RayB's old SNES cab

[RayB]

Ijust scanned this in to show someone my button configuration, so I thought I'd also share it here. The cab in the middle was my Super Nintendo cabinet. All I needed was:

 - SCART cable--(It has RGB wires, plus left/right sound) this let me directly connect video to the arcade monitor.
 - cheap Radio Scrap sound amplifier
 - hacked 2 SNES controllers. Soldered wiring directly to controller circuit board
 - SNES console sat within reach through coin door.

I never got around to phase 2 which was somehow having cartridges plug in through the top of the control panel.

~Ray B.

PS: In forground is a generic Dynamo cab, and in the back is a Nintendo Punch-Out!

[Redseven80]

Got any more photo's? sounds good, Contra spirits would play great in that.

[RayB]

Nope. I no longer own the cab. No more pics!

[elvis]

For SNES joysticks I prefer:

L X R
Y B A

This matches the SNES control pad a little better, and I find it easier to play games with that layout.  My old "The Tank" joystick used that layout.  But I've since hacked it into a USB/PC joystick:

http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?name=elvis_mame&page=pics

[RayB]

hmm that's a good layout too , except it wouldnt work with SF2

[elvis]

Yeah, street fighter defaulted to

Y X L
B A R

from memory.

Which was fairly sensible for joypads I guess.  But you really wouldn't to play any other non-fighting game with that layout!

[AmericanDemon]

I always hated the way the controls default on SF2 games on consoles.  I always had to remap them to Medium and Strong attacks were on the face of the controller and the light strikes were on the shoulders.  Rarely ever use the light strikes.

[elvis]

I always mapped medium to the shoulder buttons.  I generally only use the slowest or fastest of every move (fireballs, for instance).  And rapid light attacks can often be used for a quick and cheap dizzy too, or for easy specials on characters with multi-hit moves like blanka/chun-li/honda.

[Jawadali]

I always hated the way the controls default on SF2 games on consoles.  I always had to remap them to Medium and Strong attacks were on the face of the controller and the light strikes were on the shoulders.  Rarely ever use the light strikes.

Same here.

However, controls shouldn't be a problem, since you can change the SF2 controls (or any fighting game controls) in the options