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Newbie: Building my first system looking for advice.
Optics:
--- Quote from: unclet on December 09, 2007, 10:20:18 pm ---I believe ESC, Reset and Pause are worth while buttons to add in my opinion. YOu can label them and people will not have to keep asking you what two keys represent them if you use the shift function of the encoder.
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I didn't even think to add a reset or pause button! It may subtract a bit from the 'true' arcade experiance but since I'm not going with a coin box and the fact that only a handful of people I personally know will actually use the machine anyway it might be worthwhile to include the options for control. Instead of mounting them with all the other controls perhaps I can but them under or on some other panel away from the main control scheme, that way they don't get in the way.
--- Quote ---Also, make sure you play all the emulators you want on your cabinet before deciding what buttons you want since you can get a better feel of how many buttons (along with each button's mapping) you will require to play the games nicely. Basically, just play the games so you can determine which button mappings you are going to need for sure so you can make sure your control panel design layout can accomodate the buttons you will need properly.
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Solid advice. That's currently the stage I'm in, browsing through and obtaining the games I want to include, so I can see the minimum and maximum amounts of buttons used, and in what fashion. Also as other users have suggested it is definitely something I'm going to do - to actually try the configuration of my buttons in gameplay instead of merely laying them out on paper - this way I can get everything just right.
This thread did get me thinking however, and aside from maybe super smash brothers and Gauntlet Dark Legcay(If I can get it working at all!) I think I'm simply going to stick to arcade through SNES, that way I can go with 6 or 7 buttons (hopefully 6) and keep things nice and orde
Super-Becker:
Hey guys. I need to know how to emulate consoles in GroovyMAME (I already have it installed with CRT Emudriver and the consoles' Bios). I can't get to the screen where there is the "cartridge" option. Can someone please tell me step by step from the moment I open GroovyMAME? I would like to inform you that I already looked in other topics but couldn't find it. I will be immensely grateful. Thanks.