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Yenome:

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--- Quote from: Greenman on December 23, 2021, 03:24:31 am ---If I was building a pedestal again, I would delete the 7th button for player one and two. I would also delete the trackball.

Keep going with the build. You'll get there.

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I'm curious as to why? Mortal Kombat gets a lot of play in my cabs, and so does NeoGeo. I have a straight 6-pack with the 7th offset and I've found that to be the most useful for me.

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for neogeo i just use the home consoles controller layout. "x" is unmapped for neogeo.
C D X
A B X

All the rest use a standard 6 button layout
1 2 3
4 5 6

for mortal kombat only buttons 5 and 6 need to swap as the default order 1-6 for mk is
hp, bl, hk, lp, lk, rn

Altho being a subzero fan i tend to put block in the middle on the bottom row so i can just hit the bottom 3 for his slide. last i looked it didnt seem like it would effect any other characters being that way.

Yenome:
Im not where near as far as you, but personally on my pedestal layout i have the side players at 90 degrees from the front players. this includes their buttons as well so they will stand on either side of the control panel. i havnt tried playing with the buttons on the sides being at any kind of angle. perhaps just a 30 degree angle.

Billy_Goatfeet:

--- Quote from: Mike A on January 07, 2022, 05:26:39 am ------fudgesicle--- me.
That looks ---smurfing--- terrible.
I am getting ready for work and that collage just wrecked my whole day.
Artwork should have a theme and a purpose.
Please start over.

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BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Yenome on January 13, 2022, 01:02:30 am ---
--- Quote from: nipsmg on December 23, 2021, 08:25:49 am ---
--- Quote from: Greenman on December 23, 2021, 03:24:31 am ---If I was building a pedestal again, I would delete the 7th button for player one and two. I would also delete the trackball.

Keep going with the build. You'll get there.

--- End quote ---

I'm curious as to why? Mortal Kombat gets a lot of play in my cabs, and so does NeoGeo. I have a straight 6-pack with the 7th offset and I've found that to be the most useful for me.

--- End quote ---
for neogeo i just use the home consoles controller layout. "x" is unmapped for neogeo.
C D X
A B X

All the rest use a standard 6 button layout
1 2 3
4 5 6

for mortal kombat only buttons 5 and 6 need to swap as the default order 1-6 for mk is
hp, bl, hk, lp, lk, rn

Altho being a subzero fan i tend to put block in the middle on the bottom row so i can just hit the bottom 3 for his slide. last i looked it didnt seem like it would effect any other characters being that way.

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I built a Neo Geo themed cab, so did a 7 button layout to get the Neo Geo 4 in a row. After using it a while, I found that I REALLY prefer:

ABC
D

for the Neo Geo games. Not authentic, but it feels more comfortable to hit the D button with my thumb than using a pinky or moving fingers over.

The more modern curved layout with convex buttons also causes me to lose track of where my fingers are on games with more than 3 buttons. I find myself looking down to reset my finger positions more often.

If I were doing it over, I'd have stuck with the plain old "straight 6" layout with concave buttons.

FYI, most games in MAME are set up for a
123
456
layout. Arranging buttons like that requires the least remapping.

EDIT: I'll also add that I was going to add an analog flight stick, but realized that I don't care for most of the arcade games that used one. The exception would be Space Harrier, but it plays pretty well with a standard joystick. I like the dual analog stick games, but those are more suited to a sit down cab.

Shookie:
8 months later.... not much progress until the last couple weeks..... I scrapped my original artwork design and I'm sure some/most of you will appreciate that! ;D

I really wanted to stick with old school characters and all. I refined it a bunch more after the original image I posted but just wasn't loving the black, star background. Both of my boys didn't love it either. So, I searched and searched the net for high res images. Spent hours just searching for something I could use.... Ended up finding a couple super high res images so I grabbed those. Used one of them as the base and then cut/pasted some other images to fill in places.

I think it's looking pretty good now. I am still tweaking button positions. Think I am going to rotate P1 and P2 a bit counter-clockwise. I'm going to print this and try it out. Let me know what you think.

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