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Vigo:

Whatcha mean? There's plenty of cred to be had here.



I'd be more asking what makes a pause button not legit, but yet a whole keyboard sitting out is OK....

PL1:

To OP:  Some people store their keyboard on a shelf behind the coin door so it is normally hidden but easily accesible.
To others:  :censored: adminophobes.   :angry:

Let OP decide what is best for his circumstances instead of spewing your intolerant pause-button-hating posts.  :laugh2:

Seriously though, neither side will convince the other on the adminophobe vs. adminophile argument.

If you feel that strongly about it, start your own thread instead of threadjacking OP to proseletyze for your configuration fixation.   ;D


Scott

Cynicaster:


--- Quote from: shponglefan on June 12, 2013, 05:49:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: michelevit on June 11, 2013, 04:53:31 pm ---a dedicated pause button loses all cred for me. i keep mine on top of my cab.
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"Cred"?  There's arcade "cred" now?

Sheesh people, we're talking about an uber-geeky DIY hobby.  There is no cred to be found in these parts, quit fooling yourselves.

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Exactly. 

If you don’t want admin buttons on your panel because you want to minimize clutter or whatever, that’s perfectly understandable, but I’ve always found it completely ridiculous to cite “arcade authenticity” as the reason for omitting unquestionably useful buttons like pause and exit.   

MAME cabinets are nothing but big, multi-purpose emulation boxes; by definition, they are the very antithesis of authenticity.  Adding a convenient pause button in the corner of your “Joe’s Ultracade” control panel—northeast of the Tron controller, left of spinner #1, and a few inches above your 4-/8-way switchable joystick—hardly makes a dent in your authenticity quotient.   :lol


michelevit:

Pause button loses all credibilty for me. No cabinet from my youth had a pause button. (or ESC, Enter...) You can just trigger the commands with a wireless keyboard or a hidden button, or a shift command using two buttons. (holding player one, while joystick down etc..)
I keep my wireless keyboard on top of my cabinet. If I'm having a party, I'll just load a popular game and hide the keyboard.  My goal with building a cabinet is not have it look homebuilt, with dedicated admin buttons but like I convinced Apu from Quickee Mart to dolly it home after Nelson Muntz and his gang figured out how to string free credits.




shponglefan:


--- Quote from: michelevit on June 14, 2013, 06:05:33 pm ---Pause button loses all credibilty for me. No cabinet from my youth had a pause button. (or ESC, Enter...) You can just trigger the commands with a wireless keyboard or a hidden button, or a shift command using two buttons. (holding player one, while joystick down etc..)

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Cabinets from your youth didn't run MAME either.  There's no authenticity in a home-built cab running MAME.  A pause button really doesn't change anything.



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