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jelwell:
--- Quote from: Zakk on March 31, 2006, 05:03:51 pm ---Hey jewel, if you feel the need to put 400 buttons on the panel, hey feel good about yourself. If you had read the article it would be clear that I was getting my opinions from mistakes made to panels that I have done. You see? Criticising myself instead of attacking others to defend my mistakes. Which is what I assume you are doing seeing all those buttons on that frankenpanel. Hey, you feel good about it? Great! However I think I may have hit a couple of nerves eh? 4 players...tiny monitor....admin buttons up the ying yang....cadash cabinet...should I continue?
It's all opinion fella, don't feel personally attacked. At least I am admitting to my past mistakes.
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I did not direct any attacks at you personally. I offered opinions on cabinets that the linked article points to. If that happens to be your cabinet and you feel offended, I apologize.
Joseph Elwell.
NoOne=NBA=:
I've got a pause button between the two player starts, and the two flipper buttons.
I have them set up as follows:
Pause (Shifts on press, and pauses on release)
NOTE: I'm using an I-pac, which operates this way by default.
Left Flipper (P-1 Coin up / "O" when shifted)
Right Flipper (P-2 Coin up / "K" when shifted)
P-1 Start (P-1 Start / TAB when shifted)
P-2 Start (P-2 Start / Enter when shifted)
The "O" and "K" buttons are not necessary when you have a joystick connected, but come in handy for a trackball-only layout on my modular CP.
All my other admin functions (game switching, quitting, etc...) are handled on my cordless mouse.
That is really nice during parties and such because I can just hide the mouse, and I don't have any problems with people messing up the cab.
I'll usually switch to a different game if requested, or will just randomly switch games a few times during the evening.
My thought is, if you don't like the game I picked, bring your own cab and play whatever you want.
jelwell:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 31, 2006, 06:30:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: jelwell on March 31, 2006, 04:34:41 pm ---
Just so we're all clear.
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You wouldn't be clear if you took a shower in Windex.
I've got an idea. You go back, click that link, and read the article and comments by Kevin ABOUT Zakk first, because not only do you have hearing problems, you've got reading comprehension problems. Give "Hooked On Phonics" a whirl.
Zakk was ASKED to post an article about his opinions, the story you NEVER BOTHERED TO READ (that's your only excuse for so completely missing the point, take that escape and don't make a further fool of yourself) spoke exactly of how Zakk ----follow me on this one, it's kinda tough, since you didn't read it the first time--- learned from his mistakes while completing TWENTY THREE cabs in SIX YEARS, and the newer ones DEMONSTRATE the mistakes HE IS ADMITTING TO
Here's an idea. Look around at what Zakk's contributed to our little hobby and what he's helped others to learn, tips he's offered, opinions he's been asked about, etc.
After you're done, just avoid posting in this thread anymore to avoid embarrassing yourself - you've already done a bang-up job. No further improvements to YOUR project are necessary.
If you didn't want harshness rained down on you, you shoulda done some reading and some comprehending of the article he was linking to instead of going off half-cocked about how he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. You're clearly wrong, and painfully so.
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Way to take this thread off topic and at the same time add nothing useful.
--- Quote from: markrvp on March 31, 2006, 05:51:36 pm ---I think Joseph's cabinet was renamed the "Skittles" cabinet because with all the random colored buttons it looks like someone spilled a bag of Skittles on the CP.
I personally think the ZELDA control panel was incredible. It got hammered by the Crapmame guy for being "console" themed. Since the cabinet was a console cab, it made a lot of sense. If you have seen the entire cabinet, you would realize that it all ties in beautifully and looks much better than the butchered CADASH cabinet Joseph has.
As one of the MAMEY judges, I can assure you that Joseph's cabinet would never get voted in, and that may be why he's throwing stones.
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I sense a lot of bitterness towards CRAPmame wrongly directed at myself. I'll have you know that I personally submitted my cabinet (and a friend's cabinet that I helped on) to CRAPmame. Chill on the accusations. So I don't like the ADMIN buttons you decided on. This thread is and was about ADMIN buttons.
I always wonder. When people say ADMIN buttons, do they mean buttons that users won't use? Oftentimes it seems like they mean Buttons that weren't on cabinets at Chuck E Cheese.
Users won't use:
Volume Buttons
Exit frontend
Mouse buttons
Frontend buttons? (like next list - my users never seem to notice them)
Didn't exist at Chuck E Cheese:
Credit Buttons
Pause
There seems like there should be a defined separation here. If only the "Administrator of the Machine" will use the features than it seems pretty clear they should be out of the way. Especially if they'll end up crowding your cabinet.
Joseph Elwell.
MikeDeuce:
--- Quote from: Zakk on March 31, 2006, 07:07:44 pm ---I figure if you could use the ledwiz to make that coin button blink when you had to 'coin up', it would be killer. I was going to use some of my sacred stash of volcano buttons for my next personal project, but I think I'll be using one of these. Do you have a link to the thread for everyone here, since we are talking admin buttons?
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Ahh I like the ledwiz idea, there's really no shortness of creativity on these forums!
Here's the thread for the buttons:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51813.0
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: jelwell on March 31, 2006, 07:37:58 pm ---
Way to take this thread off topic and at the same time add nothing useful.
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I addressed your putdown of a respected member of the community and your blanket statement that we shouldn't listen to him due to your opinion of a few of his earlier cabs.
I also addressed the fact that you clearly didn't read the article Zakk wrote, which I HAVE read, and the usefulness of that article.
Those two points have added to the thread. They've pointed out your failure to read and comprehend the article. Had you demonstrated a basic comprehension of what Zakk was trying to put forth by posting the link, there wouldn't have been anything to add, and you WOULD be correct. As it is, it's just one more thing you have no clue about.
This thread was taken off topic by yourself with your asinine comments about why we shouldn't be taking advice from Zakk. Feel free to scroll up, because you're acting as if that comment exists in a vacuum. Assuming this has everything to do with a shite site is simply living with your head in the clouds. It's because you personally put down a respected member of the community. Get a clue.