple analog controls and did quite a few other things that would make playing titles that actually used the full control set very awkward on arcade controls.

I was going to say the same thing, I thought the N64 emu was going to be sweet, but playing it without an analog joy stick its kind of lame. I will be upgrading my tank-sticks to U360's soon.

[paigeoliver]

Mario 64 is quite playable with an 8-way stick, Goldeneye and a lot of other titles, not so much.

[dprush83]

I've received some suggestions on increasing gameplay with the use of a Xbox 360 receiver (10 bucks on amazon). Has anybody had luck with these, I've only done a little research so far but think it would be great for my cocktail if I could somehow use 360 controllers for P3/P4 in MAME and actual controllers for things like N64, dreamcast, etc.

[05SRT4]

Im using a PS3 controller for some of my emus, I use Motion Joy with the built in Bluetooth my PC has. I can pair the ps3 controller and the motion joy has built in emulator to act like  a ps1 2 3 and xbox 360 controllers.  The only down fall is you always have to enable the controller to act like what you want, to bypass this I made a AHK that loads and enables automatically before Hyperspin.