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zanna5910:
Go shifted, you will be much happier and your panel will be much cleaner.  Most all people who will play your arcade dont even need to know how to use the Admin commands or need to use them.  They want to start a game, play it, exit it, and start another...

I have, besides base controls, joysticks, and P1 and P2 start and coin, I have
Go (Enter), Exit (Esc), Pause (P), Volume (V) and Admin (Admin Encoded Shift Key)

I can then use Admin + P1B6, for instance, to use a Tab Key to get into configs.  You could use the admin key to do as many things as you want by mapping them to different buttons.

You can always re-program the shifted keys as well as your needs chagne.

Malenko:
I wanna do it this way tooooooo


--- Quote from: jimmer on September 18, 2013, 05:02:07 am ---1. ESC  = P1 start + P2 start
2. TAB = lulwhy?
3. Enter =P1 start
4. Up =joystick 1 up
5. Down = joystick 2 down

6. Pause =P1 start + joystick 1 down
7. Record Movie = I guess?

8. 1P Start - 1 uh uh....
9. 2P Start - 2 uh uh....
10. Coin 1 - 5 uh uh....
11. Coin 2 - 6 uh uh....

12. User1 - O  = no, use joystick left
13. User2 - K  = no, use joystick right
14. User3 - ? = wut?
15. User4 - ? = wut?

--- End quote ---
you should use separate coin ups if possible.
jimmer:
Thanks for the input so far.

A bit more info and comments from me.

In XP when I unplug a panel and plug a different one in, the encoder does not get recognised if I'm in the menu screen, but once a game is selected the panel is recognised. That's one reason for putting up/down on the admin panel. The other reason is that not all my panels will have up/down on them! same for left/right.

I want to reprogram as little as possible from MAME defaults.

A strip of 16 black buttons is hardly any different from a strip of 10 in terms of style.

Good points about not allowing access to some functions, I've just been thinking of the owner/main user so far, not about random users.


keilmillerjr:
You don't need most of that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- during normal gameplay. Keep a keyboard in the closet for setting ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up. Also, you don't want some one else messing with your settings.
zanna5910:
It seems a slideout keyboard drawer or wireless keyboard would serve your purposes pretty well for needing access to some of these buttons.  I would try to keep the CP limited to game input.
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