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Required buttons for a 4-player control panel?
melarky:
I've been searching the forums for a while and I can't seem to find the answer to this (but I know others must have asked this before me). What are the required buttons for a 4-player control panel (really, how many buttons for player 3 and 4)?
I have seen many example 4 player control panels in the project announcements forum, and many of them have 6-7 buttons for the 3rd and 4th player, but I was pretty sure no 3 and 4 player games used that many (I thought it was either 3 or 4 buttons needed). Can anyone confirm this?
This panel is not for me, I'm building it for a friend (I personally don't like the 4 player panels, too much going on, but he's convinced it's the way to go). I can only think of a handful of 4 player games that even exist, so I'm not sure if there are some games that will use all 6-7 buttons for player 3 and 4 that I'm missing, so I thought I better ask before I get too far into planning the layout for his control panel.
CheffoJeffo:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=49778.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,37696.0.html
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,38445.0.html
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=58164.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=8448.0
Cheers
DarkDraco:
could always try the slikstik layout for different game types
http://www.slikstik.com/quadfeatures.htm
steveh:
why does the slickstick have 7 buttons for players 3 and 4? are there any games that would ever use those buttons? or does it do that just to be fancy?
dirt:
--- Quote from: steveh on February 12, 2007, 12:13:18 pm ---why does the slickstick have 7 buttons for players 3 and 4? are there any games that would ever use those buttons? or does it do that just to be fancy?
--- End quote ---
no games that i know of use more than 4 buttons for players 3 and 4. i guess its just eye candy.