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87 buttons REALLY neccesary??
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 23, 2003, 07:42:34 am ---I put the big cheesy smile at the end of my post!
;D
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So you did!!!
Apparently everyone missed it, including me!!!
It was still a good discussion! ;D
CitznFish:
Will a control panel even hold 87 buttons? ??? ;)
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: CitznFish on April 23, 2003, 04:09:45 pm ---Will a control panel even hold 87 buttons? ??? ;)
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Lets see, a Pac-Man panel is like 24 inches wide and 6 inches deep, and buttons take like 1.5" each (counting spacing), so that would be 64 buttons that could fit on a Pac-Man sized panel, so if it was any larger, then it could hold the full 87 ( rows of 16 each).
Nikodemz:
Well this may be a little late in the thread but that little article you posted Tiger-Heli was very informative. If you have more of that kind of analysis and stuff somewhere on the web you should post a link. I'm in the planning stages of a cab myself and I have been contemplating the Player 3 and 4 buttons for a little while. Now it seems my intitial intuition was right and I can keep it to just 4 buttons and use those other inputs elsewhere.
Thanks a bunch.
-Niko
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Nikodemz on April 24, 2003, 11:42:18 am ---Thanks a bunch.
-Niko
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Thank you and you're welcome!!!
My FAQ novella is at
http://www.fraggersxtreme.com/arcadepanels/faq.htm#top
and the main page at
http://www.fraggersxtreme.com/arcadepanels/
has some good info, although it (like the whole project is still a WIP)
I also have a smattering of stuff at EmuAdvice (Linked from www.mameworld.net) (keyboard hack info, controller images in a front end, etc.)