Unused buttons suggestions

[electricd]

Hello.

I am finally finishing up a couple arcade machines that I started months ago.  I bought the cabs from DreamArcades so they already had predrilled holes for controls.  4 players, 7 buttons each.  There are also 4 buttons across the top that are extra.  What should I assign to those buttons...i was thinking ESC, P (pause) and then I am stuck.  I don't want the people to be able to get into the menus from the cabinet (as it will be out in the open for anyone to use or *break*!).  Anyway any suggestions on the other 2 buttons.

Also, what keys should I assign to buttons 5,6 and 7 on the player 3 and 4?  The mame default only shows RCTRL, RSHFT,ENTER.O for Player 3 and B,E,H,M for Player 4.  What should the other 3 buttons be mapped to?  Thanks in advance!

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[DrewKaree]

You didn't say, but you could always use them for "O" and "K"

[electricd]

Yea that would be good in most cases.  I re-authored Mame so it wouldn't ask for that though.  Thanks for the suggestions.  Any others?

[Tiger-Heli]

Hello.

I am finally finishing up a couple arcade machines that I started months ago.

[DrewKaree]

Yea that would be good in most cases.  I re-authored Mame so it wouldn't ask for that though.  Thanks for the suggestions.  Any others?

You just made my day

[Roughy]

fw/reset
tab

and then I'm wiring a power button for my computer.

[Roughy]

Yea that would be good in most cases.

[nostrebor]

Label one of them "Global Thermonuclear War" and then have it launch a batch file that prints "Initiating self-destruct sequence, launching missiles, this device will self destruct in 5 seconds, then plays the ending sequence from Missile Command and turns the cabinet off.

I'm adding this button to my cabinet asap!

I have 3 admin buttons on the shorty cabinet for simple use by 4-7 year olds. "Load" "Pause" "Escape" This allows just about anyone to load and unload a game without direction. I would add "Tab" to the fourth one, but not label it.

[DrewKaree]

Yea that would be good in most cases.  I re-authored Mame so it wouldn't ask for that though.  Thanks for the suggestions.  Any others?

You just made my day

I wanna know how he did that.  I have a second control panel that I put 50 buttons on (all alphabet and then the numbers 0-9 and shift, fKeys and ESC) so I could easily just button-type out whatever I needed.

Really works nice if you ever need to SMS someone from your MAME cab, too.

You're starting to make my head hurt

[electricd]

These are great suggestions..yea I am using the IPAC 4 and already have the coin/start buttons in there (so these are in addition to those.)  I am thinking an Enter, Escape, Tab, and a "Global Nuclear War" button!  .  Thanks for all the great replies!

[thebrownshow]

You're really going to want that Pause button, that's all anyone asks me about, and they can't seem to grasp the whole "P1 Start + Joy 1 Down" concept.

[electricd]

Oh yea...forgot...I have pause built into another button on that console!  You wouldn't believe the amount of buttons that were pre-drilled in that panel!  For peats sake, there were 4 buttons for the spinner!  ARe there even any games that use 4 buttons with the spinner??

[Tiger-Heli]

For peats sake, there were 4 buttons for the spinner!

[Roughy]

You're starting to make my head hurt

Good, because I think there's a competition going on here, and that's the first sign I've seen of me taking the lead.

You're just jealous.

[DrewKaree]

You're starting to make my head hurt

Good, because I think there's a competition going on here, and that's the first sign I've seen of me taking the lead.

You're just jealous.

This calls for something sthuper.  I shall ward off the man with eleventy brazilian buttons with the patented defense of retarditty:

[ChadTower]

Put it on your dashboard and label it EJECT.  See who is the first to push it.