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| brad808:
Good call, I always forget about the joystick for stuff like that. On my two player cab that a lot of guests play I tried to avoid it because I figured chances of someone having one hand on the joystick and one on start would be a lot higher than one on the buttons and one on start. Just to try and avoid accidental pauses and such. I think I also had implanted in my mind long ago (probably wrongfully so) that I would need to use the joystick and start buttons for "secret" unlocks at the beginning of games. Things like alternate costumes for fighting games and stupid things. I can't think of a single game where I do that and it's been a few years now so it's probably safe to use the joystick on my 1 player cab haha. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus |
| paigeoliver:
And if you let a couple of grade school kids on your cabinet they will find every single key press combination in a matter of minutes. Usually resulting in them getting into the mame menu and messing up the default control configurations. I only combo insert coin now. For exit game and the tab menu I ended up installing a couple of buttons underneath the control panel where no one knows where they are. --- Quote from: RandyT on March 22, 2013, 12:28:10 pm --- --- Quote from: keilmillerjr on March 22, 2013, 12:07:08 pm ---By secret I just meant that there will not be a dedicated button for it. Unless I told some one how to do it, they would never know. That's all. Trying to keep it as authentic as possible. --- End quote --- The MAME method does this as well. In fact, MAME doesn't care how many buttons you use in a combo. It could be two, three or more. But obviously, you would want to assign them to combinations which wouldn't be pressed in the course of normal use. --- End quote --- |
| iscariot:
Actually this is for a real arcade machine. I was just hoping to have the third button utilized when I pressed two other buttons together. |
| jasonbar:
MAME defaults Player 1 buttons to include Left CTRL & Left ALT. I assigned one of the Player 4 buttons to DEL. This was fine until the first time I invite over people & 4 of us were playing Gauntlet & the Task Manager popped up! =O I changed that immediately. Now, when I have company over & want to protect my cab & keep people out of the MaLa settings menu, I turn off the right-mouse-click option on MaLa & assign DEL to pull up the MaLa context-sensitive menu, as I know that DEL is a key found only in the setup keyboard inside the cab, & not assigned to any switch on the outside of the cab. -Jason PS--I also made it difficult to exit to Windows from MaLa: right-mouse-click (Player 2 button 2), then "X" for the keyboard shortcut for "Exit" in the pop-up menu (Player 1 button 6), & then the AutoHotKey script requires that I immediately press & hold F10 (throttle, a dedicated button on the front face of my cab, under the panel's top face overhang) until the Windows desktop appears. If the 1st 2 keypresses occur w/out the 3rd, MaLa will exit & then immediately restart. |
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