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rCadeGaming:
I'm running real hardware wherever possible, no emulators other than MAME.  Check out my project thread, (in my signature).
paigeoliver:
Not if you stop with the 16 bit generation, which you might as well because after that you run smack into the same analog control issue that makes installing the CHD games 93 percent pointless. Plus you get a whole new set of control problems in the form of console button layouts that don't transfer in any sane way to an arcade control panel. Even the venerable SNES has that problem with games that used the shoulder buttons in any sort of directional fashion (which is why the Nintendo Super System arcade machines basically had SNES controllers on them).

Sure, there are a couple CHD games that don't require specialty controls (hint, they aren't the sports games, all of those were 49-way or analog), so you will miss out on a couple games by not installing the CHD files. However you will miss out on many multiples of those numbers simply by not having a 4-way joystick (insert any other control type here).


--- Quote from: BobA on November 22, 2012, 11:41:17 pm ---If you go beyond MAME to the many other console emulators you can easily fill a 250GB drive. The old school consoles are fun and take only a few player buttons.

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brad808:
I thought with almost all of the 49 way joy games you could change to 8 way through dip or settings menu no?

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paigeoliver:
You can indeed do that with most of them, but it doesn't really ADJUST the game for it. It just replaces the fine control of the 49-way with the rough control of the 8-way. They were written for the 49-way.


--- Quote from: brad808 on November 23, 2012, 10:09:35 am ---I thought with almost all of the 49 way joy games you could change to 8 way through dip or settings menu no?

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Yenome:
personally i dont bother with most chd games, save for blitz, KI series and street fighter 3rd strike. also there is a layout that works perfectly for arcade and snes. look at what mk and killer instinct use the shoulder buttons for. this same style of layout is found in the xbox360 and ps3 arcade stick layouts. most times the should buttons are the first button on both rows or are on the top row. and you will probly have to set some games controls diff than the layout below.
snes        PS3
R Y X     Square Triangle R1 L1
L B A     Cross   Circle     R2 L2
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