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shponglefan:


--- Quote from: MaxVolume on July 12, 2012, 04:05:38 pm ---
I'm just confused by anyone would want a dedicated "coin" button on a cabinet... kind of screams "THIS IS A MAME MACHINE NOT A REAL ARCADE CABINET" doesn't it?  :lame:
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Really?  ???

Mysterioii:

I like having dedicated coin buttons next to the start buttons.  I also have a few admin buttons on my CP (black buttons on a black CP, unlabelled...  I find them unobtrusive).  My cabinet is 99.9999% for me so I do whatever I want with it...  My wife doesn't play it, my little girl is only 2 so she's completely disinterested in it, and we hardly ever have guests over and when we do people are largely uninterested, my circle of friends just doesn't care that much.  I don't have a big crowd of avid gamer friends that'll be lining up to play it and I'm not trying to restore or reproduce a classic cab.  On the rare occasions that someone new wants to play it I'll just show them the coin button and the "exit game" (esc) admin button and off they go.  If they're really special I'll show 'em which one is pause, but I think that has come up like twice ever.

For one thing, my memory sucks now and I might go two months without playing the thing if I get too busy with other things, so yeah it does help to have a few dedicated buttons rather than trying to remember what various shifted buttons or key combinations might do.   ;D  Now, I am planning a rebuild and some things on the CP will be simplified, but coin buttons and a few admin buttons will remain.  I like 'em. 

nickbuol:

MaxVolume, no worries on my part.  You use your machine differently than I use mine.  I do agree that some cabinets with buttons for everything is silly/ugly in *most* cases.

I do wish from time to time that I had a dedicated ESC button though.  Right now, I am using the I-PAC in my cabinet and the key combo for ESC is pressing Player 1 and Player 2 at the same time.  Do you know how many times, during a "boss battle" in some games, where you die and need to hit start to join back up, that both players die and come in at the same time?  Oh wait, no they don't...  They just TRIED to come back in at the same time and it sent the ESC command and shut down MAME.

I know, I could (should) just reprogram it to something else.  Maybe Player 3 and Player 4 at the same time.  A LOT less chance of that happening due strictly to the fact that there are far fewer 4 player games.

MaxVolume:


--- Quote from: nickbuol on July 13, 2012, 09:41:12 am ---MaxVolume, no worries on my part.  You use your machine differently than I use mine.  I do agree that some cabinets with buttons for everything is silly/ugly in *most* cases.

I do wish from time to time that I had a dedicated ESC button though.  Right now, I am using the I-PAC in my cabinet and the key combo for ESC is pressing Player 1 and Player 2 at the same time.  Do you know how many times, during a "boss battle" in some games, where you die and need to hit start to join back up, that both players die and come in at the same time?  Oh wait, no they don't...  They just TRIED to come back in at the same time and it sent the ESC command and shut down MAME.

I know, I could (should) just reprogram it to something else.  Maybe Player 3 and Player 4 at the same time.  A LOT less chance of that happening due strictly to the fact that there are far fewer 4 player games.

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No worries, I'm just trying to dispel the myth that you HAVE to have certain buttons on a control panel when MAME can be configured in a million tricky ways.  Excellent point about the P1/P2 Start thing... since my cabinet does not support 2-player co-operative/competitive games, that's not a problem I'll ever have.  Anyway, that's just one of many many different combos that could be used.


MaxVolume:


--- Quote from: shponglefan on July 13, 2012, 08:58:08 am ---
--- Quote from: MaxVolume on July 12, 2012, 04:05:38 pm ---
I'm just confused by anyone would want a dedicated "coin" button on a cabinet... kind of screams "THIS IS A MAME MACHINE NOT A REAL ARCADE CABINET" doesn't it?  :lame:
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Really?  ???

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Yes, but so is playing racing games with a trackball, and I have to do that with this particular machine (until I get a racing chassis for my console project), so please take my comment with a grain of salt.  ;D


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