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kelemvor:
Well, I have an IPAC2 and am making a 2-player cab.  It will only have 1 joystick and 6 buttons for each player.  I know I need a coin/start for each player as well.

The IPAC2 gets 28 inputs total (not counting shift combos).

So, 1 Joy (4) + 6 buttons + 1 start + 1 coin = 12 each or 24 total for 2 players.

This leaves 4 inputs left.  What are the "utility" buttons that I'll need?

I obviously need a way to exit out and navigate the menu so I'd need an Escape key.  It'd be  nice to have  Pause key.

I'm sure I'm missing things that I'm just not thinking of so feel free to chime in with what I'm forgetting.

quarterback:
This question gets asked a lot, so you might be able to find more comments via searching.  That being said, my cocktail cab has only 3 non-arcade buttons:  Esc (escape), P (pause) and a button to power up my PC.

My upright has pause, escape and "5" (coin up for P1).  These are on a temporary piece of wood that's screwed into my CP.  When I ever finish my cab, I'll probably drop the coin button, or make it hidden somewhere.... In fact, I'll probably hide a pause, escape, power and coin button somewhere on the upright.

Both cabs have keyboards attached to them (or close by) so I can make other adjustments as necessary, but I really wanted to keep the admin buttons to a minimum.
_) (V) (-):
What you have planned for is pretty much standard.

The only way to know what is right for you, is to put the cabnet into use and see what your missing. But I think you have all the bases covered.
javeryh:
I think you are covered.  For the current cab I'm building (mini vertical) I'm going to have 4 small "admin" buttons - Player 1 Start (1), Player 1 Coin (5), Pause (p) and Exit to Frontend (esc).  I'm probably going to add Player 2 Start and Player 2 Coin though - even though it's a standup cab and will be mostly single player (one set of controls so no fighters or anything) I'd like to have the option for 2 player alternating games...
Oddfeld:
Why not just leave off all the admin buttons and use the shift feature of the IPAC to hit escape, tab etc?

Admin buttons will just clutter the thing up and make it look less authentic.

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