Stock Comp for MAME

[yotsuya]

Bill-

Think about all the games you loved as a kid. Then think about what you used to control them. You CAN'T play Star Wars, Pole Position, or Centipede in MAME with a joystick- doesn't work right. If you loved Pac-Man, you won't be able to play it right with an 8-way joystick. Did you like Street Fighter? You'll need 6 buttons per player for that, but if you are playing 1942, then you really only need two buttons. And if you're a TRON fan, you'll need a spinner and a trigger stick to play it the right way.....

You see what happens? A Frankenpanel tries to take all these controls and put them on one control panel. Now, far be it from me to tell you what to build. But my advice is to decide what you want to play, then figure out how that has to happen. You may have to cut some favorites, but that's OK. That's what the second MAME cab is for. 

[mamenewb100]

CrapMAME should be required reading for anyone starting out on this hobby.

Look at this one!

WOW. I almost died laughing. The buttons make fighting games unplayable, P1 and P2 joysticks aren't even. It has 2 coin doors? WTF. Then despite the enormous panel.. he puts the flight stick right in front of the trackball AHAHA. Makes my crappy panel look good.

[BillinIndiana]

Bill-

Think about all the games you loved as a kid. Then think about what you used to control them. You CAN'T play Star Wars, Pole Position, or Centipede in MAME with a joystick- doesn't work right. If you loved Pac-Man, you won't be able to play it right with an 8-way joystick. Did you like Street Fighter? You'll need 6 buttons per player for that, but if you are playing 1942, then you really only need two buttons. And if you're a TRON fan, you'll need a spinner and a trigger stick to play it the right way.....

You see what happens? A Frankenpanel tries to take all these controls and put them on one control panel. Now, far be it from me to tell you what to build. But my advice is to decide what you want to play, then figure out how that has to happen. You may have to cut some favorites, but that's OK. That's what the second MAME cab is for. 

  I guess that's were I'm confused.. So you need 6 buttons for Street Fighter and only 2 buttons for 1942, this doesn't mean you need 8 buttons does it?  Can't you have 6 and still play both games?

[yotsuya]

Bill-

Think about all the games you loved as a kid. Then think about what you used to control them. You CAN'T play Star Wars, Pole Position, or Centipede in MAME with a joystick- doesn't work right. If you loved Pac-Man, you won't be able to play it right with an 8-way joystick. Did you like Street Fighter? You'll need 6 buttons per player for that, but if you are playing 1942, then you really only need two buttons. And if you're a TRON fan, you'll need a spinner and a trigger stick to play it the right way.....

You see what happens? A Frankenpanel tries to take all these controls and put them on one control panel. Now, far be it from me to tell you what to build. But my advice is to decide what you want to play, then figure out how that has to happen. You may have to cut some favorites, but that's OK. That's what the second MAME cab is for. 

  I guess that's were I'm confused.. So you need 6 buttons for Street Fighter and only 2 buttons for 1942, this doesn't mean you need 8 buttons does it?  Can't you have 6 and still play both games?

Bill, the beauty of MAME and encoders is that you can reuse buttons. The 6 buttons are enough for almost everything. It's the multiple joysticks, spinners, and trackballs that take things to another level.

[BillinIndiana]

Bill, the beauty of MAME and encoders is that you can reuse buttons. The 6 buttons are enough for almost everything. It's the multiple joysticks, spinners, and trackballs that take things to another level.

Gotcha, that's what I was thinking..  So why would he have 12.. I know that's part of why it's on that site, but why would he do it? I mean he has to have some sort of reasoning?

[05SRT4]

I don't know any Mame games that would use all those buttons. I can see if you have a console (ps3,xbox,wii) this would allow you to use the L2 and R2 buttons.

[BillinIndiana]

I don't know any Mame games that would use all those buttons. I can see if you have a console (ps3,xbox,wii) this would allow you to use the L2 and R2 buttons.

My 42 yr old butt does my XBOX'ing setting down..Haha

[yotsuya]

I don't know any Mame games that would use all those buttons. I can see if you have a console (ps3,xbox,wii) this would allow you to use the L2 and R2 buttons.

My 42 yr old butt does my XBOX'ing setting down..Haha

I'm with you on that. I took all the console stuff off my MAME cab because, quite frankly, it's not much fun playing NES, SNES, and Genesis games on anything else but a gamepad. I just ordered a HaRuMaN Special that I'm going to use to be a console only emulator- no joystick or button, only attached gamepads.

[mcseforsale]

FIFY.

AJ

I don't know any Mame games that would use all those buttons. I can see if you have a console (ps3,xbox,wii) this would allow you to use the L2 and R2 buttons.

My 42 yr old butt does my XBOX'ing setting down..Haha

I'm with you on that. I took all the console stuff off my MAME cab because, quite frankly, it's not much fun playing NES, SNES, and Genesis games on anything else but a *COUCH*

[BillinIndiana]

I don't know any Mame games that would use all those buttons. I can see if you have a console (ps3,xbox,wii) this would allow you to use the L2 and R2 buttons.

My 42 yr old butt does my XBOX'ing setting down..Haha

I'm with you on that. I took all the console stuff off my MAME cab because, quite frankly, it's not much fun playing NES, SNES, and Genesis games on anything else but a gamepad. I just ordered a HaRuMaN Special that I'm going to use to be a console only emulator- no joystick or button, only attached gamepads.

That's interesting, what do you mean gamepads? Do you mean like one of the original controllers or what?
  I tried to Google HaRuMaN Special  and had a hard time finding what this is?

[yotsuya]

I don't know any Mame games that would use all those buttons. I can see if you have a console (ps3,xbox,wii) this would allow you to use the L2 and R2 buttons.

My 42 yr old butt does my XBOX'ing setting down..Haha

I'm with you on that. I took all the console stuff off my MAME cab because, quite frankly, it's not much fun playing NES, SNES, and Genesis games on anything else but a gamepad. I just ordered a HaRuMaN Special that I'm going to use to be a console only emulator- no joystick or button, only attached gamepads.

That's interesting, what do you mean gamepads? Do you mean like one of the original controllers or what?

You can buy USB replicas of varying quality out there, but I've found that the xBox 360 controller setup for Windows works best for me. I'm 99% sure that's what I'm going to use on my console bartop.

[BillinIndiana]

I tried to Google HaRuMaN Special  and had a hard time finding what this is?

[yotsuya]

I tried to Google HaRuMaN Special  and had a hard time finding what this is?

It's a bartop that forum member HaRuMaN offers for sale as a convenience to the community:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130522.0.html

There are other bartop vendors out there, but I use HaRuMaN because he's local and we've done business before.