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gust0208:

Hello again,

For picking a button layout, it does depend slightly on what games you plan to play.  The games I like are similar to yours, so that is why I removed the asteroids/defender extra button layouts.  As for trackball buttons, I choose three simply to emulate the three mouse buttons of your typical MS wheel mouse.  I placed them there so they could be used either with the trackball or with the spinner.  As for administration buttons (top row - 4 middle buttons) I have one for 'pause', one for 'exit', one for 'enter' and one for 'tab' to enter the dip switch menu.  If you are using an Ipac (as I will be) you can use the button-shifting option to have even more admin controls without clogging up your board with extra buttons.

For joystick buttons, it seems that it is consensus that no 4-player games require over 4 buttons, so I went with 4 buttons for players 3 and 4.  I went with the 7-button layout with a grid of 6 and the 1 angle button to allow playing of MK3 and the grid of 6 buttons works well for most games in general (especially fighters).  The 7th button makes for a great Neo Geo layout since the neo geo layout is basically 4 buttons spaced horizontally.

Hope the helps, and feel free to email me or message me with questions.

Cheers,
Tom

jer2665:

first off cpickler sorry for hijacking your thread, hope all your questions were answered before i started asking all mine.

secondly, tom, yes i do plan on using an ipac, i'm thinking ipac4 for the extra inputs.  have you actually use your template to build a panel yet?

Bones:


--- Quote from: Lilwolf on March 31, 2005, 07:28:36 am ---I would recommend this... Get some cardboard out and make one.
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