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Howard_Casto:
Ok I hate to be the big --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- again but I'm trying to save you some time and money.
YOU CANNOT BUILD AN ACCEPTABLE ARCADE CONTROL PANEL FOR A CONSOLE SYSTEM THAT USES MORE THAN 6 BUTTONS!!! YOU CANNOT BUILD AN ACCEPTABLE ARCADE CONTROL PANEL FOR A SYSTEM THAT REQUIRES THE USE OF AN ANALOG STICK.
Everything that jakobud said is absolutely right. These games are designed with the idea that you are using a stock playstation controller and the button layouts are setup accordingly. Now explain to me how your going to exectue a move that requires you to press l1+l2+r1+r2+up+x+o aaaall at the same time on a arcade control panel. I dunno about you but I can only press about 4-5 buttons on an arcade panel at a time and only then if they are close together.
Now if your only going to play arcade ports, you might get away with it, but if it's an arcade port then it will be emulated eventually if not already.
Now I know what's going to happen your going to ignore what we said and do it anyway. And about 3 months and several $'s later you'll get it up and running only to discover that there are 3 or 4 games that are actually fun to play in this setup.
So go ahead and do what your going to do but you've been warned.
btw I'm not trying to be mean or anything, it's just thist type of idea has been posted several times and no one listens until it's too late.
Juan Boligrafo:
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Now if your only going to play arcade ports, you might get away with it, but if it's an arcade port then it will be emulated eventually if not already.
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Howard_Casto:
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ok whose working on that system256 emu and that naomi 2 emu
not gonna happen for years and you aren't really going to download roms that are 1gig+
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Obviously you haven't gotten mpegs for daphne,1+ gig roms aren't a problem. As for system 256 and naomi 2 those are new systems and thus shouldn't be emulated yet. Go to the arcade and play them, that's why the arcade business died.
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Besides you overlooked the 3 or 4 games part. I meant that literally, with the exception of the dreamcast (a wonderful console for hacking) console systems have very few arcade ports that aren't emulated, especially the psx2.
hyiu:
well... my 2 cents of personal opinion...
I did hacked a PSX controller and hook it to an arcade controller... with 1 stick and 10 button. I'm mainly playing psx and ps2 fighting games... with all 10 buttons hacked (the start, select, 4 on the right side and 4 on the top and the joystick), I'm able to use all features of the games... (but of course, I think at most I only press 3 buttons together... but then like Tekken, with L1, L2, R1, R2, you can actually program as macro and stuffs and lazy as I am, is actually a pretty good idea to have the buttons around.... ;D
so, if you want all the buttons, I would say why not ?? a new button costs $2 (more or less) and definitely better than needing to upgrade later... of course, it doesn't mean you have to press them all at once, but then its available when you need it in certain games.....
well... but I'm only talking digital games here... (not analog).... I'm working on my cabinet right now... when its done, I'll try to find time and see if I can hack an analog pad (x-box) into a panel.... (again, no need for analog, just digital is enough... cos mainly for fighting game...)
Bob Sanders:
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Obviously you haven't gotten mpegs for daphne,1+ gig roms aren't a problem.
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