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Author Topic: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?  (Read 1379 times)

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Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« on: April 11, 2006, 12:47:35 pm »
I'm planning the control panel of my second cabinet. It's going to be vertical, primarily for shooters like Raiden and vertical Golden Age stuff. I'm thinking about just using a straight-across 3 button layout, just want to make sure there are no great games I'm missing by doing this. I couldn't think of any.

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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2006, 01:36:07 pm »
I can't think of any.

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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2006, 02:09:21 pm »
Daioh I think uses 6 buttons, maybe 1 or 2 others...  but you'd probably be fine with 4 buttons for the most part.

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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2006, 05:21:20 pm »
I can't think of any.

Have you looked in Mame at your game collection or have you used sortinfo?



Not yet. Most were JAMMA, so I figured 3 buttons would be the standard (separate "kick" harness does the second 3 for fighters), but just thought there might be one there I wasn't considering that'd immediately come to someones mind.
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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2006, 07:43:07 pm »
Vanguard uses 4 buttons for fire.
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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2006, 08:38:08 pm »
Vanguard uses 4 buttons for fire.
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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2006, 08:40:08 pm »
Vanguard uses 4 buttons for fire.

I considered that one, and decided not to worry about it since its such an odd layout with the diamond shaped button layout. Playing it on my horizontal cab, I mapped the fire to the right joystick.
Initally, I thought it was a stroke of genius then realized Vanguard doesn't have auto-fire and had to hit the stick over and over to fire.  :dizzy:

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Re: Any vertical shooters w/4 or more buttons?
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2006, 10:16:28 pm »
It is possible to "change the region" of Daioh to Japan, which uses only 2 buttons...
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