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MamedInCanada:
I wanna build a control panel that player one and two can use buttons on both sides of the joystick. However, I am also adding trackball, spinner(with race wheel), 4-way joystick, and flight stick. I think I'm going button crazy. Let me know if too much.

8-Way Main Joysticks for Player One and Two
Is one joystick with eight buttons mostly for console games, I read that 99% of MAME games can be played with 6 buttons?
What percentage can be played with four buttons?

-> Should I just put 6 on each side? Instead of 4 and 8? I thought 4 on the left would cover a lot of

4-Way Player One Joystick
Are there four way MAME joystick games that use more than one button?

Spinner with Racewheel?
Spinner MAME games, is one button enough?
For MAME race games what about gas and brake? What about shifting? I can see this being a problem or is this just solved in the Frontend. Just use 4 buttons for player one?

Thanks
shponglefan:

--- Quote from: MamedInCanada on September 20, 2014, 11:25:21 pm ---I wanna build a control panel that player one and two can use buttons on both sides of the joystick.
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Why?
Malenko:
you need more, at least a 2nd wheel if not a 3rd for some badlands. Dont forget a push pull spinner for discs of tron and better find a place for the tron stick too. You're also 2 trackballs short of 3 player rampart.

/kidding


Take a look at the control panel picture thread, mock stuff up on cardboard, and you dont need duplicate buttons on each side of both joy sticks.
eds1275:
I also wantto know why you want buttons on both sides. 
Typefighter01:
I hope the 8 buttons on the right side of each joystick are placed in that arrangement just to show the amount and type you are using, cause if you are going to play with an inverted curved layout, your gonna hate it.

Should look something like this:
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