Misc. buttons

[MYX]

Hey all,
I am on the verge of purchasing all my pushbuttons m leds n stuff.
On the non game side can anyone think of anything else that would be really helpful on the CP? I will have a small set of buttins under the hood for snapshots n framerate n stuff.

Player 1
Player 2
coin drop
Tab
Esc.
Enter

My previous CP had far too many buttons for extra control so I am trying to make this one a little cleaner.

[MYX]

Pause

[DeLong20]

You prob. already know this but, you could use the shift option to esc, load, ect.  that way you can eliminate three more buttons.  It is just a little harder to explain how your cab works to others.

[thebrownshow]

Hitting P1 Start and P2 Start at the same time to quit is easy enough for most people to grasp.

Tab, Enter, and whatnot should never be used by anyone other than you, regular users would never need those, and I'd never want one of my friends to get into the menus and wreak havok on my setup.  Keep those as shift keys.

If you have a coin door, I'd suggest wiring those up, I'm in love with my token-or-quarters-only setup, I used to have a shift key for credits but I actually deprogrammed that to give it a better feel.

I think the only button I'd actually dedicate would be a PAUSE button, it's just too useful when people need to go grab a beer or something... sure, I know how to use the shift function for that one, but it's a little complicated for most people.

[pmc]

If you have a coin door, I'd suggest wiring those up, I'm in love with my token-or-quarters-only setup, I used to have a shift key for credits but I actually deprogrammed that to give it a better feel.

I initially installed one credit button right next to P1 Start and another next to P2 Start. I later installed a coin door and disconnected the credit buttons -- they've been dormant for years now. I regret ever installing them. Coin credits are the only way to go. There's really no need for credit buttons at all.

That said, with console emulators, I usually map "Select" to the credit buttons. So now, a coin drop is required to press "Select". I guess I could use a shifted function for that.

I still use the Pause button, and I have a dedicated Escape button I use too. Those are the only two admin buttons that I have. Pause is ideal for wife, beer, phone, bathroom, etc.

-pmc

[markrvp]

Don't forget    O   and    K  to toggle past all those nag screens. 

[Hiub1]

Don't forget    O   and    K  to toggle past all those nag screens. 

LMAO, I think I remember seeing someone's cab with the O and K buttons on there.

Anyways, from prior experience, I think you should aim to make your CP as functional as possible while having the least amount of clutter, therefore finding a way to have all those functions you mentioned included on the CP, but without their separate buttons.

On my cab, hitting Player 1 start + button 6 will give you the Tab menu. While in the menu, navigating is done by the P1 joystick and enter is configured as P1 start, and hitting the P1 coin button escapes the menu or you can do P1 start + B6 again to quit.

The pause button is mapped to hitting P1 start and P2 start simultaneously, and it works wonders. I also have my coin drop button wired as the reject button on the coin door, so that takes care of that button as well.

I think that's all that you mentioned, and this is an easy and useful solution to the problem. 1 thing to remember is that once you make all your hotkeys and stuff, make sure to write them down somewhere, so that if you forget, you can still easily access everything.

[MYX]

Ok, my last CP used a keyboard hack. I just got a couple of GGG GP WIZ 49 s.
Lets talk about shifted states. I have read some about it. Can you choose any button to be a shift key?
I think that I do want a coin drop button, but am starting to see the benifet of shifted options for the other stuff. How are you guys using the shifted options. How did you configure it to be that way?
I am really interested in folks who have GGG stuf as that is what I am going to hook up. Nut I'll take any info I can get. I am sure it will make more sence when I get it hooked up.

[mccoy178]

I am also wondering if the guys who currently have GQWiz49 way interfaces in their cp's, what they are doing for their admin buttons, especially escape.  I plan on using a keywiz max also as most of the non mame emulators have the escape key hard coded.  I plan on using it for P, esc, start buttons, and coin buttons on the door.  I will use the shaazam function to get to all the extra buttons(alt, enter, etc..)

[Hiub1]

Sorry guys, my only experience is with an Ipac. I do believe that you can have any key be the Shift key, and from there on you build on top of that. In mame, you don't really have to change anything if you just make it so that a combination of keys on the encoder gives you "Tab", and there you can go into the menu and stuff. I also know that you can set up stuff like this in mame, so that the pause keypress is P1 Start + P2  Start, with those 2 keys being the # 1 and # 2 keys on the keyboard. I press those two keys at once and the pause screen comes up.

[RayB]

The only minimum buttons you reall need are ESC and PAUSE.
Everything else, like TAB, is only needed when configuring stuff, so ideally you should configure all your games with a keyboard attached, then eventually you'll never need to go into the TAB menu ever again.

[whatisk]

I have a keywiz and in terms of misc buttons, I only have 2 on the CP.
One for the Shazaam key and one for Pause.