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Author Topic: Are there any 4-player arcade games that require a 6 button layout?  (Read 9221 times)

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Trying to design my first control panel.  I have the shape decided and working on laying out where the buttons will be before I cut anything.  It's going to be a 4 player setup. 

3         4
   1   2

The setup above is the order for the players.  Are there any 4-player games that need a 6-button layout like what you would see in fighting games like street fighter?  Wondering if I should give players 3 and 4 6-buttons or just 4.  Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Are there any 4-player arcade games that require a 6 button layout?
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2012, 11:03:50 am »
Nope.  Most buttons in arcade games for P3 and P4 is 4 (and that's only for a couple of games).
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Re: Are there any 4-player arcade games that require a 6 button layout?
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2012, 11:05:47 am »
Nope.  Most buttons in arcade games for P3 and P4 is 4 (and that's only for a couple of games).

Yup. The D&D games are the only 4-player-simultaneous games that I can think of that take up to 4 buttons per player.

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Re: Are there any 4-player arcade games that require a 6 button layout?
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2012, 11:22:55 am »
Guilty Gear Isuka uses 5.
It's playable with Demul, but not worth the hassle of the extra buttons IMO.

If I were building a 4 player panel, I'd probably only use 3 buttons for P3 & P4.

Most people who put more buttons for P3 & P4 are doing it for console emulators.
(N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube)
See if there are any games for those systems you'd like to be able to play with 4 players,
then see how many buttons the games actually require.
(think Mario Party, Super Smash Bros, & sports games)
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Re: Are there any 4-player arcade games that require a 6 button layout?
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2012, 11:43:06 am »
It's going to be a 4 player setup. 

3         4
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Just make sure that all four joysticks are angled the same. People say that when player 3 and 4 joysticks are angled different than 1 and 2 it's almost unplayable.
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Re: Are there any 4-player arcade games that require a 6 button layout?
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2012, 11:45:48 am »
Ok thanks.  I think, at least with this cabinet, I'm gonna stay away from the console games.  So I'll do 6 buttons for players 1 and 2 and only 4 for players 3 and 4.

Thanks for the input =)