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6, 7 or 8 buttons
Gim:
Hello everyone,
I am currently designing my control panel for my first MAME cabinet. I was wondering if I should put 6, 7 or 8 buttons for player 1 and player 2. Is there any MAME games using 7 or 8 buttons ? For player 3 and player 4, I think I will put only 4 buttons (should I put more then that) ?
I planned of using Advance MAME (on linux), can someone using advance can tell me the system buttons I'll need ?
I planned to play a lot of "street fighter" on my cabinet, is the T-Stick plus appropriate ?
Regards,
Guillaume Frechette
GGKoul:
Oh dear god no...
If you search around.. you find most people have 6 buttons for 1 & 2, and 4 for 3 & 4.
dmish82:
I opted to go with 7 buttons for Players 1 & 2 and 3 buttons for Players 3 & 4. I can't think of any games that used more than 7 buttons (basically just fighters seemed to use this many). There were very few games that used 4 buttons for Players 3 & 4 but most used 2 and some used 3. If you plan on emulating console systems in the future, then it's possible you may want more buttons. Hope this helps.
SirPoonga:
Since I play abit of neogeo I like the 7 button layouts. I might change my control panel now.
For players 3 and 4 all you really need is 4 buttons if you are only going to do mame. If you are going to do console emulation you might need more.
pointdablame:
I don't even think there are games that actually use 7 buttons... except maybe mahjong or casino type games with a million buttons on them.
The 7 button layout is really just to emulate the NeoGeo button layout AND the 6 button fighter layout. If you don't play NeoGeo games, you probably don't need it.