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how many buttons?
SideShow Rob:
--- Quote from: yalborap on March 11, 2005, 09:33:51 am ---
something along these lines seems most logical to me. you might want to use the start button instead of the coin button or something, though.
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Thanks for spotting todays deliberate mistake!
I did mean P1 Start, not P1 Coin.
The codes can be found here:
http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: DemonBrew on March 11, 2005, 09:16:29 am ---Awesome information. It's going to be a classic pac-man cade, at least the cabinet shape and size. It'll run all kinds of MAME roms tho - fighters, classics, etc. I'll prob only use 2 mouse buttons then for trackball.
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If you are building an exact replica of a pac man machine... I'm not sure you're gonna fit all those controls on the control panel.
paigeoliver:
You don't need dedicated mouse buttons, my current cab has them, but only because the previous owner of the game had already drilled out his config in the panel and it had them. I just generally hook up the start buttons to the mouse input. Mame is the only emulator that needs start buttons, and mame can map the mouse buttons as the start button just fine, while many other emulators can't map the mouse buttons, which is why I say to use them as the start buttons rather than just as a couple buttons on the player 1 buttons bank.
Also, if you cab is a completely menu driven cab and you have no need to navigate windows with the mouse then you can just simply not hook up the mouse buttons at all.
Also, if you are really going to all that trouble to build a pac-cab then shell out $25 for a Midway coin door.
DemonBrew:
--- Quote from: pointdablame ---If you are building an exact replica of a pac man machine... I'm not sure you're gonna fit all those controls on the control panel.
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Well.... the control panel size (as of this moment) should be exactly the same as the original pac-man control panel. You're saying it's not physically large enough to fit 2 joys, 1 2.25" trackball and about 18 buttons? I guess I'll have to do a mock up to make sure, but I was planning on that anyway.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: DemonBrew on March 11, 2005, 01:30:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame ---If you are building an exact replica of a pac man machine... I'm not sure you're gonna fit all those controls on the control panel.
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Well.... the control panel size (as of this moment) should be exactly the same as the original pac-man control panel. You're saying it's not physically large enough to fit 2 joys, 1 2.25" trackball and about 18 buttons? I guess I'll have to do a mock up to make sure, but I was planning on that anyway.
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Well the PacMan CP is 23" wide I think. I'm not sure if you can physically fit them, but I just think it would be a bit cramped. Again, I never tried to actually FIT them in that space, but it might be possible. I'm just not sure that CP is the best suited for a 2p/trackball set up.
It's just my .02 though. Mock something up, then you'll know.