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Flinkly:
hey y'all,
i was wondering what might be the required # of buttons one would have to put on a four player control panel. i know eight is as many as you need for first and second player, but should third and fourth player have 4 or eight?
i've seen people do it both ways, but what games (if any) use more than four buttons for third and forth player?
thanks for the help.
DougHillman:
If you'd done a search (or possibly even looked in the stick FAQ posts here) you'd have seen that this topic has been repeatedly addressed.
Despite that, the answer is: it depends on what you need out of your cabinet. Technically for MAME, P1 & 2 don't need more than 6 buttons. Many people put 7, using 2 buttons to send the same input so that they can have a 4 horizontal button layout for NEO Geo games over the top of a 3 button row which will give the 6 buttons needed for Street Fighter games.
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P3 & 4 don't need more than 4 buttons.
Unless you're gonna play 4-player SNES & other later emulators. If so, P3 & 4 may need more buttons.
Jakobud:
16 buttons for each player should be good enough.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Jakobud on October 01, 2004, 09:15:22 pm ---16 buttons for each player should be good enough.
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You're forgetting the CTRL, ESC, ENTER, F13, ANY, SCRN CAP, and WAKE buttons....quite common that you forgot them, but that'll push your totals up a bit from 16. Oh, and if you want flipper buttons, add 5 to THAT total.
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