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PL1:
What functions will you assign to the four yellow admin buttons? (Pause, Exit, the often risky Menu button, etc.)

I assume that the buttons on the front are for P1/P2 Coin, right?

Have you decided what FE and emulators you want to run and installed/configured them so you can confirm which admin buttons are actually needed to make everything work the way you want?


Scott
screamingtiger:
I am not thinking any of this through and it is totally on the fly.   I mentioned I wanted to this over 10 years ago and suddenly last week, out of no where just took it on.  I cant explain why now. 

I have the XI MO encoder and I am not even sure how many buttons that can handle,  I currently have 22 buttons.  I would like to add 2 more for flippers.  though I did see this cool machine just for pinnball that was pretty sweet, it had a horizontal and vertical monitor!  I thought it was totally dumb at first until I seen it in action and realized how auwsome it is.  If I decide to do that I will omit the flippers.

The front buttons are coin buttons.  The 4 yellow will be:
Exit
Pause
Save State
Load State

I want to play through some old NES games and I use save and load alot, so I wanted dedicated buttons for that.  I just assumed MAME can assign those functions to a button.

Thinking this through now, 22 buttons and 16 total for the two 8 way for the controllers, that is 38 functions.  How many does the XI MO have? May need another one perhaps?

Please if you feel I am going to run into road blocks let me know, this is not well thought out  :)
Malenko:
if you are limited on inputs, you can just wire the pinball buttons in parallel with another button , so hitting either will work. IE player 1 button 1 can double as the left flipper and player 2 button 1 can double as the right flipper.
screamingtiger:
Thats a really good idea.  I am bit confused by the XIN MO description, it says
http://www.monsterarcades.com/#!xin-mo-enoder/c1nw5

"   This simple controller is recognized by Windows as a plug and play controller.  Get 30 inputs (2 Joysticks with 8 each and 22 buttons)..."

22 buttons and two 8 way joysticks is 38 needed inputs.  If it were 1 joystick and 22 buttons that would be 30 inputs.   what the heck? 

Malenko:
an 8 way stick is only 4 inputs (up down left and right) it will just hit 2 inputs at once for diagonals. "2 joysticks with 8 each" is just worded poorly. It should say "(2) 8way joysticks and 22 buttons"
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