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Could somone explain the neo geo vs regular six button layout argument?
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Namco:
Samurai Shodown 2 and Street fighter are my two favorite games. My buttons are a Street Fighter 2 layout with the two rows of three buttons. For Samsho2, the most comfortable setup is to map buttons A and B to button 1 and 2. For C and D I map those to buttons four and five. If you want to make the game a bit easier, you can map button 3 to A and B, so that way when you want to throw a strong slash in Samsho, you can do it with one button. Map button 6 to C and D and you can do the same thing with that. If you want to hit all four buttons at the same time (don't remember which game needed that, because all I play are Ukyo and Haohmaru in samsho2), well then just hit buttons 3 and 6 together and there you go!  :cheers:

Adding the 7th button to the left of the bottom row really gets in the way of a good sf2 battle and is really bothersome. I know this from experience because my first CP had a 7th button and it sucked because of the extra button.
rackoon:
Thanks Namco. That sounds like some great advice regarding button mapping. It doesnt sound like im missing oout on anything by only having a street fighter set up. that good because I dont have the rom to add the seventh button because my CP is only six inches deep on the third side of my cocktail cab and i all ready have the metal CP drilled. :o
MaximRecoil:
This is a Neo-Geo control panel:



This is a typical 7-button layout:



See the resemblance?
blueznl:
Yeah, I always wondered if the layout was inspired by Micky Mouse... the four (!) fingers are a dead giveaway...  :angel:
unclet:
The idea is that if you really like the feel of a Neo-Geo panel (see pic in post above), then you can maintain that same layout and "feel" on your control panel.

Having a "Neo-Geo setup" just refers to whether a control panel has four buttons similiar to an authentic "Neo-Geo control panel layout .... thats it.

Based on the picture of the authentic Neo-Geo control panel in the post above, it looks like all Neo-Geo games would only need at most 4 buttons.    On your control panel, you can use any four buttons you want to play Neo-Geo games, but the question is "Will you be happy if the four buttons you choose to play with are not in the authentic configuration as a true Neo-Geo control panel?"  Some people could care less about that and others really care.

Hope this clears it up for you ....
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