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New to building a little help please
« on: April 29, 2016, 11:30:33 am »
So Ive been working on getting my front end working for a little while and now im going to start my project build. I need a little help though.

I plan to have a 4 player cab pedestal with 8 buttons for each player, tackball, and spinner. i have a little video here which isnt mine but it shows what im trying to make. if anyone can help with getting a control panel layout i would apreciate it. ive been all over online and it seems what i want to build is rare and hard to find unless i buy a prebuilt one.  sorry if the video doesnt show up in my post im not that forum savy.

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Re: New to building a little help please
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2016, 12:01:03 pm »
The typical reply you will get here is:
 • 8 button is overkill, unless you plan on emulating recent consoles. Even then a lot of games do not play well in and arcade settings because you can't replicate easily hitting the shoulder buttons on CP.
 • 4 buttons are enough for players 3 and four and even then a limited number of arcade games actually use 4 buttons.

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Re: New to building a little help please
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2016, 03:09:28 am »
I could be wrong, but looking at that fellow's panel in the linked video, isn't that a 6 button layout with buttons 1 and 2 duplicated below the dual 6?
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