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| DaveJ-UK:
What extra buttons will I need to install in my MAME cab? I know the obvious answer is "Whatever you want", but maybe there's something I haven't thought of or used yet. Buttons I know I will need are: Escape Pause Coin 1 Coin 2 PC Power Any others I could/should install or could consider? Also, I want to have the PC power/hdd LEDs visible outside the cab, but I think a couple of dinkey little LEDs would like a bit puny on a 7ft cabinet. Anything else I could use that would look good? Thanks. |
| Zathras:
On my cab I've got a power button on the top of the cab and then just Pause and Escape as actual buttons. You can really use shifted functions for anything and everything but I wanted it to be easy for guests for those two functions. Never thought about putting the HD/Power LEDs externally but one thing you could do is work them into your marquee - maybe have a cave theme and split them somehow so they are glowing/blinking eyes :) (or blinking lights on a space station, etc etc etc) |
| spauldingd:
--- Quote from: DaveJ-UK on April 14, 2004, 09:28:26 am ---What extra buttons will I need to install in my MAME cab? I know the obvious answer is "Whatever you want", but maybe there's something I haven't thought of or used yet. Buttons I know I will need are: Escape Pause Coin 1 Coin 2 PC Power --- End quote --- I have buttons for all of those as well as TAB and ENTER. I know that I can use the shift function of the IPAC to get to these, but I like the dedicated PAUSE and ESCAPE for my kids to use the machine. I figured while I was at it, adding a couple more buttons for TAB and ENTER would just make life easier. I wired my PC's power LED up to my panel so it lights up when I push the power button, and it also flashes on and off when on StandBy which looks pretty cool. I would say that if you have the room without making it look cluttered, go ahead and add the buttons, they are cheap. Dave |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: spauldingd on April 14, 2004, 09:46:18 am --- --- Quote from: DaveJ-UK on April 14, 2004, 09:28:26 am ---I have buttons for all of those as well as TAB and ENTER. --- End quote --- Also possibly F2 (Setup in a lot of games) and Tilde (mame volume and other controls). Personally, I would stick with what you have (plus Start 1 and Start 2), and use a keyboard for occasional setup issues, but if you want the extra buttons . . . --- End quote --- |
| DaveJ-UK:
Thanks for the replies. I have already ordered my marquee (classic mame) and I don't want to have the pc lights behind that. The PCs LED's are just standard 12V LEDs right? So I could just use any 12V lamp? I just think the little LED's will look a bit odd on a cab since they're so small. I would like to only have one coin insert button but some games have seperate credit "banks" for each player. Is there a way round this? And what use do the tab, shift and enter keys have within MAME? |
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