a bunch of questions- cp layout, required buttons, etc.

[hypernova]

as some will notice, this will be my inaugural post.

[mahuti]

Welcome to the board!

Read the faqs, or do a search and you will find most of these topics have been covered in depth a number of times.

1. You can get details on the control types here;
http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/gamesbycontrol.php

3. You can use an 8 way joystick configured via the mame settings for 4 way diagonal games (like Q Bert), rather than a dedicated diagonal 4 way. NoOne=NBA has described his method to accomplish the feel of a 4-way diagonal in a large number of posts.

4. Depends.

6a. Probably your print settings, rather than the applications.

6b. Maybe he doesn't play golden tee. I don't. I use my trackball for centipede, etc.

You don't need 7 buttons for player 3 & 4. Put player 3 & 4 on the outside with 3 buttons. 4 feet wide should do it for that many players.

[hypernova]

ahh...i just discovered what the seventh button was for.

[gust0208]

Hey,

I found a way to print the templates at correct size with a freeware image processing program Irfanview (download at http://www.irfanview.com/)

1) Open your image
2) Image -> Resize/Resample -> change DPI to 125
3) Print!  Has worked everytime for me

Cheers,
Tom

[RoboG2]

The tv light guns are not discontinued, and they are still for sale on the act-labs website.  I think they are like $29.99 or something.

[ponyboy]

If you need buttons, joysticks and trackballs please check out my thread under Buy/Sell/Trade.

Thanks,

Ponyboy