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Castle Crashers Arcade Cabinet Specs?
BadMouth:
Haven't played it since installing because there's too many buttons to remember for a simple hack and slash game. :-\
Fursphere:
7 (8 with a start button?) buttons is too many? :)
BadMouth:
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For a hack and slash, yes. And those 7 buttons don't even cover all the moves, you have to remember combos on top of that.
It's not like a fighting game where there are three different punch buttons. All of these buttons have completely different functions.
IMO, we don't need a separate button that is only used to pick up stuff.
Fursphere:
Meh - I played it a bit today and its mostly just jumping and hitting the two attack buttons. Very similar to Street Fighter in that sense. Sure, there is complicated stuff you CAN do, but you mostly just mash the same buttons over and over again. hehe
Fursphere:
I took a closure look at that build video last night, and did a lot of hunting around the internet for more pictures. Based on this picture (which I ripped from the build video) it really does look like a 32" screen - but each cabinet looks to be 26" wide or wider!
I used my 24" cab as a base, then centered a 32" screen on one edge (using the 32" screen in my driving cab for reference) and came out with what would be about 9" of "bezel" on each side of the monitor.
Now, when you look at the cab in the picture, you can see the bezel is wider than the far right 4th player controllers - which is about 7" wide using a slagcoin template for reference. So I'd guess that bezel is at least 12", if not wider. So my best guess is that cabinet is around 60" wide. (32" screen + 24" worth of bezel + 6" worth of wood).
That's ridiculously big. But that's probably why it looks comfortable for 4 adults to play on it too. I'll have to think about this one some more.
Oh, and if you watch the video closely it becomes pretty clear that they just took 2x X-Arcade tank sticks apart and transferred the guts over to their control panel.
Castle Crashers only supports a keyboard for Player 1 - so you need game pads. Luckily I sent out an email to Andy @ Ultimarc and I can plug two A-Pacs into the same PC without issue to get a total of 4x gamepads (or buy 4x Ultrasticks - its almost the same cost in the end)