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DaveMMR:


--- Quote from: severdhed on February 28, 2014, 11:11:33 pm ---everything else is easily handled with with shifted commands or a wireless keyboard.

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Agree with this. Resist the urge to put admin buttons on panels, especially if you have guests/kids playing it. They WILL push the buttons and they WILL screw up your settings. Best case scenario: they'll get really confused and ask you many, many questions.

I personally used to be anti-admin buttons but relented and slapped a cheap Radio Shack button on the panel for exiting as I was tired of telling people how to change games (not that it helped all that much.) Yes, I still kept pause off - that just encourages people to hog the machine by pausing, walking away to go to the bathroom and forgetting to return.

Keep the buttons to a minimum and use shifted key combos instead.

PL1:

Shifted combos still leave the possibility of accidentally activating an admin function as mentioned here.

Not a huge chance, but it does exist and IIRC has happened to someone (don't recall who at this time) who posted about a party guest who accidently got into the menu system and changed some settings.

The poster mentioned that despite hours of work fixing what he thought were all the messed up settings, he didn't find some until the next party.

No way into the menu system without a keyboard sounds like a good plan for a properly-configured, dedicated MAME system.   :dunno


Scott

DaveMMR:


--- Quote from: PL1 on March 01, 2014, 01:51:51 am ---Shifted combos still leave the possibility of accidentally activating an admin function as mentioned here.

Not a huge chance, but it does exist and IIRC has happened to someone (don't recall who at this time) who posted about a party guest who accidently got into the menu system and changed some settings.

The poster mentioned that despite hours of work fixing what he thought were all the messed up settings, he didn't find some until the next party.

No way into the menu system without a keyboard sounds like a good plan for a properly-configured, dedicated MAME system.   :dunno

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Yeah, that's a good point. It has happened to me as well.


KIguy:

Wow, thank you all for responding! I was able to read the responses from my phone last night but wasn't quite ready to respond as it was a lot to think about. It's hard not to feel lambasted at first (hey, we all want to think our ideas are gold), but you guys all have much more experience with this than I do and I know you all are trying to keep me from making mistakes. Much appreciated.

michelevit, there will be no keyboard in the cab at all once it's done. Thank you for the link though, I might actually pick that up for my tablet.

PL1, video recordings were something I was interested in and felt it prudent to research. It appears that this is not feasible, so it's off the table. As are the save/load buttons, no time to replay through RPGs I already beat 20+ years ago. 2 buttons down, simple enough :o

Messed up configuration files are of no concern to me. I mess them up regularly on my own already (gotta learn!)... which is why I backup every time I make changes. 10 seconds, boom, fixed. I do see the point about a shifted exit though, one person mashing away and the other goes to pause - game over. Suck.

Bottom line is I'm now torn between just having separate exit & pause buttons and going the severdhed route of using a script to go with a single button (thanks for that!). They are both simple in their own right, I just need to decide whether I want to wait 3 seconds to back out of a menu  ;)

Sorry for the long post, thank you all again for your input!  :cheers:

P.S. DaveMMR - is that Modular Mustangs MMR?

DaveMMR:


--- Quote from: KIguy on March 02, 2014, 05:28:32 pm ---P.S. DaveMMR - is that Modular Mustangs MMR?

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Nothing that interesting - just the rest of my initials.  ;)

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