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cbmeeks:
I don't understand.

Every Neo Geo I've seen has 4 buttons per player.  What am I missing?

-cb
etumor:

--- Quote from: cbmeeks on June 11, 2004, 11:45:52 am ---I don't understand.

Every Neo Geo I've seen has 4 buttons per player.  What am I missing?

-cb

--- End quote ---


All Neo-Geo cabinets have four buttons per player.  However, the actual number of buttons used depends on the game, and it's really only the fighters that use all four.  The Metal Slug games use 3.  The Puzzle Bobble games only use 1.  Most shooters use 2.

And so on, and so forth...

-Jeff
cbmeeks:
Then why do so many people use 7 for Neo Geo?

Sorry...I can be dumb
etumor:

--- Quote from: cbmeeks on June 11, 2004, 01:23:16 pm ---Then why do so many people use 7 for Neo Geo?

Sorry...I can be dumb

--- End quote ---

I thought we already covered this, but here goes again:

Neo-Geo only used 4 buttons (per player) at most.  They were layed out kind of like this:

     2 3 4
  1

It was really more of a curved line, but that's the best I can do with plain text.

No one actually uses 7 buttons for Neo-Geo.  But what people do is they use 6 buttons for Street Fighter II and similar games.  This makes two rows of three buttons each:

 1 2 3
 4 5 6

Then they add a fourth button to one of the rows (or slightly higher or lower) which forms a Neo-Geo style layout on the bottom row:

    1 2 3
    4 5 6
  7

The seventh button is redundant -- it is only there so that the position of the buttons on the lower row form the same "shape" that it does on a Neo-Geo cabinet.

What has been discussed here is how to map those seven buttons (if you chose this layout), and whether or not the layout is even useful at all.  I personally don't believe it is (and I've had a machine with this layout for a year and a half now).  It's only real advantage is that the buttons end up lining up with the on-screen instructions that some of the Neo-Geo games provide (watch the demo of Metal Slug, or most of the fighter games, and you'll see what I mean).  How important that is to you is a personal choice.

-Jeff
cbmeeks:
Ahh!

I see.  Thanks.

But why the 7th button?


KIDDING!

lol

cb
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