I Need Some Advice on Joysticks!

[Griff1324]

I am building my first control panel.  I am considering getting the blank quad player control panel from mameroom.com and adding my own buttons and joysticks.  On their control panel they offer cut-outs for the four individual player joysticks and a cut-out for a seperate 4-way joystick w/ two button holes. 

Do you guys recommend having a dedicated 4-way joystick?  I see that a lot of the joysticks now are able to be switched from 4-way to 8-way.  I was curious if it would be redundent to have a dedicated 4-way joystick.  Also, are there any multi-player games where both players would be playing at the same time and require two 4-way joysticks?

I will be using the machine for both MAME games and console emulation.

[CheffoJeffo]

Don't forget the not-so-popular one-player, two-stick using 4-ways.

[zanna5910]

i think console emulation is best done with a usb controller, but that's just me.

You can play most everything with 4 8 way sticks (for 4 player and 2x2 8 for double stick side by side) and 6 buttons for at least 2 players if you want to go the 4-P control panel route.

If you have easy access to the inside of the CP 4 to 8 way adjustable are pretty easy to flip while the game is loading, that is my setup.  There is also a servo stick that can automatically adjust between 8 and 4 way. 

I would try to stay away from a dedicated 4 way, as you already have 4 joysticks on the cp, but that's just MHO.  I have found that if you have to have your guests jump around from one way to control something to another, they get confused.  Best to just stand there and bang on the buttons in front of you.