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Mame cp button order
thomas_surles:
I need help deciding the order to do my buttons for a 6 button layout. I want to know how everyone else does it.
is your button 1 on top or bottom? which would work out the best and feel more comfortable?
Slippyblade:
123
456
Generic Eric:
I have a seven button layout. I have the bottom 4 wired 1-4. I can't say I've used 4 for a game yet, but it looks nice because I have them in the neo geo colors.
I'd say bottom 3 as 1-3. Change the ini file for your fighting games to have 1-3 on top and 4-6 on bottom.
I will say that the arch I chose messes me up when I try to use button 3, so new control panel for me eventually. Yay.
YMMV. Just make the underside of your cp accessible and you can change it if you don't like it.
BadMouth:
By default MAME assumes your buttons are numbered like so:
123
456
Map them that way and all the Capcom and Midway fighters will be mapped correctly.
Having the fourth button for Neo Geo in the second row is actually pretty nice.
You can hit it with your thumb.
For the sake of including relevant information in this thread.....
If you have more than 6 buttons and map them like so:
1234
5678
You end up having to remap a ton of games. Better to go with:
1237
4568
thomas_surles:
thanks that helps a lot. i like the idea of hitting number 4 with the thumb. seems like that would be the easiest.