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Buttons how many ?
teddyboyblue:
Hi all
I have just started to build my first Mame cabinet and now i am going to make the control panel
Now my question is how many buttons should I have on the control panel ?
I am using an ultimarc I-Pac and a ultimarc Opti-Pac
Best regards
Teddyboyblue
Bones:
Players 1 and 2 should each have seven buttons. Players 3 & 4 should each have four. The more admin buttons you can fit on your CP the snazzier it will look.
Anybody who tells you different from the above probably works part-time as a circus clown and circus clowns can't be trusted to make good control panels can they?
teddyboyblue:
--- Quote from: Bones on July 23, 2006, 07:27:40 am ---Players 1 and 2 should each have seven buttons. Players 3 & 4 should each have four. The more admin buttons you can fit on your CP the snazzier it will look.
Anybody who tells you different from the above probably works part-time as a circus clown and circus clowns can't be trusted to make good control panels can they?
--- End quote ---
OK
so far i will make a 2 player CP and i will use 7 buttons for each player
and 3 buttons for the trackball right ?
i will the use 2 for pin Mame
but what about the admin buttons how many should i use there ?
javeryh:
If I were building a standard 2 player MAME cabinet I would use Knievel's exact CP. Check out his "Woody" thread over in Project Announcements and copy it!
yalborap:
Personally, I'd go up to eight buttons. That way, should you get into the console emulation stuff, you can play everything up to SNES no problem, amongst other uses.
But that's just me. You might despise everything that's ever touched a home console, and in turn not need that extra button.