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struby:
6 straight across is looking most likely for me also.  Thanks for the help.
escher:

--- Quote from: struby on April 04, 2006, 09:46:19 pm ---Is the Neo Geo setup the 6 in a rectangle with one more button down and to the left, like on the Slik Stik Quad Unit:  http://www.slikstik.com/quadfeatures.htm I was thinking my thumb would involuntarily hit that.  My CP is going to be somewhat like the Slik Stik Quad, but everything may be moved up some, not sure how much for each thing, and with no spinner, no top joystick and less of the buttons on top, with the stuff I mentioned in my first post of this thread.

Another question, what do you think:

OOO
OOO   <--- Straight buttons like that      or    Curved and angled in more?

Opinion

I looked up mame control panel on google image search and more seemed to be straight like  the rectangle shape.

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Personally, I like the 3x2 block straight.  Capcom's stayed like that for years and years for a reason.  The seventh button for NeoGeo games is good though.

As for players 3 and 4, I don't think there's any reason to have more than 4.  I don't know of any games that use more than that.
struby:
So  6 6 4 4 then for 1 2 3 4 respectively, you know, I guess all this can all be redone with a new top piece of the control panel, and additions can be made, so if I don't like it, it can be redone, so I am not sure on what I am going to do, but I think I am going to go with 6 6 6 6 or 6 6 4 4, but I could change my mind, the 7th button in particular, can always be added by just drilling another hole, where as extra buttons like going to an 8 rectangle instead of 6 rectangle can throw off your spacing, so for now, like I said, I think I am going to go with 6 6 6 6 or 6 6 4 4, I will have enough inputs with the 56 inputs on the IPac4 either way.  Again, thanks to everyone for the input.
squirrellydw:
not to get off the subject but what games use the 7 button?
pointdablame:

--- Quote from: squirrellydw on April 04, 2006, 10:50:16 pm ---not to get off the subject but what games use the 7 button?

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It's not meant to be a "7th button"  its just meant to emulate the 4 button layout of the NeoGeo AND the 6 button layout of fighters

o o o
o o o     That would be for fighters and 6 button games


The bottom row would emulate the NeoGeo layout like this:     o  o  o
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To the OP: unless you plan on doing console emulations, there is NO reason to use more than 4 buttons for players 3 and 4.
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