do you need mouse buttons/double wiring buttons

[chucklepie]

Hello,
My cab is almost finished, I'm just deciding on CP layout (2 player 6 button each, trackball).

I'm using the minipac to make life easy. I want to put as few buttons as possible so will be using the shift option for quit, pause, etc.

My question though is I figure I need left/right mouse buttons. If I wire two of a player's buttons additionally to the mouse buttons will there be any issues in the xp apps, e.g. mala when doing this? Or should I just hide the mouse buttons to the underneath of the cp if they aren't used that much.

Thanks

[BadMouth]

Hello,
My cab is almost finished, I'm just deciding on CP layout (2 player 6 button each, trackball).

I'm using the minipac to make life easy. I want to put as few buttons as possible so will be using the shift option for quit, pause, etc.

My question though is I figure I need left/right mouse buttons. If I wire two of a player's buttons additionally to the mouse buttons will there be any issues in the xp apps, e.g. mala when doing this? Or should I just hide the mouse buttons to the underneath of the cp if they aren't used that much.

Thanks

Right clicking the mouse button will bring up options in Mala.
I'd steer clear of putting them on top the panel.

I still have an x-arcade that my guests beat up on.  It has them wired to pinball buttons on the side and it works out pretty good.

[chucklepie]

Thanks, I'm actually planning on putting a left and right pinball buttons on the side of my cabinet, I guess I could do that.

Thinking about it, I thought my problem was wiring the mouse buttons to the digital buttons, but I guess in most of the emulators you can use mouse buttons as keys to.

I'll stick to p1, p2 on the cabinet then.

I'm just stuck on the little things now like using the slagcoin layouts 63mm seems too close a gap between joystick/buttons but 95mm means the trackball will be squashed so I'm playing with cutouts to see where I can put the trackball (my CP is 66mm/26in wide and 33cm/13in deep) or whether I should not bother at all....

[ZeroPoint]

Downloaded the Wini-Pac utility a while ago and found that you now can assign left and right mouse button to any of the 32 inputs on the Mini-Pac. It didn't work on my 1 year old Mini-Pac, so I guess I need to order new ones with updated firmware just as when volume up and down was implemented.

[PL1]

Thanks, I'm actually planning on putting a left and right pinball buttons on the side of my cabinet, I guess I could do that.

If you don't need to use the mouse buttons regularly, another way to do this is to tuck a small bluetooth keyboard w. touchpad or trackball inside your coin door.


Several people have mentioned using this for maintenance, upgrades, etc.


Scott