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My CP layout
« on: March 14, 2003, 01:18:18 am »
Just thought I'd toss out my CP layout and yes I do know that there aren't any 6+ button games for players 3 and 4.  I'm future proofing (and the like the uniformity of all the players looking the same.)  Anyway let me know what you think.  The only thing I'm trying to figure out is whether to go with 7 or 8 buttons.   ;D

Also I have to send out a thanks to JQ for supplying the character pics!

Anyway let me know what you think.

-Zinfari



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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2003, 01:38:25 am »
I like it,Its pretty good looking  :) and very colorfull(I like colorfull stuff ;D)

1 thing bothering me though..that 4th button on the top row..thats for what?Neo geo?.

Other then that,GOOD JOB !  :)

And you should go with the second art,you know...play mortal kombat. ;)
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2003, 01:42:30 am »
Thanks Snaaake and yea it did take more than 5 minutes.   ;)  

I'm leaning towards the 8 button... I also have another 7 button that has the MK layout.  The 8th button really serves 2 purposes.

1.  NeoGeo layout is easy
2.  If for some reason I ever decide to try to put a console in as well, as most of them have 8 button controllers.  (may not be practical, but hey this is about me right)  :P

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2003, 01:45:09 am »
Thanks Snaaake and yea it did take more than 5 minutes.   ;)  

I'm leaning towards the 8 button... I also have another 7 button that has the MK layout.  The 8th button really serves 2 purposes.

1.  NeoGeo layout is easy
2.  If for some reason I ever decide to try to put a console in as well, as most of them have 8 button controllers.  (may not be practical, but hey this is about me right)  :P

-Zinfari
Yeah playing neo geo games would be little better..and there might be some console game that uses 8 buttons all the way.who knows what capcom is cooking now a days(ya never know ;D)?

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2003, 10:01:32 am »
Looks nice...  But you have to consider is that 4 player games didn't usually use more than 2-3 buttons (someone correct me if im wrong!)..  So the 3rd and 4th player setup would kind of be a waste..  Also, personally, if I did a 4 player cp, I would make more room for the 1 and 2 players since you will probably playing those types of games more..  Not unless you have to have everything evenly spaced  :)


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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2003, 10:32:38 am »
Looks really nice. I think it'll work out fine. Reminds me of Gauntlet.

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2003, 04:15:59 pm »
     I like the second one better, and if you do that you may not need the 4th button on the top row.  You could use the bottom row of 3 plus that "run" button for neogeo games.  
     
     I'm guessing your planning on n64 emulation (super smash brothers!) or something in addition to mame.  If you're only running Mame though, it only needs a max of 4 buttons for players 3 and 4 plus additional start buttons for the Dungeons and Dragons games.  That will save you some space on the cp.  
   
 You may want to scrap the labeling of players 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Some games like TMNT have it so Player 1 is always the furthest left, though I guess you chould change that by remapping the coin buttons within mame for that individual game.  The Simpsons is like that as well (another konami game).  

     I like the color separation, but I have an additional idea/suggestion.  Perhaps in photoshop you could enlarge each players graphic (mario) and make it transparent, and saturated with that players color.  So for player1 there would be a large reddish transparent mario filling that section of the cp.  Just throwing that idea in for you.
 
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2003, 04:36:07 pm »
Looks nice...  But you have to consider is that 4 player games didn't usually use more than 2-3 buttons (someone correct me if im wrong!)..  So the 3rd and 4th player setup would kind of be a waste..  Also, personally, if I did a 4 player cp, I would make more room for the 1 and 2 players since you will probably playing those types of games more..  Not unless you have to have everything evenly spaced  :)

Its for future console games..

Like you know,if you wanna play 3 players sfa3 then you CAN ! ;D.

Like how we used to play..me alone against my 2 brothers(dreamcast version of course).

Its really fun !I won most of the time even though I am fighting 2 people at once(yes I know I rule when it comes to any street fighter :o).

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2003, 11:21:58 pm »
DJ good call on the 1-4 player thing... hadn't really thought about it.  I'll either pull the text or replace it with something else that isn't player specifig.  Also means that I need to replace my 1-4 player white buttons I had been planning on useing... hmmm....

I think I'm going to keep all 8 buttons at this point.  Mainly because I like them, I have room and hopefully it future proofs me a bit (at least that's what I"m hoping  :D)

As far as the large transparent images... I tried it out and it looks pretty good, but I just don't have high enough res pictures to pull it off.  I have to scale the images about 500% and they are just to grainy when scaled that far.  I'll post them later when I get a chance so you can see what they look like.

Keep the comments coming!

Thanks,
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2003, 01:59:24 am »
I have a hack on my site for mame that will "sense" pnumber of players and you can remap accordingly.

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2003, 02:08:17 am »
Hadn't even thought of that.... makes me wonder what else I haven't thought of.

Thanks SirPoonga those will definately make things easier.

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2003, 03:09:25 pm »
as everyone has already said - good CP, the whole multi-colour thing is nice...

...but what is the graphic next to player 4?

player 1 = Mario
player 2 = Megaman
player 3 = Pcaman
player 4 = drunk purple fish?
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2003, 03:12:39 pm »
ah, stupid me not thinking when i looked at it...it's obvious now

red = mario
blue = megaman
yellow = pacman
green = frogger

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2003, 09:44:24 am »
as everyone has already said - good CP, the whole multi-colour thing is nice...

...but what is the graphic next to player 4?

player 1 = Mario
player 2 = Megaman
player 3 = Pcaman
player 4 = drunk purple fish?

PURPLE?

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2003, 01:46:38 pm »
mabye it's my eyes, or my monitor, or that stick of plutonium i keep next to my keyboard, but froggers chest looks kinda purple...

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2003, 01:50:20 pm »
mabye it's my eyes, or my monitor, or that stick of plutonium i keep next to my keyboard, but froggers chest looks kinda purple...

 :P
Have you been smokin weed again? LOL !
Frogger's chest look white and his mouth(inside) looks VERY little purple.

Again,I know you are working hard. :P

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2003, 02:01:04 pm »
my monitor obviously need adjusting...doesn't look white

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2003, 02:41:26 pm »
Thanks for the reply folks... I have one more question for the Adobe Illustrator folks out ther (I'll probably post to the main forum as well, but thought I'd try here first.)  

Anyway anyone know how you setup dimensions in Adobe.  Apparently (and after you think about it it makes sence) pixels and dpi are different.  So I'm creating my CP overlay and using 150 pixels per inch for my drawing.  When I go to print it's about 4 times larger than than I think it is.  (really dont need a 16' CP  ;D)  Anyone know how to set up printing so 150 pixels = 1 inch?

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2003, 06:55:52 pm »
not sure about illustrator, i don't really use it, but couldn't you import the image into photoshop and change the dimensions?

you can enter the dots-per-inch figure and setup the actual print size...

just a thought

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2003, 11:28:56 pm »
I just updated the pics up top to reflect some of the suggestions.  What do folks think of the Mario/MegaMan/Pacman/Frogger text?  Also how does it look if I go with 7 menu buttons instead of 5?  Less is better, but I don't want to get into a situation where I need more than I thought I did.

Anyway I'm headed to the printer probably tomorrow or Wednesday so if anyone has any other suggestions bring'em on!

Thanks all
-Zinfari

P.S. As promised here's Dr. J's request... it looks cool, but I just don't have hi enough res photos of the chars to pull it off.  Looks nice this size though... enjoy.



And I couldn't resist showing off my 4 player coin door... color coded to match!


And the latest picture... just waiting of the CP.....
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2003, 01:49:26 am »
woooooooo...I LIKE IT !  ::)

Its pretty good looking so far.
the top part looks very similer to mamestation 2 cabinet.

Do I see a d9200 monitor up there :D?

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« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2003, 06:57:54 pm »
Hadn't even thought of that.... makes me wonder what else I haven't thought of.

Thanks SirPoonga those will definately make things easier.

-Zinfari


Hope you don't mind rolling your own mame.
It's pretty easy to use.  Learn how to use ctrlr files.  Setup default so  the players are in this order:
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Then make a player3.ini and player4.ini file with mappings to make it
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2003, 03:15:16 pm »
Well... the CP is pretty much done.  Have a look.  I ended up having the resolution to do the big chars after all (a bit of a mix up on my part on what res I was working in.)






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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2003, 04:04:23 pm »
Very nice man !

How much was your print though..I am guessing atleast over $50 right? :(


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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2003, 04:19:10 pm »
$70  :-[ ..... $8.5/sq ft (2' x 4'=8' sq ft).  Almost printed it out on my 8.5x11 color printer....

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2003, 11:50:52 am »
Any now my marquee... this is pass one.  Let me know what you think.  I'm still looking for a better font to use...



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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2003, 02:34:59 pm »
The CP turned out a lot nicer than I thought!  Nice job.


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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2003, 06:08:48 pm »
Wow, the CP and the marquee are very sweet indeed, I like them a lot!

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2003, 06:37:29 pm »
Just updated my Marquee drawing above.  Let me know what you all think.

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« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2003, 06:14:29 am »
Just updated my Marquee drawing above.  Let me know what you all think.

Thanks,
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« Reply #30 on: March 28, 2003, 12:30:06 am »
I'll give it a shot Brax, just having a hard time finding a font I like.  Might just have to go on a font search...

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« Reply #31 on: March 28, 2003, 12:35:18 am »
I'll give it a shot Brax, just having a hard time finding a font I like.  Might just have to go on a font search...

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http://www.acidfonts.com/

This place has tons of fonts..might wanna try 8).


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« Reply #32 on: March 28, 2003, 08:03:40 am »
I would have your font take up 1/3 of the marquee. I would have it on top of the Space Invaders (since there's lots of them and you could still tell they're there) and your other characters could be in front of the title slightly. I don't think you'd have a problem reading it at all and it would be a nice effect (much like many magazines have pictures overlapping their title sometimes.)
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« Reply #33 on: March 28, 2003, 04:43:58 pm »
More updates to my marquee....what do you think?



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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #34 on: March 28, 2003, 06:12:25 pm »
This one is better then the other one if you ask me..the font made a difference.

You could just you know..make the glowing effect around the edges of the writing "Game on...".

You know...since all the marques are like that..other then that..everything looks nice.  :)

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« Reply #35 on: March 28, 2003, 08:18:31 pm »
The size of the font and the characters slightly in front have made a world of difference.
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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2003, 11:22:13 am »
yup, the latest one is definitely the best!

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Re:My CP layout
« Reply #37 on: April 01, 2003, 12:14:04 pm »
 :o

Extreme envy on my part.  

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« Reply #38 on: April 01, 2003, 05:05:06 pm »
Thanks folks... and yea Brax I have to give you credit, thanks for the input.

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